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His Excellency Hashim Thaci
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Dear Prime Minister Thaci,
As an independent, nonpartisan organization defending press freedom worldwide, the Committee to Protect Journalists urges you to publicly condemn and thoroughly investigate a recent wave of threats against Jeta Xharra, head of the Kosovo office of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), and her colleagues.
According to news reports and CPJ interviews, numerous e-mail death threats were made against Xharra and BIRN-Kosovo staff after the local newspaper Infopress likened the journalists to Serbian spies and compared their work to fascist propaganda. The threats followed the May 28 edition of BIRN-Kosovo's weekly television program, "Life in Kosovo," hosted by Xharra on public broadcaster Radio Television Kosovo (RTK). The program covers sensitive issues such as war crimes, drug addiction, homosexuality, human rights, and press freedom among others.
Although the threats do not appear to have a direct connection with Infopress, Xharra said the paper encouraged intimidation. "In a post-war society such as Kosovo where the wounds are still open, to compare someone to Milosevic's Serbia is not only an insult and incitement to hatred, but could also be life-threatening," Xharra said in a statement published by BIRN-Kosovo.
Xharra told CPJ that BIRN-Kosovo reported the e-mail threats to local police but no arrests have been made. Xharra said her colleagues had been conducting a series of interviews with voters and government officials about promised electoral reforms. When the BIRN-Kosovo crew traveled to the Skenderaj municipality in central Kosovo to speak with the mayor, they were denied an interview and banned from entering the local government building. While in Skenderaj, the reporters were attacked by an unidentified armed man who broke a video camera and stole footage, Xharra said. She discussed the incident during the May 28 show, which focused on freedom of expression.
Four days later, on June 1, Infopress, which receives most of its advertising revenue from the government, published an editorial and an op-ed that were openly hostile to Xharra and her reporting team. A front page piece said the BIRN-Kosovo journalists were Serbian spies, and a commentary said the May 28 edition of "Life in Kosovo" was similar to a "fascist campaign against everything Albanian," BIRN-Kosovo reported. A subsequent Infopress commentary said the author "would be honored to shake the hand of any such dutiful Albanian" who took it upon himself to "punish" the reporting team.
The newspaper quoted Skenderaj's mayor, who said the "Life in Kosovo" program misrepresented the reality of life in the city; the mayor called on RTK to ban the program from its network.
Violent messages then flooded the station's e-mail inbox: "Don't be surprised if someone kills your source," "If we catch you there again in Skenderaj, we will beat the hell out of you," and "Jeta has brought it upon herself to have a short life." Among the most incendiary messages was this one: "I will take it upon myself to personally assassinate you." All of the threats were made anonymously.
The death threats against Xharra and her team of journalists are deplorable and put Kosovo's fledgling democracy at risk. Press freedom in Kosovo must be protected as a fundamental human right for an independent and stable society. We ask you and your government to immediately and unequivocally condemn this attempt to intimidate an independent journalist and her colleagues, hold accountable all those responsible for making the threats, and ensure the safety of Jeta Xharra and her BIRN-Kosovo colleagues.
When Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in February 2008, much of the international community recognized its new status. Kosovo must demonstrate that it is ready to live up to the democratic expectations of its people and the world. Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter. We await your response.
Joel Simon
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|Scientific classification
Spiroplasma is a genus of Mollicutes, a group of small bacteria without cell walls. Spiroplasma shares the simple metabolism, parasitic lifestyle, fried-egg colony morphology and small genome of other Mollicutes, but has a distinctive helical morphology, unlike Mycoplasma. Most spiroplasmas are found either in the gut or hemolymph of insects, or in the phloem of plants. Spiroplasmas are fastidious organisms, which require a rich culture medium. Typically they grow well at 30°C, but not at 37°C. A few species, notably Spiroplasma mirum, grow well at 37°C (human body temperature), and cause cataracts and neurological damage in suckling mice. The best studied species of spiroplasmas are Spiroplasma citri, the causative agent of Citrus Stuborn Disease, and Spiroplasma kunkelii, the causative agent of Corn Stunt Disease.
There is some disputed evidence for the role of spiroplasmas in the etiology of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs), due primarily to the work of Dr. Bastian, summarized below. Other researchers, such as Leach et al. (1983) have failed to replicate this work, while the prion model for TSEs has gained very wide acceptance. The most recent work of Alexeeva et al. (2006) appears to refute the role of spiroplasmas in the best small animal scrapie model (hamsters). Bastian et al. (2007) have responded to this challenge with the isolation of a spiroplasma species from scrapie-infected tissue, grown it in cell-free culture, and demonstrated its infectivity in ruminants.
According to Frank O. Bastian, MD:
"spiroplasmas contain internal fibrillar proteins, that have morphological and immunological similarities to scrapie- and CJD-related fibrillar proteins. This comparison is noteworthy since mycoplasmologists consider these fibril proteins unique to this prokaryote.
In vivo and in vitro experimental Spiroplasma infections produce cytopathic effects similar to those of the scrapie agent. Experimental Spiroplasma brain infection in the suckling rat is characterized by vacuolar encephalopathy with localization of the microbe to gray matter.
[...] Spiralins are chemically bound to Spiroplasma-associated fibrils (SpFs) and are separated with difficulty.' SpFs are unique internal fibrils of spiroplasmas with a molecular weight of 55 kDa. Recently, SpFs have been shown to bear close morphological resemblance to scrapie-associated fibrils (SAFS), ' and show cross-reactivity using SAF antibody." [1][verification needed]
In addition, a Spiroplasma species had been shown to kill males of the Plain Tiger butterfly on infection, leading to interesting consequences for population genetics and consequently speciation similar to the effects caused by some strains of Wolbachia (Jiggins et al. 2000).
- Alexeeva, I.; Elliott, E. J.; Rollins, S.; Gasparich, G. E.; Lazar, J. & Rohwer, R. G. (2006): Absence of Spiroplasma or Other Bacterial 16S rRNA Genes in Brain Tissue of Hamsters with Scrapie. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 44(1): 91-97. PMID 16390954 doi:10.1128/JCM.44.1.91-97.2006 PDF fulltext
- Bastian, F. O.; Sanders DE, Forbes, W.A.; Hagius, S.D.; Walker, J.V.; Henk, W.G.; Enright, F.M.& Elzer, P.H. (2007): Spiroplasma spp. from transmissible spongiform encephalopathy brains or ticks induce spongiform encephalopathy in ruminants. Journal of Medical Microbiology 56(9):1235-1252. PMID 17761489 doi:10.1099/jmm.0.47159-0
- Jiggins, F. M.; Hurst, G. D. D.; Jiggins, C. D.; Schulenburg, J. H. G. v. D. & Majerus, M. E. N. (2000): The butterfly Danaus chrysippus is infected by a male-killing Spiroplasma bacterium. Parasitology 120(5): 439–446. doi:10.1017/S0031182099005867 (HTML abstract)
- Leach, R. H.; Mathews, W. B. & Will, R. (1983): Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Failure to detect spiroplasmas by cultivation and serological tests. Journal of Neurological Science 59(3): 349-353. PMID 6348215 (HTML abstract)

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 17 (UPI) -- Henrik Zetterberg and Justin Abdelkader each scored twice for Detroit Saturday and the Red Wings concluded a road swing with a 5-2 spanking of Vancouver.
Pavel Datsyuk distributed three assists while Dan Cleary also tallied for the Red Wings, who went 2-1 on a three-game trip through Western Canada.
Jimmy Howard turned aside 33-of-35 shots to earn the victory.
Alex Burrows got both goals for the Canucks, who fell to 3-3-2 in March.
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LONGMONT — A 19-year-old man wanted on suspicion of possession and distribution of drugs as part of a gang-related cocaine ring turned himself in on the warrant early Friday morning, according to police reports.
Jason Deherrera was arrested on suspicion of drug distribution and drug possession with intent to distribute. He was among 27 suspects police sought in a drug warrant roundup on Thursday and was among 14 targeted as part of a lengthy investigation into cocaine dealing in Longmont that police called "Operation Little Red Riding Hood."
Police were not notified on Friday that Deherrera turned himself in and he remained listed as wanted throughout the day, according to Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur.
Satur said on Saturday that Erica Sciortino, who also was sought in the roundup, appears to have been arrested because her warrant has been canceled. However, he said, she is not at the Boulder County Jail and he does not know where she was incarcerated.


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Muramasa: The Demon Blade
Oboro Muramasa trailer shows off enhanced Vita port's gameplay
Oboro Muramasa is an enhanced Vita re-release of Wii classic Muramasa: The Demon Blade which, as you'll see in the trailer through the break, is looking pretty special. It arrives in Japan in late March, with a western release expected to follow.
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Muramasa for Vita gets fresh batch of screenshots
As announced by Sony at TGS last September, Vanillaware's popular Wii action title, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, is being ported over to the PlayStation Vita. It remains one of the better looking Wii games around, but today we have a fresh set of screens that show just how nice it looks on the handheld. Take […]
Oboro Muramasa not just a port of The Demon Blade
Marvellous unveiled upcoming Vita title Oboro Muramasa during Sony's TGS press conference, but didn't give any details beyond a March 2013 Japanese release date. Follow-up reports suggest the game is an enhanced release of Wii classic Muramasa: The Demon Blade, with added bells and whistles. According to Gematsu's translation, the gorgeous slasher will be backed […]
Rumor: Odin Sphere and Muramasa getting HD remakes
Word on the showroom floor at TGS has it that Vanillaware plans to release Odin Sphere and Muramasa: The Demon Blade as downloadable ports.
Muramasa: The Demon Blade confirmed for Europe
Muramasa: The Demon Blade has been confirmed for a November 13 in Europe. The 2D side-scrolling action game looks gorgeous, honestly, and it's great to know Europe is getting the Wii title. There's a full game synopsis over on D'toid should this interest you.
ESRB warns that Muramasa: The Demon Blade is full of deep, swaying cleavage
The ESRB has rated Muramasa: The Demon Blade for Wii, and the Teen rating is due to alcohol, violence, and suggestive themes. Suggestive themes including comments like: "It is customary for women to be sold here" and "You harlot! I poured all my money into your establishment and now you humiliate me". One female character […]
No More Heroes and Muramasa may make PS3 and 360
Marvelous is considering porting the likes of No More Heroes and Muramasa: The Demon Blade to Xbox 360 and PS3, Siliconera reports. In fact, the publisher appears to be looking at moving its large Wii catalogue HD-ward, if a slide in a financial presentation is to be believed. There's no detail apart from that, but […]
Muramasa: The Demon Blade acquires new publisher, release date
Ignition will publish Vanillaware's Muramasa: The Demon Blade exclusively for the Wii this September. The game supports 16:9 widescreen display, two playable characters, a cast of 100 NPCs, lovely 2D art, optional challenge stages and mini-games throughout. Based on ancient Japanese lore, the game drops players into the Genroku era, ruled by shogun Tsunayoshi, whose […]
Four new videos for Muramasa: The Demon Blade released
Four different videos have popped up for Marvelous Entertainment's Muramasa: The Demon Blade. Based on ancient Japanese lore, the game drops players into the Genroku era, ruled by shogun Tsunayoshi, whose desire for power leads to a conflict over the Demon Blades. The hand-drawn 2D Wii exclusive is slated for a July 31 release. One […]
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Bethesda Studios' The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the most hyped and played games in recent times. Players have created their own meme-verse with the arrow-to-the-knee jokes and other paraphernalia and the game has been a huge success. Fans of the games have been clamoring for a Creation Kit – a set of tools released by the developer to aid and assist in making mods. Bethesda has released a statement along with the release notes for v1.4 regarding the Creation Kit.
It seems that the Creation Kit will work with the Steam Workshop – a place where community-made items are voted on by players themselves which may then be added in-game. A Steam Workshop for Team Fortress 2 exists and has seen a bunch of items go from just a concept on paper to an actual in-game item. The creators of the items are also rewarded in cash by Valve. In this case, the creators will be rewarded by Bethesda, probably.
The Creation Kit will allow modders to make complete game transformations such as those we have seen with Neverwinter Nights and the previous The Elder Scrolls games such as Oblivion. It is quite amazing that Bethesda is genuinely interested in enhancing the gameplay by giving players the power, for free.
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Clay-Chalkville quarterback Jacob Thomas completed 11-of-19 passes for 246 yards and three touchdowns Thursday night to lead the North to a 34-12 win over the South in the 53rd AHSAA North-South All-Star football game.
Thomas, selected the North MVP, also rushed for 41 yards on nine carries to finish with 287 yards at Cramton Bowl to close out the all-star competition for the 16th annual All-Star Sports Week. The South now holds a 28-23-2 edge in the football series that dates back to 1948.
The AHSAA Summer Conference sponsored by the Alabama High School Athletic Directors and Coaches Association (AHSADCA) closes out Friday with a mandatory training session for member schools at the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center. The Conference concludes with the Championship Coaches Banquet at 6:30 p.m.
The North led 20-12 at halftime, thanks to Thomas' big first-half passing performance. He completed 7-of-13 passes for 188 yards in the first two quarters with his long an 83-yard TD connection to North Sand Mountain receiver Max Kirby midway through the second quarter. He also completed a 10-yard TD pass to Kahne Cooper of North Jackson earlier in the second period and had a 35-yard scoring toss to Dominic Williams of Oxford in the fourth period.
Jose Betancourt of Russellville opened the North scoring with s 20-yard field goal at the 7:37 mark of the first quarter and his 29-yard field goal on the last play of the first half closed out the scoring before intermission. Seth Lynch of Austin scored the North's final touchdown with an 11-yard run with 1:01 left in game.
The South took the lead briefly when Jackson quarterback Dustyn Moseley fired a 64-yard TD pass to Barnard McGhee of Dothan with just under a minute left in the opening quarter. Jeff Davis quarterback K.D. Humphries added a 1-yard run in the second period for the South's second TD.
McGhee had four catches for 88 yards to capture South MVP honors.
The North rolled up 204 yards rushing and 251 passing for 455 total yards. Kirby was the leading receiver with 88 yards on two catches. Marcus Reaves of Clay-Chalkville led all rushers with 70 yards on 16 carries as the North ran 69 plays to the South's 47.
Moseley led the South with 161 yards passing on a 9-of-13 performance. D'Marius Howard of Opelika had 27 yards on six carries. Leading South defenders were Chris Taylor of Vigor and Embrell Vaughn of Jackson with nine stops each. Hewitt-Trussville defensive back Denzel McDonald's seven tackles led the North.
Steve Smith of Piedmont was head coach for the North and Kerry Stevenson of Vigor served as South head coach.
Baseball (Monday)
Game 1: North 8, South 4
Game 2: North 13, South 0
Stats: Game 1 Game 2
Softball (Monday)
Game 1: North 6, South 3
Game 2: North 3, South 3 (tie)
Stats: Game 1 Game 2
Soccer (Tuesday)
Girls: North 2, South 1
Boys: South 1, North 0
Stats: Girls Boys
Basketball (Wednesday)
Girls: North 79, South 41
Boys: North 76, South 72
Stats: Girls Boys
Volleyball (Thursday)
Game 1: North25, South 17
Game 2: North 25, South 14
Game 3: North 25, South 14
Series: North 3, South 0
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December 29 – Happy Birthday Jaret Wright
Jaret Wright's pitching career got off to a great start from the second he was born and found out his Dad was former big league pitcher and 20-game-winner Clyde Wright. Sure enough, the youngster developed into a fireballing right-handed pitcher with a 98 mile per hour fastball and a biting curve to boot. He was in the big leagues with the Cleveland Indians by June of 1997, when he was just 21-years-old and he helped that Indian team make it to the World Series by going 8-3 during the second half of the regular season and then beating the Yankees twice in the five-game ALDS. The Indians loved this kid so much that after he won Game 4 of the World Series against the Marlins, they gave him the ball again in Game 7 and Wright responded with a six-plus innings stint of solid pitching giving the bullpen a 2-1 lead in a game Cleveland eventually would lose. Coming out of that season, Wright was considered one of Baseball's premier young arms.
Wright then went 12-10 in his sophomore season but as the innings mounted, his pitching shoulder started aching. He lost both of his starts in the 1998 postseason and then the bottom pretty much fell out. He spent his final four seasons in Cleveland either pitching in pain or on the DL, winning just 15 decisions over that period while losing 19. The Indians let him walk after the 2002 season and the Padres took a shot with a one-year deal. After a horrible 1-5 start in San Diego, he was dealt to the Braves, a franchise well known for its handling of pitching talent. Atlanta proved to be Wright's elixir. By 2004, he had learned how to pitch with an 89 mile per hour fastball and finished 15-8. But then he got shelled in that year's ALDS against the Astros, losing twice and giving up 14 hits and 10 runs in the nine-plus innings he pitched.
It was the Wright who pitched so well in the 2004 regular season that the Yankees thought they were getting when they signed him to a three-year, $21 million contract the following December. That was the same offseason New York also went out and signed Carl Pavano for $40 million. Brian Cashman thought he had fixed the Yankee starting pitching problems with the two deals. Instead, he had made them even worse not to mention much, much more expensive.
Wright's first year in pinstripes was a disaster. He pitched just 63 innings, spent most of the year nursing a sore shoulder and finished 5-5 with an ERA over six. He did much better in his second regular season in New York, going 11-7 but then for some reason, Joe Torre picked Wright to start game 4 of that year's ALDS against the Tigers. Detroit held a 2-1 lead in the best of five series and when Wright got shelled, giving up two bombs, and four runs in the 2.2 innings he pitched, both New York's postseason and the beleaguered pitcher's Yankee career were over. He was banished to Baltimore, with the Yankees agreeing to pay more than half his $7 million salary for 2007. That turned out to be his final season in the big leagues. He finished with a 68-60 career record during his eleven injury filled seasons of play.


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Who doesn't enjoy a nice quiche recipe? This one has taken a while to perfect, but it has plenty of vegetable in it to keep it healthy. You can use up your leftovers in a quiche quite easily, too.
I walked into the kitchen this past Saturday morning, babe in arms, and wondered what in the world we were going to have for breakfast. For the past few months our weekend breakfasts have been a regular rotation of my gluten free pancakes or my gluten free drop biscuits, and we were definitely ready for something new. I surveyed the fridge and the cupboards and scanned a few blogs and settled on Elise's Mushroom Quiche. The only problem was that I didn't have a gluten free pie crust, shallots, milk, cream or Gruyère cheese. However, I am quite well known in my family for not letting a lack of ingredients or a lack of recipe stop me. (In fact, due to some unfortunate experiences in high school my brother will only eat something I've cooked if I promise that I followed a recipe. I often fudge on this by writing the recipe down as I go!) And, since I had the mushrooms, we proceeded. (We would be the babe and I – he manages the measuring cups and spoons.)
After a little more blog scanning, I found a gluten free pie crust recipe at Gluten-Free Girl and was getting pretty excited (despite the fact that I didn't have any of the four flour ingredients) until I read this:
Refrigerate the ball of dough, for as long as you can stand. Ideally, you would prepare the dough in the evening and refrigerate overnight.
We were all stomach-rumbling hungry, so time for Plan B: the huge bag of red potatoes that had been sitting in the bottom bin of my refrigerator for longer that I care to remember. I sliced the potatoes as thin as I could, layered them in a pie plate, and voilà – a gluten free potato crust worthy of many baby claps!
So here is my "Saturday morning with a very empty refrigerator" version of Elise's Mushroom Quiche:
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A judge set bond at $1 million Wednesday for a man who caused a massive evacuation when he told security screeners he had a bomb in his backpack at Jacksonville International Airport, authorities said.
Zeljko Causevic, 39, remained silent during his brief hearing before Duval County Court Judge Russell Healey. He was arrested and booked into jail early Wednesday on charges that include making a false report about planting a bomb or explosive and manufacturing, possessing, selling or delivering a hoax bomb, according to an arrest report.
Airport officials said Causevic told screeners he had a bomb in his backpack but they only found a luggage scale with a microchip inside, along with a remote control device he called a "detonator."
"The subject stated, 'I came to the security guard and said I got a bomb in here,'" airport spokesman Michael Stewart said, reading the arrest report. "The subject further explained that inside his camouflage backpack he a device which he said was 'suppoed to be a bomb but it's not.' He described the device as a luggage scale containing two flat round batteries and a microchip inside."
The TSA agents notified authorities and Stewart said Causevic was detained between 5:30 and 6 p.m. The airport was evacuated and flights were stopped before reaching the gates. Passengers were displaced for nearly five hours.
An arrest report indicates that Causevic (below) is originally from Bosnia.
Another person was arrested after officials say he started acting suspiciously but authorities said he was not connected to Causevic.
"The second person was acting suspiciously, they were approached by the police and they were arrested for, I think the report says resisting arrest," Stewart said. "There was no connection with the other individual as determined in the interview by the arresting authorities."
Manuel Rivera, 35, faces a charge of resisting an officer without violence, his arrest report said. He was released Wednesday morning, authorities said.
The airport was back to normal operation Wednesday morning.
Passengers and people who arrived at the airport to pick them up Tuesday evening were stranded for hours as officials investigated.
Authorities said some incoming planes were held up on the tarmac until buses arrived to pick up passengers. The passengers were shuttled to nearby hotels.
Arlie Gentry was on a Southwest flight arriving from New York via Baltimore just before 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
"We moved from one spot on the runway to another spot," said Gentry, who was reached on his cellphone while still on the plane. "They told us we couldn't get off the plane."
Gentry said the pilots initially told passengers they didn't know what was going on.
While the delay was cumbersome and bothersome, Gentry said everyone on his plane remained calm. He said he was never really concerned for his safety, because the plane remained so far from the terminal.
Around 9:30 p.m., a bus arrived to take the passengers on Gentry's flight to a nearby hotel.
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25 Years Ago, Metal Stamping Magazine Became MetalForming
MetalForming came of age at the age of 21. That's when, with the June 1988 issue of Metal Stamping magazine, the Precision Metalforming Association changed the publication's name to MetalForming. This was "in response to the changes in the metalforming industry," wrote PMA president Jon Jenson, who at that time also served as the magazine's editor. "The industry has begun to blend various types of operations, and technologies that were traditionally separate are being merged," Jenson wrote.
OSHA's Impact in the Late '80s
This year we mark 25 years as MetalForming magazine, yet our story begins actually just a couple of months before our official name change. For years this magazine covered closely the debate surrounding the use of presence-sensing device initiation (PSDI) in pressrooms, and finally, in March 1988, OSHA issued the long-awaited regulation authorizing the use of such devices to initiate stroking action on manually fed mechanical power presses. An article in our May 1988 issue described the 3-yr. review process to overturn the original regulation prohibiting PSDI, published in 1971.
Also trending in the late 1980s was diversification as a strategy leaned on by metalformers to protect against economic swings.
"As with any investment portfolio, diversification is the best to protect against economic swings that could negatively impact any single segment of the business." That's what ne Groenstein, chairman of Interlake Stamping, wrote when we asked him to consider strategies that metalformers have followed to remain competitive.
"Strategy should avoid the pitfalls of significant revenue concentration in any one customer or product segment," Groenstein continued. "Value-added operations represent a very productive means to protect margins associated with commoditization of metal-component manufacturing…Effectively delivering value through value analysis, value engineering, prototyping and pre-production support provide tremendous benefits to the customer and represent additional margin opportunities to the manufacturer."
The 1990s
Automation came of age in this decade, and the changing automotive scene as well as shifting market forces brought angst and opportunity.
After a shaky start, the U.S. economy roared through the 1990s, with metalformers reaping rewards in some market sectors and adjusting to major shifts in others. On top of that, a whole new world was opening up, bringing new global markets and fierce worldwide competition. Though extremely successful from a general business point of view, the decade saw the American economy accelerate its orientation from manufacturing-based to service-based. That meant consolidation among metalforming companies and along the whole manufacturing supply chain. Passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement opened up Mexico as a prime part-supply and assembly option.
A Japanese Wakeup Call for the Big Three
Our article, "Observations on Automotive Stamping Developments," from the April 1990 issue of MetalForming, benchmarked automotive stamping plants in Japan and stamping operations of Japanese automotive companies located in the United States. Here we reported on how the Big Three stamping operations fared.
The magazine came of age with the June 1988 issue. Our new name and identity came in response to changes in the metalforming industry, which had begun to blend various types of operations and technologies that traditionally were separate.
The results were not pretty. Big Three stampers lagged in areas such as die-change time, and were at a significant disadvantage in percentage of uptime, operations required to produce each part, die cost and press throughput. The era also offered opportunities for U.S. suppliers to contract with new automotive OEM transplants. A survey at the time showed that 85 percent of these companies were seeking involvement of U.S. suppliers, and expected to significantly increase the number of U.S.-supplied components. Deemed critical to good relationships between domestic stampers and transplant companies: quality and price.
New Technology Demanded Better Training
Pressroom technology continued its inexorable trek forward throughout the 1990s, with automation coming of age to help the industry better cope with competition worldwide. MetalForming in the 1990s detailed advances in robotics, part-transfer systems, presses, die-sensor technology, controls and in-die value-added capabilities.
"Looking at the industry as a whole, a barrier to utilization of modern process control technology in metalforming is not its complexity, not its cost, not user unfriendliness of software, nor its suitability for the metalforming industry," opined Michael O'Brien, president of Signature Technologies. "On the contrary, it is the inability of industry to properly understand how to digest new technology and properly train employees—training not being limited to how to use it but more importantly why to use it.
"We can't compete with emerging competitors on labor cost," O'Brien warned. "Shortly, we will not be able to compete on education. Our only real area of strategic opportunity is one utilizing technology in order to overcome our competitive weaknesses and maintain a leadership position by being better at producing formed metal parts for technically demanding products. In order to accomplish this we need to have an education system that produces a workforce that is technologically ahead of the work environment they are about to enter."
The Internet
Computers and consumer electronics infiltrated society in the 1990s, with North American metalformers supplying cases, disk drives and various hardware. But by the end of the decade much of this part production had moved south and overseas.
Here to stay, however, are computers themselves, with the '90s witnessing the "Internet Revolution," dramatically increased computing power and huge software advancements. All of that meant instant communication worldwide, better machine control, nearly real-time management of metalforming operations, and the ability to quickly design stamped and fabricated parts and tooling and simulate the production process.
The 2000s
How to compete? That's what metalformers and fabricators asked themselves at the start of the new century. Customers demanded price givebacks while metalformers paid more for raw materials, energy, health care, etc., further eroding already thin profit margins. Competition from Asia, primarily China, essentially eliminated "commodity" tool and part producers in North America. And growing markets, especially in Asia, demanded that metalformers find s to stay close to customers serving those markets.
On the political scene, steel tariffs in the early 2000s tightened supply and helped push prices to record levels. Lawmakers heard from metalformers concerned with Chinese currency valuation, labor, taxes and other issues stressing the industry.
So where did that leave us? All of this forced the metalforming community to become leaner and meaner than ever before. Toward that end, MetalForming in the 2000s focused editorial coverage on providing methods for producing high-quality parts as quickly as possible, and delivering just what the customer wanted. That meant getting the most out of existing equipment or upgrading to get the job done; adding value within the line; employing sensors and controls so that machines and tooling worked optimally; and ensuring that shop-floor employees had the tools they needed, and the knowhow to get the most out of them.
Shorter Part Runs a Trend"The Small-Lot Scenario," an article published in our November 2001 issue of MetalForming, examined the trend toward just-in-time supply of smaller part runs and how short-run specialists made that happen.
"More and more companies are trying to drive stampings down to a commodity where they are looking at price," said Jeff Newmark, president of WLS Stamping Co., Cleveland, OH. "We look to reduce our costs. One to do this is to tell people to work harder. The other is to make a change—work toward lean manufacturing and attack waste. We view the people making the parts as value-added and everything else as nonvalue-added. We won't tell our value-added people to work harder. We will look at nonvalue-added and see how we can save there.
"The biggest nonvalue operation is setup time," Newmark continued. "To reduce setup times, we invested in extra capital. We have two or three times as many presses as press operators. We looked at how we can eliminate setup time and take advantage of a progressive tool developed for quick setup, couple it with the economy of the short-run stamping tooling and come up with something that works."
New Steels, and the Metalforming Technology Needed to Process Them
Steel products evolved dramatically through the early part of the century (and continue to do so today), as pointed out in "Advanced High-Strength Steels for Stamped Automotive Parts," an article MetalForming published in March 2005.
"When presented with making an AHSS part from DP or TRIP steel," the article continued, "what should the metalformer know? The short answer is that whatever you know about high-strength steels compared to mild steels still applies when forming AHSS. AHSS materials usually will have higher yield strengths and much higher ultimate tensile strengths, so the metalformer must anticipate higher press loads and greater springback and die wear. Forming, as well as welding, is proportionally affected by higher material strength and different microstructures."
Manufacturing's Migration South
MetalForming covered the migration of manufacturing from the traditional rust belt to southern "right to work" states in a January 2008 Special Report. It began:
"The widespread use of air conditioning; increased mobility due to creation of the national high system and other modes of transportation; the weather. Any and all of these reasons, and many others, have contributed to steadily rising population in the Southeast United States over the last half century. Mirroring the population, economic fortunes also have risen in a region that at one time was the nation's poorest. With city, county and state governments onboard, manufacturing has found a home in the Sunshine Belt, promising jobs, revenue and long-term economic stability for inhabitants."
Following the upward trend, and also a major contributor, was the automotive industry, led by transplant OEMs setting up shop in Alabama, Mississippi and other nearby states.
Of course, with the OEMs came their suppliers—transplant and domestic.
Leaning on Lean and Green
"Becoming a lean, world-class company requires overcoming organizational inertia," the article said. "Often overlooked are outdated cultures, ineffective management skills, untrained workers, bureaucratic red tape, and traditional pay-and-reward systems that do not fit. In transitioning to lean manufacturing, factories, systems and organizations must be streamlined. Lines of communications must be opened and barriers between departments dismantled. Manufacturers must put an end to the 'we've als done it that ' argument. For the lean transition to be successful, employees must be highly involved in assuming new skills and responsibilities."
Green manufacturing also surfaced to top of mind around this time, as part of a lean strategy as well as a to reduce costs. Along with the popular green strategies such as implementing more energy-efficient lighting, metalformers began to look closely at reusable packaging products. Reusable packaging, as an alternative to wooden pallets or corrugated-cardboard boxes, was seen as a to reduce waste and the nonvalue-added labor for setup and breakdown of the boxes, and to improve warehouse-space utilization as well as worker safety, since ergonomically designed containers can ease handling. Reusable packaging also can improve product flow in terms of safe and efficient transfer of parts and subassemblies to the customer.
Smarter Motion Controls for Presses
The last half of the decade also was an exciting time in the controls industry, where, in particular for hydraulic presses, we welcomed improved positioning and force control that paved the to higher part quality and productivity, and reduced maintenance costs. Adding closed-loop electro-hydraulic motion controllers with position-pressure/force-control capabilities became popular for making new hydraulic presses excel or for enabling older machines to function like new. And, retrofitting open-loop control systems with these controls provided another dimension of control to increase productivity, improve quality and decrease maintenance costs.
New controls also improved the ability of metalformers to gather, track and analyze production data in real time. Metalformers began in a big to use this data-collection software to track running and idle time automatically as it polls the controllers, and also to automatically collect any unplanned downtime events initiated by the controllers. These events include tonnage and sensor faults. Stampers began to keep detailed event logs that provide a time- and date-stamped account of every event at every machine.
Also, the software knows where and when every tool runs, and how many parts the tools make. Therefore, metalformers now were able to keep an accurate total-hits count for each die—even as the die runs in multiple presses—eliminating tedious and sometimes inaccurate manual recordkeeping.
The unplanned-downtime information not only identifies problem equipment, but also objectively quantifies the severity of problems to allow efficient prioritizing of corrective actions. With objective information on machine utilization, metalformers now were able to justify delaying or cancelling some planned equipment purchases, while fast-tracking others. Data became king—collecting it, analyzing it and putting it in a form that metalformers could use to make informed, sound decisions about their businesses.
On the Die-Design Front
At the time, John Cawley, tool-design instructor at MPTC, told us that 3D design software allowed him to teach students more about die design in a shorter amount of time. One reason: It automates the mundane tasks of die designing, which speeds the overall process. In addition, the process proved to be much more visual than with 2D design.
Late in 2008, PMA welcomed ne Boeckman as its 2009 chairman, who at the time served as president of Quick- Stamping Inc. of Texas. Boeckman's theme as chairman was, "Expanding Opportunities…new Ideas, Products and Markets," and it struck a particularly harmonic chord with MetalForming magazine and PMA. It truly shone the spotlight on a key trend of the time. That was, the need for metalformers to look beyond existing core competencies and expand into new processes and customer markets.
"You can't continue to do things the same you've been doing them," Boeckman said. In his company's case, that translated into acquisition of metal-fabrication equipment such as turret punch presses, press brakes and laser-cutting machines. Boeckman's claim that "fabrication opens new doors for us," became one oft-repeated by metalformers over the next several years, and in fact is still commonly heard around the industry; I expect it will continue to resonate for some time.
One catalyst that brought traditional stampers to the table for CNC fabricating equipment—notably turret punch presses—was the growing ability of these machines to perform forming operations, in addition to making holes and nibbling contours. This ability, due primarily to tooling innovation, allowed stampers to develop prototype parts on a turret press, then decide, based on production volumes, whether it made sense to tool up a stamping press to enter production of a new part, or to just soft-tool a turret press to satisfy relatively low-volume production runs. Flexibility—in every sense of the term—became the mantra, and still is.
A New Era in Metalforming-Equipment Capabilities
Meanwhile, on the stamping front—particularly the automotive-stamping front—we continued to experience rapid advancement in advanced high-strength steels. This trend helped to usher in a new era of metalforming-technology advancements. Thanks to lightweighting initiatives, steelmakers poured even more research and development resources into devising new steel grades with tensile strengths as much as three times greater than traditional mild steels, but also with significantly less formability. Forming AHSS grades in high volumes for the automotive industry now challenged the metalforming industry to develop new cleaner and more homogeneous tool steels, as well as beef-up presses and feed equipment.
As MetalForming columnists Stu Keeler and Pete Ulintz wrote in an April 2009 article titled, "Forming Higher-Strength Steels:"
"The increased forces needed to form, pierce and trim higher-strength steels creates significant problems for pressroom equipment and tooling, including excessive tooling defections, damaging tipping moments, and amplified vibrations and snapthrough forces that can shock and break dies—and sometimes presses. Stamping higher-strength steels can affect the size, strength, power and overall configuration of every major piece of the press line, including coil-handling equipment, coil-feed systems, straightening machines and presses.
"Nowhere in the coil-feeding system will higher-strength materials require more attention than in the coil straightener," the article continued. "Straighteners are recognizable by their large roll diameters and relatively wide spacing. The roll diameters and center distances vary depending on material thickness and coil width. The rated capacity of most pressroom straighteners is based on processing mild steel with yield strengths below 340 MPa. Higher-strength steels, due to their higher yield strengths, have a greater tendency to retain their coil set. This requires greater horsepower to straighten the material within an acceptable level of flatness. Larger-diameter rolls and wider roll spacing also are required to work the material effectively. Increasing roll diameter and center distances on straighteners to accommodate higher-strength steels will limit the range (thickness and width) of materials that can be straightened effectively."
Toward the end of their article, Keeler and Ulintz summarized the times, when they wrote:
"Working with higher-strength materials will require stamping companies and tool and die shops to work closely with higher-strength-material producers and tool-steel suppliers in order to select the proper tool steel, heattreatment and surface-coating application appropriate for the sheet-material type and strength levels being processed."
The "R" Word
This brings us to late 2009, when the proverbial you-know-what really hit the fan. But while many used this economic disaster (call it a recession) to write the obituary for American manufacturing, I wrote in my September 2009 signed editorial:
"U.S. manufacturing is in fact not extinct, but merely hibernating. As it awakens, it will be hungry, for materials, equipment, automation and trained—perhaps retrained—workers…Feed your hibernating company by focusing on generating new business and extending your business offerings in s you might not have thought about before. Our newly restored U.S. factories will have fewer 'routine' jobs than ever before. In their place should be jobs conceived for people who innovate and create—designers and engineers, researchers and developers—for the people who advance and expand their skills to meet new challenges."
And that's where we've been for the last few years. We've seen an onslaught of productivity gainers hit our production floors, from software-based tools for paperless die design and development, to automation equipment that keeps presses, lasers and other processes humming after hours. We're bringing in new high-powered ERP software platforms that are setting new standards for the flow of information through our plants, with capabilities like integrated quality, capacity and inventory management.
We're welcoming a completely new type of machines into our factories, such as servo-mechanical stamping presses and hot-stamping lines, next-generation hybrid and electric press brakes and turret presses and fast-cutting and efficient fiber lasers. New programming software for these machines improves usability and accuracy, even featuring 3D simulation and modeling to simplify programming and operation.
Press controls have continued to evolve, pushing press uptimes higher than ever before, while bringing PPM levels to all-time lows. Changeover times have dwindled, machinery throughput has skyrocketed and overall costs related to safety and quality continue to shrink. All of this adds up to the unthinkable just a few years ago—that is, reshoring of work moved to China and other "low-cost countries" back to the United States. Our plants are leaner, greener and cleaner than ever before. We're experts in optimizing measures like value-add per employee and inventory turns.
I can't wait to see what the future holds for the metalforming industry and the technology on whose back it rides. In my January 2012 signed editorial I wrote:
"This is indeed a very exciting time for metalformers, as our industry undergoes a period of rapid and significant technology evolution."And that evolution continues, with no end in sight. As such, we remain committed, as we have been for the last 25 years as MetalForming magazine and the years before as Metal Stamping, to bringing forth the latest/ greatest technology to help our industry flourish—for the next 25 years, and beyond. MF
See also: Signature Technologies, Inc.
Related Enterprise Zones: Automation, Coil Handling, Fabrication, Lubrication, Management, Materials/Coatings, Other Processes, Presses, Quality Control, Rollforming, Safety, Sensing/Electronics, Software, Tool & Die, Training, Welding


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Oh, sunny California, and your car culture! No rust, cheap gas, money to spend. To a Hungarian car nut, this is something shockingly beautiful, even if the coffee is rubbish.
You know Nino Karotta. You also helped him find the best roads in America. And when I told you about Hungarian car meets, some of you wanted to come over here immediately. It's a nice country with some great car guys around, I'll give you that, but I say you're still better off if you just stay in the 'States, and go to California instead.
It's closer, and while the coffee doesn't look convincing at all, donuts and Porsche 904 prototypes kind up make up for that...
Enjoy a very happy European's field report:
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Bernadette Ludwig, a third year student, won an AGEP (Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate) Summer Research Award for $5,000 at International Summer School in Forced Migration at the University of Oxford (UK), July 10-29, 2011. (posted 5/17/11)
David Monaghan, a second year student, won the Clifford Clogg Scholarship to attend the ICPSR in Univ. of Michigan this summer. This scholarship covers the fee to enroll as a Program Scholar, which enables him to attend either one or both of the Summer Program's four-week sessions in Ann Arbor. (posted 5/17/11)
Dominique Nisperos won the Ford Foundation Fellowship 2011 predoctoral competition. This fellowship is sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies. This prestigious award reflects the review panelists' judgment of her scholarly competence as well as the promise that she shows for future achievement as a scholar, researcher, and teacher in an institution of higher education. Dominique is a first year student working with Prof. Cynthia Epstein as research assistant. (posted 4/11/11)
Submitted on: MAY 17, 2011
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Mar 2, 2010
PIACT honors McLaughlin as Company Rep. of the Year
MASHANTUCKET, CONN.- Brendan McLaughlin, insurance sales executive for Travelers Cos., has been named this years recipient of the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.s Company Representative of the Year award. The formal presentation took place today at PIACTs Annual Convention at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods, in Mashantucket, Conn.
McLaughlin currently is in charge of strategic management of the personal insurance agency force in Northern Connecticut, including Litchfield County, Farmington Valley, West Hartford and Hartford.
PIACT presents the award to the company representative who best fosters a sound working relationship between insurance agents and companies, and who exemplifies a commitment to professionalism and service as a company representative.
"Brendan is a respected and outstanding insurance professional," said James Goodman, CIC, immediate past president of PIACT. "He is a true champion of the independent agency system."
"Brendan has been active in the industry for more than 20 years. He truly represents our business with distinction as an expert networker and continues to build a reputation as a responsive, expert company representative," said Howard Olderman, president of PIACT.
PIACT is a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout the state.


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marks1117 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 64 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
Our website features 3 products, that change every few days that are consumer electronics, gadgets, etc... and are considered cool, innovative, useful and unique and we want a logo to reflect what we sell.
3 Cool Products - Always Low Prices & Fast Shipping
Desired Color Scheme:
Red, Blue, Greens, Black
Desired Style:
Trendy, sharp, clean
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
Got a great logo last week from one of you for another website so I'm back for another one since the last one turned out so great.
 Here's what we are looking for. The website is an e-commerce website selling to the general public. There are "3 Best Buys" every few days -- and the products are sold at very compelling prices until we sell out.  The products are gadgets, consumer electronics, useful or innovative items and unique. We try to find this combination and then of course make them a great deal.
We'd like the logo to convey that in some way either through being very trendy, or somehow conveying the price angle with the cool products.
We're open to ideas of course.Â
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Samsung NX300 Image Gallery
The Samsung NX300 enters the market as a strong competitor in the mirrorless genre. The NX300 features a 20.3-megapixel image APS-C CMOS sensor with an ISO range of 100-25,600. The new hybrid auto focus system is proving to deliver fast, reliable autofocus. The camera offers 8.6 frames per second continuous shooting. Samsung is using their DRIMe IV imaging engine which is designed to produce pictures with better color reproduction and greater noise reduction.
Overall we are pleased with the results. The NX300 is a well built camera with very good image quality. We did notice highlight clipping especially in the third image. The first two images were taken in a low light environment with no flash. Color quality was very good and noise was minimal. We used a variety of lenses including the 50-200mm, the 45mm 2D/3D and the 18-55mm Samsung lenses. Check out these sample images and let us know what you see!


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This study will determine if infliximab given in combination with prednisone is a safe and effective treatment for adults with PV.
PV involves blistering of the outer layer of skin and mucous membranes, causing a separation of epidermal cells. The disease occurs when the immune system produces antibodies to specific proteins in the skin and mucous membranes; the cause for production of these autoantibodies is unknown. Infliximab is a genetically engineered monoclonal antibody directed against tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, a chemical messenger that activates an immune response. Infliximab has been used to treat other autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and Crohn's disease. This study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of infliximab given in combination with prednisone for the treatment of adults with PV.
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study for the treatment of patients with pemphigus vulgaris
The Divisions of Dermatology at Duke University Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of Iowa, and University of Southern California Dermatology Centers are recruiting patients for a clinical study using infliximab (Remicade) to treat patients with pemphigus vulgaris who continue to have blisters, skin ulcers or other disease activity despite therapy with 20 mg/day or more of prednisone therapy. 20 patients will be treated with intravenous infusions of infliximab or placebo on weeks 0, 2, 6, 14 followed by monthly follow up visits through week 26.
Purpose of Trial
The purpose of this trial is to determine the safety of infliximab for the treatment of patients with pemphigus vulgaris. Secondary clinical endpoints include the number of days to cessation of new blister formation, the ability to reduce prednisone to 25% of the initial dose by week 18.
Enrollment Criteria
Patients must be at least 18 years of age with a clinical diagnosis of pemphigus vulgaris and ongoing disease activity and on 20 mg/day or more of prednisone. Patients that are taking other immunosuppressive drugs such as azathioprine (Imuran), mycophenolate mofetil (Cellcept), methotrexate, or cyclosporine A will undergo a 4-week washout phase before beginning the trial. Pregnant or nursing women are not eligible to participate in the trial. All potential participants will have a screening visit which will include a review of their medical history, physical examination and obtaining of a blood sample to determine their eligibility to participate in the study.
Contact Information
Please contact the Division of Dermatology at Duke University Medical Center at the numbers listed below for more information regarding this trial and feel free to pass on this contact information to all interested individuals.
Duke University Medical Center:
Durham, NC
Principal Investigator:
Russell P. Hall III M.D.
Clinical Trial Coordinator:
Deborah Hannah
This study will last 26 weeks. At study entry, all patients will be taking a stable dose of prednisone (or an equivalent corticosteroid) of 20 to 120 mg/day for at least 2 weeks prior to study entry. Patients will be randomly assigned to one of two arms. The treatment arm will receive infusions of infliximab, and the control arm will receive placebo. Infusions will be given at study entry and Weeks 2, 6, and 14. Before the start of each infusion, a physical exam, vital signs measurement, medical and medication history, review of a disease activity log, a skin evaluation, and blood collection will occur. During each infusion and for 1 hour postinfusion, patients' vital signs will be monitored for any adverse events. Patients will need a responsible adult to take them home after they are discharged from the treatment facility; this person should remain with the patient overnight in case any problems arise from the treatment. The patient will be contacted by phone that night and the next morning after infusion and will be asked about any adverse effects they may have experienced. Those patients that experience adverse effects may be asked to return to the treatment facility for examination. Prednisone doses may be tapered by 15% every 2 weeks during the study at the investigator's discretion.
There will be a total of 9 study visits until Week 26: screening, study entry, Week 2, and every 4 weeks thereafter. Each study visit will include a physical exam, vital signs measurement, medical and medication history, a review of the disease activity log and adverse events experienced since the last visit, skin assessments, and blood collection; patients will also be asked to complete a tuberculosis (TB) questionnaire. Patients will be asked to complete quality of life questionnaires at study entry and Weeks 10, 18, and 26. Skin biopsies of unaffected skin will be done at study entry and Weeks 10, 18, and 26; if patients have PV-associated lesions, additional skin biopsies of affected skin will be done at study entry and Week 18.


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This makes great gifts for sewing friends, teachers, table decorations, or sewing club gifts.
Here's what you'll need:
- 1 Canning Jar (any size works)
- 6" X 6" Fabric Scrap
- Batting
- Needle and Thread
- Hot Glue Gun
- Piece of cardboard or felt
- Scissors
Step 1:
Round out the edges of the 6 x 6 piece of fabric. It doesn't have to be perfect, either.
Take the needle and thread and make a loose running stitch around the inside edge of the fabric.
Or, set a sewing machine on the longest stitch length and stitch around the outer edge.
Step 2:
Add more batting if it isn't pouffy enough.
Step 3:
Hot glue the fabric to the bottom of the lid. This helps hold it all in place. Be sure to trim the thread tails.
Step 4:
Push the pin cushion into the jar ring.
Fill the jars with buttons, sewing notions, pins, or even candy.
Top with some really cute pins.
This will be the last time where I use the word pouffy in this post.
For more Mason Jar inspiration, follow my Pinterest Mason Jar Board
Follow The Seasoned Homemaker's board Mason Jar Ideas on Pinterest.


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The Federation of Genealogical Societies' 2013 Conference is quickly approaching. Conference Co-chairs, Paula Stuart-Warren and Dawne Slater-Putt, have a few updates about the conference that they wanted me to share with you.
It's getting closer! The 2013 FGS conference takes place in Fort Wayne, Indiana on August 21-24 with pre-conference activities on August 20th and a Farewell Brunch on August 25th. Fort Wayne is the home of the renowned Genealogy Center which is giving us generous extended research hours during the conference.
- Of course, you may still register online or by regular mail for the FGS 2013 Conference in Fort Wayne!
- Register soon so that in early August you gain access to the online conference syllabus with an expanded subject index.
- We tweaked room arrangements and have ample room for more people to sign up for the luncheons that take place each day.
- Rooms are available at the two added hotels. They will run periodic shuttles to the Grand Wayne Convention Center. Fort Wayne has thousands of hotel rooms so there is space for all of us.
- Ample parking is available near the convention center.
- Don't forget about the wonderful quilt that will be awarded during the Friday evening festivities at the Allen County Public Library. That's an evening to benefit the War of 1812 Preserve the Pensions Project with lots of fun activities. A dessert buffet will be sponsored by FamilySearch. If you have registered for that evening, you get access to the Genealogy Center from 6:00 p.m. till Midnight!
- The conference website: https://www.
FGS Conference News Blog: http://www.
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Teacher effectiveness: The studies
So a few days ago I called Jane Hannaway of the Urban Institute to learn more about her talk last week (see earlier post), in which she said teacher improvement flattens out after about three to four years. I wanted to see the research.
Not long after, I received an e-mail from the Education Policy Center of the Urban Institute
that included several studies.
Here is what I received:
Dear Mr. Meyer,
Please find below a list of references with links related to the question of teacher experience and diminishing effects on productivity after first few years:
Rivkin, Steven G., Eric A. Hanushek, and John F. Kain. 2005. "Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement."
Econometrica 73(2): 417–458.
"There appear to be important gains in teaching quality in the first year of experience and smaller gains over the next few career years. However, there is little evidence that improvements continue after the first three years." (p.449)
"As we demonstrate in the direct estimation of educational production functions below, the learning curve appears to be quite steep in the first year or two of teaching before flattening out." (p. 435)
Clotfelter, Charles T., Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor. 2007. "Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects." CALDER Working Paper No. 11. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.
"most of the gains in achievement associated with teacher experience occur in the first two years of teaching with an effect size of 0.0503. Though the estimated coefficients rise to a peak of 0.0617 for a teacher with 21-27 years of experience, none of the coefficients for additional years of experience differ statistically from the coefficient for 1-2 years. Thus we conclude that novice teachers in the sample are less effective than teachers in the sample with some experience, but beyond the first couple of years, more experienced teachers are no more effective than those with a couple of years of experience. One interpretation of this pattern is that there is little or no additional learning on the job after the first few years in teaching." (p. 18-19).
Harris, Douglas N., and Tim R. Sass. 2007. "Teacher Training, Teacher Quality and Student Achievement." CALDER Working Paper No. 3. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.
"Experience enhances teacher productivity at all grade levels in reading and in both elementary and middle-school math, though experience effects decline as we progress from elementary to middle and high school. The bulk of the experience effects occur in the first year, with subsequent experience yielding diminishing increases in teacher productivity." (p. 19)
Goldhaber, Dan. 2007. "Everyone's Doing It, but What Does Teacher Testing Tell Us about Teacher Effectiveness?" CALDER Working Paper No. 9. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.
"I find that teachers see the largest gains in productivity during the early years of
their career. Students with a teacher who has one to two years of experience outperform students with novice teachers by 3 to 7 percent of a standard deviation, and students with teachers who have three to five years of experience tend to outperform those with one to two years of experience by an additional 2 percent of a standard deviation (though the difference is not statistically significant across all model specifications). I find little evidence, however, of statistically significant productivity gains associated with increases in experience beyond five years."
Boyd, Donald J., Pamela L. Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James H. Wyckoff. 2006. "How Changes in Entry Requirements Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student Achievement." Education Finance and Policy 1(2): 176-216.
"Recent research has documented the importance of teachers to student achievement (see, for example, Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain 2005; Rockoff 2004; Sanders and Horn 1994; Sanders and Rivers 1996). Each of these studies documents the improvement of student achievement with increases in teacher experience during the first three to five years of experience, with virtually no additional gains for experience beyond five years. Many other factors, including teachers' verbal ability and subject-matter preparation, contribute to teacher effectiveness (Ehrenberg and Brewer 1995; Monk 1994)."
"Other studies have found (Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain 2005; Rockoff 2004) that teacher experience is an important influence on student achievement. Tables 3a and 3b provide estimates of these effects for teachers by their level of experience. The experience estimates for this model include two components—the effect of additional years of teaching on the effectiveness of individual teachers."
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U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Missouri, has unintentionally strengthened the argument for comprehensive sex education in public schools.
When a television interviewer asked the candidate Sunday why he supports a ban on abortion even in cases of rape, Akin replied, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
Apart from failing to identify what constitutes "legitimate rape," Akin's statement shows a remarkable lack of understanding about human biology. It contradicts scientific data and demonstrates the need for health education that includes frank, medically accurate information about sexuality.
A University of South Carolina study published in the Journal of American Obstetrics and Gynecology calculated a national rape-related pregnancy rate of 5 percent among women between 12 and 45 years old. Based on a three-year study involving 4,008 women, researchers estimated that more than 32,000 pregnancies result from rape each year in the United States.
"Rape-related pregnancy occurs with significant frequency," the study's authors concluded. "It is a cause of many unwanted pregnancies and is closely linked with family and domestic violence." A later study by St. Lawrence University researchers yielded similar results.
Politicians frequently misinterpret data to suit their ideological needs. However, biology isn't as open to interpretation. Akin's statement about the female body's ability to "shut down" the reproductive system in cases of rape defies medical evidence and ought not be dismissed as throw-away campaign rhetoric.
We suggest he enroll in a remedial class in health education, similar to those taught in public middle schools and high schools throughout Maine. Instead of conjecture based on folklore or something less scientific, Akin would receive honest information about human sexuality based on medical evidence.
That's important, not just because political office seekers shouldn't use false science to court voters, but because clear, factual discourse about sexuality should inform public policy. When debating laws related to, for instance, rape or abortion, voters and those who aspire to govern them can't make judgments or apply values without a basic understanding of the physical and psychological effects of sexual assault.
Providing accurate information about the biology of reproduction represents one of the best ways to reduce sexual assault, and Akin's attempt to categorize sexual assault into anything more than it is, a violent crime, threatens to minimize public understanding of the issue and dehumanize sexual assault survivors.
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When Dizzy was dropped in England I stated on this website that he will be in the Australian IX for the first Ashes test in Australia later this year. This comment was met with much hilarity by many a pom on this website.
Question is - will he be selected?
Stuart Clark has just come off a man of the series effort in SA and would consider himself very unlucky if not selected.
And with Mcgrath presumably back, what will the test attack be? Will Australia continue with 5 bowlers or go back to their preferred 4 bowler attack.
Can Dizzy truly be considered as an allrounder based on one freakish effort against poor opposition?
Can he justify his selection on bowling only considering all he has done has had a good game or two with the ball against poor opposition?
Surely MacGill deserves to play but will they play 2 spinners and 3 quicks?
Is Kaspa now out of the equation.....and what about Tait?
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Singapore's Orchard Road is decorated with beautiful Christmas lightings throughout the month of November and December every year. This year, its a blue Christmas.
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jemaflor (127657) 2013-12-25 23:10
Hi Eugene,
Good angle, interesting perspective with the veiw od the steet, dynamic result with cars and people, good light capture, tfs.
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Hi Eugene,
I remember critiquing a photo of another member of the same lights. Only your photo includes the street traffic, as well. I appreciate the inclusion of the vehicles.
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The provocative fragrance opens with an intriguing wave of citrus fruits, mingled with the airy scent of a deep blue sea. Next, the zest of Grapefruit punctuates, followed by the tang of Peppermint, Pink Pepper and Nutmeg. Finally, in this initial impression, a touch of Ginger heightens the sharpness of the citrus.
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A look inside Michigan novelist Elmore Leonard's Bloomfield Hills home
Elmore Leonard wrote 19 novels inside home; place of his inspiration
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – When novelist Elmore Leonard passed away on Aug. 20, the world lost a great writer and a creator of some very interesting characters.
Local 4's cameras were recently allowed inside Leonard's home where he wrote 19 novels -- the place of his inspiration.
Leonard's 5-bedroom house is listed for $2.1 million in Bloomfield Hills. His son, Peter Leonard, remembers running by the house back in 1985.
"Well, let me first tell you the story behind it. When I got home, I called Elmore, and I said you gotta go look at this house on Yarmouth," said Peter. "I think he did either that day or the next day, walked up, knocked on the door, and made the guy an offer and bought it."
Peter said that pretty much sums up his father -- he went after what he wanted. Peter remembered when he was a child what his dad said.
"He said, 'Yeah, I'm gonna make my run.' I said, 'What does that mean?' and he said, 'I'm quitting my job and I'm going to write full-time,' so that was really something," said Peter (pictured, left).
In the basement of Leonard's home, is the result of that determination with stacks and stacks of his novels. His old typewriter sits in the corner.
Leonard's daughter, Jane, actually transcribed his books because he wrote everything out long hand on yellow pads of paper.
"They were the same thickness, he just loved this paper," said Jane.
"And he would write four pages to get one good page, one clean page," Peter said.
His kids tried to get him to use a computer to save time. Elmore simply said, "Why would I want to save time?"
The famed novelist spent most of his time in his writing room.
"I think the passion was there, that writing was his life. He loved it," said Peter. "It wasn't work, it was fun, and he always said to me if you're not having fun when you're writing, you're doing something wrong."
The room is a special spot in the house. On the mantel, strangely enough, is an autographed photo of Charlie Sheen.
"What person would you like to come back as, or who would you like to come back as, and Elmore said Charlie Sheen," said Peter. "Yea, he wrote, to Elmore, do you think you could handle being me? Charlie Sheen."
The family can remember there were plenty of memories about interacting with the Hollywood types.
"'Dad, Clint Eastwood's on the phone,' and so we all, this is when you could pick up the phone and unscrew the mouthpiece, so we all went to different phones and listened," said Peter.
The room is also where lots of A-listers visited when Elmore would have a party, like George Clooney.
"Yes, he probably stood right here, and the girls all around him, they just flocked."
But most importantly, the room was Elmore's spot to create.
"We would describe scenes to each other, and dialogue and characters, and Elmore would say to me, something like, 'Well, I don't know if your bad guy has the right name,'" Peter said.
Peter admits at times it was intimidating following in his father's footsteps as an author.
"I got a lot of emails saying, 'How dare you think you can write a book as good as your father,' you know, things like that, which I found odd," said Peter. "Isn't there room for both of us?"
But Peter would then rely on his father's advice.
"He said, 'You never say a word, you don't respond to the critics, you don't defend yourself, you just take it and you keep going and maybe you learn something from the criticism.'"
As Elmore's children gave Local 4's Karen Drew a tour of the 5,000-square-foot home, Drew said there was something you could feel as you walked from room to room: Simplicity. Even the master bedroom was large, but nothing overwhelming or over the top -- Elmore didn't live like that.
The kitchen was also one of the writer's favorite spots.
"He would have his dinner and watch Jeopardy every night," Peter said.
The backyard and patio saw many special times with Elmore, his children and his grandchildren. Elmore did backflips off the diving board up until his mid-80s.
"Then my dad would do every year his annual backflip off the board," said Peter.
Family members couldn't believe it when Steven Tyler and members of his band, Aerosmith, stopped by to hang out one summer afternoon.
Local 4's Karen Drew says the house, in a way, is so much like Elmore's novels, filled with twists and turns and with so much character.
"He wrote 19 novels here, I think, so this was definitely his place of inspiration," said Peter.
So what's next? Peter admits he hasn't written much since his father died, but when he does get back to it, he has something special he wants to do.
"I am toying with the idea of writing a Raylan novel," said Peter. "Raylan Givens is a character who is the main character in the TV show 'Justified,' and my dad's last novel is called 'Raylan.' It would be a tribute to him."
As for the home, the children say hopefully another family can have just as many great memories here as well.
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Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Bye bye....
Just wanted to say thanks to Lynne and Toni for all their hard work over the last few months running the Worcester Park Craft Club - and that we're all sorry tonight was the last one... Here are the few pictures I took tonight - it was great fun - I think BJ enjoyed herself...
it was lovely to see Rachel and her 7 week old baby Harry !
Thanks everyone - hope to run into you again somewhere - keep crafting!
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Thanks Helen, Some nice photos there!
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Good working women always enjoy their work.
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Are all men guilty of sin because of Adam's sin in the Garden of Eden? No, they are not. Will men spend eternity in hell because Adam sinned? No, they will not.
Original advocates present Romans 5:19 as a proof-text for original sin.
Romans 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.(NKJV)
The theory is that because Adam was disobedient in the Garden of Eden, then all men are guilty of sin at birth. Men are guilty of sin because they sin, not because Adam sinned.
Are all men made righteous because of the obedience of Jesus? No, they are not. Men become righteous only if they are obedient to the gospel plan of salvation.
All men are not sinners because Adam sinned.
All men are not righteous because Jesus did not sin.
Romans 3:23 for have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (NKJV)
All men become sinners because all men sin.
1 John 3:4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.(NKJV)
All who commit sin are sinners. Being born is not committing sin. Being born is not a lawless act.
James 1:14-15 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death. (NKJV)
Temptation comes before sin. Babies in the womb are not tempted. Infants do give into the desires of fornication, drunkenness, theft, murder etc. Only those who know good from evil are capable of sin.
Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned---(NKJV) [BECAUSE ALL SINNED]
Adam introduce sin into the world. All men will die physically because of Adam' sin. Men will suffer spiritual death, because they themselves sinned.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgement of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.(NKJV)
Men will be judged according to things they have done. Men are not going to be judged by what Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden.
The only way to escape the punishment of sin is forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
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January 25, 1977, is a Tuesday. The weather across the country is generally pretty good for the depths of winter, although Cleveland and Detroit get some snow. Among many actions during his first week in office, President Carter continues to address natural gas shortages around the country, and he has rescinded President Ford's order lifting price controls on gasoline. Top administration officials must now drive themselves to work instead of taking government limousines. Today, Budget Director Bert Lance announces a plan to award taxpayers a $50 rebate for each exemption they claim, to help stimulate the ecomomy. The Senate confirms Griffin Bell as Carter's attorney general, and Joseph Califano is sworn in as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. In Racine, Wisconsin, teachers go on strike. Movie stuntman Dale Van Sickel dies at age 69, and in Waterloo, Wisconsin, an early-morning house fire kills three children aged 3, 8, and 10. The National Hockey League all-star game is played in Vancouver; the Wales Conference team beats the Campbell Conference team 4-3. At the Prange-Way department store in Madison, Wisconsin, bicentennial glassware is closeout priced—six 15-ounce glasses for $2.99, one dollar off. A local appliance store invites customers to a demonstration of the new Litton microwave oven. About an hour south of Madison, a farm wife with three sons aged 16, 14, and 10, not known for being an early adopter of new technology, will soon get one for her kitchen.
Led Zeppelin announces an upcoming American tour, set to open in Texas at the end of February. (Dates will be postponed when Robert Plant comes down with laryngitis.) Queen plays Ottawa, Ontario, KISS plays Terre Haute, Indiana, ELO is at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, and the Atlanta Rhythm Section appears at the Bottom Line in New York City. Tom Waits appears on the daytime TV show Dinah!, where he performs "Step Right Up" from his album Small Change. David Brenner co-hosts The Mike Douglas Show this week; today, guests include Phyllis Diller, actor David Doyle, and film director Dino DeLaurentiis. On primetime TV, NBC's lineup includes Police Story, and CBS airs episodes of M*A*S*H, One Day at a Time, and Kojak, but most viewers are watching the third episode of Roots, which ABC has scheduled on eight straight nights to get it over with, fearing it will be a ratings disaster.
On the Cash Box survey dated January 22, 1977, "Car Wash" by Rose Royce is in its second week at #1. New in the top 10 are "Blinded by the Light" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band at #7 and "New Kid in Town" by the Eagles at #10. Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat" makes the biggest move within the top 40, up to #22 from #32. Hot new songs include "Dancing Queen" by ABBA, "Hard Luck Woman" by KISS, and "Carry on Wayward Son" by Kansas, but the hottest is the new Fleetwood Mac single, "Go Your Own Way," up to #28 from #45.
Perspective From the Present: I am incapable of any kind of perspective on this week. Some things in our lives we can't be remotely objective about, and this week is one of them. But that's not why I wrote this post. The other night, I met my Internet friend Randy Raley in the real world for the first time. I'm a fan of his blog (which has six years of archives for you to get lost in, and I recommend you do so), and he's a fan of this one. Randy says he especially likes these One Day in Your Life posts, so that was excuse enough to write one.
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