Yu Zhilin, a farmer from Hengyang, China has capitalized on the popularity of the Transformers movie franchise in China with the aid of his son, Yu Lingyun. This father/son team, using only their ingenuity(as well as some instructions found while traversing the internet), and scrap auto parts are making waves globally for creating statues of Transformers’ mainstays Optimus Prime and
Dad always said if you’ve got good news and bad news…finish with the good news. It leaves your listener feeling better. So, here it goes… The bad news is it’s becoming a challenge to remember that most people are good and that the world is a great, beautiful place filled with kind, helpful people. We’re
A Local Donation A Massachusetts woman recently donated her car to the American Cancer Society in honor of cancer patients everywhere. A survivor herself, Joanne remembers her personal fight to battle lung cancer. It started in 2011 with an accidental discovery and unexpected diagnosis, followed by surgery to remove a malignant tumor. Although it was
Places. Over the last five weeks I’ve done a bit of traveling. Crisscrossing the country several times; 16 flights, over 20000 miles, 7 hotels, dozens of taxis, 5 hotel gyms, 2 hotel pools, 1 yoga studio and counting all the restaurants would only give me indigestion. I have two very busy periods annually for travel;
The time is here. The school year has ended and the dorms are closing for the summer. You’re finally scheduled to pick up your son or daughter (or both) from college and they’ll be all yours for the next 3 months. You arrive at the dorm to find boxes, bags and milk crates, furniture and
While the world reacts to China’s economic slowdown, the tone among the country’s top government officials remains calm. That’s because the growth rate (previously 10%, predicted to drop to 6.3% in 2016) has been intentionally slowed since 2012. A report published that year by the International Monetary Fund suggested that while China’s capital-to-output ratio was
Scrap Metal Market Trends Scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies continue to drop. We’ve seen a decline of 5.61% over the past month, 50.70% over the past year, and 57.05% over the past two years. Despite some leveling out in the steel market, this trend is expected to continue, as economic improvement measures are
Steel Supply Chain Decline “Have scrap steel prices finally found a floor?”1 The decline in steel prices is slowing as scrap markets look for signs of positive change. Late last month, the Commodity Trade Risk Management group published new prices for hot-rolled coil, which evened out at “$440/st, down from about $640/st last November”.2 CTRM
This past Sunday, more than 50 employees from Advanced Remarketing Services and Comsearch, along with their “four-legged children” participated as the CARS FOR A CURE team in the American Cancer Society’s 2015 BARK FOR LIFE in Warwick, Rhode Island. This was a new type of ACS Relay for Life event held to celebrate our pups
After a blue-gray and white winter, spring is a time for celebration. It starts the party with bursts of rich and vibrant colors. It beckons living things to wake a little earlier and stay out a little later. We take deeper breaths of clean, fresh air and head to the beach, park, or backyard to