HMC News
5-2008 dynaMACS: Operating More Efficiently & Offering Better Service
2009 Fourth Quarter News
10-2009 Jay R. Smith: Contractor–Friendly Products
2009 Third Quarter News
09-2009 Charlotte Pipe: Discontinued Cast Iron Items.
09-2009 A. O. Smith: Buys Majority of Chinese Water Treatment Company
09-2009 Charlotte Pipe: New PVC Schedule 80 Unions
09-2009 Jay R. Smith: New Downspout Nozzle!
09-2009 Texas Housing Market: Time to Buy?
09-2009 Holdrite: New Acquisition — Hydro Flame
08-2009 Charlotte: ReUze™ New Non-Potable Water Piping System
08-2009 Charlotte: Clarification on Stimulus Act
08-2009 Loss of a Friend and Neighbor!
08-2009 Lubbock: Hub City Sheds Excess Inventory
08-2009 DFW: Big Stimulus Gainer in Texas!
08-2009 Watts: HMC's 22 Successful Years of Growth!
08-2009 Get up to speed on the Noble Company Training Videos!
08-2009 Looming Boom! Texas 2030
07-2009 Largest Home Sales Increase in More Than 8 Years!
07-2009 Stabilizing Economy?
07-2009 Construction Declines for 2nd Quarter
07-2009 Economics: 10 Major Macro Themes
07-2009 Rody Ryon: A Tribute to His Service in the Plumbing Supply Business
07-2009 David Campbell: Remembering a Great Friend and Colleague
07-2009 Pro1 IAQ: New Products Sales Tools
2009 Second Quarter News
06-2009 APCO Valve Video: Environment–Conscious Valve Products.
06-2009 Prices Drop on Existing Home Sales in Texas!
06-2009 APCO Willamette:
Passing of M. Chris Dickson –She Will Be Missed!
06-2009 APCO Willamette:
Buy America Stimulus Provision
06-2009 Link–Seal:
Buy America Stimulus Provision
06-2009 PSI:
Buy America Stimulus Provision
05-2009 LG HVAC:
Tax Rebate –Energy Efficiency– Manufacturer Certification
05-2009 Mission:
Green Footprint With Flex-Seal & HW No-Hub Couplings
05-2009 Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
05-2009 U.S.: Construction Spending Rises
05-2009 Clarification: American Recovery and Reinvesment Act of 2009
05-2009 New Housing Starts: National List
05-2009 Powers: PowerStation with Peace–of–Mind!
05-2009 Ames: USC Approval on Colt & Maxim Backflow Prevention Assemblies
04-2009 Acorn: New Line of Dura–Ware® Urinals.
04-2009 Houston's Plan: Generate 60,000 Direct and Indirect Jobs.
04-2009 Oasis: Bankruptcy Through Parent Firm Tri Palms
04-2009 A. O. Smith: Acquisition — Applied Energy Recovery Systems
04-2009 A. O. Smith: Ed Begley, Jr. – Metroplex Radio Spot!
2009 First Quarter News
02-2009 Charlotte Pipe: New Schedule 80 Fittings Available
02-2009 Five Texas Cities Among Healthiest Housing Markets
01-2009 AquaFlex: New Year, New Website
Golden Gems
I AM THE DECISIVE ELEMENT
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make a life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture, or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be
escalated or de–escalated, and a person humanized or de–humanized.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.
If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, April 23, 1910
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
— Albert Einstein
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