Our colleague who manages our Butner plant shared the following with me. It speaks of the importance of 212 degrees. Turning Up the Heat. At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils. And with boiling water comes steam. And with steam, you can power a train. Applying just one extra degree of temperature to water means […]

Sergio Garcia plays the Master’s golf tournament in 2015. Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Sergio Garcia won the Master’s golf tournament. You may not be a golf fan, but it was a major deal for Garcia and the game. Garcia burst onto the golf scene in the late 90s. He had prodigious talent, and it was thought […]

Quincy Jones is one of the greatest music producers of all time. He helped musical talent, from Michael Jackson to Frank Sinatra, to reach their potential as performers. The more he succeeded by helping others, the more he sought to work with fresh talent. I listened to an interview with him recently. He was asked […]

I love this story. John F. Kennedy was the president who set the goal for America to be the first to place a man on the moon. You know the rest of the story. Inspired by the vision and fully resourced by our country, the USA won the race to the moon. The technological developments […]