This week… I am in Las Vegas at BEC and I will have my
review and wrap up on the event on my post next week. With more than 500 people in attendance I
truly expect some very interesting conversations and great insight into our
world and as always I look forward to sharing some of my experiences here with
you.
-- One person who is usually at BEC and won’t be here will be
George Sultage of Vitro. As I wrote a
few weeks back, George is battling a health issue and can still surely use all
positive thoughts and prayers. We will
miss you at the conference George and hang in there!
-- Economy wise it has been a pretty volatile since my last
post. The stock market had some terrible
days and some less than cherry forecasts came out. The possibilities of tariffs were openly
discussed by the US and that was not accepted well by many. In the meantime I point to a post from ITR Economics
(you may remember them from having a yearly speaker at the Glazing Executives
Forum) noting that 5 leading economic indicators are now trending lower and
this came out before the stock market saw its declines. Add in some fears with
regards to the homebuilders and the residential forecasts and quite frankly it
was a skittish week. Hopefully this week
will be better, but is surely now more important to keep an eye on all of the
metrics out there.
-- My good friend Marc Deschamps of Walker Glass announced his
retirement and that is going to be a huge knowledge and personality loss to our
industry. Marc is a wonderful man who
was extremely dedicated to his company and industry. A tremendous volunteer, the amount of time he
gave up to help push industry topics forward was amazing. His departure will leave a hole in a lot of
efforts that is for sure. Personally, I am really going to miss seeing him and
his awesome suits and style at the various glass industry events. Best of luck and fortune to you Marc and
ENJOY retirement my friend…. You earned it!
-- Recently I wrote on licensing and certification and I got a
few questions on the process and the organization. A very good overview handout is here.
-- Also this week a pal of mine called to ask me about the
Silica Rule via OSHA. It is real folks
and as frustrating as can be. Glass
Magazine has written some excellent pieces about it and in case you missed it
you can click here and here.
-- Last this week…. I have one kid in college and one about to
go in the fall. So I had to laugh when I
was told about a major being offered at Northern Michigan University. It is in Marijuana. Yup.
But it’s not as easy as it sounds… interesting story and will be fascinatingto see how this takes off.
LINKS of the WEEK
I love it when justice works out!
Bizarre and brilliant!
More bizarre stuff and frightening
VIDEO of the WEEK
This is crazy cool.
It is a mash-up of the 2 amazingly different songs into one and it works
incredibly well. I am a fan of both
songs; so hearing it this way blew me away…
good creative stuff.
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