Edited Transcript of LPTH earnings conference call or presentation 9-May-19 8:30pm GMT | Precision Machining Part

"We’re thrilled to honor Burt Rutan, who has been at the forefront of aerospace innovation for decades, this year at AirVenture," said Rick Larsen, EAA vice president of communities and member programs, who also coordinates AirVenture features and attractions. "His work in the aviation industry has continuously pushed the envelope in terms of design and energy efficiency and has inspired many to think outside the box."

Smalley told investigators he forged the signatures of at least three SQA employees, the complaint said. He also used their quality stamps without permission. Smalley admitted he didn’t sign the signatures himself or use their quality stamps. Instead, he used his company-issued laptop to "copy and paste the signatures and stamps onto the falsified source inspection reports," the complaint said.

The rail carload business (not including intermodal) has been in a slow, continuous decline over the long term, and this became more pronounced in the first quarter of 2019. There are always bright spots, and lately that has been in crude, refined petroleum, plastics and LPG. But these have been more than offset by weaknesses in other commodities.

At a conference on “the future of work,” the two topics that now dominate discussion—robots and the gig economy—deserve workshops but not plenaries. The main plenary session should focus on the decades-long crisis of suppressed wages and deteriorating job quality created by policy changes on behalf of the rich and powerful to weaken labor standards, have excessive unemployment, expand corporate-driven globalization, spread fissured outsourcing/subcontracting, and dismantle collective-bargaining systems.

U.S. Rep Brad Schneider, D-Deerfield, and Cunningham announced the award of a $400,000 grant from the EPA to clean up the 11-acre former Fansteel site at 801 S. Market St., which extends to the North Chicago border.

UAVT in 2018 entered a Technical Investment Agreement with the U.S. military to develop a more efficient propulsion system and is now working with a commercial airframe partner to conduct ground testing. 

Metal behemoth Megadeth will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its 1994 album Youthanasia in Denver on Halloween night.

A contaminated area along Waukegan’s south lakefront will be cleaned up with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant funding the city has sought for years, authorities announced Thursday.

An MPP six-pallet changer paired with a Mazak Variaxis i-600 five-axis VMC, for example, uses 29 percent less floor space than a six-pallet linear-type system while providing the same capacity. Compared with a 12-pallet system, the MPP reduces floor space requirements by 44 percent. And when used with a Mazak Variaxis i-700 five-axis VMC, a six-pallet MPP is 44 percent smaller than a six-pallet linearly arranged system, and the MPP’s 12-and 18-pallet systems need less than half the space.

• Astrobotic of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been awarded $79.5 million and has proposed to fly as many as 14 payloads to Lacus Mortis, a large crater on the near side of the moon, by July 2021.

It’s known that break-in periods are standard operating procedure for optimal performance of Kahr pistols. The accuracy test groups represent the first rounds fired out of this pistol, so it can potentially get even better. During later testing, I fired a five-shot trigger control drill from five yards on the T9 as a demo for a student. To my surprise, the T9 punched in a smaller single hole than is usually yielded from the striker-fired polymer gun I shoot twice weekly.

Today’s food culture is experiencing a tectonic shift as the rebellious stakeholders of our modern food movement — farmers, independent retailers, nutritionists, educators, chefs and ever-more-informed eaters — upend the marketplace. Their work is like those points in a Seurat painting, dizzyingly complex, but coordinated in impact.