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		<title>ALAW celebrates 20 years</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=4174</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Heston</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[advanced laser application workshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALAW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automotive engineers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dimpling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laser Cutting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[remote laser welding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zinc outgassing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mariana Forrest perhaps knows ALAW® better than anyone. The president of laser consulting firm LASAP Inc., based in Troy Mich., has attended all 20 conferences. She was there back when it was called the Automotive Laser Applications Workshop, and in recent years, after the event was broadened and renamed (though conveniently keeping the same acronym) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey buddy … wanna buy a watch?</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=4168</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lundin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fake Rolex® watches, knock-off Armani® handbags, counterfeit Nike® shoes, pirated movies of all sorts—if you’ve traveled to any countries that have lax trademark, patent, and copyright protection, you’ve seen plenty of faked goods. It’s pathetic, to say the least. The companies that make the original item lose out on sales, and risk losing some credibility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing attitudes to boost STEM career</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=4166</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife works with some pretty smart people. She's a math teacher, which puts her in day-to-day contact with talented teachers and highly intelligent students in her advanced placement courses. On her staff is a former engineer who recently had received constructive criticism about his teaching skills during an appraisal. This engineer-turned-teacher confided that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A tragic reminder</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=4162</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 14:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can we write enough about safety in the pages of The FABRICATOR, its sister magazines, and thefabricator.com? Absolutely not. Do we actually execute that strategy in the media wepublish? No, we do not. And that's a shame. Fabricators might argue that safety is a given in their facilities, much like quality efforts. But it's not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I can do WHAT and get a raise?</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=4154</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 19:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Manager's Desk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tattoos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You want a raise; I want a raise; we all want raises. Even corporate heads who take pay cuts to show how much they empathize with their workers probably want and think they deserve raises, but that’s a topic for another day. What would you do for a raise, besides doing the best job you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay safe and out of OSHA&#039;s way</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=4152</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fabricating shop owners—and business owners in general—have voiced concern about increased regulations that their companies have had to face since the election of President Obama, but that may be nothing compared to the trouble they might find if they run into trouble involving the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). That agency is on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go for it, Christophers!</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=4148</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Bell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Training and Retention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welding jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week’s “Welding Wire” e-newsletter featured the blog post “Backbone of America deserves a round of beer,” which focused on comments from Christopher W., a young welding student, about welding formerly being on a worst jobs list. He couldn’t understand how that could happen. We shared Christopher’s comments and asked WW readers how they felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It is not just business</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=4140</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Heston</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[business cycles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contract fabrication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contract manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dane Manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equipment auction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[layoffs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troy Berg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Troy Berg, president of Dane Manufacturing, a contract fabricator in rural Dane, Wis., attends equipment auctions not just to find a deal on equipment, but to learn. With success comes confidence and determination; with failure comes soul-searching, self-scrutiny and, quite often, unfiltered truth. Berg has gotten quite a bit of truth. This morning, he told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining a champion</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=4134</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amandac</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PWT Editor's Corner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I was putting together this issue’s Shop Stories featuring Tim Baber of College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, Calif., one word from our conversation stuck out in my mind: Champion. Champion is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as a warrior or a fighter; a militant advocate or defender; one that does battle for another’s rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A litany of amateur mistakes</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=4128</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lundin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 7:03 pm on November 1, 1955, a DC-6B (United Airlines Flight 629) crashed near Longmont, Colorado. The Civil Aeronautics Board and the FBI carried out a comprehensive recovery effort, and eventually pieced together most of the airplane. The tail had severed off cleanly, and when engineers from United and the manufacturer, Douglas Aircraft Corp., [...]]]></description>
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