Manufacturing Companies Considering Moving Jobs Back To U.S. From China, Survey Finds

"Manufacturing work might actually be coming back to America.

More than one-third of executives at big manufacturing firms say they're either considering moving production into the U.S. from China, or that they're already planning to do it, according to a recent poll from the Boston Consulting Group. The poll specifically addresses executives at U.S.-based manufacturing companies with annual sales of $1 billion or more."

From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/20/manufacturing-companies-move-us-china_n_1441587.html

Metrics of Process Failure - BP Oil Spill

@amprog: #BP oil spill numbers: 9700 vessels, 127 aircraft, 47,829 people, nearly 2M gallons of toxic dispersants, and 89 days. http://t.co/Ar5nGfJx
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Emergency Maintenance vs. Planned Maintenance - Do we ever learn?

Any lessons learned? Are better preventative and predictive maintenance practices in place? Do we understand this as another Black Swan event, a statistically very small likelihood, but extremely large impact?

When greed for wealth and good maintenance are in conflict ... greed always wins.

Times of their lives - GOP clownfest

@BlueRidgeData: GOP clownfest winds down. #SNL #obama2012 #gopfail http://t.co/vKZ8K6de
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Somewhere Ike is shaking his head at the foolish lot, that has taken over the Republican Party.

And we thought McCain - Palin was funny... the laughs keep coming.