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| Bobcat S630 Field Test - Construction Equipment
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Published Feb. 1, 2010. Videos and layout by Andrew Baltazar
Last summer, Bobcat introduced the S630 M-Series skid steer loader. Construction Equipment has since put it through its paces
Bobcat claims the S630 has improved visibility, instrumentation, and hydraulic efficiency to help it overcome a high-flow horsepower disadvantage and match the larger S220.
Which loader performed better in Construction Equipment's tests? Watch the video field test to find out. |
| Komatsu's Hybrid Excavator 'Swings' into Action - Construction Equipment
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Published Jan. 1, 2010. Article, video and layout by Andrew Baltazar
In North America, the first equipment manufacturer to get out of the gate with a large hybrid excavator is Komatsu, which has begun putting its Hybrid PC200LC-8 into the hands of U.S. suppliers. Komatsu began selling the hybrid excavator to Japanese construction companies in mid-2008 and to Chinese companies in August 2009. |
| Where to Recycle Your Old Analog TV - Windy Citizen
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Published June 12, 2009. By Andrew Baltazar
Congrats, Chicago. You've made it to D-Day and have slaughtered the 70-year-old beast that is analog television. Now that 0s and 1s are being pumped into your digital converter boxes or new digital-ready TVs, what do you do with your analog leftovers? |
| How Did World of Concrete '09 Shape Up?- Construction Equipment Magazine
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CE editors scoured the floors of World of Concrete for fleet owners and manufacturers willing to give their take on this year's show and whether it lived up to their expectations.
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Published March 9, 2009. By Andrew Baltazar
The deteriorating economy has caused construction equipment spending to slide and forced some equipment manufacturers to pull out of trade shows this year. But with warm, sunny weather in Las Vegas in early February, combined with manufacturers' eagerness to sell products, World of Concrete 2009 appeared as big and as lively as ever according to some fleet owners who attended. Other buyers, however, say that exhibitors did not have as wide an array of product offerings compared with previous years. |
| Wacker Neuson Compact Earthmovers Move Site Materials Faster and Safer - Construction Equipment Magazine
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Photo by George Pfoertner |
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Published Feb. 1, 2009. Story by Larry Stewart, Video by Andrew Baltazar
Wacker — a German company that has spent 50 years building a U.S. reputation supplying tampers, light towers and other light equipment — merged with Neuson in 2007, and the company renamed Wacker Neuson (pronounced like “noise-on”) now also offers compact equipment that has been marketed in Europe under the Neuson Kramer brand. The new offering includes a unique line of all-wheel-steer wheel loaders and site dumpers, as well as a line of mini excavators. Construction Equipment gave the professional operators at the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 150 a chance to tell us what they think about the machines. |
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| How to Keep an RT Crane on Its Wheels - Construction Equipment Magazine
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Published Jan. 1, 2009. By Andrew Baltazar
First introduced in 1959 by Grove, the rough-terrain crane was designed as a multi-purpose construction tool. Equipped with industrial-strength tires, these mobile machines can lift loads on muddy, uneven, or harsh ground, otherwise precarious territory for truck-mounted cranes and other mobile cranes. To a certain extent, they are also able to transport loads on leveled ground. But because rough-terrain cranes mainly operate on treacherous terrain, operators need to conduct their work with utmost caution. |
| Chicago's vibrant tech community fuels Web innovation - Medill News Service
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by Andrew Baltazar |
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Published Thursday, March 13, 2008. By Andrew Baltazar
A tightly knit technology community, backed by the growth of capital markets organizations and small businesses, is driving the development of new Web-based technologies in the city and has made the City of Big Shoulders a force to be reckoned with in the dot-com world.
In 2004 the founder of a Web design firm called 37 Signals, Jason Fried, launched Basecamp, a Web-based project management tool. Uncertain whether his first software product would be viable, Fried told himself that if Basecamp could not generate $5,000 in revenues per month throughout the first year, he would cancel it. |
| Chidtarod 2008: Chicago's Urban Shopping Cart Race - Windy Citizen
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Photo by Andrew Baltazar |
| Team Cool Runnings lifts their "bobsled" as they cross the finish line |
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Published Monday, March 3, 2008. Graphics, Interface and Photos by Andrew Baltazar
"More than 500 people raced shopping carts down the sidewalks, streets and alleys of Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood Saturday, March 1, 2008, as part of a food drive that combined athleticism, alcohol, trickery and lavish costumes."
USAToday.com and BoingBoing.com linked to this story |
| Coming home to IT - Hindustan Times, New Delhi
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Photo by Ronjoy Gogoi, Hindustan Times |
| Cadence employees who spent years in the U.S. are now back in India |
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Published Tuesday, November 20, 2007. By Andrew Baltazar. Neha Mehta contributed
Click here for text story
Click here for video
Also picked up by Tech Banyan
According to a survey conducted by The IndUS Entrepreneurs network of technology professionals based in India and the US, as many as 60,000 Indian IT professionals have moved back to India in the last few years.
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Why return to India? --Flash Interactive-- by Andrew Baltazar (not published) |
| Ancient Americas Exhibit Debuts at the Field Museum - Medill News Service
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Photo by Andrew Baltazar |
| The Ancient Americas exhibit shows the development of Natve American communities from hunter-gatherer villages to huge cities such as Cahokia on the Mississippi River in Illinois, where more than 30,000 people once lived. |
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Published March 1, 2009. By Andrew Baltazar
The Field Museum's newest exhibit, the Ancient Americas, opens with some 13,000 years of culture in North, Central and South America before Western Europeans arrived. |
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