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What If I Didn’t Stop Myself?

I worked remotely last week to keep an eye on my son Abe while he was off school. Amazingly, he played with toys for several hours by himself without disturbing me. Abe constantly imagines stories playing out between his toy vehicles and action figures on the fly. A dinosaur eats

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Machining 2025?

If mighty General Electric is in such bad shape that its Board is considering breaking the company apart, it makes one consider how our best

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Acmesaurus

The sound that a 20 ton traveling crane makes as it stolidly rolls north to south, south to north, on its electrified path, is very

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Making the Nut

We all absorb things from our childhood that literally wire our cerebral cortex and remain with us as we mature. There are images, sayings, emblems

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5 Spindles of Fury

New Year, new opportunities. I foresee a flurry of activity in 2018 in acquisitions in the machining world. Recently one of the largest screw machine

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Gratitude 2017

Soon I’ll be 38 years old. I often question whether I have used my time wisely so far to reach a daily happy existence and

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Good Morning!

For the last 10 years my general sleep pattern usually consisted of going to bed sometime between 12:00 A.M. and 1:00 A.M (sometimes later) and

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