Joyful Public Speaking (from fear to joy)

Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts
Friday, September 13, 2019

Evolution of road graders

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A road grader is a fascinating piece of construction equipment. Modern ones like the Caterpillar motor grader...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Blasting rocks

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Yesterday shortly after 4:00 PM our house shook from a nearby explosion. When I looked out a back wind...
Monday, February 5, 2018

How would you line the sloping walls of a large irrigation canal with concrete?

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Near where I live there is a large road and intersection construction project in progress. The interse...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Explaining something by comparison with the familiar

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South of Boise and east of Cole Road, on the sagebrush that will become the Syringa Valley subdivision, I saw an enormous piece of constru...
Friday, November 13, 2015

A really big bench for a morning break

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This morning I had to chuckle when I saw saw four construction workers taking a break to discuss what would happen next ...
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Richard I. Garber
This blog is about public speaking. The author is Richard I. Garber, ACS, a Toastmaster. From July 2008 to June 2010 he was Vice President-Education for Capitol Club Toastmasters in Boise, Idaho. From July 2017 to June 2019 he was Vice President Public Realtions for Saint Al's Toastmasters. Opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author alone, and are not the official positions of Toastmasters International, etc. Richard is retired. He has over twenty years of experience as a consultant on failure analysis (figuring out why things busted or rusted) and a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science. His email is r_i_garber at hotmail.com
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