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I was lucky to get this great shot of a resting snowy owl. BILL COMBS, JR. COBLESKILL, NY Snowy owls breed in the treeless arctic tundra. Some migrate to southeastern [...]

I took this photo of eagles in their nest a week before a late winter storm last April. BILL COMBS, JR. SCHOHARIE COUNTY Bald eagles mate for life, returning to [...]

Hey, I know it's an old saying from a butter commercial, but it seems appropriate for this 'Best of the Worst' or 'Shock and Awe' type article. The following information [...]

As a black trade union activist and historian, I have been intrigued with the inability of organized labor to establish more than a toehold in the Sun Belt generally and [...]

Now that I have your attention, let's see if I can keep it! Tack strip is a pretty generic item in our industry right? Wrong. Invented in 1938, there has [...]

Welcome one and all, to the big show! For those of you attending Surfaces you know your feet will complain and your wallets may be drained. But remember you are [...]

It was told by a wise man that, 'Attention to detail will always make the finished product look better as a whole,' and my father has never given me (or [...]

By the time you read this, the 'Big Show' in Las Vegas is history and we're all still trying to sort through the massive amount of information given to us [...]

Choices; it's good to have them. There are times I wish I had more of them. There are also times I wish I did not have so many of them. [...]

There are times when, as an installer, you are asked to be creative and work with two or more different flooring products on the same job. In the following case, [...]

The number of seam tapes available to the installation community is almost too numerous for the mechanic to decipher and make an educated decision about. We are all creatures of [...]

With all the interest in recycling that has impacted our business, I thought it would be informative to take a closer look at one product that is in a category [...]

The following are two totally different (manufacture and location) installations of do-it-yourself (DIY) laminates. One is glue-less (which does not mean clueless); the other did require glue. Otherwise, they are [...]

One way profiling of product temperature in dryers, ovens, etc., can be achieved is with the proper selection of infrared thermometers. Sensors can be installed in the machine direction to [...]

Positional inaccuracies and its frequency which occur in horizontal wells, when drilling with a conventional, steerable, positive-displacement motor system are revealed. Recommendations and techniques that can minimize the problem, are presented.

Positive displacement motors can cause inaccuracies in horizontal drilling.

Indoor air quality has been a buzzword used in our industry for almost two decades. Quite simply, it means the quality of the air we breathe when we are at [...]

Superstar comedian Bill Cosby and his wife, Dr. Camille O. Cosby, recently presented the third annual Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation gala in honor of their late son, Ennis Cosby, [...]

Jeffrey B. Perry, editor, A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan University Press, 2001), 505 pages, $70 cloth, $24.95 paper. Somewhere on the road to becoming a Marxist during the 1970s, I [...]

Last week my wife and I departed Deer Valley Airport, in Phoenix in our Cessna 177RG. Before departing we received a complicated taxi clearance to what looked like a parking [...]

A test was conducted to evaluate the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel for transit buses in Baltimore, MD, from 1996 to 1997. Results indicate that LNG causes lower levels of emissions, does not produce bad smell and makes the engines work with negligible noise. However, the LNG engines developed major problems and caused many instances of downtime. Even if these engine problems would be solved over time, LNG buses are still not economically feasible because of the high cost of the buses and costly changes in supporting infrastructure.

Since the election of Donald Trump, most unions have done little more than protect their own jurisdictions, offering no guidance on what must be done during the pandemic. Second, labor must recognize that the crisis is not just about trade union members. Striking Chicago public school teachers and their supporters march in Chicago in 2019 (right). [Extracted from the article]