It seems that you can't pick up a newspaper today (yes, I still get one) without reading a story about the sorry state of education in the United States. Why has the quality of our educational system slipped? Why can't Johnny read?

In the mid 1970s to mid 1980s the Punk movement was an intensely bright burning star that fizzled out just as quickly as it came in. As I understand it, the Punk movement was the antidote to the excessive color and pageantry of the Glam Rock scene.

(APEC: Singapore) -- On September 13-14, 2011, San Francisco will play host to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Conference on Implementation of Energy Management Standardization.

(Renishaw: Gloucestershire, UK) -- Renishaw, the global engineering technologies company, is announcing more new products that will be demonstrated at the EMO Hannover exhibition taking place in Germany, September 19–24.

(Bearing Specialists Association: Glen Ellyn, IL) -- The Bearing Specialists Association (BSA) has identified “Axis of Rotation Metrology” as the second educational publication in its series of Bearing Briefs of the Month.

(Zemetrics: Tucson, AZ) -- ZeGage is a noncontact optical profiler for quantitative measurements of 3-D form and roughness on precision machined surfaces.

(Uson: Houston, TX) -- Quality engineers seeking increased production efficiencies and lower costs now possible with state-of-the-art leak detectors for leak-sensitive products assembly, can now select between two new leak-detection equipment matching services from Uson.

(Industrial Scientific: Pittsburgh) -- Industrial Scientific Corp. has announced the availability of 10 new 116-liter gas cylinders. The new 116-liter cylinders are only slightly larger than the popular 58-liter gas cylinders; however, the cylinders hold twice the volume of gas.

With a heavy focus on research and development, and innovation, Eltek Valere develops and manufactures advanced electronic power supplies.

A run chart is a graphical display of data over time. Run charts are used to visually analyze processes according to time or sequential order.