Verne Troyer, 49. He played Dr. Evil’s small, silent sidekick “Mini-Me” in the “Austin Powers” movie franchise. April 21.

At Penn, some  FGLI students have families who struggle to pay bills; a number had food scarcities as children. The wealth of some students at Penn can be intimidating and FGLI students fear that they don’t belong. One student told me that a professor, as an aside, said, “students at Penn have not grown up in neighborhoods with gang activities and drive-by shootings.” My student tearfully told me that since she had grown up in just that sort of neighborhood this professor’s comment made her feel that she did not belong at Penn. Despite her extremely high grades, she perceived the professor’s comment as yet another indicator that she did not fit in. Since little comments in class can reverberate in unexpected ways, I try to be careful to acknowledge in class that students have a range of experiences and provide a variety of examples.

Yeah, they flattened out and come in some, especially in the steel mills, as everyone’s adjusted to this new tariff environment. So lead times in the mills, and part of that’s related to the slowdown in demand as the mills caught up in the fourth quarter. So I would say lead times definitely came in on the line pipe side. Still strong demands on the valve side.

And then in downstream, chemical and refining, it’s largely an MRO year for us. Without the big Shell polymer project, you’re really seeing about 90%, 95% of our downstream this year will be based on MRO contracts. So we want some nice contracts. Their spending will be up slightly on that, so we expect slight growth in downstream as a whole, but it won’t come from large project. It’ll come from smaller cap projects, and we’re forecasting a slightly up turnaround season for our downstream business.

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The manufacture and marketing of industrial explosives, speciality chemicals and specialised products and components for the mining industry.

During the last campaign, the NDP promised to review royalties. Once in power, they did so. But the NDP’s new royalty regime actually lowered rates that former Alberta Energy executive director Barry Rodgers had concluded were ‘too low … the lowest royalty rates in the world.’

Harlan Ellison, 84. The prolific, pugnacious author of “A Boy and His Dog,” and countless other stories that blasted society with their nightmarish, sometimes darkly humorous scenarios. June 27.

The Quakers will fly from Newark, New Jersey, to Beijing on March 2 before traveling to Shanghai on March 7 and returning to the United States on March 10. While in China, the Quakers will hold multiple spring practices, hold clinics for youths and young adults and sightsee before the Penn-China Global Ambassadors Bowl.

‘I sit with a lot of executive teams and I simply ask them, “You’re talking about doubling production, does that mean doubling headcount?” They politely respond, “No, that means halving headcount.”‘

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Yes, it’s been a challenge in 2018. It was with the tariffs, the 10% tariff on Chinese valve components was an issue all year long that we worked — had to pass on to our customers. We’re planning on that at the 10% level. We would have to work through if the tariff goes up to 25%.