Spring forward…Fall back…. (The History of Why We Use It) It’s ingrained in our consciousness almost as much as the A-B-Cs or our spelling reminder of “i before e….” And it’s a regular event, though perhaps a bit less regular than the swallows coming back to Capistrano. (Though that may even change with the impacts […]
In an op-ed in the Wenatchee (WA) World under the headline, “A Renaissance In Manufacturing,” Don Brunell, president of the Association of Washington Business, wrote that the “skills gap” has started to get more attention even as the problem has grown larger. Brunell wrote the National Association of Manufacturers “reports that more than 82 percent […]
The National Association of Manufacturers announced it has launched the new Driving the Agenda for Technology Advancement Policy Center, geared toward educating policymakers and the public about manufacturers’ role in driving technology forward. The D.A.T.A. Center will provide an additional tool to increase awareness and portray modern manufacturing as the sleek, technology-driven industry it truly is. […]
By L.V. Anderson ~ Last week’s Key & Peele ( a new sketch-comedy show on Comedy Central) featured a sketch in which Jordan Peele’s character rapturously discovers the free continental breakfast offered by his mid-range hotel. With increasing excitement, he encounters Fruit Loops, miniature muffins, and bananas as though they were rare delicacies from assorted European […]
The U.S. manufacturing sector expanded for the fifth consecutive month in October, the Institute for Supply Management reported today, apparently largely unharmed by the federal government shutdown. Calling the strength of sales the “big story” in this report, Chad Moutray, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, said the third straight month of the […]
Known simply as “The Wood Shop at Menlo Park Campus (MPK),” Facebook’s new 3,000-square-foot, professionally outfitted woodworking shop was designed to inspire employees interested in stretching their creative muscles. Situated on Facebook’s sprawling campus in Menlo Park, California, is a beautifully designed facility where social media meets sawdust.” READ MORE from Woodworking Network. The overarching idea […]
November 5th is the Los Angeles Aqueduct’s Centennial. This 100-year old gravity-fed engineering marvel was dedicated on Nov. 5, 1913. A century later, this system continues to be a major source of water for Los Angeles — on an average year supplying about half of the water needs for four million people. On that day […]
Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated […]
Thanks to AWFS’ donation to SkillsUSA through the WorldSkills Qualifying Trials held at AWFS®Fair 2013, we qualify as an official Sponsor of SkillsUSA for 2014. A compilation of SkillsUSA student membership statistics for the most recently completed membership year.
~ The world had already seen the doughnut burger, made famous by Paula Deen, which squeezed a beef patty inside a halved Krispy Kreme doughnut instead of a bun. So when New York baker Dominique Ansel invented the croissant-doughnut hybrids known as Cronuts earlier this year, Canadian foodies knew just what to do with them: […]
