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History of miscarriage and type 2 diabetes
Abstract We examined a history-based measure of miscarriage propensity in relation to the future occurrence of miscarriage, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and type 2 diabetes. For each of 42,313 gravid Sister Study participants, we estimated propensity for miscarriage, accounting for maternal age and smoking, and propensity for GDM, accounting for body mass index, using an empirical Bayes method.
Hot food vending solutions for convenience services operators
The hot food vending machine industry is set to reach approximately $4.8 billion in 2024 for the U.S. and Canada, according to a report by Future Market Insights, and it has the potential to progress a CAGR of 6.60% through 2034. By the end of the forecast period, this valuation is slated to surpass $9.1 billion.
Automatic Merchandiser's 2024 Most Influential Women in Convenience Services Award winners
Automatic Merchandiser is proud to present the 2024 Most Influential Women in Convenience Services Awards. We recognize these individuals who have made a positive impact on the convenience services industry or their organization. This award is a celebration of their achievements and spotlights influential women who are shaping the future of the industry. Congratulations to the following 2024 award winners! Stephanie Beerman is the Western regional sales manager for Barcel USA.
The Meaning Behind The Song: Puttin' On the Ritz by Taco
Introduction “Puttin’ On the Ritz” is one of the most recognizable songs in popular culture. It’s been covered by a multitude of artists over the years, but the version that most people associate with the song is the one by Dutch singer Taco, which was released in 1982. Despite its enduring popularity, though, many people are unaware of the history and meaning behind the song. In this article, we’ll explore the origins of “Puttin’ On the Ritz” and its significance in music history.
The Meaning Behind The Song: Calling All Angels by Train
The Meaning Behind The Song: Calling All Angels by Train Train’s “Calling All Angels” is a heartfelt song that has touched the hearts of many since its release in 2003. The track, which features strong vocals and a moving melody, speaks of hope and the power of prayer. In this article, we will discuss the meaning behind “Calling All Angels” and why it is a song that resonates with so many.
Nominate a colleague for Automatic Merchandiser's 2024 40 Under 40 Awards
Nominations for Automatic Merchandiser’s annual 40 Under 40 Awards are now open. Industry members can nominate themselves or someone else whose contribution to their company or organization deserves recognition. The 40 Under 40 Awards highlight innovators who demonstrate leadership and a commitment to advancing convenience services for vending, micro markets and office coffee service.
CHECKOUT Molly Rogers and Emma Clegg from JAM The Label | #219
In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Molly Rogers and Emma Clegg, Co-founders of JAM The Label, producing adaptive and inclusive fashionable clothing. Both women are Occupational Therapists with extensive experience in disability support and in their jobs, they were witnessing daily struggles with mainstream garments.
Finding An Inclusive Fashion Fit: The JAM The Label Story | #194
In this episode of Add To Cart, we are joined by Molly Rogers and Emma Clegg, Co-founders of JAM The Label, producing adaptive and inclusive fashionable clothing. Both women are Occupational Therapists with extensive experience in disability support and in their jobs, they were witnessing daily struggles with mainstream garments.
May is National Foster Care Awareness month
By Molly Rogers - Guest columnist May is National Foster Care Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness for all of the children and youth in foster care. It is also a time to honor foster parents, families, volunteers, child welfare professionals, and members of the community who have a role in supporting youth who experience foster care. Over my 24 years of working with children and families, I have had the privilege to meet more children and youth than I can count.
Plant-based snack foods for vending and micro markets
Today, consumers are moving toward a healthier lifestyle overall, and this includes shifting to better-for-you products and a focus on individual wellness needs. No matter the reasons why consumers are choosing to eat less animal products, the plant-based food industry is booming – with millennials and Gen Z driving the market growth.
May is National Foster Care Awareness Month
By Molly Rogers - Guest columnist May is foster care awareness month, a special time to recognize the value of foster care and highlight the importance of foster parents, and the care and protection they provide to the children in the community. In 1988, the president instituted May as Foster Care Awareness Month.
Letter to the House
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Dear Madam Speaker, My name is Molly Rogers and I am a resident of New Mexico’s CD1. As you know, my former representative Deb Haaland was selected by President Biden to be Secretary of the Interior. Since her seat will remain unfilled until a special election on June 1, I am currently without an elected representative in Congress to whom I may express my concerns. I am therefore writing to you directly because I believe that I have the right to be heard.
Nominations are now open for the 2023 Innovation Awards
Nominations are open until July 31 for P.I. Process Instrumentation's 2023 Innovation Awards program. Our annual Innovation Awards program recognizes the latest innovations and technology breakthroughs in process instrumentation. You can nominate your product directly through our 2023 Call for Entries page. See past Innovation Awards winners and honorees: 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016
Company Profile: ASI Drives Inc.
ASI Drives is a manufacturer of complete custom-engineered gear drives, including gears, motors, and castings designed primarily for battery-powered machines that weigh less than 1 ton. ASI has steadily grown since its founding in 1985 by CEO Barney Berlinger as a spinoff from Quaker City Gear, which was founded by Berlinger's grandfather.
Company Profile: Wenzel America
With thousands of customers around the world using Wenzel machines, the company is considered a leader in the metrology industry. Its focus is on solving the toughest measuring requirements for its customers, wielding its longtime expertise in German engineering, which dates back to 1968. Parent company Wenzel Präzision GmbH was founded by Werner Wenzel in Wiesthal, Germany, as a provider of testing equipment and precision measuring tools.
Company Profile: Advanced Jiffy Machine Products Inc.
At the recent AGMA Annual Meeting, Mark Jackson, process engineer at Advanced Jiffy Machine Products, heard much discussion about the Internet of Things (IoT). And while it may seem overwhelming for any business to keep up, he feels confident that, for a small gear manufacturing company in Monett, Missouri, they are steadily staying on the cutting edge by implementing the latest technology with automation and machine monitoring.
Company Profile: Rochester Gear Inc.
When a fortuitous opportunity falls into your lap, you don’t want to let it slip by, especially when it means becoming the owner of a highly experienced, well-tuned gear job shop in Rochester, New York. That’s what happened to Rochester Gear’s president, Tony Fedor, who recalls a successful turn of events for a once-static gear manufacturing business. And it wouldn’t have happened without Vice President Scott Caccamise’s drive to lure Fedor out of retirement.
Company Profile: Southern Gear & Machine, Inc.
Keys to success may vary for each gear manufacturing business, but Southern Gear & Machine has found the right formula that works for them. It’s how they’ve become an experienced, well-trained, financially strong, and cutting-edge gear manufacturer meeting the demands of well-known aircraft and military customers. It’s a formula for success that started 60 years ago with founder Joseph Arch.
Company Profile: Affolter Technologies SA
Affolter was founded in 1919 by Louis Affolter, making pinions and gear assemblies for local Swiss watch customers. In 1926, Louis expanded its capabilities and set up a workshop in a family apartment, sparking an almost 100-year tradition of keeping the company in the family. In 1946, Louis’ sons Andre, Rene, and Marc took over their father’s business. In 1985, third-generation Marc Alain, Jean-Claude, and Michel began managing the growing operation.
Company Profile: B&R Machine and Gear Corporation
B&R Machine and Gear Corporation specializes in manufacturing direct replacement gearing for a wide range of industrial markets. With the capacity to produce right-angle gears up to 80" in diameter, B&R considers themselves part of an elite group who is able to offer such sizable bevel gearing.
Company Profile: Felsomat
Based in Koenigsbach Stein, Germany, Felsomat GmbH was founded in 1981 by Helmut F. Jaeger — initially manufacturing small pick-and-place devices and simple automations systems. In 1990, Felsomat became a trendsetter in the machine tool industry with its introduction of the FZ 250 compact cell. This automation system revolutionized the way in which small gears for automatic transmissions were processed.
Services Profile: Riley Gear Corporation
Riley Gear was founded in 1946 in Buffalo, New York, by Walter Riley and his son, Donald. They began with a mission of providing its customers with highly engineered small precision gears for applications that can withstand the harshest environments. For example, in 1974, Riley Gear was chosen by NASA as the gear supplier on the Viking 1 Landing Vehicle, which was used for exploration on Mars from 1975 to 1980.
Machines Profile: Gehring L.P.
Gehring L.P., located in Farmington Hills, Michigan, was founded in 1976; however, its parent company, Gehring Technologies GmbH headquartered in Ostfildern, Germany, is celebrating 90 years of innovation in the field of honing technology. At IMTS 2016 in Chicago, Gehring featured machine demonstrations of its newest products, professional expert advice, and presentations on the company’s philosophy, digital solutions, technical training, and history.
Company Profile: Redin Production Machine
Based in Rockford, Illinois, Redin Production Machine was started in 1938 as an engineering firm by Cliffton Redin and his father to design labor-saving production machines. In its early days, the company became recognized as an innovative builder of these special-purpose machines. In 1948, Redin patented a machine that improved parquet flooring by placing a spine in the underside to hold the blocks together.
Company Profile: Dynamic Megabytes Inc.
With the manufacturing suite of products from Dynamic Megabytes, customers can achieve their goals by defining their own requirements and executing them with customized software tailored to their specific business for better efficiency and improved competitiveness. In addition, customers benefit from the expertise of software programmers who are knowledgeable of the manufacturing industry. This expertise began almost 27 years ago with founder and president Ivan Vazan.
Company Profile: American Steel Treating
After many years of service with Surface Combustion Inc., gaining experience and technical expertise, Roy Waits, Steve Johnson, and Bob Morse set out to capitalize on their experience by founding FurnTech, a builder of heat treating furnaces in Perrysburg, Ohio, in 1987. Two years later, Doug Clinger, an industry leader in metallurgy, joined the organization as a principle.
Company Profile: Horsburgh & Scott
At the recent American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) Annual Meeting, Horsburgh & Scott was presented an award and inducted into the newly created AGMA Hall of Fame for being one of 12 companies out of the 19 AGMA founding members that still remain in the industry today. Horsburgh & Scott was also recently awarded the Century Cup from Gleason Corporation and honorably recognized as a loyal customer of Gleason’s gear manufacturing equipment for more than 100 years.
Company Profile: Koepfer America, LLC
In 1988, Koepfer America started as a supplier of Germany-based Koepfer gear hobbing machines. Today, Koepfer America is not only an independent factory sales and distribution company for Koepfer machines, but it is also a provider of full technical service and a complementary product line of gear hobbing machines, worm and thread milling machines, gear shaping machines, cutting tools, hard finishing tools, and cutting tool sharpening machines, as well as inspection, metrology, and CMM equipment.
Company Profile: Syn-Tech Ltd.
Syn-Tech Ltd. is a privately held company founded in 1968 by Reginald S. “Reggie” Shearer. Cutting his teeth early on as a chemistry and physics major in college, Shearer was an innovator from the start, focusing on extreme environments and difficult applications. As a young chemist, he sold some of the first synthetic oils in the United States in the cold, harsh conditions of northern Alaska to airplane pilots due to extreme low-temp engine turnover problems.
Company Profile: Penn Reels
The beginning of Penn Reels is not only a story of an American dream, but also a story of a fishing tackle manufacturer that revolutionized saltwater angling. It started in 1922 when Otto Henze, a 25-year-old machinist, moved from Germany to the United States and began working for the Ocean City Reels Company in Philadelphia. Ten years later, Henze left Ocean City Reels and started his own fishing reel business called Penn Fishing Tackle Manufacturing Company.
Company Profile: CGI, Inc.
As a fledgling gear design and manufacturing company that began in 1967, CGI developed a reputation early on for quality products and innovative solutions, particularly in the medical and aerospace industries. Founded by Don Snow and based in Southern California, the company was named California Gear and Instrument at that time. Garnering customers such as Jet Propulsion Labs and Hall Surgical, CGI continued to grow.
Tooling Profile: Riten Industries
Riten Industries has been a family business and manufacturer of workholding tools since 1933, but “Riten” has not always been the company name. In the 1960s, Riten was called Rigid, and according to Mitchell Kirby, vice president of manufacturing and an employee for 26 years, its namesake is an interesting tale that’s been handed down through generations of employees.
Company Profile: Bourn & Koch, Inc.
Bourn & Koch was founded in 1975 when Larry Bourn & Loyd Koch, prior employed at Sundstrand Machine Tool, set out to fill a niche of remanufacturing and retrofitting machine tools and to build specialty machines not being addressed by other large machine tool builders. Throughout its 40-year history, Bourn & Koch has continuously strived to expand its business through new technologies and machine acquisitions, and it’s now the OEM for over 25 different well-known machine tool brands.
Company Profile: Blaser Swisslube Inc.
Blaser Swisslube’s first product in 1936 was a shoe polish sold door-to-door at local farmhouses, but today, the independent Swiss company is well-known for developing high-quality metalworking and grinding fluids. Customers all over the world use Blaser’s coolants to produce a range of parts — from tiny parts for watch-making and demanding parts for the medical industry, to huge structural elements for the aircraft industry and mass-produced critical automotive parts.
Company Profile: New England Gear
It’s not often that you call a company, even a small one, and get the owner on the other end of the line. But when Gear Solutions called New England Gear to offer congratulations on its 20th anniversary this year, it was Jeff Barnes, founder and sole proprietor, who answered the phone. This personal relationship with its customers is one of the reasons New England Gear continues to have a solid reputation in the gear manufacturing industry.
Case Study: Circle Gear and Machine Company and Pequea Machine Inc.
In a joint effort to bring manufacturing back to the U.S., also known as reshoring, a relationship was formed between gear manufacturer Circle Gear and Machine Company and agricultural machinery manufacturer Pequea Machine Inc.
Beverly Gooden educates students on domestic violence - The Creightonian: News
Gooden shared this fact from the National Domestic Violence Hotline during her speech on Nov. 9 in the Skutt Ballroom. On Sept. 8, 2014, Gooden tweeted her reasons for staying in an abusive relationship, along with the hashtag #WhyIStayed in response to a video that TMZ posted showing Ray Rice, who played for the Baltimore Ravens at the time that the video was recorded, punching his wife. Within one hour of tweeting, Gooden’s hashtag was trending on Twitter.
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