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More from Vicki Bell
- From The Fabricator
Fabricators and politics
- By Vicki Bell
- Jul 15, 2009
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Yesterday's "Fabricating Update" lead item ruffled feathers, raised hackles, and had this editor ducking for cover as fabricators sounded off about comments from the Obama administration's recently released employment report. The item cited an article that appeared in The Washington Post...
- From The Fabricator
How 'green' is 'green'?
- By Vicki Bell
- Jul 1, 2009
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
This blog post is rooted in a discussion my husband and I had yesterday regarding a news item I ran across about a 'green' race car that runs on vegetable oil and waste chocolate. I get vegetable oil, but where on earth does waste chocolate come from? Godiva, Ghirardelli, Hershey, Fannie...
- From The Fabricator
Proud to build the building
- By Vicki Bell
- Jun 23, 2009
- Assembly and Joining
- Blog Post
Oprah, I'm not. And I don't have a book club. But this morning, I read about a book in USA Today that I believe might appeal to thefabricator.com's visitors. In fact, I'm guessing many of you could have written it. I plan to read it; maybe you'll want to also.The...
- From The Fabricator
It's paid for
- By Vicki Bell
- Jun 17, 2009
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
"It's paid for" & three little words that have come to mean so much to so many. Could they have contributed to the automakers' troubles? Case in point—yesterday my colleague, Tim, and I were talking about his recent new-car purchase. You may have read about the mishap involving his...
- From The Fabricator
Blogger's block
- By Vicki Bell
- Jun 10, 2009
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
It was a dark and stormy night & make that a hazy, humid day in which my brain is so exhausted from creative overload that it's refusing to come up with a really good blog topic. I've come down with blogger's block, an affliction that is by no means as serious as the potential H1N1...
- From The Fabricator
'Humans are smarter than apes'
- By Vicki Bell
- Jun 3, 2009
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
In past posts, I've mentioned that I'm a tennis fan. The last few days have been quite exciting in the tennis world as No.-1 ranked, four-time French Open champ, Rafael Nadal, was defeated in the fourth round by No. 23-ranked Robin Soderling, a Swedish player who never won so much as a...
- From The Fabricator
'Work like hell to win now'
- By Vicki Bell
- May 27, 2009
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
If you read last week's blog post "Leapfrogging the competition," you know about the Barclay's Commercial survey cited in the May issue of "Tube Talk" that said 54 percent of UK businesses view the ability to leapfrog struggling competitors as their key opportunity in the current...
- From The Fabricator
Leapfrogging the competition
- By Vicki Bell
- May 20, 2009
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Yesterday's "Tube Talk" e-newsletter that went out to more than 10,000 metal tube and pipe industry professionals featured findings from the Turning the Corner survey conducted in the UK by Barclay's Commercial. According to this survey, a majority of UK businesses (54 percent) view the...
- From The Fabricator
HAL 9000 2.0
- By Vicki Bell
- May 13, 2009
- Safety
- Blog Post
Scanning news releases yesterday, I quickly passed over those with headlines that reminded me that this is not the best of times economically—there was no shortage. Ditto for the political surveys predicting the unqualified success or the unmitigated failure of potential congressional...
- From The Fabricator
Mr. Holland's Opus
- By Vicki Bell
- May 6, 2009
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
My last blog post was addressed to Crook County (Oregon) High School officials and others who could help decide the fate of vocational and technical programs in the U.S., which often are the first items on the chopping block when funding for education is tight. It featured an item from News/Talk...
- From The Fabricator
Keep voc-tech programs alive
- By Vicki Bell
- Apr 29, 2009
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Crook County High School, educational institutions all across the U.S., and Congress, we're addressing you. Please listen. Last week's "Welding Wire" newsletter featured an item from News/Talk 1110 KBND, Bend, Ore., about a high school metal and welding class that likely will be cut in...
- From The Fabricator
One bag of garbage
- By Vicki Bell
- Apr 22, 2009
- Safety
- Blog Post
It's one of those days—a day with a calendar reminder that we are to celebrate or commemorate something or someone. A day in which we are supposed to incorporate some sort of activity to honor the day's designated honoree. Today is a double whammy— Administrative Professionals...
- From The Fabricator
Thwarting piracy
- By Vicki Bell
- Apr 15, 2009
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Real life often is every bit as fascinating, suspenseful, and unbelievable as a bizarre movie plot—sometimes even more so. The past few days, I watched with incredulity the coverage of the recent Somali pirate attack on the U.S. ship, Maersk Alabama, in which Captain Richard Phillips was...
- From The Fabricator
'Tell me something good'
- By Vicki Bell
- Apr 8, 2009
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
As many do before heading off to work each day, my husband and I turn on a local television station to check the weather forecast. This morning, the two items we heard before the weather segment were about a gunman who shot several people in California (can we go a day without something like this...
- From The Fabricator
April foolery
- By Vicki Bell
- Apr 1, 2009
- Assembly and Joining
- Blog Post
Today, April 1, is known in the U.S., the U.K., and various other countries as April Fools ' Day, a day in which practical jokes are expected and can be performed without impunity—unless, of course, the joke causes serious harm. My dictionary-that-weighs-a-ton defines practical joke (an...
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- 04/16/2024
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In this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, Caleb Chamberlain, co-founder and CEO of OSH Cut, discusses his company’s...
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