Archive for November, 2009
November 21st, 2009
Last Thursday, my wife and I took my 11 year old grandson and his Mom to see Emily Bear, the 8 year old piano playing sensation of Rockford, perform at Mendelssohn Club. Before she performed, Steinway representatives played a movie about the making of a 9 foot Steinway piano.
Located in New York, the hand craftsmanship of piano making is truly an art. Taking one year from logging and cutting the wood, to all the steps of forming, cutting, shaping, installing keys and strings and the several steps of tuning makes this truly one of America’s pride and joy. The movie is being shown around the world, mainly at film festivals but will be viewing on national TV in coming months.
And the “frosting on the cake” was Emily played the very piano, #L1037.  What a great performance! She is one of Rockford’s jewels. The picture I took of her and my grandson will be in his memory for many years.
November 20th, 2009
Manufacturing leaders chart the impact of the recession and identify the opportunities and risks facing the U.S. manufacturing sector in the years ahead. A joint survey and research summary by Crowe Horwath LLP and IW Custom Research… a slide program made available from Industry Week.. Future of Manufacturing
November 20th, 2009
Data from the U.S. Census and ADP, leading sources of employment data, show very different numbers for small business employment. Small
November 20th, 2009
This should be an interesting Job!! Â JobCzar
November 20th, 2009
The U.S. economy is poised to return to growth, though it will be at more of a modest rate than the typical recovery from previous recessions, according to the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI Quarterly Economic Forecast. see the rest here… Growth
November 20th, 2009
There is a way to show how to win the youth over to careers in manufacturing… Hope
November 20th, 2009
Chances of business supporting the Obama administration’s health overhaul are fading fast, after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill took a liberal turn. More.. here
November 20th, 2009
I don’t think he understands. Manufacturers will hire people when the DEMAND for their products increases. Just to hire someone, even with federal money, doesn’t mean demand for the company’s products are increasing. Its really called “Featherbedding” a popular tactic found in railroads, as an example… Jobs
November 19th, 2009
Could be good news for exporters to the UK
November 19th, 2009
 EXPECTATIONS for the Copenhagen climate conference, held next month in Denmark, have been steadily dwindling. On Sunday November 15th, as Barack Obama toured Asia, he and the Danish prime minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, quietly agreed what many had anticipated—that no binding agreement would be reached at the conference. There is now no hope of new legal targets for emissions-reductions to replace those set out in the Kyoto Protocol and which will lapse in 2012. Instead the pair suggested that the best to be expected is a political deal on cutting emissions.
Some of the blame for this must be directed at Capitol Hill. Not only will Mr Obama now not sign a cap-and-trade bill before Copenhagen; the Senate is not even expected to pass one. The House of Representatives passed in June its version of cap-and-trade but the Senate, preoccupied by a debate over the reform of health care, has left climate talks to inch along slowly behind. John Kerry, one of the Senate’s cap-and-trade champions, now says he hopes for a vote on the bill only in the spring. See the rest here… Climate
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