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The shuttered Chicago windows factory that was the site of a six-day worker sit-in last month over severance pay is close to being purchased by a California company, union leaders said Wednesday. The deal would put those employees back to work.
Under the deal, the building and assets of Republic Windows and Doors, which closed abruptly Dec. 5 and declared bankruptcy Dec. 15, would be purchased by Serious Materials, a company based in Sunnyvale, Calif., that produces green building materials.
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Ben Sliney
Ben Sliney is a former United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Operations Manager. His first day in this position was September 11, 2001, and he was responsible for ordering a National Ground Stop across United States airspace in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.[1]
Actions on September 11, 2001[edit]
After two planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, another into the Pentagon and one more in Pennsylvania, Sliney gave the order to land every plane in the air over the U.S. at the time (SCATANA), effectively shutting down U.S. airspace. There were roughly 4,200 aircraft in flight.[2] This was an unprecedented act, which the 9/11 Commission later denoted as an important and decisive moment in that morning's chaos. While Sliney made the decision on his own initiative, he had the advice of an experienced staff of air traffic controllers and traffic managers. Although it was his first day in charge, Sliney had an over 25-year background in air traffic and management in the FAA. He had held various positions as an air traffic controller, first line supervisor at several major facilities, and Operations Manager and Traffic Management Officer at New York TRACON. He also held positions as Traffic Management Specialist, National Operations Manager, Tactical Operations Manager at the Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC) and had Regional office experience as Manager, Airspace and Procedures Branch, Eastern Region.[citation needed]
Sliney later left the FAA to practice law.[3]
Portrayals in films and television[edit]
Sliney was initially involved in the 2006 movie United 93 in an advisory role. He was then cast in a small role as an air traffic controller. Later, the film's writer and director, Paul Greengrass, offered him the opportunity to play himself.
Sliney also had a small role in Greengrass's 2010 film Green Zone.
- ^ Williams, Andrew (2006-10-04). "60 Seconds: Ben Sliney". Metro online. London: Associated Northcliffe Digital. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
- ^ "Part I: Terror attacks brought drastic decision: Clear the skies". USA Today. 2002-08-12. Retrieved 2013-09-11.
- ^ Faber, Judy (April 25, 2006). "FAA Manager Relives Events Of Sept. 11". CBSNews. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
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Ryan Murphy Helps Bring Jessica Lange Back to Broadway After a Decade Away
Gabriel Byrne co-stars.
Jessica Lange will return to Broadway for the first time in over a decade next spring, with the Eugene O'Neill classic Long Day's Journey Into Night. Lange reprises the role of the morphine-addled matriarch Mary Tyrone, a character she played in London's West End back in 2000, for which she received an Olivier nomination. She'll co-star alongside In Treatment's Gabriel Byrne, who plays the patriarch of the family, James Tyrone, and John Gallagher Jr., as their son Edmund. But if you thought that this would be a Ryan Murphy–free universe, you would be mistaken! The New York Times reports that Murphy holds the stage rights to the play and approached Todd Haimes, the director of the Roundabout Theater Company, about producing the play with Lange, who is maybe playing Elsa Mars playing Mary Tyrone. After all, everything is connected.


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(PRWEB) January 30, 2013
Millions of health conscious people around the world trying to figure out how to be healthy can now find all information they ever wanted in Howtobehealthyfast.com. This website has just been launched by acclaimed online marketing company Internet Marketing Services and offers detailed guidelines to help visitors adapt to a healthy lifestyle in no time. Modern day lifestyle often forces people to grow unhealthy habits that are the root cause behind many deadly diseases. Obesity, high blood pressure, blood sugar, heart related concerns, etc. are some of the most severe lifestyle related diseases. Unlike most of the health and fitness websites, Howtobehealthyfast.com offers free fitness tips, explaining their scientific backgrounds.
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It's hard to imagine that it took this long for Verizon, Samsung, and whoever else to release the Android 2.2 Froyo update to all of the Samsung Fascinate owners. That said, we'll only ask you to remember this the next time you think of Samsung & Verizon in the same sentence. Nonetheless, we look forward to the Froyo update tomorrow as announced by Verizon Wireless. After all, there are some goodies in store. Check out the flyer below for the complete list of upgrades and enhancement features you'll get tomorrow.
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VerseYou've locked your soul and kept the key. I'm all yours and it's no secret. I adore the way your mouth moves when you say those three words, I adore the way your mouth moves when you repeat them, will you repeat them?
ChorusDon't be careful with me. I'm not so delicate. I gave you my heart. I know the chance I'm taking. Don't hesitate in love. It can leave your soul undone. You can't stick your toes in the water. You gotta jump and finally go underwater.
VerseYou're holding back and I can tell. When you only give half you're never whole. I am ready to trust your eyes in all this darkness. I am ready to see your sides that cause you unrest, rest them.
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We all know we should "Strive for Five" servings of fruits and veggies a day to keep our bodies healthy. Jim tagged me with the task of describing the 5 things I do everyday to keep my spirit happy & healthy. I jotted a bunch down in my sketchbook. Here are the top five….
Allow me to elaborate:
1. I need sunshine. If there are too many winter cloudy days strung together, then a cozy spot near a fireplace will keep me going. Or even candles on the dinner table or sparkly lights strung around.
2. Exercise. Dance, a long fast walk, yoga, running up and down stairs, cartwheels, anything.
3. Beauty = A walk in the woods, a trip to a museum, a good picture book, almost anything if you look closely enough.
4. There's just something about that end of day ritual that makes everything right in the world. A little music, a glass of wine, beautiful veggies, the rhythm of preparing the food…chopping, stirring, the aroma, the taste, and of course good company.
5. The best thrill ever.
So now I am s'posed to tag some folks. This is a no-obligation invitation to share your spirit lifting techniques…
Of course, any and all are encouraged to join in!
But here is where this train jumps the track… I am also going to tag some non-blogging friends.
Biz, Teddy, Heather, Anna, Becca
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As retail traders gain more experience, many turn to longer term trading due to the advantages it holds. One of the definite advantages to holding positions for weeks or months is the lack of time required for trading. However, one aspect many find challenging is holding their nerve when there is a counter move against the main trend.
There are a number of steps you can add to your checklist to help you decide when a small market correction turns into a deep pullback and how to manage your stops to allow for some movement without giving too much equity back to the markets.
We will be covering the following items to help establish if a counter move is simply a bit of profit taking – or the end of the trend.
- Duration
- Depth
- Support / Resistance
- Chart / Candlestick patterns
When we have established how the trend, and our trade, is likely to be affected by the counter move then we can consider whether our stops need tightening – or not.
When profit taking turns into a deep pullback
Trend trading always has to allow for periods of profit-taking. Price rarely moves continuously up or down in a straight line – and never for extended periods.
Most of the time we welcome these corrections as – regardless of whether we trade breakouts or pullbacks – we get another chance to enter, or add to, our position.
But sometimes the counter-move is a little too deep and we start to notice a sizable dip in our equity curve.
Counter-trend duration
Pullback duration can vary from one market to the next. Trend traders are usually looking for the charts with small pullbacks, of maybe no more than 10-20 bars.
The ideal counter-trend move is three to five bars, which would usually form a small flag. This gives us time to reevaluate the trade and see if we want to add to our position. We do not feel rushed or panicked in any way and our open positions should easily be well within the stop loss range.
Provided the pullback is not too deep (covered in the next section) a sideways / consolidation move of more than 20 bars is acceptable to many trend traders. While it is frustrating, to be in a non-trending trade, unless the situation changes (i.e. the trend changes) there is little that should be done about it. You just have to monitor the position until price breaks either the resistance or support level.
Generally, within 10-20 bars, we can get an idea of the behaviour of the pullback without it affecting our equity adversely, so we remain comfortable with the move and unconcerned with tightening our stop losses.
But when the pullback is deeper than we would like, we will notice a dip in our equity and we may wonder just how far we should let price move before protecting our profits by tightening our stops.
Counter-trend depth
There are other ways to assess the depth of the pullback but for most beginners, on simple software, the 50ma is easy to calculate and identify. As price begins to approach this level then the pullback is probably beginning to get fairly deep.
Some trends hug the 50ma quite tightly so you may need to consider a buffer zone beyond this. But for most markets the 50ma acts as a good support / resistance to a well trending chart.
If price starts to close in on the 50ma, regardless of how many bars can be counted within it, you may want to move your stops closer to price action to protect your profits. However, there are few other factors you may want to take into consideration first so remain measured in your approach.
The 50ma is not only tool you have to provide levels of support or resistance.
Support or resistance zones
As price approaches the 50ma there may be other areas of support or resistance, which may help price bounce back in the direction of the trend.
Major pivot points (from previous price action) are a good example, as are round numbers or annual highs or lows. Even minor pivot points can help keep price on the right side of the trend.
Major pivots are those which stand out as major highs or lows. One example is a previous all time high or low. Minor pivots are those which happened recently – a recent high or low which price had to break to continue in the trend – such as a small pullback / flag.
Round numbers in multiples of 10, 50 or 100 for stocks (and some currencies) or 1s or 0.5s in currencies (e.g. 1.0000 or 2.5000) can also act as support / resistance.
If any of these occur just before the 50ma level, or just beyond, then price may well reverse at these points rather than at the moving average.
Often you will see further confirmation that the counter move is exhausted with a candlestick pattern or chart formation.
Chart patterns
As previously mentioned, a three to five bar pullback is a popular move and is often a flag formation. When the counter move becomes more prolonged, such as 10-20 bars or more, then there are other chart patterns you may spot.
Being able to identify some of the more common chart patterns is useful as it will give you confidence that the trend is likely to continue – even if the pullback has grown to more than 20 bars or is a little deeper than you would like (such as touching the 50ma).
There are numerous chart patterns but in our experience, the more common and reliable ones for use in this situation, are flags, double tops / bottoms, head and shoulders and (maybe) a cup and handle.
If you can see any of these developing then you may want to hold off tightening your stops – even if price has retraced a little more than desired or the duration is beyond 20 bars. Without breaching any of your stop loss rules, see if you can allow a little more breathing space for these chart patterns to unfold.
With the exception of the cup and handle, you should use candlestick patterns to help you identify the axis of these chart formations as they develop. Again, this adds to your confidence that stops can remain further away (to prevent you getting stopped out by just a few ticks) as you read price action.
Candlestick patterns
As with chart patterns, candlesticks can be a helpful tool – but you don't need to know all of them. In this instance we're only interested in ones that signify a possible reversal, such as doji, hammer, inverted hammer, shooting star, hanging man and engulfing candlesticks.
On their own, in our counter trend scenario, these candlestick formations are not of particular interest. But if you see them as the axis of a flag, double bottom / top or head and shoulders (as these chart patterns are under construction) you have yet another "tick" on your checklist that the pattern is more likely to develop – which means the trend is more likely to continue.
Stick to your convictions
So we now have four items we can use as the basis of our counter-trend analysis.
Sometimes we will only need one to remain confident that the pullback will have little impact on the overall trend – or that we need to tighten stops. We don't want to tighten stops unless necessary as we have to let the trend develop at it's own pace and in it's own way.
But sometimes, if the move is prolonged or deeper than expected, we need other measures in place to stop us being panicked into tightening stops – a move we might later regret if the trend continues.
Having guidelines in place help us stick to the plan and have confidence in our trading.
TDT Tip: Trend traders never get out at the extreme of the trend so you will always have to give a little bit back to the markets. This can seem like a lot if you are trading multiple positions on one trade. Remember that any well thought out trade which is in the black is an excellent trade. So make sure your overall position is risk-free as soon as you can – then try not to worry about the monetary value.
Trend trading is not about getting in right at the start of the trend and out right at the end. There are all sorts of obstacles to overcome on the way. You can make these insurmountable or you can make them simple and logical. Successful traders choose the latter.
"The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money." – Warren Buffett
Good trend trading…
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Vulture TV Awards: The Best Sketch of the Year Is on Inside Amy Schumer
Apparently, some video games aren't for everybody.
We're in the midst of our week-long Vulture TV Awards, honoring the best things television had to offer in the past year. Following up on his picks for Best Late-Night Moments is Vulture writer Jesse David Fox presenting his choices for Best Sketch of the Year.
America's interest in sketch comedy tends to go in waves, and right now it feels like we are in an unprecedented surge, not only with more sketch shows, but with a more diverse assortment of sketch shows. We did a list of the best Saturday Night Live sketches a few weeks ago, so for our TV awards, we thought we'd highlight the best of the rest. Here are 12 of the best.
12. Inside Amy Schumer, "Animal Rescue Hotline"
There is a reason Amy Schumer won Best Female Comedy Performer earlier in the week. She's great on Inside Amy Schumer. But she is great in a different way from a lot of other sketch performers on the list, whether they are Fred Armisen, Nick Kroll, or Key & Peele. Amy Schumer excels at playing herself more than anything else. She's doesn't create fully realized, absurd characters; she just examines the world through her nuanced comedic persona. "Animal Rescue Hotline" showcases just that, by presenting someone who wants to care about animals but doesn't actually want to — the well-intentioned asshole, if you will.
11. Comedy Bang! Bang!, "Tear Down"
Comedy Bang! Bang! is a weird hybrid of a show — part late-night-show parody, part sketch show. Though the interviews are sketches in a way, the show's true sketches are often fantastic.
Comedy Bang! Bang! particularly excels at bringing new life to the reality-show parody, as is the case with "Tear Down." Host and creator Scott Aukerman, who used to write on Mr. Show, knows exactly how to kill a joke so thoroughly that it becomes funnier than before.
10. Portlandia, "Social Bankruptcy"
In Portlandia's fourth season, Carrie Brownstein really came into her own as an actress, especially in roles where she's playing a version of herself. "Social Bankruptcy" highlights that. She captures the overwhelming frustration yet addiction to social media that is seemingly inescapable these days. Well, there's one way out, but it has a Twilight Zone–esque ending.
9. The Birthday Boys, "Too Many Terms"
One of the Birthday Boys' most frequent targets of satire is satire, often making fun of the idea that comedy should say something. "Too Many Terms" is a brilliant anti-comedy in which a bunch of bankers just say seemingly legitimate finance terms at each other. The payoff is the lack thereof.
8. Key & Peele, "Insult Comic"
Key & Peele tends to be the most structurally tight sketch show out there (I'll get into that further down the list), but "Insult Comic" is a little bit rougher around the edges. Peele's character, with his burns and pain medication, is in a horrific situation, and they let the gravity of that raise the stakes. Tasked with having to make fun of him, you end up feeling more sympathetic for the comedian. Feeling for the comedian over the man with face burns — that's good comedy writing.
7. Kroll Show, "Dr. Armond – 'Can I Finish'"
It's hard to categorize Kroll Show as a sketch show. It's more of a sketch-sitcom hybrid. He tells long-term stories in sketchlike settings with sketchlike characters, creating something wholly unique. As a result, it's difficult to pick out one moment. "Can I Finish" is a reccurring bit, parodying the extreme of cable-news talking heads, and here it is applied to the story of Dr. Armond's trial. Due to the nature of the structure of "Can I Finish," you get a quick look at so much of this universe so quickly.
6. The Birthday Boys, "Keepin' the Beat"
As mentioned before, the Birthday Boys are opposed to comedy that feels too heavy. This results in sketches often about the most minute observations. "Keepin' the Beat" does an incredible job at capturing the personality of every drummer — regardless of the seriousness of the band. Beware: That song will get stuck in your head.
5. Portlandia, "The Best Part Is Going Home"
Concerts are terrible, and this Portlandia sketch perfectly captures this fact. But there is more to it. Ultimately, it's a trenchant portrayal of getting older and your priorities changing.
4. Inside Amy Schumer, "The Food Room"
"Food Room" will be studied in sketch-writing classes for years to come. It is a perfect Aaron Sorkin parody. There's not much more to say.
3. Comedy Bang! Bang!, "Movie Trailer"
Sometimes a bad joke done on purpose is a good joke. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but this fake movie trailer nails it. Made up of a series of very, very dumb plays on words, the comedy is able to get more and more absurd while sticking to the silly premise of a trailer that uses movie-review clichés and takes them very literally. It is brilliant and so stupid.
2. Key & Peele, "Mr. T PSA"
As I alluded to before, no one writes a tighter sketch than Key & Peele. With Ian Roberts, one of the founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, as co-showrunner, the sketches hold very true to the improv school's idea of "game." The sketch establishes the unusual thing — in this case, Mr. T is doing a PSA, but he's only teaching lessons that apply to him — and then very deliberately heightens the specific premise a few times. Not much time is spent meandering and letting the premise sink in; instead, they hit the concept with laser precision. This one stands out for how tragic Peele's Mr. T is.
1. Inside Amy Schumer, "A Very Realistic Military Game"
Sketch shows tend to have moments. Key & Peele and Portlandia had them in their first seasons, and Inside Amy Schumer had one this year. It's that palpable feeling of relevance. "A Very Realistic Military Game" was one of the sketches that broke out, and it's easy to see why. It is an impressive piece of comedy, taking a dark subject and not really letting up, allowing the severity to stay there. Still, it expertly balances tone, making sure there's enough laugh lines and things are presented silly enough that it doesn't feel like a lecture. It is Inside Amy Schumer at its best: unflinching, no holds barred, hilarious.


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Fox's "Skyfall" remained atop the DVD sales chart for the second consecutive week since its release, holding on to the top spot despite last week's DVD release of the Academy Award-winning "Argo."
Last week's No. 2 seller, Disney's "Hotel Transylvania," was knocked out of the top five with new releases such as "Argo," a re-release of Disney's "Monster's Inc. and the second season of HBO hit show "Game of Thrones" soaring to the top of the sales chart, during the week ending Feb. 23.
On the rentals chart, "Taken 2" claimed the top spot in its sixth week since release, edging out Denzel Washingon's "Flight," which was the previous period's most rented DVD, for the week ending Feb 24.
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Quick BioJean-Claude Van Damme was born on October 18, 1960, in Brussels, Belgium. He is best known for starring in action movies, the most successful of which are Bloodsport and Kickboxer. His Belgian background and muscular physique have furnished him the nickname "The Muscles from Brussels."
He began studying martial arts at the age of 10, and at 16, he took up ballet, which he studied for five years. He says that ballet "is an art, but it's also one of the most difficult sports. If you can survive a ballet workout, you can survive a workout in any other sport." He has been married five times and has three kids.
JCVD is out on DVD on February 2nd.
Hi Jean-Claude. How are you?
Jean-Claude Van Damme: I'm fine thanks my friend. What's that beeping noise?
Sorry. It's my recorder.
JVD: You need to tell the people you're on the phone [with] that the interview is being recorded. I'm not recording you by the way. There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.
Let's talk about your new film…
JVD: No. What I really want to talk about is how I really appreciate a company like [film distributors] Revolver that had the guts to buy something different. When people watch my new film, JCVD, they're like, "Wow, what a transformation." But how can you transform something that already exists?
You've been working 20-hour days recently. Are you obsessed with your job?
JVD: No. I'm obsessed with taking time away. But it doesn't really feel like 20 hours. If I stopped filming the movie we're shooting now, I'd feel sick because it's not finished. I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film. But some people here don't get what they're doing, except my editor. He is not hungry for the money -- he's hungry for the title. He is working day and night with me because he loves the job.
Quick FactJean-Claude Van Damme took up the study of Shotokan Karate at the age of 10, and he went on to win the middleweight championship of the European Professional Karate Association.
There is a lot of detail about your life in this movie…
JVD: This movie is all about detail. I don't have the money to make a big production type of film, so I have to go into detail with the cutting. So when you cut a movie, you have the chance to redirect a movie. I'm currently directing a film, but in [the] cutting room you have a chance to reinforce the story by looking at the best facial expression or type of body language. The cutting to me is almost as important as the directing.
Did you feel as though you were revealing a bit too much about yourself in the film?
JVD: When I watched the film, I was really shy. I was literally sweating and thinking to myself, "How was I able to open up that much?" It was like cutting a piece of fruit. I peeled the skin, took out the pulp and even cut the seeds into pieces. Inside the seed was something shiny: something that I call life. My life. It's an emotional movie.
How did you cast this movie?
JVD: My actors aren't known. It's good for my budget, but even if I had a big budget I would use unknown actors because I like to see new people and different faces on set.
Is it true you never liked filming in the U.S. because you were afraid of being sued?
JVD: No. You could have been sued all over the world in those days. Being sued was kind of a funny thing back then.
In America, you can get sued for anything…
JVD: Yeah. I can get sued if I talk back to you. Or, for example, you can sue me because I'm not speaking that much (laughs).
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Midland-Odessa economy nears end of 2011 at new record levels
Perhaps sensing that the 2011 finish line was at hand, the combined Midland-Odessa economy increased the pace of its growth in November, showing stronger-than-expected month-to-month gains from October to November.
Having shown signs of flattening, the Midland-Odessa Regional Economic Index actually surpassed its previous high reached in December 2008 and is 13.6 percent stronger than November 2010. The Texas Permian Basin Petroleum Index also surpassed its previous high reached in September 2008 and is up 13.9 percent from November 2010.
"Both took larger-than-normal monthly leaps from October to November that propelled them past their prior peaks," said Karr Ingham, the Amarillo economist who prepares both indexes for the Midland Development Corp. and Security Bank. The indexes represent the general Midland-Odessa economy and the region's oil and gas economy, and the fact that both are back in record territory is a game-changer, he said.
"It made perfect sense for the indexes to slow down," he said.
But crude oil prices began an increase of $10 to $12 a barrel, and that gave a boost to the area's oil and gas economy, which found its way to the general economy. Ingham put the value of the crude produced in West Texas at $23.47 billion so far this year, up 27 percent from $18.4 billion a year ago. That is cash flow spent by oil and gas operators on everything from payrolls to office rent, automobiles to catering, he said.
The business community -- including builders, support companies and retail -- is strong said Bobby Burns, president and chief executive officer of the Midland Chamber of Commerce. He attributes that to the area's positive business climate.
"In the rest of the nation, we're an aberration and proud of it," he said.
"We all know oil and gas is the heart and soul of the economy and that's unlikely to change," he said.
Burns sees development throughout the city, including residential subdivisions, new office buildings, retail around Loop 250, restaurants and the new Cinergy Cinemas theater and entertainment complex. There are even plans for downtown, he said.
Consumer spending is driving the growth in the Midland-Odessa index, Ingham said. Spending is at record levels with November figures 20 percent above last November and year-to-date numbers 25 percent above the same period of 2010. Spending for 2011 is up about 12 percent compared to the previous peak spending in 2008, he said. The other component of consumer spending -- automotive spending -- remains slightly below the 2008 peak. Ingham said November spending was up 41 percent over November 2010, which was up 58 percent over November 2009 spending.
Construction activity also is strong, he said. Building permit valuations are up 28 percent with housing construction at record levels. There were 807 permits issued so far in 2011, which was the highest number recorded since at least 1995, when data for the index began to be collected.
Like most other metropolitan areas, Midland and Odessa are seeing existing home sales lag behind previous peak levels reached in 2006-07, Ingham said. The cities are bucking state and national trends because housing prices continue to increase, he said. November prices dipped 5 percent compared to last November, but prices year-to-date are up 7.2 percent. "No one in Texas is losing value," Ingham said. "Prices are either flat or there's a modest increase, nothing like the prices and dollar volumes in Midland-Odessa."
Put all those sectors into the mix, he said, and "the aggregate economies of the combined Midland-Odessa metro area is in new record territory and arriving with considerable momentum upward to end 2011 strong and carry that strength into 2012."
Though the national economy appears to have pulled back from the brink of a second recession, Ingham said there still are question marks -- including the economic health of European countries. A strengthening national economy is good for Texas and Midland-Odessa, and the impact of a strengthening economy on energy demand is particularly good for Midland-Odessa, he said.
Burns said he and the rest of the chamber staff anticipate a strong 2012 and, like Ingham, see the economy entering the new year with upward momentum.
"We have a great run ahead of us if we make wise decisions," he said.
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After receiving some great feedback on my Voltron piece - I went for another mural. Stoneforge Mystics have been running rampant lately. Another fairly easy assemble.
Just a few more days until StarCityGame's Open in DC. I'm not able to be there on official capacity, but I'll be painting live and handing out business cards all day Saturday regardless. See you there!


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Dr. John Liu was appointed Associate Vice President for Research and Associate Provost at Auburn University on December 1, 2013. In this position, he provides leadership for research operations in the academy and serves as the liaison between the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Provost Office, and the University's colleges/schools and other units. Dr. Liu joined Auburn faculty in 1995, and became Alumni Professor in 2003. Prior to his current position, Dr. Liu served as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Agriculture and Assistant Director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station for six years. Dr. Liu played various leadership roles at the national level including serving as the Aquaculture Coordinator for the USDA National Animal Genome Project NRSP-8, a member of the Science and Technology Committee for APLU. He has served on numerous scientific advisory panels and as an academic editor for Marine Biotechnology, BMC Genomics, and several other journals.
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I recently returned from IETF 86 and would like to provide a short update on the SDN related activities. While the ONF continues to drive standards around OpenFlow and continues to promote SDN use cases and solutions, the IETF is now becoming more involved in SDN related technologies, protocols and standards.
Here is a link to a previous blog where I talked about some standards activity related to SDN. That blog will also provide some background information on various IETF WGs.
MPLS Working Group's
The various MPLS WG activities focus on many things specific to service provider networks; and interesting enough, there is now becoming a more evident relationship between the various MPLS WGs and the SDN solution space.
For example, in the L2VPN WG there was a discussion of a VXLAN over L2VPN Internet Draft (ID). This would provide layer-2 MPLS connectivity between data center VXLAN or NVGRE logical overlay networks. This is a pretty cool use case and it appears to be a needed solution if VXLAN/NVGRE solutions become more widely deployed in data centers. A somewhat related topic was discussed on how Ethernet VPNs (E-VPNs) could be leveraged to provide a data center overlay solution. In this context, E-VPNs are based on MPLS technologies. While this solution revolves around Network Virtualization Overlays, it was discussed in the L2VPN WG due to it leveraging MPLS technologies. This same Internet Draft was also discussed in the NVO3 WG.
In the L3VPN WG, there were also quite a few IDs that overlap with the NVO3 WG and data center overlay technologies. The general support for MPLS-based solutions for data center overlay architectures appears to be gathering momentum. This is only my personal observation after attending these meetings. But it is interesting to notice that the various MPLS WGs are becoming more involved in data center overlay solutions; often including SDN-like solutions. This makes one wonder where this might be heading ...
Specific to the L3VPN WG, drafts that could be considered related to SDN are VXLAN/NVGRE encapsulation for L3VPNs and the activity around the virtual PE and CE.
While activities in other WGs, such as PCE and ALTO, could also be considered related to the SDN solution space as well, I will discuss those in my SP community blog so please go there for additional details.
The Newer IETF Working Group's
Now on to the more interesting (and controversial?) WG activities! Of all the WG meetings at this IETF, NVO3 was the most heavily attended. It was practically standing-room only.
As you may recall, NVO3 is focused on the data center overlay problem space and architecture. This is not to be confused with DC "underlay" architectures, such as TRILL. Ethernet fabrics, whether based on TRILL or some other protocols, are considered an underlay technology; while an overlay technology is a logical network construct that leverages the many benefits of Ethernet fabrics.
In earlier NVO3 meetings, overlay technologies such as VXLAN and NVGRE were often discussed; while more recently, a lot of the discussions now include MPLS based overlays. This particular meeting was heavily focused on the charter and framework of the NVO3 WG, rather than what an architecture or solution might look like. I believe what happened here is that there were too many solutions being offered as part of this WG; while a clear definition of the charter and the requirements of the problem space weren't fully specified and agreed upon. So, this WG has some re-chartering to accomplish with the intent of having an architectural framework and clear requirements defined by the next IETF in Berlin. Lots of work to do here!
Also discussed in the NVO3 and L3VPN WGs was the need for "inter-subnet routing"; in other words, layer-3 routing between IP subnets and/or between logical network overlays. I kept thinking of Vyatta during these discussions.
Another WG that should also be followed by the SDN community is I2RS. Like NVO3, this WG is fairly new. The primary goal of this WG is to provide a real-time interface into the IP routing system. While some could say this activity is not SDN related, I think it's close enough to warrant a mention here. There is also more on this topic in my SP community blog.
I'll close this blog out with an update on the SDNRG. Brocade's SP CTO, Dave Meyer, kicked off the meeting with a high-level architectural discussion of what SDN is really all about. This thought provoking talk is aimed at helping to "bound" the SDN problem space. SDN means many different things to many different people, so this talk is intended to get the audience on the same page.
A presentation was made on a Software Defined Internet Exchange (SDX) proof of concept. It uses a Brocade switch as the cross-connect fabric! The idea behind a SDX is to use a controller to peer (ie. BGP) in the control plane, and use OpenFlow to instantiate the connectivity (ie. flows) in the SDX data plane. What a cool use case! This reminds me of the early days of MPLS (circa 2000'ish), when an MPLS-based Internet Exchange switch was being talked about and a similar proof of concept was tested. Although that concept did not take hold (all Internet Exchange Points or IXPs are Ethernet based), it helped promote and eventually validate MPLS as a deployable networking technology. Could this SDX proof of concept hold the same premonition for OpenFlow? Here is the diagram from the presentation.
A very interesting talk was given on Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). This work is not coming out of the SDNRG, but a fairly new organization called the Industry Specifications Group (ISG) is focusing on NFV. The ISG members are all large service provider carriers. This particular talk was about virtualizing Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS) and Content Distribution Network (CDN) functions onto an x86 platform. It was basically an "acid test" to validate this can be done and the performance was shown to be pretty good! It didn't have all the features and functions typically found in a BRAS, but it had enough functionality to validate the network functions virtualization capability.
A mention of the FORCES WG is worth bringing up as it relates to SDN and more importantly, OpenFlow. A presentation was made explaining how some of the problems the OpenFlow movement are experiencing and working to solve have already been solved in various FORCES activities and implementations. So it was recommended that those folks who are developing OpenFlow solutions leverage the work and experience from the FORCES community.
So, that wraps up this short update on IETF 86 activities that are related to the SDN solution space. I hope you found it useful. And don't forget that the ONS event is coming in April!
Onward to the SDN-enabled cloud …
Thanks for the summary. Curious what Meyer was getting at when talking about OF multi-table pipeline being too complex, not implementable in HW, no architecture etc. He was hinting at I2RS overlays. Would like to hear more details on thoughts on either working to solve, what sounded as OF being a failed abstraction. I2RS is pretty narrow comparatively to OF, few of us would like to hear more of Brocade's OF thoughts since Vyatta obviously leans towards a fully distributed CP.
Thanks for your comments. I can't speak for Dave but part of his talk was about the concept of "failing quicker"; which is orthogonal to OF. Regarding OF though, did you read Curt's blog (just prior to this one)? I think the industry is coming around to the concept of OF possibly being "too low level". Please stay tuned as Brocade will have some interesting things to say in the very near future regarding Vyatta and its ties to SDN.
Hey Brent,
There is a long history of the problems of mapping OF 1.1+ (so any of the multi-table variants) to conventional ASIC h/w. The basic problem is that the Match-Action-Table (MAT) model frequently doesn't match what an ASIC has implemented. For example, a typical network ASIC (contrast NPU, flow processor, these are really software) generally has purpose built hardware for MAT (frequently an "ACL TCAM"), L2 CAMs, Longest Prefix Match hardware for L3 fowarding and uRPF processing, etc. These tables are generally connected in predetermined combinations.
In addition, the current OF abstractions are what we call "lossy" (since they lose information in one direction or another). For example, currently the controller has only limited ability to tell an OF switch that say, a packet is an L3 packet; that information is "lost" in the communication from controller to switch. Going the other direction (switch -> controller), the abstraction is "leaky". That is, in order to use ASIC h/w the switch platform has to "leak" information about the switch (h/w) implementation to the controller if it wants to use the ASIC h/w (and it will have to do it in a non-standard way). For example, consider MAC learning and MAC forwarding. These are typically implemented in a single table with learning using <src port, src MAC> for lookups and forwarding using <dst port, dst MAC> for lookups. Now the question becomes how to represent this in OF. Well, that is pretty difficult if not impossible because OF has currently has no concept of shared tables (to be fair, there is a proposal in the Extensibility WG to address this, sort of). In any event, in order to use the ASIC the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) on the switch would have to receive the flow_mods for the various tables and somehow decompile the intent of the controller writer, which suffice it to say isn't possible. So the controller writer generally sits down with the manual for the ASIC and builds platform specific code (i.e., a "driver") into the controller. This of course is undesirable for many reasons. Another shared table example would be LPM and uRPF processing (they frequently use the same table).
A year+ ago the Google folks came along with a pretty elegant and functional proposal for what they called OpenFlow 2.0. There were many reasons why this proposal wasn't accepted but to solve these problems you have to move in that direction. The ONF's FAWG is chartered to make a small step in this direction (in particular, by adding table typing; this is what TTPs (table typing patterns) are all about). However, if you step back and look at this what you observe is that it is converging towards something that looks very much like ForCES over in the IETF.
So the switch model in which you have some number (< (2^8)-1) of undifferentiated tables connected in arbitrary ways is hard to map to today's ASIC h/w (note that there is a goto instruction that allows jumping around in the tables as long as the table index is monotonically increasing, but this also happens at run-time which makes the HAL's job pretty tough). I mentioned that the number of paths through such a design is O(n!), which is not a term you want to see come up in your analysis of the complexity of the model. There are ways to constrain the number of paths and in fact TTPs are an attempt to further constrain the number of possibilities.
Regarding I2RS, the idea here is to make the existing control plane more programmable *and* provide better feedback to applications. In this case you use the RIB as an arbitration engine to get around the problems that exist when you have integrated (non-Ships-In-The-Night) control planes. There is a lot of work left to do on I2RS (and BGP-LS, ALTO, ...) however these approaches show a different promise, notably, that of bringing increased programmability and visibility to the {control, data} plane in an incremental fashion.
Finally, none of this is to say that OpenFlow won't find a place in networking (as we've seen). And one of the really fantastic things about the OF/SDN movement has been all the wide-open thinking about new ways of doing things and of new applications. I only see that as continuing and picking up momentum. That said, there is still work to be done.
Hope this helps. Let me know if I can expand on any of this or if there are other questions you may have.
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General News of Sunday, 31 August 2003
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Accra, Aug. 31, GNA - Mrs Gladys Asmah, Minister of Women and Children's Affairs on Sunday advised children to be careful of what they watched on television and the music they listen to since that could seriously affect their upbringing and development. She bemoaned the types of music, mostly on sex and love, played by radio and television stations saying that children were picking the wrong lessons from them.
Mrs Asmah was speaking at a thanksgiving service to round off this year's National Children's Day Celebrations organised by her Ministry in collaboration with the Kristo Asafo Church at the Efua Sutherland Park in Accra.
The National Children's Day is an important event on government's calendar that offers an opportunity to reflect and take stock of policy and programmes to improve the circumstances of children. About 1200 children from the Kristo Asafo Church and about five schools in Accra attended the service to which the Winneba Youth Choir provided music to entertain the gathering.
Mrs Asmah said her Ministry had planned a meeting with the Musicians Union of Ghana to find ways of shaping their lyrics to enable the children to learn good things from them. She said, some of the programmes the television stations showed lived much to be desired, adding that the children had a responsibility to determine what was good for them by switching off their Television sets when programmes meant for adults were being shown. "Another area of great concern to me is the type of dresses the youth of today wear that exposes greater parts of their body than they cover, " adding, "for instance when you take the trouble to inform the one that her bottom is showing, she will tell you she is aware." She said, "Life is what you make it, "adding that parents, teachers and the society at large must help to train the children in a respectful and God fearing manner so that when they grew up they would not depart from it.
Mrs. Asmah said the society must reflect on innovative ways to overcome issues bedevilling the development of children, including indiscipline and creeping immorality, lack of facilities and opportunities for education, health challenges, including HIV/AIDS, weakening parental support systems and violence and abuse of children. She said media reports indicated increasing incidence of rape and defilement, child trafficking and prostitution, among other things, adding that the churches and mosques must redouble their efforts to discourage perpetrators of these crimes against the future leaders. The Minister said the sceptre of streetism threatened the future and development of children, adding that poverty was the basic factor responsible for this.
She noted that government had already created a very open and enabling policy environment to curb this and to enhance child development and welfare through the Women's Development Fund. Under this, 36 billion cedis have been provided for over 72,000 women in farming, fish mongering food evacuation and processing and petty trading to empower them to look after their children. Master Michael Asare Botwe, a student from Sarfo Training Institute who preached the sermon encouraged his peers to desist from engaging immoral acts, respect authority and study hard to achieve their dreams. Mrs Gloria Akowuah, Women's Secretary of the Agricultural Development Bank, who chaired the function said parents had a responsibility to help their children to develop their talents and ensure that they were given proper care.


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Another restrictive surgical weight loss procedure, the Vertical Gastrectomy procedure (also called Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy, Sleeve Gastrectomy, Greater Curvature Gastrectomy, Parietal Gastrectomy, Gastric Reduction and even Vertical Gastroplasty) is performed by approximately 15 surgeons worldwide. It was originally conceived of by Dr. Johnston in England as an open procedure, and has been further refined laparoscopically. It is now utilized in the United States, Germany and Belgium. It generates weight loss by restricting the amount of food (and therefore calories) that can be eaten by removing 85% or more of the stomach without bypassing the intestines or causing any gastrointestinal malabsorption. This surgery creates a small, thin, tube-like stomach approximately 2 ounces in size, usually smaller than the stomach pouch that Duodenal Switch patients have (see Laparoscopic Duodenal Switch).
The Vertical Gastrectomy is a significant improvement over older gastroplasty ("stomach stapling") procedures for a number of reasons:
- Rather than creating a pouch with silastic rings or polypropylene mesh (plastic devices), the Vertical Gastrectomy actually resects or removes the majority of the stomach. The portion of the stomach that is removed is responsible for secreting Ghrelin, which is a hormone that is responsible for appetite and hunger. By removing this portion of the stomach rather than leaving it in-place, the level of Ghrelin is reduced to near zero, actually causing you to lose your appetite.
- The removed section of the stomach is actually the portion that "stretches" the most, thereby drastically reducing the holding capacity once it has been removed. Not only is your appetite reduced, but very small amounts of food make you feel extremely full.
- Finally, by not having to place plastic rings or mesh around your stomach to create a new pouch, the problems that are associated with these items are eliminated (infection, obstruction, erosion, and the need for synthetic materials). This procedure significantly restricts the volume of the food that can be consumed. It is recommended for higher risk patients, patients 50 years old or older, or patients with a BMI of 50 or above. It has been developed to minimize postoperative complications and risks. Since there is no malabsorption or rearrangement of the intestinal tract, vitamin deficiencies or nutritional problems are minimal.
The Vertical Gastrectomy is routinely performed laparoscopically, even in patients weighing as much as 660 pounds. The procedure generally takes about 60-90 minutes to perform and the hospital stay is 1-2 days. Patients must consume liquids only for 2 weeks after surgery, but by 4-6 weeks after the operation, patients should be able to eat regular healthy foods with little difficulty.
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A simple, honest solution to the affirmative-action puzzle.
The debate about affirmative action is usually cast as a fight between conservatives who wish to abolish the policy and liberals who want to keep it. That is a misunderstanding. The argument is actually between conservatives who want to remodel affirmative action and liberals who want to conceal it.
Even those conservatives deemed the most extreme on issues of race, like Charles Murray and Dinesh D'Souza, do not favor doing away with affirmative action. Rather, they propose to base it on the principle of economic disadvantage. This, they contend, would bring similar results in terms of diversity, without the evident unfairness. Critics also sometimes argue that race-based affirmative action would be fine if it were limited to efforts at "recruitment" and "training." They generally agree that affirmative action is acceptable as a "remedy" for specific acts of past discrimination. Many who think that affirmative action shouldn't be required by law favor it as a voluntary policy. And, of course, most opponents of affirmative action practice it themselves. Black opponents of affirmative action, for example, are heavily favored over whites with similar views in getting promoted by the conservative propaganda machine.
If group preferences are wrong in principle, as these opponents maintain, none of their exceptions makes much sense. Consider the "remedy for past discrimination" dodge. Say you're a highly qualified white man denied a job by the Birmingham Fire Department. Are you supposed to feel better if you got turned down because the department once discriminated against blacks? You yourself never practiced discrimination. The class-not-race alternative is even less of an improvement. It actually heightens the injustice of affirmative action by punishing some people for a historical wrong that they not only didn't participate in, but that also never occurred. America is as famous for economic opportunity and class mobility as it is for its legacy of racial oppression. Class-based affirmative action trades in a vexed solution to a real problem for an even more vexed solution to an illusory problem.
Liberals, on the other hand, spend less time defending affirmative action than they do trying to make it innocuous and invisible. The Clinton administration clings to the evasion enshrined by Justice Lewis Powell in the Bakke case: "Rigid" numerical quotas are unfair and discriminatory, while "flexible" goals are not. Race should be a factor, but it must not be the factor. What's the real difference? In either case, members of a protected group win jobs, promotions, and educational slots that would otherwise go to better-qualified white men. This is colorblindness of a sort: No one can identify specific victims or beneficiaries of "factor"-style affirmative action, even though both would exist as surely as they do under a policy of explicit quotas.
Other liberals propose more euphemism as a solution. In a recent issue of the New York Review of Books, George Fredrickson recommends that supporters of affirmative action avoid the words "racial preferences" and "reverse discrimination" in favor of the term "equality of opportunity." This is like Gerald Ford's attempt to fight inflation by banning it from his vocabulary.
Clinton says he wants to "mend" affirmative action. Opponents, it turns out, say the same thing. So, behind the vicious argument is actually something like shared understanding that affirmative action is a toxic medicine, sometimes necessary, that we've been using too freely. The dosage needs to be scaled back. But how? Here's my proposal.
Any kind of affirmative action means preferring some people over others for reasons having nothing to do with their intrinsic merit--however merit is measured. That is not something that the state, or any private institution, should take on lightly. But it remains justified in one case--that of African-Americans. The wrong done to slaves and their descendents is unique in American history. Slavery, racism, and segregation have left a black social deficit that is damaging, not just to blacks but also to American society as a whole. Were this problem evaporating on its own, affirmative action would not be necessary. The condition of blacks is improving, but there is strong evidence--see, for example, Orlando Patterson's new book The Ordeal of Integration--that affirmative action has played an essential role in fostering both integration and the growth of the black middle class. If affirmative action needs to be reformed, the way to fix it is to narrow it, to cover blacks only.
This was the original idea of affirmative action. John F. Kennedy's 1961 executive order, which first created preferences in federal contracting, applied only to blacks. So did Lyndon B. Johnson's better-known 1965 order. The justification was spelled out in Johnson's Howard University speech of that year, written by one Daniel Patrick Moynihan. "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains, and liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair," Johnson said. In later years, however, the concept was stretched to cover other minorities and women, who were less hobbled at the starting line. The greatest expansion was under Richard Nixon, who, it has been suggested, saw affirmative action as a Trojan horse to slaughter Democrats. Yet Democrats continued to push to qualify new groups for government set-aside contracts and other forms of preference.
E xpansion of affirmative action was an instinctual response of liberalism, and not in the crude talk-radio sense that "liberals love big government." The New Deal political model for social programs was to include the semideserving and undeserving along with the truly deserving. A broad base of beneficiaries meant a broad base of political support. Clinton has responded to opposition to affirmative action in exactly this way. His "mend it, don't end it" speech of July 1995 emphasized that affirmative action helped women--half the voting population. He even listed "gender" before "race" in defining the policy. Though this approach didn't stop Proposition 209 in California, it has become policy. The administration's explicit strategy for saving affirmative action is to rally women in its defense. Thus new Small Business Administration regulations intended to make it easier for white women to compete for loans.
There is, to be sure, a long history of discrimination against women, Hispanics, Chinese, and so on. But the mistreatment of all groups other than blacks was far less severe, and it has proven far more amenable to cure without radical intervention. Hispanics, Asians, even African and Caribbean blacks, are by and large following the classic patterns of immigrant and ethnic assimilation. For various reasons, blacks are not.
In their abstract mode, conservatives argue that any group bias is unfair. Why should whites who did not themselves discriminate against blacks be punished for what their or someone else's ancestors did? The answer is that it shouldn't be thought of as punishment. Whites who never practiced discrimination are nonetheless beneficiaries of it.
As a thought-experiment, consider what it might mean to a white victim of reverse discrimination if blacks had always been equal. Imagine a law school class with 100 places. Under affirmative action, a white applicant who ranks 99th might well be denied admission while a black who ranks 105th would get in. But where would those two applicants have ranked if blacks had not been enslaved and discriminated against? Under the overmechanical assumptions of affirmative-action opponents themselves (and putting aside the racial IQ theories of Murray and some others), blacks would move up the list, and whites would move down.
Blacks are 12 percent of the population. That doesn't necessarily mean that in a world with no racial discrimination, present or past, 12 of the top 100 candidates would be black. But the number would be closer to 12 than to the likely two or three in today's world. And in that case, the white candidate at 99th place today wouldn't get in anyway.
In other words, if our goal is to replicate a colorblind world, a world with some forms of racial affirmative action comes closer than a world without it.


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The Ghosts of Belfast. Stuart Neville. Soho Crime. $25. 326 pp.
Ireland's "troubles" – a rather bland term to describe that country's generations of internal war – have provided the background for countless novels.
In his stunning debut, Stuart Neville delivers an inspired, gritty view of how violence's aftermath lasts for years and the toll it takes on each person involved. The Ghosts of Belfast also insightfully delves into Irish politics, the uneasy truce in Northern Ireland, redemption, guilt and responsibility.
Gerry Fegan is both the hero and villain of his own story. A former IRA hit man, he spent a dozen years in prison for some of the 12 murders he committed for the cause. "He was a foot solider, and one of their best, or worst, depending on your point of view. A killer, plain and simple." In the past, Gerry had believed being an assassin was "Just a job to be done with no care or feeling behind it. … It only took a certain hardness of the soul, a casual brutality."
But since he has been out of prison, Gerry has grown a conscience. He sees the ghosts of the 12 people he killed; wherever he goes those dozen souls trail him. He is especially remorseful about the innocent bystanders he killed, including a shop owner and a mother and her infant.
Gerry's reputation still gives him a certain power in the community. But many in the militant IRA underworld – most of whom have reinvented themselves as respectable businessmen and politicians -- consider him an outcast, a foolish drunk, prone to talking to himself for hours in pubs. But Gerry believes that the only way he can make amends to these Ghosts of Belfast is to kill each man who gave him the orders.
As Gerry begins his reign of terror, he is drawn to Marie McKenna, the niece of one of the men he had killed. Marie has been shunned by her community because she has a 5-year-old daughter with a British soldier.


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This year's Inc. 5000 was the most competitive in recent years. Since the beginning of 2010, the median company represented in the Inc. 5000 increased sales more than 140%, while the average honoree grew 468%. This makes the distinction of being recognized on the 2013 list even more significant. Gorilla Group was able to maintain their stellar rate of growth by continuing to deliver high-performing ecommerce solutions to their B2B and direct-to-consumer clients, as well as adding a range of new, related services, including site technical code audits and dedicated cloud hosting.
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by John Zinkand
Torch Passing and Crown Battling
With the demise of Phish there has been a lot of talk lately about the passing of the jamband torch. When the Grateful Dead stopped playing in1995 due to the passing of Jerry, Phish had already built up huge momentum and was the heir apparent to the Grateful Dead. They already had a strong following, a well-loved canon of tunes, and even a mythology that connected some of their songs together as a story. They had already been playing the sheds in the summer up and down the east coast, so it was no surprise that they were "the next big thing" in the jamband scene, which was a fairly small scene at the time. If there was any doubt that Phish was seen as the new bearers of this allegorical jamband torch, when the Pranksters graced the stage with the band in Darien Lake in 1997, many folks were convinced.
Recently there has been talk of jambands fighting for ascendancy in our scene. This metaphor seems very inaccurate to me while passing of the torch is much more fitting. Our scene is known as brotherly, non-competitive, and non-materialistic. We live in the now and for the moment just like the improvisational music we love. With that being the case, how does one band fight against another one? Battles involve careful planning, not carefree improvisation. More often than fighting, I see bands in our scene helping out other bands, playing with other bands, and being friends with people in other bands.
After the Grateful Dead's demise, Trey and Page sat in as some of Phil's Phriends at one of the first Phil and Friends shows. This, along with the Pranksters gracing the Phish stage in Darien Lake, could be seen as a passing of the torch. Obviously the Grateful Dead were the founders and godfathers of the scene. By having Phish members sit in with his band, Phil gave the nod to Phish as a group he endorsed. Not that Phish necessarily needed a boost, but it did help them grow larger and become more accepted in some older jam circles.
Fast forward to today's jamband scene and there's really no band currently that is playing the summer sheds and has as big a following as Phish did when the Grateful Dead stopped playing. There's moe., String Cheese, and the currently on hiatus Widespread Panic, but these bands seem to have hit plateaus. Phish has been off the road since the summer, but none of these bands have started playing arenas. No one knows for sure, but it is quite possible that no one band will make it to the top and play the arenas on a regular basis while donning the crown as king of the jambands. The scene has diversified so much from back in the mid-nineties. Now there are many differences in styles, genres, and flavors of jam music, that there may not be just one big band in the scene.
But of course the possibility is there for one of the younger bands to usurp the current big three. Recently there has been a lot of talk about Umphrey's McGee struggling and fighting for the crown. They are a great band with serious chops, but there sound does have a side to it that is dark and heavy and may not have the mass appeal needed for them to draw arena-sized crowds. But again, the metaphor of fighting seems so inaccurate. For instance, they let moe. play during their set break at Bonnaroo. If they were really fighting against moe. for the title of grand poo-bahs of the jam scene, why would they let them band play during this high-profile and important show? Moe. let Umphrey's play with them in Vegas and Umphrey's was simply returning the favor. This type of behavior is very typical of the jamband scene, not cutthroat competition and back stabbing in a vehement struggle for the top. Even when Phish was still a band, Trey sat in with Widespread Panic in Seattle. There's a marked lack of competitiveness in the scene. Bands just like to play with other bands as it opens them up to other styles of playing and different players.
The Grateful Dead's influence is probably still the strongest as far as torch passing. Lately Phil seems to have split the torch up into little packets of fire and is handing them out to as many of the up-and-coming bands in the scene as possible. First he played with Trey and Page, and then he added Jimmy Herring as a long-standing partner to almost all of his projects. He also played with Vinyl in 1997 when they were still a very young and virtually unknown band on the scene. Maybe Phil is feeling older and is feeling a more urgent need to make sure the jam music legacy continues long after the demise of all the original members of the Grateful Dead. The three shows he played at the Warfield before Christmas had a strong theme of life, death, the after-life, and rebirth. And he chose a handful of new players including Steve Molitz from Particle on keys. Not to mention his recent sit in with Umphrey's at the Great American Music Hall and the fact that they are slated to open his Mardi Gras show in February.
So who knows? Maybe Umphrey's McGee will be the next big band in the scene, attracting thousands of partyin' peeps to arenas. Maybe their minions will mill about and sell wares on Shakedown Street outside the venue. Or perhaps there will just be several theater level bands playing all over the country. Or it could be that a smaller more obscure band will step up and hit that nerve that resonates with many people. However things work out, jambands will be helping out one another and spreading music. They will be jamming out with one another and sitting in with one another. There will be very limited bickering, bantering, or bru-ha-ha-has. And if one band rises like cream to the top, it will be a natural and organic process, like most things in the jamband scene. Torches will blaze and torches will smolder, but torches will also be passed along as time marches on. Let me stand next to the fire.


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