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You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away
~ Jimmie Davis - "You are my sunshine"
suicide
half-alive (tape)
r.o.i.r. (1981)
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recordings of various live performances and some home-studio demos from the 1970s
A worker is out on the end of the arm of a cherry picker to work on a structure while having a cloth canopy over him by commercial photographer, weshoot.com .
Shot this with a 3 light setup; to the right is the Godox AD600B with a Parabolic softbox, Godox AD200 left rear, and a Godox V860ii with a Magmod Magbounce off center filling the background.
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Lorraine Smith, Becky Mock, Hilary Rainey, and Emcee Tara Jenkins at the Rock in a Hard Place concert at Reggie's for ReachOut
These reminded me of corals ~ even more so when I photographed them and reviewed the results.
Happy weekend to all! Cheers.
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Part of my Flower Photography set
People from many countries around the world are "reaching out" to migrants and refugees as part of Caritas' Share the Journey campaign.
The campaign was launched by Pope Francis on 27th September 2017 and promotes the culture of encounter between migrants, refugees and the communities which they leave, which they pass through and where they arrive.
For more information journey.caritas.org/
On Rhapsody Of Realities Today: October 9 2009
As previously stated, the word “nations” used in
the scripture above is from the Greek word,
“ethnos”, which refers to a group of people with common
interest, characteristics or vision. If for instance, you’re a
banker, the banking world is your “ethnos”—that’s your
world, where the Lord Jesus expects you to make students
or pupils.
Making disciples or students of those in your world
means showing them how to live; being an example; taking
the message of the gospel to them. Sometimes, people get
more engrossed with being members of a group than
actually carrying out the primary assignments of soul
winning we have to them. Often times, we pride ourselves
in our jobs, trades, or associations, forgetting that God had
an original plan when He placed us in that career or business
environment.,... Read more at www.loveworldtoday.org
During the early 19th century the population of Doncaster increased markedly and in 1827 an Act of Parliament was passed enabling the erection of Christ Church as a new parish church.
The church, built to a neo Gothic design in Roche Abbey stone, was opened for worship on 1st November 1829. Congregations continued to increase and in 1856 the church was enlarged by construction of a chancel at the east end, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The original spire was made of stone, but was shattered by lightning in 1836. It was replaced by a new copper clad spire in 1939.
Over the years the fabric of the building deteriorated and in 1989 repair and restoration costs were considered too great for the existing congregation and Christ Church became a redundant church. It was bought in 1994 by Reachout Christian Fellowship and ten years later opened again for worship on 4th December 2004.
Features of note in the church include vibrant stained glass windows created by the Belgian Jean Baptiste Cappronier during the period 1863–1865.
www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/christ-church-doncaster
Stella is Executive Director of the Catholic Reachout Mbuya Parish HIV AIDS Initiative. Its policy is not to give out condoms as this is against the teachings of the Catholic church, but staff advise discordant couples and others to use condoms to keep themselves safe.
d is for dreams, desire, and determination
We all have them. Our dreams shape our visions, they shape our life, they make us who we are. For some the achievement of a dream comes relatively easily, for others the elusive dream is just out of reach. The achieved dream may always have been within reach, or the dreamer may have learned to extend their grasp. Either way, it is success!
The dreams that elude us may be unachievable, because they are simply too large for our grasp, or we may not be pushing hard enough for our reach to be extended. Our lives are our vessels to achieve the impossible, to pull down the stars, to achieve our dreams.
What dreams do you harbour within?
TRP: Whispery White Wednesday
TOTW: Extreme - High Key
Mannequin hand being offered to me. We found the hand lying on a bench and of course, had to play with it.
We're all about having fun this festival season, so do up your tent and join ReachOut.com's Pimp My Tent competition!
ie.reachout.com/connect/blog/oxegen-2010-pimp-my-tent-com...
September 12, 2011;
Love is louder than the pressure to be perfect! ♥
This is a project very dear to one of my best friends and she is making a video to post on the site.
Before she was doing it, I knew nothing about it, but after finding out what it is all about, this project is dear to me too.
I think everyone should know about this if you already don't.
If you don't then go to this link and read what it is all about, I just hope other people feel as strong about it as I do.
Thank you.
I suggest you check all of these organizations out if you don't know them already, they are so meaningful, and I just want to spread the word to everyone.
Do not remove copyright!
The National Acme Company
The Cleveland Twist Drill Company had its roots in a small Dunkirk, New York twist drill factory founded by C.C. Newton. 6 Jacob Cox, Sr. used $2,000 borrowed from his father to acquire a 50% stake in the factory in 1875. Cox convinced Newton to relocate the business to the bustling port city of Cleveland in September 1876.
In 1880, Cox bought Newton’s stake in the business but was left with $9,000 in debt. 6 He invited a nephew, Frank F. Prentiss, to take a 40% share and become the company’s salesman. That left Cox to focus on the design and manufacturer of tools and machines for what was then known as Cox & Prentiss.
By 1886, Cox attempted to sell the floundering business for $75,000 but after finding no investors, Cox continued, and the company rebounded. 6 In June 1888, the firm relocated to larger quarters (at today’s Lakeside and East 49th Street). The Cleveland Twist Drill Company was incorporated in 1904. Thereafter, Cox retired, with Prentiss succeeding him.
In 1910, Cox rejoined Cleveland Twist Drill and served as president until 1919 when he became chairman. 6 His son, Jacob Cox, Jr., was elected president.
Cleveland Twist Drill’s research and eventual patent of the “Mo-Max” brand of high-speed steel, manufactured out of molybdenum-tungsten, cut costs and saved the company from having to rely on increasingly scarce tungsten steel. 6 It helped the company expand at the end of the Great Depression and into World War II.
The National Acme Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut as the Acme Screw Machine Company in 1895 by mechanics Edwin C. Henn and Reinhold Hakewessell. 1 The pair had taken more than a decade to perfect and patent their first multiple spindle automatic lathe in 1894. 6 A friend loaned them capital to start up the business, but by 1897 it was in financial peril.
Henn sent his brother, A.W., to Cleveland to search for an investor. 6 That effort proved to be successful, and Henn traded 25 Acme machines for a combination of cash and a 50% stake in a new Cleveland-based firm called the National Manufacturing Company. In 1901, Acme Screw merged with National Manufacturing to form the National Acme Manufacturing Company and moved to Cleveland. 10
By 1914, National Acme was one of the city’s top manufacturers. 10 The company constructed a new plant, designed by George Smith Rider, at East 131st Street and Coit Road in 1916. 10 Rider, a Rhode Island-born engineer, was responsible for the design of many industrial facilities in the Cleveland region.
With the move, National Acme simplified their operations, 1 and it exited the manufacturer and distribution of screw machine products, focusing instead on the production and sale of automated machine tools, foundry equipment, and electrical controls. 2
In 1915, National Acme acquired the Windsor Manufacturing Company of Vermont, which produced Gridley-brand multiple spindle automatic machines. 6 It was a wise move as demand for that product spiked during World War I. But its reliance on the federal defense department left vast surplus inventory and underused buildings at the conclusion of the war. The Great Depression that followed nearly ruined the company.
National Acme had learned its lesson from the previous world war and correctly anticipated weakening demand for its products. 6 Over the coming years, the company acquired the Bay State Tap & Die Company of Massachusetts in the 1950s, Shalco Systems in 1959, and the Eastern Machine Screw Company of Connecticut in 1967, among other subsidiaries and operations in Mexico, Canada, and Europe. 4 6
The Acme-Cleveland Corporation was formed on October 25, 1968, 2 through the merger of the Cleveland Twist Drill Company and the National Acme Manufacturing Company. 1 It was focused on the machine tool, foundry equipment, and electrical controls in the automotive, screw machine, and capital equipment industries. 6
In 1972, Acme-Cleveland acquired LaSalle Machine Tool, which manufactured systems for the automated production of internal combustion engines. 6 By 1980, Acme-Cleveland had become one of the largest machine tool manufacturers in the United States, with net sales of $405 million.
Decline
Acme-Cleveland’s machine tool operations became a drag in the early 1980s. Between 1982 and 1983, total annual shipments of its metal cutting machine tools dropped from $5 billion to under $3 billion. 6 Imports of those tools from cheaper production countries rose from 10% in 1974 to nearly 42% by 1984. Acme-Cleveland reported a net loss of $31.9 million in 1983 1 on sales of $164 million. 6 To reduce operating costs, Acme-Cleveland restructured, selling off some subsidiaries and trimming its workforce. The number of employees dropped from 6,300 in 1980 to 2,600 by 1984, 6 and down to 2,000 by 1993. 1 Fifteen manufacturing plants were closed or consolidated. 6
To diversify its product portfolio with emerging technologies and to shield against the effects of a long-term slump in machine tool sales, Acme-Cleveland acquired telecommunications manufacturer Communications Technology Corporation in 1984 for $33 million. 1 5 It spun off the LaSalle division in that year, which helped reduce the company’s dependence on the automobile market. 6 Acme-Cleveland purchased TX Port in 1994, a producer of network access equipment. It also acquired Namco Controls Corporation, a manufacturer of electronic sensors, and M&M Precision Systems Corporation, a manufacturer of precision measurement products.
The turnaround was working. By 1990, Acme-Cleveland had recorded its third successive profitable year, but the divestment of its metalworking operations continued on. 6 The company sold Cleveland Twist Drill in the fall of 1994 to Greenfield Industries, a cutting tool manufacturer, 1 followed by the sale of National Acme to DeVlieg-Bullard Inc., a corporation that specialized in machine tools, in 1995. 1 6 By the end of the year, the telecommunications sector of the company accounted for 75% of its total operating earnings. 6
Acme-Cleveland’s stock rose accordingly. In 1996, the company was acquired by the Danaher Corporation, a manufacturer of tools, components, and environmental controls, for $200 million. 1
The East 131st Street plant continued to be used by DeVlieg-Bullard for the manufacture of original equipment. 9 DeVlieg-Bullard filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in mid-1999, and the factory was sold to a real-estate holding company. One-sixth of the space was leased back to DeVlieg-Bullard which began moving machinery to its other plant in Twinsburg. In January 2002, the sales and engineering departments were relocated out of the building to Twinsburg to consolidate operations with the DeVlieg Bullard’s rebuild division. 9 All that remained was the manufacture of the high-precision spindle carrier for the Acme-Gridley machine.
Post-Closure
In June 2011, Christopher L. Gattarello, on behalf of All Points, a garbage disposal company, leased the former National Acme factory for a cardboard and paper waste recycling facility. 7 8 A July estimate to complete partial demolition and asbestos abatement in the factory was $1.5 million.
Gattarello motioned in August that cardboard and paper waste, along with municipal garbage, be delivered to the facility for recycling. 7 8 Thousands of tons of recyclables and garbage were delivered to the plant, and by April 2012, most of the interior of the factory was filled with trash from floor to ceiling.
Gattarello and Jackson were each charged with two counts of violating the Clean Air Act for releasing asbestos fibers into the environment during demolition and for leaving open piles of debris and asbestos that were exposed to the wind and elements. 7 8 Gattarello and two of his companies, Axelrod Recycling and Reachout Disposal, were indicted on charges of illegal open dumping, operating a solid waste landfill without a license, and operating a solid waste transfer facility without a permit. Gattarello was also charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. Gattarello’s brother, Anthony Gattarello, was indicted on charges of illegal open dumping and on operating a solid waste disposal facility without a license. Jackson was charged on a count of unlawful open dumping.
#Repost @chefstablebc ・・・ The chef community lost another one today. Reach out. Reach out if you are struggling. Reach out if you suspect someone in your life is struggling. Check in with those in your kitchens, restaurants, food communities. It's easy to put on a mask these days but we are in this together. Mental health is health. Take the day off social media if you need and grab a coffee or meal with a friend. . BC's Hotline: 1-800-784-2433 . Canada's National Hotline: 1-833-456-4566 . #endthestigma #mentalhealthmatters #CTSBelong #cheflife #chefsofig #bcchefs #chefsofinstagram #canadianchefs #suicideprevention #reachout #mentalhealth #youmatter
Ambassador Roemer demonstrates basketball technique for a participant of the "Reach Out" program hosted weekly by the American Embassy School, March 4, 2010. The program invites nearly 400 children and mothers to the school campus for snacks, games, basic health care, and more.
A group of engineer students at Imperial college in London is working on a project where they are making braces to help people with cerebral palsy to function better. The project is aimed to help children in India, and they call it ReacOut Aid. They contacted me because they wanted me to make a logo for them, and this is it.
"Formation des formateurs" #kitformateur, du 03 au 05 mai 2017 à l’ARRUPE Faravohitra
Rendez chaque action formation impressionnante et à fort impact chez l’apprenant ! La compréhension du contexte d’enseignement est primordiale, ainsi que la connaissance des apprenants. L’andragogie est considérée comme « science et art de l'aide à l'apprentissage adulte (...) un système de contre hypothèses partant d'une définition de l'adulte comme être responsable (juridiquement, socialement, psychologiquement) et proposant une alternative à une "pédagogie" inadaptée qui entraîne infantilisation, comportements défensifs et passivité ". (CARRE, Ph. 1992). Les sessions amèneront le participant à prendre conscience de son style d’enseignement et d’agir en conséquence pour le rendre plus scientifique et adapté aux adultes.
« La formation a répondu parfaitement à mes besoins. L’intervenant est très professionnel avec une grande, voire excellente maîtrise du sujet. Très humain et doté d’une grande ouverture d’esprit. Merci 1000 fois.»
Mr Toky RAJAONA, Directeur Associé, BECOM
Le choix des techniques d’enseignement est une étape importante dans le processus de formation. Afin d’augmenter l’efficacité de l’enseignement, l’utilisation adéquate des techniques participatives et de techniques expérientielles s’avère indispensable.
Cette session fournira au participant l’occasion de choisir des techniques d’enseignement actif pour ses cours. Mais aussi celle d’expérimenter un processus d’engagement au niveau des apprenants.
« La formation permet d’évaluer nos compétences en tant que formateur, de comprendre les attitudes et les besoins des apprenants. Malgré le niveau de nos connaissances, nous avons toujours quelques choses à apprendre. Pour une deuxième formation chez KENTIA-FORMATION sarl, je rentre chez moi satisfaite et prête à mettre en application ce que j’ai appris. »
Mme RATSIMBAZAFY Sandra Tiana, Vice présidente locale, JCI Antsiranana
Objectifs
1. Examiner de façon critique les hypothèses qu’ils font dans les cours qu’ils enseignent
2. Baser son comportement de formateur sur des principes d’éducation des adultes
3. Différencier les approches d’éducation pour l’enfant (pédagogie) et pour adulte (andragogie)
4. Démontrer les avantages d’un enseignement centré sur l’apprenant
5. Déterminer son style d’apprentissage et les implications en matière d’enseignement qui en découle
6. Modifier, en tenant compte de son style d’apprentissage, ses priorités d’apprentissage pour promouvoir son développement pendant ce programme de formation
7. Diagnostiquer les conditions qui facilitent l’apprentissage des apprenants
8. Expliquer les caractéristiques des besoins d’apprentissage d’un apprenant adulte
9. Discuter avec ses pairs formateurs de la méthodologie expérientielle
10. Mettre à l’essai les techniques d’enseignement actif selon les étapes recommandées à chacune d’elle
11. Tenir compte d’au moins cinq facteurs dans le choix des techniques d’enseignement actifs
12. Construire les étapes des activités dans une technique d’enseignement actif selon les quatre séquences du Cycle expérientiel
13. décrire les 4 étapes d’une session expérientielle
14. Expliquer tous les éléments à inclure dans le plan de session d’un cours
15. Développer un plan de cours utilisant le format type proposé dans cette session
16. Identifier des questions pouvant faciliter chaque étape du cycle expérientiel
17. Expliquer l’importance de l’évaluation dans le cadre d’un enseignement
18. Différencier les types d’évaluation d’un enseignement selon leurs indications respectives
19. Choisir les techniques d’évaluation selon des critères et le niveau de performance attendu dans les objectifs d’apprentissage
20. Discuter la façon d’incorporer les résultats des évaluations dans la planification ultérieure d’une matière ou d’un cours
Public visé
Formateurs, enseignants, instituteurs, professeurs d’Université, consultants…
Durée et lieu
3 jours : du 03 au 05 mai 2017 à l’ARRUPE Faravohitra
Horaire
Matin : 08h30 – 12h30/ Après-midi : 13h30 – 17h00
Intervenant de ce module
Mr Hery Andry RAKOTONANAHARY
Expert en Développement Personnel
Diplômé de l'Université Paris 7 : cycle en Sociologie
Consultant principal du programme de formation Youth Leadership Training Program (YLTP) de la Fondation Friedrich Ebert (FES) à Madagascar
Dirige des formations et des recherches à l’Institut de Technologie de l’Education et du Management (ITEM)
Nos offres de séminaires de formation sont assurées par des formateurs professionnels, qui ont à la fois une solide connaissance théorique en la matière, au minimum un master professionnel/ recherche d'un(e) institut/ université international(e) et/ ou reconnu(e) ET des expériences probantes d'au moins 10 ans, dans le domaine de l’ingénierie de formation. Nos intervenants reçoivent des formations de formateurs (ingénierie de formation) avant d'exercer. Ces intervenants, spécialistes de leurs domaines respectifs permettent une meilleure expérience de développement de compétences à nos clients.
Droits d’inscription
495 000 Ar (Quatre cent quatre cent quatre vingt quinze mille Ariary) - La formation, les supports, les pauses-café et les déjeuners, le certificat sont inclus.
Le nombre de participants est limité à 15 personnes
Références #kitformateur
Liste non exhaustive : ADIRESIKO MEDIA, ANDRIANJAFIARINOA Tendry Isaia, BECOM ; BLUE 2 PURPLE ; BSM AUDIT, BOTOVELANJARA Recgan, CNELA, COLLEGE COQUELICOT ; EGM, ENAC, FERT, HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL, JCI ANTSIRANANA ; LABO OI SA PNUD, NOTRE ECOLE, Programme FORMAPROD, Programme PROSPERER, RADIO CIEL, RAJERISON Olivia, RAKOTOMALALA Heriniaina, RAKOTOMANANA Rivelt, RANDRIAMIARY Toky, RANDRIAMIARY Hasina, RANDRIANANDRIANINA Jean Alain, RANDRIANATSIMBAZAFY MANDA ; RAVELONAHINA Hilda, RAZAFIARISON Fela, RAZAKA V. Loulou, REACHOUT, SA TRANSPORT, SAMOELA Balita Dimbintsoa, TEKNET GROUP, Tsialonina Consulting, WWF
"Formation des formateurs" du 31 août au 02 septembre 2016
Programme
JOUR 1
JOUR 2
JOUR 3
8h 30-10h 15
(105’)
Orientation
Session 1 : fondamentaux sur l’approche andragogique
Session 3 : techniques d’enseignement actif :
Objectifs/ techniques
Session 4 : plan du cours
Pratique
10h30-13h
(150’)
Session 2 : processus d’apprentissage : test
Session 3 : techniques d’enseignement actif :
Facilitation/ Dynamique de groupe
Session 5 :
Evaluation d’un cours
14h-16h 30
(150’)
Session 2 : processus d’apprentissage:
Usages, besoins
Session 4 : plan du cours
préparation
intégration d’apprentissage
Organisateur
Ce séminaire de formation est organisé par KENTIA-FORMATION sarl
Partenaire
Eau vive
The fields have gone quiet now and the October shadows are long there. Baseball is the only sport I truly care about and that end-of-season melancholy always comes. I walked way down to this deserted little field by the river intending to take many pictures. I only took two. Going around the concession stand to the other side, I saw him. He was sitting alone at the bottom of the bleachers – bent over, head down - crying . . . sobbing.
A strong and certain feeling hit me hard. Go over there, sit down, put your arm around him. They were like spoken words - commands, really. I stopped . . . I thought about it . . . and I turned away. I hurried back out into the sun by the river, back out to the bridges, the trail, the people riding their bikes and laughing, the Burlington tracks where trains would be coming.
I can tell myself so many things. He went out there to be alone. He didn’t want to be bothered or have you invading his privacy. You didn’t know him. It wasn’t safe – there was no one else around. Yes - but none of that makes me feel any better.
The afternoon was golden, warm enough and sunny. I had been happily wandering with my camera and got a few shots that I liked. I saw so many folks out there enjoying the day – but for every one of us there must have been another hidden and hurting, broken-hearted or struggling. I found one of them . . . and I turned away. That’s what I’ll remember about yesterday. Would it have eased his burden, given him hope, or lifted his heavy heart if only I’d listened to mine?
i can't believe they can do such things to little animals. Their cage was not a nice place, instead of keeping them in a place where they can be taken cared of, it seemed like they were caged just for show. The cage was very dirty, has monkey pee and crap all over and many plastic garbage. Poor little animals.
Black and White version in COMMENTS
The National Acme Company
The Cleveland Twist Drill Company had its roots in a small Dunkirk, New York twist drill factory founded by C.C. Newton. 6 Jacob Cox, Sr. used $2,000 borrowed from his father to acquire a 50% stake in the factory in 1875. Cox convinced Newton to relocate the business to the bustling port city of Cleveland in September 1876.
In 1880, Cox bought Newton’s stake in the business but was left with $9,000 in debt. 6 He invited a nephew, Frank F. Prentiss, to take a 40% share and become the company’s salesman. That left Cox to focus on the design and manufacturer of tools and machines for what was then known as Cox & Prentiss.
By 1886, Cox attempted to sell the floundering business for $75,000 but after finding no investors, Cox continued, and the company rebounded. 6 In June 1888, the firm relocated to larger quarters (at today’s Lakeside and East 49th Street). The Cleveland Twist Drill Company was incorporated in 1904. Thereafter, Cox retired, with Prentiss succeeding him.
In 1910, Cox rejoined Cleveland Twist Drill and served as president until 1919 when he became chairman. 6 His son, Jacob Cox, Jr., was elected president.
Cleveland Twist Drill’s research and eventual patent of the “Mo-Max” brand of high-speed steel, manufactured out of molybdenum-tungsten, cut costs and saved the company from having to rely on increasingly scarce tungsten steel. 6 It helped the company expand at the end of the Great Depression and into World War II.
The National Acme Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut as the Acme Screw Machine Company in 1895 by mechanics Edwin C. Henn and Reinhold Hakewessell. 1 The pair had taken more than a decade to perfect and patent their first multiple spindle automatic lathe in 1894. 6 A friend loaned them capital to start up the business, but by 1897 it was in financial peril.
Henn sent his brother, A.W., to Cleveland to search for an investor. 6 That effort proved to be successful, and Henn traded 25 Acme machines for a combination of cash and a 50% stake in a new Cleveland-based firm called the National Manufacturing Company. In 1901, Acme Screw merged with National Manufacturing to form the National Acme Manufacturing Company and moved to Cleveland. 10
By 1914, National Acme was one of the city’s top manufacturers. 10 The company constructed a new plant, designed by George Smith Rider, at East 131st Street and Coit Road in 1916. 10 Rider, a Rhode Island-born engineer, was responsible for the design of many industrial facilities in the Cleveland region.
With the move, National Acme simplified their operations, 1 and it exited the manufacturer and distribution of screw machine products, focusing instead on the production and sale of automated machine tools, foundry equipment, and electrical controls. 2
In 1915, National Acme acquired the Windsor Manufacturing Company of Vermont, which produced Gridley-brand multiple spindle automatic machines. 6 It was a wise move as demand for that product spiked during World War I. But its reliance on the federal defense department left vast surplus inventory and underused buildings at the conclusion of the war. The Great Depression that followed nearly ruined the company.
National Acme had learned its lesson from the previous world war and correctly anticipated weakening demand for its products. 6 Over the coming years, the company acquired the Bay State Tap & Die Company of Massachusetts in the 1950s, Shalco Systems in 1959, and the Eastern Machine Screw Company of Connecticut in 1967, among other subsidiaries and operations in Mexico, Canada, and Europe. 4 6
The Acme-Cleveland Corporation was formed on October 25, 1968, 2 through the merger of the Cleveland Twist Drill Company and the National Acme Manufacturing Company. 1 It was focused on the machine tool, foundry equipment, and electrical controls in the automotive, screw machine, and capital equipment industries. 6
In 1972, Acme-Cleveland acquired LaSalle Machine Tool, which manufactured systems for the automated production of internal combustion engines. 6 By 1980, Acme-Cleveland had become one of the largest machine tool manufacturers in the United States, with net sales of $405 million.
Decline
Acme-Cleveland’s machine tool operations became a drag in the early 1980s. Between 1982 and 1983, total annual shipments of its metal cutting machine tools dropped from $5 billion to under $3 billion. 6 Imports of those tools from cheaper production countries rose from 10% in 1974 to nearly 42% by 1984. Acme-Cleveland reported a net loss of $31.9 million in 1983 1 on sales of $164 million. 6 To reduce operating costs, Acme-Cleveland restructured, selling off some subsidiaries and trimming its workforce. The number of employees dropped from 6,300 in 1980 to 2,600 by 1984, 6 and down to 2,000 by 1993. 1 Fifteen manufacturing plants were closed or consolidated. 6
To diversify its product portfolio with emerging technologies and to shield against the effects of a long-term slump in machine tool sales, Acme-Cleveland acquired telecommunications manufacturer Communications Technology Corporation in 1984 for $33 million. 1 5 It spun off the LaSalle division in that year, which helped reduce the company’s dependence on the automobile market. 6 Acme-Cleveland purchased TX Port in 1994, a producer of network access equipment. It also acquired Namco Controls Corporation, a manufacturer of electronic sensors, and M&M Precision Systems Corporation, a manufacturer of precision measurement products.
The turnaround was working. By 1990, Acme-Cleveland had recorded its third successive profitable year, but the divestment of its metalworking operations continued on. 6 The company sold Cleveland Twist Drill in the fall of 1994 to Greenfield Industries, a cutting tool manufacturer, 1 followed by the sale of National Acme to DeVlieg-Bullard Inc., a corporation that specialized in machine tools, in 1995. 1 6 By the end of the year, the telecommunications sector of the company accounted for 75% of its total operating earnings. 6
Acme-Cleveland’s stock rose accordingly. In 1996, the company was acquired by the Danaher Corporation, a manufacturer of tools, components, and environmental controls, for $200 million. 1
The East 131st Street plant continued to be used by DeVlieg-Bullard for the manufacture of original equipment. 9 DeVlieg-Bullard filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in mid-1999, and the factory was sold to a real-estate holding company. One-sixth of the space was leased back to DeVlieg-Bullard which began moving machinery to its other plant in Twinsburg. In January 2002, the sales and engineering departments were relocated out of the building to Twinsburg to consolidate operations with the DeVlieg Bullard’s rebuild division. 9 All that remained was the manufacture of the high-precision spindle carrier for the Acme-Gridley machine.
Post-Closure
In June 2011, Christopher L. Gattarello, on behalf of All Points, a garbage disposal company, leased the former National Acme factory for a cardboard and paper waste recycling facility. 7 8 A July estimate to complete partial demolition and asbestos abatement in the factory was $1.5 million.
Gattarello motioned in August that cardboard and paper waste, along with municipal garbage, be delivered to the facility for recycling. 7 8 Thousands of tons of recyclables and garbage were delivered to the plant, and by April 2012, most of the interior of the factory was filled with trash from floor to ceiling.
Gattarello and Jackson were each charged with two counts of violating the Clean Air Act for releasing asbestos fibers into the environment during demolition and for leaving open piles of debris and asbestos that were exposed to the wind and elements. 7 8 Gattarello and two of his companies, Axelrod Recycling and Reachout Disposal, were indicted on charges of illegal open dumping, operating a solid waste landfill without a license, and operating a solid waste transfer facility without a permit. Gattarello was also charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. Gattarello’s brother, Anthony Gattarello, was indicted on charges of illegal open dumping and on operating a solid waste disposal facility without a license. Jackson was charged on a count of unlawful open dumping.