The following remarks were made regarding the guest column “A Jack of All Trades is Likely a Master of None” written by Butch Welsch, published May 17, 2017.

While driving into work after rejoining The NEWS team, I was formulating story ideas when suddenly I noticed an HVAC truck in front of me — basically white with simple information. I snapped a photo and continued driving to the office. (Please don’t send me letters about distracted driving; I was stopped at a light.)

The following remarks were made regarding the article “The Changing World of Supermarket Refrigeration” written by Joanna R. Turpin, senior editor for The NEWS, published Aug. 13.

A study by scientists at the University of Leeds (I Googled it … it is a thing) said it takes a minority of just 5 percent to influence a crowd. So that means that 95 percent of people can be following for no good reason. That might explain the popularity of the Kardashians.

It seems like there is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding the best way to calculate a refrigerant’s potential harm to the environment.

We’ve all heard about the different types of learners: visual, auditory, and hands-on. I truly believe this to be true — everyone learns differently. And I believe myself to be the only millennial in the world who prefers reading training documents rather than watching video presentations.

The following remarks were made regarding the guest column “Solving the Leadership Gap in the Trade Industry,” written by Alex Willis, CEO of Leadership Surge, published July 26.

Women represent an untapped resource for the HVAC industry — an industry that is in desperate need of more workers. It starts with getting the younger generation of women interested in these subjects.

The following remarks were made regarding the article “Training in as Little as Nine Days Has Technicians Ready to Enter the HVAC Workforce,” written by Nick KThe following remarks were made regarding the guest column “Ignorance of Today’s Youth, Not Stupidity, Is Crippling the Trades,” written by Jack Tester, president and CEO of Nexstar Network, published July 23.

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Distribution Trends, a bi-monthly magazine designed to showcase the progression of the wholesaler/distributor channel.