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Many of you who are reading this article are using Windows as most of the other internet users do. There is a huge difference between the number of users of LINUX and Windows. Some say Windows is much better than LINUX because it gives you an easy handling of the hardware and software. Some say LINUX is much better because it started as Open Source software and thats why it is much more flexible than Windows. Then why there is a huge market difference between these operating systems?
The answer to this question is quite easy. Since 1985, computer users and programmers became so accustomed to using Windows, even for the changing capabilities and the appearances of the graphical interface of the versions, therefore it always stayed as the product of Microsoft. On the other hand, LINUX has so many different versions from a variety of companies some of which are namely Lycoris, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Knoppix, Slackware, Lindows. These companies release their own versions of the operating systems with slight changes, and yet always with the same kernel. This variety and the fact that none of these companies are even close to competing with Windows, mostly causes the difference in the market. Nevertheless, this reality might drastically change after Novells purchase of SuSE.
Linux and Windows differ in many aspects. First of all, the Linux GUI is optional while the Windows GUI is an integral component of the OS; speed, efficiency and reliability are all increased by running a server instance of Linux without a GUI, something that server versions of Windows can not do. The detached nature of the Linux GUI makes remote control and remote administration of a Linux computer simpler and more natural than a Windows computer.
Secondly the command prompts of these operating systems are quite different. In general, the command interpreters in the Windows 9x series are very similar to each other and the NT class versions of Windows (NT, 2000, XP) also have similar command interpreters. There are, however differences between a Windows 9x command interpreter and one in an NT class flavor of Windows. Linux, like all versions of UNIX, supports multiple command interpreters, but it usually uses one called BASH (Bourne Again Shell). Others are the Korn shell, the Bourne shell, ash and the C shell (pun, no doubt, intended).
The costs are amazingly different. While you have to pay some hundred dollars for a new version of Windows, you can simply go and download Linux. As it comes from the nature of Linux, there are no manuals or simple installers for the free version, however. You really have to know what you are doing while using this free package. There are also some easy automated packages of Linux for low prices, as well.
The security issues with Windows, as most of you already know, are the biggest cons of Microsoft. Most of the malicious files, spyware, adware programs deal with Windows. You generally do not deal with these kinds of unwanted circumstances unless you are working with Windows. The userid and password protection for Windows can also be easily bypassed, whereas Linux offers a strong protection.
The only area that Windows beats Linux in this competition is the software availability. As it was mentioned above, most of the software releases are configured for Windows. If you are using Linux, you have to emulate Windows with a special software and then you can use your windows based programs. Another option can be to install Windows as a subsystem to Linux which takes all administrative abilities of Windows and gives them to Linux.
After mentioning some of the different aspects of these operating systems, it can be said that all Linux needs to compete with Windows is some user friendly interface and a strong company support which can provide the users with technical information and user manuals.


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End of my working life and a look back
Looking back I felt satisfied that I have done myself well in the sense that I have had a blemish less career in the thirty five years of my service in the Bank and except for the harrowing time I had due to the transfers the Bank had been kind to me. Starting from a low salary of about Rs.90 in the Fifties as a clerk I climbed up to be a senior officer with a handsome pay check at the time of retirement. The Bank gave me an opportunity to work in different parts of the State and I was able to get to know a wide spectrum of people of different languages and culture. In the early years I involved myself in a variety of activities in the Bank especially in promoting a club and sports culture among the staff in almost all the branches I worked. My greatest achievement was in founding an outstanding cricket team. It might look simple as cricket clubs are formed dime a dozen in every city and institutions. There are many private clubs run by wealthy individuals who pour money without limit for the youngsters to play and make a mark. Most of their ambitions stop at playing at club and State level after which they have to find a means of living which effectively puts an end to their playing careers. Or if they are born rich they can sustain themselves and continue their careers for a little longer. But what I did was something unique. I assembled a few young men of outstanding ability but who were not able to find a decent job and earn their living. After getting a clearance from the Bank Management I used my knowledge of the capability of the youngsters having watched them on the cricket fields of Bangalore for many years I picked a few of them for my team and got them appointed in the Bank. Now appointing anyone in the Bank was not easy as a whole lot of procedure was involved including written tests and interviews. But I used my clout with the Management and my own sustained efforts which included preparing a report on each player about his educational qualifications and cricketing ability supported by details of his having represented his University and playing in the State Junior and Senior level in the National Championships with appropriate newspaper cuttings . The usual rigmarole of tests and interviews was done away with in the case of the cricketers' appointments as these came under the sports category. This was a regular practice in the cities where the Banks' head offices were located but the fact that Bangalore was the first city where such facility was extended was a feather on my cap. Thus I was able to recruit six players initially to fill up the different slots and asked a number of youngsters already in the Bank who had some experience of playing cricket in their colleges and a team was formed. It would not be an exaggeration to say that I worked day in and day out to form a good side that could challenge any team in the city. How the team that I formed swept everything in its way and became champions is even today talked about in the Banking and cricketing circles. I managed the team so well that the players responded to me with their full heart and rewarded me with victories after victories.
Unlike many colleagues of mine I did not think of getting promoted in the Bank's cadre as it was low on my priority. With the basic educational qualification that I had the Bank would certainly not consider me for any higher executive level promotions. I was also not too keen to get through the Bank's own CAIIB exams which the Bank considered as the prime qualification required at the relevant time. After I was promoted to the second level (MMG 1) I was called a few times for the interview for the next stage of promotions but I was not prepared for any more promotions especially with only a few more years of service left. Thus I was quite happy with whatever opportunities I got to do whatever I could to the Bank which gave me an identity. Over a period of thirty and odd years my priorities in life had changed. When I started I had big ambitions to make it good in politics or journalism. As years rolled by I found neither had made any deep impression in my mental make up to go far. While I confined my interest in politics to merely following the course of events taking place at the national and international levels and commenting about them in my newspaper articles, I did not feel inclined to pursue an active career in journalism apart from writing occasional articles in the Press. Neither was I too much attracted to a career in politics at any stage of my professional life. At times I felt that my life looked as if it had been wasted for want of chances. My sister Lakshmi, a great fan of me as a writer as also her husband Rama Athan (he was a son of my Athai, my father's own sister) were never tire of saying, I was destined for greater things in life but lacked opportunities to reach greater heights,like say a M.P. or a Cabinet Minister, no less. I am glad I did not suffer any such hallucinations or delusions of grandeur and do feel that my life has not entirely been devoid of achievements though not on a grand scale as one would have it. Adieu.

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I have written about my personal experience with medical marijuana in order to share my thoughts on it in the past on this blog. What I have yet to share are more resources and facts about medical cannabis/marijuana that some people may not know. I am going to take a more serious tone in this one because I believe this is an extremely important topic in our nation right now. The more we learn and teach ourselves about medical cannabis the faster this shroud of mystery can be lifted in our communities and the faster people who need this can be helped. Education is power.
I wanted to provide resources for you all to see, regardless of your state, something easy to reference and maybe give you a good start.
1.Start by looking at your local and state laws to see if it has been legalized.
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Whether you have easy access, a medical card, or wish to pursue a medical card, ask experts who work at cannabis dispensary facilities. They are like a pharmacist who specializes only in the healing power of cannabis. Their knowledge and recommendations will surprise you, throw that stereotype you have in your head out the window.
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Beating Galloway
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On Friday 29 August the British parliamentarian Adam West, Conservative MP for South Benfield, was viciously attacked by a Muslim fanatic while posing for a photograph on a London street. Horrified onlookers watched helplessly as the MP was punched in the head and knocked to the ground during a three-minute assault in which his assailant rained kicks and blows down on him, shouting 'this is for Iraq and Gaza' and calling him 'Netanyahu.'
The 61-year-old Mr West suffered a cracked rib and a broken jaw and his face was badly bruised. Mr West is well-known for his outspoken support of Israel and his fervent and provocative advocacy of British military interventions. His attacker, who was arrested shortly afterwards, is reported to be a second-generation immigrant of Arab origin, and had previously expressed a desire on Twitter to 'cut West's throat.'
Leaders of all three parties have united to condemn the attack. Labour leader Ed Miliband called it an 'assault on democracy and free speech'. Prime Minister David Cameron, who visited Mr West in hospital, condemned what he called a 'cowardly' and 'vicious' attack against 'all of us', and promised that there would be a robust response to the 'radical and violent fanatics in our midst who do not share our common values.'
Hundreds of MPs have sent messages of support and sympathy to Mr West, including some of the maverick parliamentarian's bitterest critics. ' An assault like this is an assault on all of us, regardless of our differences, ' declared Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, while former Education Secretary Michael Gove has called upon Muslim community leaders to condemn the attack and reject what he called the 'extremist cancer' in their midst.
OK, I'll stop now. Because all of you know that neither Adam West nor South Benfield exist, that the MP who was attacked on the 29th was George Galloway, MP for Bradford West, and that his attacker was a 'Jewish carer' named Neil Masterson. And because his attacker was white and a Zionist, and because his victim was George Galloway, his actions elicited a very different response to my counterfactual.
Here is Ben Cohen, an analyst for JNS (Jewish and Israel News).org, in a 'reflection' on the Galloway assault:
I will readily admit that, like many Jews, my reaction to the news was one of unbridled joy, tempered by the guilty realization that, in a democracy, violence is rightly frowned upon as a means of dealing with one's political opponents. However distasteful someone's views—and Galloway's views are, without question, highly distasteful—there are legal and constitutional channels available to challenge them.
Well thank you so much for pointing that out Mr Cohen. We Brits will always be grateful in the future for your insight, wisdom, and your commitment to democracy – not to mention your touching honesty in sharing your 'unbridled joy' with us at the fact that an MP was savagely assaulted on a London street.
Still, Cohen's 'reflection' is positively nuanced in comparison with this response from the Jewish Press blog:
Galloway has been released from the hospital, but it is doubtful that the attacker was able to beat some sense into his head. The MP, who has built his political career on loving Saddam Hussein and Hamas and hating Jews and Israel, was posing for pictures in west London Friday night when the attacker jumped on him while calling him "Hitler."
The name of his one-MP party is Respect, which indicates his ignorance of the English language. The party's name is a very contrived acronym for Respect, Equality, Socialism, Peace, Environmentalism, Community and Trade Unionism. A more accurate acronym would be "Racist, Extremist, Satanic, Pisher, Ethnic=hatingt, Crude and Twisted.
We wish Galloway a speedy recovery and hope that some of the medicine he needs is made in Israel.
Noble words, that positively sizzle with humanity and intelligence, and there is a lot worse than this out there, where the notion that 'Galloway had it coming' has been oozing out of numerous crevices in the Internet. Much of it comes from Israeli or Zionist websites; just read some of the comments underneath the above-mentioned pieces if you want to get the flavour.
No one will be entirely surprised by such a response from these circles. But what of the British political class? Surely one might expect to see some expression of outrage and condemnation from Galloway's fellow-MPs? After all, on the same day that Galloway was attacked, David Cameron condemned Yes-campaigners in Scotland for throwing eggs at Labour MP Jim Murphy, saying ' 'People shouldn't throw eggs at somebody, full stop.'
Eggs, it seems, are clearly worse than kicks and fists, at least when George Galloway is on the receiving end of the latter. And so, more than a week after the attack, Cameron has said nothing about it. In fact, so far, only one MP out of 650 members of parliament has publicly condemned it – and it won't come as any surprise to know that that MP was Caroline Lucas, who tweeted ' Attack on 'Georgegalloway was cowardly & shocking – wishing him a speedy recovery.'
From the other 649, there has only been a pathetic, shameful silence. And we should be clear why this is. Personally, there are things that I don't like about George Galloway, such as his 2012 comments about rape, but what you or I think about him is irrelevant in this case. There are many politicians I don't like, and some that I positively detest, but that doesn't mean I want to see them beaten to pulp in the street.
Many of the politicians who have remained silent about the Galloway attack worshipped and continued to worship Tony Blair, the man who launched a criminal and reckless war in Iraq that killed people in their hundreds of thousands and wrecked Iraqi society.
Yet they regard Galloway as a pariah because he has persistently and loudly condemned that war and many other 'interventions' of the last decade. Galloway was attacked in the aftermath of the savage destruction of Gaza – an event that was greeted for the most part with silence or outright support for Israel by most British MPs.
Galloway condemned that assault in his usual outspoken fashion, declaring West Bradford an 'Israel-free zone'. This exhortation was presented as proof that he was antisemitic by the Zionist lobby, and also by his many enemies who have neither the integrity nor the intelligence to recognize any distinctions between 'Jews' and 'Israel.'
So the refusal of the political class to condemn the attack is partly driven by reluctance to be seen as a 'Galloway supporter', and it is also driven by the fear of any association with his 'antisemitic' criticism of Israel. No one can say that these MPs don't know what is required to get on in Westminster.
Today I listened to Galloway being interviewed by Peter Oborne on the Week in Westminster. Oborne is that rare phenomenon – a Tory journalist with integrity, and despite his tendentious suggestion that Galloway's views 'offend all right-thinking people', he too was shocked at the response to the assault.
Galloway himself spoke calmly, eloquently, and with some dignity. He pointed out that he wasn't asking for sympathy from his fellow MPs, which he rightly said would be 'hypocritical', but he did ask why none of them except Lucas had even condemned an attack that was, in effect, an attack on all of them.
It was a good question. And it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that too many MPs are self–seeking careerists, who either lack the guts to say aloud what ought to be a very simple and unproblematic observation: that kicking an MP into the street because you don't like what he says is immoral, undemocratic and just plain wrong, or perhaps they too believe privately that ' Galloway had it coming.'
Either way, their silence stinks.
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Osinbajo Orders Resumption Of 24-Hour Port Operations
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DETAILS of the Executive Orders signed by Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo have emerged revealing a number of decisive policies formulated to ensure the smooth running of different organs of government. Osinbajo had last Thursday signed three Executive Orders at a time many in some quarters assumed that governance had taken a back seat in Nigeria.
The Orders formed part of the initiative by the Federal Government under the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, PEBEC, to ensure ease of doing business in the country.
A breakdown of the contents of the Orders which focused on Nigeria's business environment, local content in public procurement and timely budget submission among others, showed that constraints against doing business were addressed.
Specifically, Osinbajo directed the resumption of 24-hour operations at the Apapa Port and outrightly banned touting by officials or unofficial persons at all airports, land and sea ports in Nigeria.
Also, the Presidency ordered that all valid tourist and business visa applications by foreigners visiting Nigeria would now be processed with 48 hours.
A statement by the spokesman to the Acting President, Mr. Laolu Akande in this regard, quoted Osinbajo to have said thus: "The Apapa Port shall resume 24-hour operations within 30 days of the issuance of this Order and there shall be no touting whatsoever by officials or unofficial persons at any port in Nigeria. Each Port in Nigeria is to assign an existing export terminal to be dedicated to the exportation of agriculture produce within 30 days of the issuance Order.
"On duty staff shall be properly identified by uniform and official cards while off duty staff shall stay away from the ports except with the express approval of the agency head. The FAAN Aviation Security, AVSEC, and Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, Security shall enforce this order.
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"All non-official staff shall be removed from the secured areas of airports. No official of FAAN, Immigration, security agency or Ministry of Foreign Affairs or any other agency is to meet any non-designated dignitary at any secured areas of the airport. A new single interface station at each Port shall capture, track and record information on all goods arriving and departing from Nigeria and remit captured information to the head of the MDA and the head of the National Bureau of Statistics on a weekly basis.
"All agencies currently physically present in Nigerian Ports shall within 60 days harmonise their operations into one single interface station domiciled in one location in the port and implemented by a single joint task force at all times, without prejudice to necessary backend procedures."
The Acting President also directed that the officially approved list of dignitaries that have been pre-approved to be received by protocol officers shall be made available to AVSEC and other relevant agencies ahead of their arrival at the airport.
"Any official caught soliciting or receiving bribes from passengers or other port users shall be subject to immediate removal from the post and disciplinary as well as criminal proceedings in line with extant laws and regulations.
"All relevant MDAs at the airports shall within 30 days of the issuance of this Order merge their respective departure and arrival interfaces into a single customer interface, without prejudice to necessary backend procedures," Osinbajo directed.
The Order on entry visas to Nigeria stated thus: "Entry visas to Nigeria shall henceforth be issued or rejected with reason by the Consular Office of Nigerian Embassies and High Commissions within 48 hours of receipt of valid applications." The Order also stated that the Embassies and High Commissions must adhere to other important conditions.
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A statement to that effect by Akande said: "When anyone in Nigeria has an application before a Federal Government agency seeking approval, permit or licence, the agency to which he or she is applying will be responsible for obtaining all further official request for information by any other government agency.
"This means a situation whereby such applicant would be personally running around seeking additional information needed for the consideration of his application by another agency is now over.
"This is because Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has issued directives to Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to harmonise processing of applications in the business environment, in order to promote ease of doing business in the country
"In the Executive Order, an MDA that requires input documentation, requirements or conditions from another MDA in order to deliver products and services on applications within the originating MDA's remit or mandate shall only request a photocopy of submitted application or any other proof that would speed up the processing of such application.
"It further stipulates that 'it shall be the responsibility of the originating MDA to seek verification or certification directly from the issuing MDA'.
"In a major component of the Executive Order on the promotion of transparency and efficiency in the business environment' signed by the Acting President the directive takes cognisance of the bureaucratic bottlenecks faced by businesses who have to deal with officials and several agencies across the public sector.
"Now, MDAs are to adhere strictly to Service Level Agreements in the issuance of published stipulated timelines for processing of applications for the products and services'.
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"Equally, appropriate sanctions under the Public Service Rules are also to be meted out to erring public officials.
"This component of yesterday's Executive Order signed by the Acting President is under the "One Government" component that promotes inter-agency synergy and transparency offering ease to business and applicants.
"Whenever an application is not determined within the stipulated time by a Federal Government agency, such an application will henceforth be deemed to have been approved, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo directed.
"The directive on default approvals is among other directives signed by Prof. Osinbajo in the present administration's resolve to promote transparency and efficiency especially in the business environment and generally change the way things are done in public offices.
"Where the relevant agency or official fails to communicate approval or rejection of an application within the time stipulated in the published list, all applications for business registrations, certification, waivers, licenses or permits not concluded within the stipulated timeline shall be deemed approved and granted.
"The Order also stipulated the mode of communication of official decisions to applicants, noting that it shall be stated in the published requirements.
"Where applications are rejected within the stipulated timeline, all rejections shall be given with reasons.
"Rejections of applications shall be tracked and accurate records kept at all times for each MDA and shall be submitted to the head of the MDA on a weekly basis.
"There shall be at least two modes of communication of acceptance or rejection of applications to the applicants by the relevant MDAs before the expiration of the stipulated time, including letters, emails, and publications on MDA websites.
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Governor dismisses Republican claims they can't trust him
Iowa's outgoing Democratic governor dismisses charges from Republicans who say they cannot trust him on a bid to redo a property rights bill because the governor went back on a deal over teacher pay.
Governor Tom Vilsack says he violated no agreement when he used his item veto authority to ax out a section of the bill which would have created a new commission to establish first-ever guidelines for how to pay teachers based on classroom performance.
"The deal which was struck on teacher pay was on the amount (and) on the number of years. There was never ever any discussion in the room about the nature of the committee established to put together the model," Vilsack says. "We have a committee working on this that is headed by Marvin Pomerantz who the last time I checked was a fairly prominent Republican whose concerns are mine which is the best interests of Iowa's children. This committee I think will do a better job of looking at this issue."
Last Friday, State Senator Bob Brunkhorst — a Republican from Waverly, said Republicans aren't inclined to trust Vilsack's word when it comes to a deal on the property rights issue because he went back on a deal over teacher pay. "We believed we had a handshake…on that. My members are telling me 'Bob, why negotiate with a governor on eminent domain when, dang it, he vetoed our stuff that we'd agreed to," Brunkhorst said as he slammed his hand on the lectern during a statehouse news conference earlier this afternoon. "So (Vilsack) needs to make some wrongs right."
Vilsack says he's committed no wrongs that need to be righted. "There just was not a deal and Senator Brunkhorst, with all due respect, was not in the room when the deal was struck so I'm not sure how he knows what the deal was," Vilsack says. But Republican leaders in the Senate who were in the room says the governor's wrong and Vilsack did renege on a deal.
Republicans are trying to get Democrats to join in voting to over-ride Vilsack's veto of the bill which limited local government's authority to seize private property for economic development projects.
Vilsack and other Democrats have been trying to avoid that. "We've proposed and suggested a fix, an improvement to the bill," Vilsack says. "It's up to the legislature to decide whether they want to do that or not. If they don't, then they have the option to override a veto, which is part of the process." Vilsack says he's "worked really hard" to get along with legislators from both political parties.
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If you traveled back in time...and everything was just how it existed at that moment, save for the addition of you, wouldn't that be a violation of the conservation of energy or whatever?
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Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah - Richard Bach wrote: There was a Master come unto the earth, born in the holy land of Indiana, raised in the mystical hills east of Fort Wayne.
Pretty masterful at grabbing your attention.
It is a bit hit or miss but it just has truly awesome moments that focus on how all the characters are jerks. The episode where they have to do community service and have to get kids to play basketball is just fantastic, especially when they try to separate the kids into teams.
I pretty much never cry at movies and especially not when reading a book, but I remember coming very close (can't actually remember if I did nor not though) when reading certain parts of Beloved. It's so horrific.
Why must it be one or the other?
I'm sure everyone has seen this site as it's now quite old by internet standards and often linked to, but whatever.
You can probably guess what it's about.
It is certainly acceptable in some situations for a dog to also wear a hat. Cat, dog, and human. The frog mascot for WB had a hat, it did not last long.
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It would be pretty awesome to see an advertisement say "Improved by reverting to the old format! Just what the hell were we thinking?"
I've only seen the first season, but I really liked it. However some of the acting is not always that great and the dialogue is often bad. That said the overall premise of the show is fantastic and the main character is very interesting so the bad dialogue and sometimes bad acting are easily overcome.
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Topic: How do adults make friends?
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Heh I read The Game by Neil Strauss, not the best written book but extremely funny. It was interesting but definitely weird and creepy at several parts.
Was in the commons the other day and picked up a newspaper left on the table I was at and was pretty shocked to find an XKCD comic on the comic page. So yeah, apparently one of the VCU student papers features XkCD comics.
Parents never stop being your parents. I always felt like part of growing up was not really caring whether or not you're a child. It's annoying but meh, there are far worse things they could be doing. Not that any of this would make you feel any better.
Topic: A Serious Warning! Buy Metal Window Shades!
Re: A Serious Warning! Buy Metal Window Shades!
keozen wrote: That was in America right, that video was taken in America? Please tell me it was, raptors can't swim, righT????
I can see it now...RAPTORS ON A PLANE!
I, Robot was pretty awful, though to be fair, I'd only say "it wasn't good" if the product placements weren't so blatant.
Will Smith stopped being the only character, then it went downhill fast. Up to that point it was greate...not sure this needed a spoiler.


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Q: What's the correct way to display db results in a shortcode? I know I'm not supposed to echo anything in a shortcode function, but I don't understand the correct way to do this. I see people asking this question but no one seemed to know the answer.
// my shortcode function

 function simpledir_shortcode_list() {

    // get list of items in directory

    global $wpdb;
    $result = $wpdb->get_results('SELECT * FROM wp_simpledir LIMIT 10');

    ?>

        <?php
        $count = 1;
        foreach ( $result as $listing )
        {
            if ($count % 2 == 0) { ?>

            <?php }else{ ?>

            <?php
            }
            ?>

<?= $listing->name; ?>

        <?php
            $count++;
            }
        ?>

<?php }

add_shortcode('simpledir_shortcode_list','simpledir_shortcode_list');

?>

If I use [simpledir_shortcode_list] on any page of course Wordpress gives an error, but What is the steps one would output database results properly even though this works.

A: Indeed, you need to return the output instead of display it. To do so, you can store everything in a variable and return just that:
// my shortcode function
function simpledir_shortcode_list() {

    // get list of items in directory

    global $wpdb;

    $output = '';
    $result = $wpdb->get_results('SELECT * FROM wp_simpledir LIMIT 10');

    $count = 1;

    foreach ( $result as $listing )
    {
        if ($count % 2 == 0) {
            $output .= '
';
        } else {
            $output .= '
';
        }

        $output .= '

' . $listing->name . '

';

        $count++;
    }

    $output .= '
';

    return $output;

}
add_shortcode('simpledir_shortcode_list', 'simpledir_shortcode_list');

By the way, it seems that your closing
 tag should be inside the foreach loop instead of outside as you have it now:
// my shortcode function
function simpledir_shortcode_list() {

    // get list of items in directory

    global $wpdb;

    $output = '';
    $result = $wpdb->get_results('SELECT * FROM wp_simpledir LIMIT 10');

    $count = 1;

    foreach ( $result as $listing )
    {
        if ($count % 2 == 0) {
            $output .= '
';
        } else {
            $output .= '
';
        }

        $output .= '

' . $listing->name . '

';

        $output .= '
';

        $count++;
    }

    return $output;

}
add_shortcode('simpledir_shortcode_list', 'simpledir_shortcode_list');

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En droit français, la concession est une des formes de contrat que peut prendre une délégation de service public depuis la loi du  relative à l'administration territoriale de la République. Si la concession de travaux publics est utilisée depuis l'Ancien Régime, il fallut attendre un arrêt du Conseil d'État de 1910 pour que soit reconnue une concession de service public autonome de la concession de travaux publics.

Description
Elle se distingue de l'affermage par la prise en charge par le concessionnaire (souvent une société privée) non seulement des frais d'exploitation et d'entretien courant mais également des investissements. Le concessionnaire se rémunère directement auprès de l'usager par une redevance fixée dans le contrat de concession, révisable selon une formule de variation proposée dans le contrat et utilisant les principaux indices publiés par l'INSEE. Bien que d'autres sources de financement puissent être autorisées, la jurisprudence considère depuis CE, 1996, Préfet des Bouches du Rhône, qu'il y a concession quand la rémunération est tout de même .

Dans ce type de contrat, la collectivité délégante est souvent dégagée de toute charge financière d'investissement. En contrepartie, elle doit accepter une durée de concession généralement plus longue que l'affermage (la durée maximale est fixée à 20 ans par la loi dans le domaine de l'eau potable, de l'assainissement, des ordures ménagères et autres déchets).
Des concessions de gestion ou d'aménagement, ou d'« aménagement durable » sont possibles en France.

Les communes et leurs groupements y recourent souvent pour la gestion des services d'eau potable et d'assainissement. Elle concerne la quasi-totalité de la distribution publique d'électricité et de la distribution publique de gaz ainsi que de plus en plus de réseaux de communications électroniques.

La réforme de 2001 du financement des autoroutes
Sur la base de la loi du 18 avril 1955 portant statut des autoroutes, l'État a pu concéder pendant plus de 30 ans la construction et l'exploitation de sections d'autoroutes à des sociétés, dans lesquelles les intérêts publics étaient majoritaires, sur une procédure de gré à gré, moyennant un allongement, en tant que de besoin, de la durée de leur contrat de concession en cours. Les recettes tirées de l'exploitation des autoroutes les plus anciennes servaient ainsi à financer la construction des nouvelles sections. Cette procédure s'appelait l'adossement.

Ainsi l'attribution d'une nouvelle concession échappait à toute mise en concurrence équitable entre candidats, car les sociétés disposant déjà d'un réseau concédé étaient bien évidemment avantagées au détriment de nouveaux opérateurs. Or l'environnement international a changé dans les années 1990. La directive européenne 93/37/CCE du Conseil du 14 juin 1993, dite « Directive Travaux », a imposé un recours plus large à la concurrence. Il était donc nécessaire de faire évoluer ce système.

Ce fut chose faite avec l'ordonnance du 28 mars 2001 ratifiée par la loi du 5 novembre 2001. Désormais, toute section ou ouvrage autoroutier dont les recettes prévisionnelles sont insuffisantes pour lui permettre d'atteindre l'équilibre peut se voir octroyer des concours publics dans le cadre de la procédure d'attribution de la concession et les nouvelles sections feront l'objet d'un contrat spécifique. Cette façon de procéder permettra de mieux comparer les offres des différents candidats.

Applications de la loi de 2001
Le viaduc de Millau est le premier aménagement autoroutier à entrer dans le cadre de la réforme de 2001. Il est financé par des fonds privés dans le cadre d'un contrat de concession : l'ouvrage est la propriété de l'État français, les dépenses pour la réalisation et l'exploitation de l'ouvrage sont à la charge du concessionnaire, les revenus du péage sont attribués au concessionnaire. L'État et les collectivités locales ont financé des travaux annexes pour aménager les abords, qui ne rentraient pas dans le cadre de la concession, mais aucune subvention publique n'a été accordée dans ce cadre, contrairement aux deux autres contrats de concession attribués depuis l'ordonnance de mars 2001 :
 A28 entre Rouen et Alençon : concession de 55 ans à la société Alis pour un montant de 917 millions d'euros avec une participation publique de l'État (20 %) et des collectivités territoriales de Normandie (20 %). Elle précède celle du viaduc de Millau sur le plan de l'appel d'offres, mais est légèrement postérieure sur le plan du droit car approuvée par décret du 29 novembre 2001.
 A19 entre Artenay et Courtenay : concession de 65 ans attribuée le 31 mars 2005 à la société ARCOUR, filiale du groupe VINCI, pour un montant global de 595 millions d'€ HT, avec une contribution financière publique forfaitaire de 80 millions d'€ financés à 50 % par l'État et 50 % par les collectivités territoriales dont le Conseil Général du Loiret était chef de file, et approuvée par décret du 7 avril 2005.

Concession de service public et communications électroniques
De plus en plus de collectivités recourent à la concession pour la création et l'exploitation de réseaux de communications électroniques.

Cette compétence nouvelle a été définitivement reconnue par le législateur en 2004 (article L. 1425-1 du code général des collectivités territoriales créé par l'article 50 II. de la loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique).

Le premier contrat de concession de ce type a été signé par le SIPPEREC (syndicat intercommunal de la périphérie de Paris pour l'électricité et les réseaux de communication) et Irisé, filiale du groupe Neuf Cegetel. Si cette première concession a été contractualisée sans financement de la part de la collectivité publique, il est à observer que les autres contrats signés ou en cours de négociation prévoient tous des subventions publiques.

Cette faculté de recourir à des subventions publiques a été confirmée par la Commission européenne, le , au vu du projet de réseau haut débit du Conseil général des Pyrénées-Atlantiques. La Commission a décidé que, dans certaines conditions, le cofinancement public d'une infrastructure ouverte de haut débit constituait la compensation d'une obligation de service d'intérêt économique général - en l'occurrence l'absence de couverture du territoire en haut débit de manière homogène et non discriminatoire.

Droit européen de passation des contrats de concession
L'enjeu économique des concessions en Europe est important : les concessions représentent déjà 50 à 70 % des contrats de tout le secteur public, sachant que le seul domaine du service public englobe 30 % des emplois en Europe, 37 % en France, 40 % et plus en Europe du Nord (Suède, Norvège, Danemark).

Menée de front avec celle des marchés publics en 2012, la réforme du droit communautaire des concessions érige ces contrats public-privé en leviers de compétitivité. En effet, la proposition de directive annoncée par la Commission européenne sur l'attribution de contrats de concession dévoile le contenu d'une réforme s'inscrivant comme le corollaire de celle des marchés.

Sur le plan juridique, cette proposition porte une véritable « révolution » dans le monde administratif en soumettant désormais toutes les concessions à la même législation, alors qu'actuellement celles de travaux sont régies par des dispositions spécifiques incluses dans la directive 2004/18 CE sur les marchés publics et celles de service restent principalement appréhendées par les droits nationaux.

Ce type de convention étant particulièrement complexe et souvent d'une durée très longue, sa procédure de dévolution doit rester souple et privilégier la négociation. L'expérience française a cependant démontré l'importance de fixer une date limite de validité des offres pour éviter que cette phase ne devienne exagérément chronophage. Dans le même ordre d'idées, la pondération des critères d'attribution doit demeurer une faculté. En effet, si un classement par ordre d'importance peut être un indicateur précieux pour les soumissionnaires, en revanche, l'affectation à chacun d'un coefficient pondéré n'est pas systématiquement compatible avec un contrat placé sous le sceau de l'intuitu personæ.

La violation des principes d'attribution des concessions est sanctionnée pénalement au travers du délit de favoritisme.

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The 15:17 to Paris
The 15:17 to Paris forms a loose thematic trilogy with Clint Eastwood's American Sniper and Sully, being another exploration of American duty and heroism, but it's quite unlike the two films that preceded it. In fact, The 15:17 to Paris is quite unlike anything Clint Eastwood has made, or any other major studio release in recent memory. While Sniper and Sully were anchored by commanding central performances by Bradley Cooper and Tom Hanks, Eastwood has rolled the dice on this film by casting the three real-life heroes as themselves. It's an old maxim that the true test of a movie star is that we're happy to watch them doing nothing, but The 15:17 to Paris is asking us to watch three ordinary men recreating scenes from their mostly ordinary lives. When we are presented with a long montage of them enjoying their European holiday, we're basically just watching three selfie-taking dudes enjoying their European holiday, with the director making little attempt to juice up these scenes dramatically in any way. Clint Eastwood surely could have had his pick of every young actor in Hollywood for this film, so why make this choice?
It's not like this kind of thing has never been done in Hollywood before. Stars such as Muhammad Ali and Howard Stern have played themselves in biopics, but that's because they were larger-than-life personalities, and while the case of Audie Murphy might seem analogous here, he had already attained years of acting experience before reliving his World War II experiences in To Hell and Back in 1955. Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, the three young men starring in The 15:17 to Paris, don't possess the ego, the charisma or the experience to justify their casting, but their very averageness seems to be the point. While Eastwood squeezed great drama out of an incident that lasted just a few minutes in Sully by digging into the aftermath and exploring the psychological toll that being in the spotlight took on Chesley Sullenberger, he and his screenwriter Dorothy Blyskal have taken a different approach here. The attempted terrorist attack that changed the lives of these men takes place in the final twenty minutes, with the build-up consisting of a lot of foreshadowing and an attempt to place these people in context.
That context is Sacramento in the early 21st century, where these three characters are raised in an environment of faith and duty. They meet as rebellious children at a pious Christian school, and bond through their fascination with warfare, playing with toy guns in the woods and poring over WWII battle plans. Their paths in life seem set until Sadler announces his desire to move to a secular school, one where he might have a chance of meeting girls and going to a prom. He was the only one of the three protagonists to not later sign up for the military, and this casual scene is presented as a turning point, one of many that led these three men to board the train to Paris a decade later.
With Sadler gone, the film focuses primarily on Stone and Skarlatos, now played by their adult selves. Both of them join the military and are fuelled by dreams of making a difference and serving their country, but they can't stop bungling every opportunity that's handed to them. Stone's hopes of joining the air force are dashed by an eye condition, and he fails in his SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) training after screwing up every practical task and missing an exam by oversleeping. Skarlatos does actually make it to Afghanistan, but he manages to leave his kit behind in a village forcing his unit to turn around to retrieve it. And yet, both men maintain a sense that fate is somehow guiding them. "Do you ever feel like life is pushing us toward something, some greater purpose?" Stone ponders at a couple of points in the film, and The 15:17 to Paris is structured as a chronicle of moments and decisions that could have gone one way, but fortunately went another. The decision to visit Amsterdam on the advice of an old man met in a bar; the decision to keep to their schedule and take the train to Paris despite their raging hangovers. One way or another, these men were meant to be on that train.
Is that vague sense of divine providence enough for a movie? I'm not entirely sure. The 15:17 to Paris is, undeniably, a very weird film to watch. Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler actually acquit themselves quite well. There's a little awkwardness in some of their interactions – mostly in the laid-back scenes where they are just watching a football game or making holiday plans over Skype – but they aren't egregiously stiff or self-conscious, and they have a natural chemistry. I found the film mostly engaging once it had moved past the draggy childhood section, which actually suffers a little for the distracting presence of recognisable faces in minor roles (Tony Hale and Thomas Lennon as teachers, for example, or the perennially underused Judy Greer and Jenna Fischer as the boys' mothers). The film moves in a functional way, with Blyskal's script laying out the events in a straightforward and unimaginative fashion and Eastwood – of course – simply taking the screenplay and shooting it with minimum fuss. The avoidance of traditional cinematic and dramatic tropes is admirable, but it also gives the film a weird, lumpy sense of pacing and a number of scenes that just feel dead on the screen.
The exception to this is the climactic assault on the train, in which Eastwood builds tension through shots of Ayoub El Khazzani (played by professional actor Ray Corasani) boarding the train and preparing his attack in the train toilet, and using dramatic camera angles and close-ups as the terrified passengers flee and Stone springs into action, closely followed by his friends. The ensuing tussle is frantic, bloody and gripping, and watching all of these ordinary people recreating the most dramatic and horrifying moment in their lives gives the film an added emotional force that is remarkable and unique. Perhaps Eastwood's gamble does pay off after all. I was particularly moved by the presence of Mark Moogalian, who was shot in the neck when he fought with the attacker and is here reliving the time he almost died, as Stone attempts to stem the blood gushing from his wound. Moogalian also gets the movie's best line, when Stone asks him if he'd like to say a prayer and he responds with a gurgled, "No thank you." I'm not sure any of these guys have a future in movies, but at least one of them has impeccable comic timing.
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Q: HashMap does not get expected output? I have the following 2 cases :
Case 1:
    HashMap<String, HashMap<String,String>> mainMap  = new HashMap<String, HashMap<String,String>>();

    HashMap <String, String> subMap  = new HashMap<String,String>();

    subMap.put("11", "12");
    subMap.put("13", "124");
    subMap.put("21", "122");
    subMap.put("14", "152");

    System.out.println("For One : "+subMap);
    mainMap.put("one", subMap);

    subMap.put("15", "152");
    subMap.put("17", "152");

    System.out.println("For Two : "+subMap);
    mainMap.put("two", subMap);

    System.out.println(mainMap);

I am expecting the following output :
For One : {21=122, 13=124, 14=152, 11=12}
For Two : {21=122, 17=152, 15=152, 13=124, 14=152, 11=12}
{two={21=122, 17=152, 15=152, 13=124, 14=152, 11=12}, one={21=122, 13=124, 14=152, 11=12}}

However, I am getting this output instead :
For One : {21=122, 13=124, 14=152, 11=12}
For Two : {21=122, 17=152, 15=152, 13=124, 14=152, 11=12}
{two={21=122, 17=152, 15=152, 13=124, 14=152, 11=12}, one={21=122, 17=152, 15=152, 13=124, 14=152, 11=12}}

Case 2:
I also tried the following :
HashMap<String,String> map12 = new HashMap<String, String>();

map12.put("1","1234");
map12.put("2","1234");

System.out.println("map12 : "+map12);

map12.put("3","1234");

And I got the correct output which was expected :
map12 : {2=1234, 1=1234}

Why does the code in case1 not give the expected out but case2 works perfectly fine?

A: You are using the same hashmap, you have to create a new instance of it.
HashMap<String, HashMap<String,String>> mainMap  = new HashMap<String, HashMap<String,String>>();

HashMap <String, String> subMap  = new HashMap<String,String>();

subMap.put("11", "12");
subMap.put("13", "124");
subMap.put("21", "122");
subMap.put("14", "152");

System.out.println("For One : "+subMap);
mainMap.put("one", subMap);

subMap  = new HashMap<String,String>(); /// <<<<<<<<
subMap.put("21", "122");
subMap.put("17", "152");
subMap.put("15", "152");
subMap.put("13", "124");
subMap.put("14", "152");
subMap.put("11", "12");

System.out.println("For Two : "+subMap);
mainMap.put("two", subMap);

System.out.println(mainMap);

A: The value in your mainMap is a reference to a HashMap object. Any reference to that object (e.g. subMap) can change it.

A: If you are confused, this may help:
This line will create a HashMap object, and assigned a subMap reference to it.
    HashMap  subMap  = new HashMap();
subMap-------->[hashObject]
This line will add "one" as key, and subMap "reference" as value
    mainMap.put("one", subMap);
so,
    mainMap.put("one", subMap---------------> [hashObject]
Then you prints the value assign to key "one" i.e. {21=122, 13=124, 14=152, 11=12}
Now, you are putting values to the same HashMap object [hashObject]
subMap.put("15", "152");

subMap.put("17", "152");

Now, map contains
{21=122, 17=152, 15=152, 13=124, 14=152, 11=12}

And then, you assigned it as:
mainMap.put("two", subMap---------------> [hashObject]

Try this:
System.out.println("For One : "+subMap);

System.out.println("For Two : "+subMap);

Output:
For One : {11=12, 13=124, 14=152, 15=152, 17=152, 21=122}

For Two : {11=12, 13=124, 14=152, 15=152, 17=152, 21=122}

which is the same HashMap object, no new object is created and both "one" and "two" has value, a reference referring to the same object.
Please note that this is an object not a primitive.
int a = 10;
int b = a;
a++;

output:
a=11

b=10

but in case of object its reference not the object,
Object a = new Object();

Object b = a;

any change done using any of these references will effect the same object, because both are
referring the same object.
In your case 2, you have first print the map and then added the next key-value.

A: HashMap doesn't guarantee a specific order of the items stored inside. It's unordered.
Use LinkedHashMap instead. It stores the items in the order, in which they were inserted.
Read the Java Docs for more Infos:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/HashMap.html
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/LinkedHashMap.html


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Location Trends in Metalworking
By: Woody Hydrick
Few industries define American manufacturing as ubiquitously as metalworking. Whereas not too long ago it conjured up images of a shop floor welder bent over a wild spray of fire, metalworking is now more readily identified by a neat and tidy assembly floor filled with sparkly clean parts rolling in soldier-like fashion as robotic arms nip, tuck and zip them into finished form.
Metalworking gained modern notoriety in the U.S. in the late 18th century with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Instead of items being produced by hand, manufacturers created ways to have machines produce them. This profound change in production had a dramatic effect on the quality and quantity of output, serving as a boon to some of America's most prosperous industries, including automotive, aerospace, electronics and machinery.
Ever since the first Model A rolled off Ford Motor Company's production line in Detroit in 1908, automotive has been one of the most lucrative sectors for American metal manufacturers. Practically every part of a car in its earliest days was made of some type of metal, and suppliers eager to meet the demands of this burgeoning industry opened shop as close as possible to Ford. The popularity of the automobile led to the birth of other car makers, all of which established roots in Detroit, Flint and Toledo, Ohio, to take advantage of its uniquely skilled workforce and its established industrial supply chain. Steelmaking took rise around Chicago, Cleveland and Youngstown, and tire manufacturing in Akron. These major industries supported a diverse range of metalworking trades and machine-tool firms, particularly in Detroit, Dayton and Columbus.
This "heavy metal" cluster in America's East-North Central region became known as the "Manufacturing Belt."
By the 1940s and 50s, firms such as General Motors and U.S. Steel dominated their industries and were among the biggest, most profitable businesses in the world.1 The Manufacturing Belt was an economic giant at that time, accounting for more than half of all U.S. manufacturing jobs in 1950 and about 43 percent of all U.S. jobs. But after 1950, the Manufacturing Belt began a long downturn.
According to Lee Ohanian, a professor of economics at UCLA and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the chief reasons for the decline of was "lack of competition pressure in markets and labor," which produced a lackadaisical attitude toward innovation. In response, corporations established new facilities in the South and West. The car tire firms, for instance, added new southern factories between 1945 and 1962 so that the main growth in their Detroit and Akron operations came in research, marketing and administration. From the 1970s the crisis in American heavy industry, especially automobiles, fell most heavily on the older factories of the Manufacturing Belt, which then was coined the "Rust Belt."
During this decades-long geographic migration, a far more disruptive change was taking place in metalworking that touched every manufacturing industry: the advent of the CNC machine. Developed in the 1950s, the CNC is an automated method of transforming a stock piece of material such as a block of steel to produce a finished product by means of a controlled material removal process. The ability to program computer devices to control machine tools rapidly advances shop productivity by automating the highly technical and labor-intensive processes. Automated cuts improve both the speed and the accuracy with which prototype parts can be created, especially when the material is critical, such as the case with polypropylene.
With automation, the race was on to make cars, planes, bridges, electronics – and the machine parts needed to manufacture and assemble them – faster, better and more cost-efficiently. While CNC machining may have been the secret sauce, the key ingredient was people who knew how to program, operate and fix the computers, which were now a dominant part of factory floors. CNC machines, which gave rise to robotics and other computerized production tools, created a dramatic shift in labor and skillset needs. Fewer production workers were required, and those that were needed to use more of their brains and less of their hands. More than ever, companies were investing in on- and off-the-job training and education for their workers. It was no longer enough to know how to assemble one part of a finished product. Workers needed to understand the full assembly processes and how to program and operate the machines that automated them. More so, when those machines broke down, companies needed to have workers on hand to fix them and minimize production downtime.
It is estimated that approximately 50 percent of the American manufacturing jobs lost between 2001 and 2013 were due to automation. Of course, the Great Recession also took place in the latter half of that period, owing to an almost audible screeching of the brakes in global manufacturing (and most other industries). At the start of the Great Recession (December 2007), there were 450,700 people employed in the primary metals industry. By the time it ended in August 2010, there were 366,500, but the industry has never returned to its former employment glory. In mid 2012, U.S. employment in the metals industry had climbed back to 406,900, but has been on a gradual downward slope ever since.2
Much of the reason for lower employment is due to offshoring, a manufacturing trend that exploded around the turn of the 21st century. Low wages – particularly in China – allowed American manufacturers to produce far more for far less money, putting more money in their pockets. The loser in this scenario, as well all know now, was quality. Cheaply made Chinese products led to consumer dissatisfaction (not to mention a host of environmental and labor standard red alerts), which caused manufacturers to reconsider their production and outsourcing strategies. Many say there is now a reshoring trend taking place, bringing manufacturers – and their metal suppliers – back to America. However, a major research project called "The Global Supply Chain Benchmarking Study" led by The Wharton School's professor of operations and information management Morris Cohen and his colleague Hau L. Lee at Stanford University, debunks this theory and shows the reality is more complicated. Their research shows there is actually little reshoring on a net basis in the U.S., while supply chain movements are crisscrossing more than ever. Even within the same company, one department might be outsourcing while another is reshoring.
"Companies are addressing the question of how and where to produce products, and they're opening factories, they're closing factories, they're shifting employment," said Cohen. "So, there's just been a lot of change going on."
He also said that change is not in one direction.
"Not everybody is reshoring back to the U.S. or to Europe. Not everybody is offshoring again to Asia or to China — South America, Eastern Europe — every part of the world is engaged. We see companies making a range of decisions for what seems to be a variety of reasons. So there's a lot of change, but it's a very complicated picture. We need to understand where it's happening and why it's happening."3
The "change" noted in Cohen and Lee's study on manufacturing points to a broader theme of not predicting the future of America's metalworking industry on any single factor like employment. As noted earlier, while the Bureau of Labor Statistics cites an increasingly lower volume of workers, it shows a substantial increase in labor productivity. Between 2006 and 2016, productivity increased 23 percent (92.5 vs. 113.8), and an article from Machine Design states that since the worst of the Great Recession in 2009, U.S. manufacturing output has increased more than 20 percent.4 5
Future Trends in Metalworking
Bill Obras, vice president of sales and marketing at Rego-Fix Tool Corp. in Indianapolis, said, "In general terms, the industry will experience two key trends during the next five years — an acute need for skilled/trained labor and increased global competitiveness in terms of pricing. In turn, these trends will continue to drive the industry towards more machining automation, including such tasks as tool assembly and setup, tool life monitoring, automatic cutting parameter adjustments, in-process part inspection and real-time part-to-part corrections."6
Another key trend that will have a profound influence on machine tooling is the growth of Industry 4.0, or the Internet of Things (IoT). Sensors are becoming smaller and easier to install in all kinds of products and smart tooling and workholding will provide real-time feedback about problems such as vibration back to the machine control and send alerts to an engineer that adjustments need to be made. Smart factories will require all equipment and tooling to be Industry 4.0 capable.7
Reliance on electricity will increase and tighter environmental regulations will continue to push metalworking firms to locate closer to the OEMs they supply. This, too, will aid in the pricing arena as transportation costs are minimized.
From a geographic perspective, the Southeast will be the predominant HQ for metalworking over the next 10 to 15 years. Wherever new infrastructure is implemented, metalworking follows and for the foreseeable future in America, that region is predominantly the Southeast.
Construction of roads, bridges, power plants, utility lines, buildings and more is currently booming in the Southeast in answer to — and anticipation of — explosive growth. Nearly every major automotive brand now has a plant located in the Southeast and "like-minded" industries such as aerospace have followed suit. This is due in part to the region's friendly business climate and lack of organized labor.
The region's former textile roots helped establish a strong network of technical colleges that now offer degrees in a variety of advanced manufacturing technologies critical for metalworking, but much more is needed in the field of education and training. While technical and community colleges are working with companies to offer the necessary training for CNC machining and other technologies, they aren't producing a large enough volume of qualified workers. Efforts are underway in the South and elsewhere to overhaul an "agriculturally oriented" education system into one focused on STEM education starting at pre-school ages. Only then can we expect teenagers to be prepared to make appropriate career decisions, and capable of handling the academic rigors required of them, that allow them to succeed and give employers plenty of qualified job candidates from which to choose.
As metalworking manufacturers and suppliers look for growth opportunities, they will be wise to seek the advice of site selection professionals who have their pulse on regional industry clusters. Identifying pockets of need and transferrable skills can point companies toward new streams of revenue with less competition, and quicken the process of finding the right location. T&ID
1https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/economic-policy-papers/competition-and-the-decline-of-the-rust-belt
2Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES3133100001?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true
3http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/offshoring-gets-a-rethink/
4Bureau of Labor Annual index of labor productivity for NAICS 331, primary metal manufacturing
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/IPUEN331___L000?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true
5http://www.machinedesign.com/industrial-automation/reshoring-boost-american-manufacturing
6http://advancedmanufacturing.org/future-metalworking-industry/
7http://advancedmanufacturing.org/future-metalworking-industry/. Jack Burley, vice president of sales and engineering, BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc., as quoted in an article titled "The Future of the Metalworking Industry," May 2, 2017.
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Football violence
Football violence: a view from around the world
• Brazil suffers record number of football violence deaths
• Ultras in eastern Europe, Russian and Italy pose huge threat
• Unrest in Africa spontaneous rather than planned
• Owen Gibson: World Cup – and outbreak of supporter violence – link Brazil and Russia
Fernando Duarte, Jonathan Wilson, Shaun Walker, Paolo Bandini and Paul Doyle
Thu 19 Dec 2013 14.05 EST First published on Thu 19 Dec 2013 14.05 EST
Spartak Moscow fans displaying a Nazi flag during a game at Shinnik Yaroslavl. Photograph: Reuters
Brazil: violence around games on the rise
Brazil ends 2013 with a record in football violence deaths. It was a miracle that nobody died in the festival of thuggery that took place on 8 December at the Atlético Paranaense v Vasco de Gama match in Joinville, during the last round of the Campeonato Brasileiro, whose shocking images were beamed all around the world. That, however, did not prevent Brazilian football finishing its 2013 season with the saddest of milestones: the 30 deaths in football-related incidents this year is the highest number in the history of the game in the country.
What's more worrying is that fatal cases have been rising steadily in the past few years. Between 1999 and 2008 there were 42 football-related deaths, but in 2012 the number reached 29 for a single year. It is important to understand that the vast majority of those cases occurred outside stadiums and that the experience of watching a football match in Brazil has improved significantly in terms of safety in the past 20 years, but that should be no solace.
This is especially so given that similar scenes to the ones that marred the game in Joinville took place in September at Brasilia's Mané Garrincha stadium, in a match between Corinthians and Vasco. It is one of the new arenas built for the World Cup and touted by authorities as a catalyst for a change in fan behaviour. The incident, however, showed that this transformation is a far more complex issue.
As in Argentina, organised groups of supporters in Brazil are notorious for their penchant for fighting fans of other teams as well as their unscrupulous subsidisation by clubs. They will often receive free tickets and financial help in exchange for favours, such as political support for club elections and even intimidation of opponents.
It's a relationship often denounced by the Brazilian media but that lingers on at every major club in the country, which limits the efficiency of an eventual heavier approach from the authorities. But the recent decision by the Japanese carmaker Nissan to end its sponsorship deal with Vasco because of the savagery in Joinville, which will add to the woes of a club relegated to the wilderness of the second division, could finally make directors feel the pinch and decide to act.
Only chance – or the work of divine forces by some – has prevented Brazil in the past few decades from experiencing its own version of the Heysel disaster. But it is unwise to tempt fate for so long. Fernando Duarte
Eastern Europe: Polish ultras remain a threat after Euro 2012
The hope in Poland was that the improvement in stadiums brought by Euro 2012 – not just those grounds that hosted matches during the tournament but also those used as training venues – would inspire a change in attitude similar to the one that occurred in England with the wave of stadium construction in the 90s. The ultras, though, remain a dangerous and violent force.
Only last week, Zaglebie Lubin's Slovakian midfielder Robert Jez was beaten up outside his house by three ultras, while other fans threw bricks at a car driven by the goalkeeper Michal Gliwa. The Latvian forward Deniss Rakels has also received threats as Zaglebie struggle against relegation. "If you don't play, you should be scared," ultras have taken to chanting at home matches.
Ultra groups remain a major issue in both Hungary and Romania, where hooligan groups often loosely espouse far-right politics, with antisemitism and anti-Roma racism rife. Others are just violent: one of the most notorious incidents came two years ago as a Petrolul Ploiesti fan ran on to the pitch during a game against Steaua Bucharest, ran up behind the defender George Galamaz and punched him in the side of the head, breaking his zygomatic bone and leaving him temporarily deaf in his right ear. The Steaua goalkeeper Ciprian Tatarusanu then suffered burns to his back after being hit by a flare thrown from the stand, and the game was abandoned.
So disillusioned have fans in Croatia become with their footballing establishment and, in particular, a voucher scheme that tries to regulate away supporters, that the two main ultra groups of Dinamo and Hajduk, the Bad Blue Boys and Torcida, have declared a truce for the first time since the end of the war. At the recent derby in Zagreb, members of both groups attended the game together as a strangely harmonious show of dissent that made a mockery of the voucher system. Jonathan Wilson
Russia: new law for 2018 World Cup buildup
Petty scuffles and small-scale brawls are still common at Russian league matches, and there is a strong link between fan club ultras and the nationalist far right. Ever since hundreds of fans fought pitched battles with police in a central Moscow square in 2010 after the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a Spartak Moscow fan, by a group of Dagestanis, police have been keeping a closer eye on the potential for fan violence.
A new law will come into effect in January, promising much harsher penalties for fans who "disturb public order", with fines of up to £300, threats of community service and a ban on attending games for up to seven years. Police will draw up blacklists of fans who are banned and all stadiums must be fitted with closed-circuit television to keep an eye on incidents.
The law has been in discussion for months and is an attempt to tackle violence and racism in the runup to the 2018 World Cup.
As well as brawls, nationalist and racist chanting is a problem, especially when black players or teams from Russia's mainly Muslim south are playing. In September, Zenit fans burned a Chechen flag during a game with Terek Grozny.
In November, the Dynamo Moscow goalkeeper Anton Shunin was briefly hospitalised after an incident in which he was struck by a flare thrown by a fan during a game against Zenit St Petersburg and received burns to one of his eyes. The match was abandoned, Dynamo were given a 3-0 automatic victory and Zenit were ordered to play two matches behind closed doors.
Also in November, there were clashes as Spartak Moscow played away at second-tier Shinnik Yaroslavl. Police had to use water cannons to disperse fighting supporters, and the game also became notorious when photographs circulated online of Spartak fans unveiling a Nazi flag during the game. Shaun Walker
Italy: players still in fear
Salernitana's game at home to Nocerina this November lasted just 20 minutes. That was all it took for the visitors to lose five players to "injury", leaving them with only six on the pitch. They had used up all three of their substitutions in the second minute.
Clearly, this was no accident. Nocerina's players had been reluctant to take the field in the first place after receiving death threats from their own supporters – 200 of whom had shown up at training a day earlier, warning them not to go ahead. The ultras were acting in protest after local authorities banned all away fans from attending this local derby.
Their actions were greeted with disgust in Italy, but all too little surprise. Fan violence had forced bigger games than this one to be halted before now. Salernitana and Nocerina play in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione – the third tier of Italian football – but as recently as April 2012 a top-flight match between Genoa and Siena had to be suspended for 45 minutes after ultras began demanding the shirts off their players' backs.
These are extreme examples, but there have been many less high-profile instances of fan violence directed at both players and at rival supporters. Just this month, three Ajax fans were stabbed before their team's Champions League visit to Milan. More than once in the last year, team buses have been assaulted on their way to and from games.
Various measures have been taken in a bid to stem the tide, from the introduction of the much-maligned tessera del tifoso – a mandatory fan ID card – to the temporary closure of individual stands in some stadiums. And police statistics show that the number of fans injured at matches has dropped sharply since the beginning of 2006. But this problem is still a long way from being resolved. Paolo Bandini
Africa: Hooliganism tends to be spontaneous, not planned
African football tends not to be afflicted by hooliganism in the same way that Europe and South America are. Which is not to say that violence is much rarer. Far from it. It is just that it tends not to be instigated by organised groups who go to matches with the intention of causing trouble. Rather the violence tends to be spontaneous, erupting in response to perceived refereeing injustices or disappointing results. Senegal, for instance, had to play the home leg of their World Cup play-off against Ivory Coast at a neutral venue because of the rioting that broke out in Dakar when the same opponents beat them in the previous year's Africa Cup of Nations play-off.
There are exceptions. In Nigeria, for example, there are organised groups who seek to exert influence through violence and intimidation, in some cases with clubs' tacit support or blatant complicity. In this season's Premier League two clubs were ordered to play matches behind closed doors after fan violence, while the critical title decider between Kano Pillars and Enyimba had to be replayed after a pitch invasion by home fans. Kano and Enyimba both have sets of battle-ready supporters who congregate in a particular section of their stadiums (Kano's volatile fringe dub their chosen hangout in the stands "Iraq", while Enyimba fans call their equivalent spot "Colombia"). Since there tend not to be many travelling fans, the targets of violence tend to be opposition players or, most commonly, referees. The Nigerian Premier League has vowed to increase ground suspensions and club fines after referees threatened to go on strike in protest at their regular persecution.
Elsewhere, orchestrated violence at football has been rooted in political upheaval or social unrest, as in the infamous Port Said massacre of February 2012, when 79 people were killed. Then clashes between fans of Al-Masry and Al-Ahly were fuelled and facilitated by police and military, seemingly as retribution for the involvement of Al-Ahly fans in the Tahrir Square uprising the previous year. When 21 supporters were sentenced to death for their role in that disaster, riots broke out in protest at the severity of the punishment and the perceived scapegoating of fans while agents provocateurs in authority escaped.
Mauritius made a radical attempt to eradicate politically motivated football violence over a decade ago when regular fighting eventually led to catastrophe. A title-decider between the mostly Muslim-supported Scouts Club and a Creole club, Fire Brigade, degenerated into rioting that spread far beyond the stadium and lasted for a week, causing seven fatalities. The national league was suspended for over eight months and a huge restructuring was launched, with several clubs disbanded and none allowed to reform along ethnic or religious lines, only regional ones. The measure worked in the most important sense – it has prevented repeats of such violence at football. But the league has yet to recover as, with their traditional clubs gone, fans tend to restrict their supporting to watching European leagues on TV. Paul Doyle