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Obama proposes $450 billion jobs plan, mostly tax cutsComment
President Barack Obama unveiled a larger-than-expected $450 billion plan Thursday night to boost jobs and put cash in the pockets of dispirited Americans.
Obama to propose $300 billion to jump-start jobsComment
President Barack Obama is expected to propose $300 billion in tax cuts and federal spending Thursday night to get Americans working again.
No new jobs in August; unemployment rate at 9.1 percentComment
Employers stopped adding jobs in August, an alarming setback for an economy that has struggled to grow and might be at risk of another recession.
August unemployment rate stays at 9.1 percentComment
Employers added no net workers last month and the unemployment rate was unchanged, a sign that many were nervous the U.S. economy could be at risk of slipping into another recession.
Inova Health System cuts 117 management jobsComment
A spokesman for Inova Health System says the company has cut 13 percent of its management jobs to reduce costs.
Protest planned outside Rep. Frank Wolfe's Herndon officeComment
Unemployed workers and community members from D.C. and Northern Virginia plan to hold a protest outside Rep. Frank Wolfe's office in Herndon.
Unemployment applications drop to four-month lowComment
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week below 400,000 for the first time in four months, a sign that the job market is improving slowly after a recent slump.
Eleanor Holmes Norton job fair attracts thousands of job seekersComment
More than 4,000 job seekers flooded the Convention Center in downtown D.C. Tuesday for Eleanor Holmes Norton's annual job fair, which she said attracted record numbers this year.
July unemployment rate drops to 9.1 percentComment
There's a glimmer of good news in the bleak economic news this week, as the national unemployment rate dipped by a tenth of a percentage point in July. However, these numbers don't include people who have stopped looking for work.
D.C. unemployment rate rises one full percentage pointComment
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says that the unemployment rate within D.C. have gone up nearly an entire percentage point since June.
June unemployment report shows hiring slowed to standstillComment
The latest unemployment numbers don't bring good news. Hiring slowed to a standstill in June and the unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent.
Virginia's unemployement rate fallsComment
Virginia's unemployment rate fell slightly in May and remains below the national average.
Bleak jobs report dampens hopes of steady growthComment
New unemployment numbers suggest the recovery from the recession will be longer and bumpier than many economists had envisioned.
D.C. Public schools to cut 660 jobs by year's endComment
D.C. school officials say about 660 teachers and other school employees have been told that their jobs will be eliminated next month because of budget concerns and shifting enrollment within the school system.
Oil prices falling, strong job growthComment
There are signs of hope for the economy: Experts say gas prices may have peaked for this summer, and businesses have boosted their payrolls by adding 268,000 jobs in April.
Maryland starts website to match vets with jobsComment
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NFL Football 2013: 5 Things We Learned From Week 8
Spectacular individual performances highlighted the Week 8 NFL action. Here's what we learned on Sunday:
Spectacular individual performances highlighted the Week 8 NFL action. Here's what we learned on Sunday:
It was another exciting week in college football, with two Top Ten teams going down and several big performances. Here are some of the highlights.
If one thing has been made clear through seven weeks of NFL action, it's that a lot of teams are disasters at the quarterback position. In fact, the St. Louis Rams are in such disarray that they reached out to Brett Favre's agent to see if he'd be interested in playing for them. Would you like to see Favre come back?
Teams are beginning to jockey for playoff position as the 2013 NFL season reaches its eighth week. Here are five storylines we'll be watching this week:
We're getting into crunch time of the college football season with division races tightening up and the national title hunt taking shape. Here are some of the big storylines that could shake up college football this week.
It was another exciting week in college football with plenty of upsets, close calls and big game performances. Here are the highlights from this week on the gridiron.
Thanks to some outstanding research by the folks at Business Insider, we have good news if you're a kid growing up in Wyoming or Mississippi—you have a (relatively) great chance of becoming a Major League Baseball player someday. If you're from Utah, though? Eh, not so much.
The Seattle defense recorded seven sacks and two interceptions, and the Seahawks beat the Cardinals, 34-22, in Glendale, Ariz. on Thursday night.
As the NFL nears the halfway mark of the 2013 season, division races are starting to heat up in both conferences. Here are five storylines we're following this week:
After six games each, Alabama and Oregon have separated themselves as the two best teams in college football, with each squad tearing through its schedule thus far. But which team is the best college football has to offer: the Crimson Tide or the Ducks?
One Cleveland Browns fan has taken it upon himself to help the team find a suitable quarterback.
It's a little sad to think that we've already reached the halfway point of this college football season. Still, there are a lot of important games still to come. Here are the big questions as we go into Week 8:
How Will This ACC Showdown Impact the BCS and Heisman Races?
While it may not garner the hype of last month's Alabama-Texas A&M game, the stakes in this week's Florida State-Clemson matchup are just as big. The winner of this

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Posts by Sandra Greer
131 posts • joined 3 May 2007
Our Reg reader 'mutt's nuts' dictionary is le chien's biens
Merkin translation
If you said that in the U.S. it might raise a laugh, but I have never heard it actually used here. These are old usages: cat's pajamas, cat's meow, bee's knees. We tend to use single words that mean "cool". So we are right in the same boat as the rest of Europe.
Of course, British speakers of English, as the original users, may innovate without it being translatable.
Whoa! NUDE! SELFIES! for! Marissa! Mayer's! Blink-gobbling! Yahoo!
Who! Cares!
Yahoo's email performance has become so horrible I have mostly switched to gmail, after years of using it. Yahoo Answers was recently modified to become unusable, so I stopped contributing to it; I was a major contributor to their general medical questions. Adding stupid selfies for stupid people is yet another stupid move by the self-destructive company.
Republicans turn up heat on FCC over net neutrality push
Re: Perfect example of general Republican party
Infrastructure is being strangled by collusion among the biggest players. For instance, in New York City we have TIme Warner Cable and Verizon (supplying fibre optic connections). So what happens? Verizon only provisions customers in large building where they can make a quick profit, and TWC is not challenged by a better competitor. I live in a very active part of Brooklyn, NY (Park Slope) which still does not have Verizon FIOS on offer, even though a huge number of residents are actually in the software and media business and would go for FIOS in a heartbeat. The cables have been run in the large avenues (to comply with a city directive), but Verizon have been delaying offering the service to the cross streets. I am currently using a wireless ISP, and stopped using ADSL which had become very poor. I loathe TWC, especially as you can be down for a week before a technician will come to fix it. TWC is one of those services that bundle undesired products such as Sports and make you pay for them.
We won't have decent service until internet is recognised as a common carrier like phone service and supervised by the government.
Game of Thrones written on brutal medieval word processor and OS
Re: I'm guessing his novels/scripts have never been hacked and leaked
I'm so glad you said that. What was better in Word Perfect was the reveal codes so you could fix the horrible things the software did to formatting. That is, if you needed formatting at all. The weird stuff Word does to lists and numbering drove me nuts. Plus once you got used to reveal codes, HTML was a piece of cake.
Is tech the preserve of the young able-bodied? Let's talk over a fine dinner and claret
Tech Artistes from Hell
My vision isn't all that bad, but I can't read anything on a black background and just barely on a red background. I generally don't even try to read anything on a variegated background either; there was a fad about 15 years ago for printing (paper publications) black (or white) text over pictures, which I found unreadable, and this continues to be a fad on the computer. Light blue text (and grey text) I just skip. I dearly love Skeptical Raptor but he just redesigned his site to use light blue links, which drives me nuts.
At least there is much less Flash animation and fewer slide shows at the top. I canceled many visits to avoid those.
I went for Google at the beginning because of its simple and readable design, and have avoided "portals" ever since. Banking and insurance sites in the US are pretty bad because they have tended to develop for IE, which looks terrible on a Mac. There are lots of sites with operational errors that put off people with less experience than I have. Unfortunately this leads to "Sandy, could you do this for me please?" and long sessions with horrible menus.
And even my lovely iPad betrays me, even with a stylus. My tiny fingers are not tiny enough. There is also no way to point directly to a place in the middle of a word to fix an error.
So if they really want everybody to use their UIs, they need to design them around real people.
Half of Twitter's 'active users' are SILENT STALKERS
Twitter is for the birds
I actually used it for a time when following some nesting owls on bird cams - the discussion was carried out on Twitter. I haven't used it since then, although I have probably been zombie following a couple of science sites (too much bother to check it out as it flows by like a river of sewage).
The gift of Grace: COBOL's odyssey from Vietnam to the Square Mile
The glory of COBOL
What I missed about COBOL is the fact that if you needed to read a dump, the data would be there as laid out in the program. Sometimes you just wanted to see what was there when the thing blew up. And if you ordered a PMAP you could see the procedures also. This was very useful, believe it or not. I still remember two striking bugs that I will not bore you with.
It was quite a shock to me to find that PL/I did not lay out storage the same way.
Coding on paper
Some of us coded in red or blue ink. Not only was it good discipline, the keypunchers could read it more easily than pencil, so we got fewer errors. Then we read the cards, of course, before submitting them for compile. The idea was to get it to run the first time without compilation errors, and preferably correctly.
Also, we all had copies of punched cards showing all the default stuff, and when more than one program needed the same file structures, copies of those as well. We did not have to recode all that. Of course, later there were copy libraries, but that had to wait until we were using terminals rather than cards.
BuzzGasm: 9 Incredible Things You Never Knew About PLIERS!
Mole grips
I had to look this one up -- we call them Vise Grips generally in the US. They really are great, especially for inappropriate purposes like turning a nut for which you do not have the right size fixed wrench.
Putin to battle Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize
It is definitely time for a woman of great courage. No snark intended. I could never have done what she did, and neither could you, any of you.
RSA booked TV's Stephen Colbert to give the final speech. This is what happened next
Re: Steven Colbert at RSA ..
Too bad he was speaking in Klingon. Was that a sound system? Or encrypted stream?
Friends don't do tech support for friends running Windows XP
Friends don't let friends drive Windows
I have been advising friends, especially those writing a dissertation, to get a Mac. No complaints, once they come up with the money.
Yahoo! Mail users see crying baby who says firm is 'over capacity'
Longtime user
Yahoo Mail has actually been good for many years. Their Spam Filter was way ahead of everyone else's. Lately, though, the server has been down about once a week, and today it was redirecting to edit.yahoo.com, which isn't anywhere. It has also been really slow. Like never opening a folder, sometimes forgetting to open an email. I have not seen the crying baby, though.
Worth every cent I have paid for it, must say.
I have moved the heavy stuff to GMail, and am leaving the political requests for money, cartoons, etc on Yahoo.
Feminist Software Foundation gets grumpy with GitHub … or does it?
Read the blog - quite interesting
There is a lot of academic jargon, of course, which is the way computer science and everything else has gone for the last 30 years or so.
Microsoft fears XP could cause Indian BANKOCALYPSE
Re: Running scared Y2K
IBM didn't do all the work for mainframe systems. Every big bank and insurance company set up a group to go through all their mainframe code and identify date error potential (and get it fixed). One common error besides the 2-digit date (which most of us had coded for) was the fact that 2000 was NOT a leap year -- an exception. We used scan packages to find mentions of dates, but each hit had to be reviewed by a human. Followed by changed and tested, of course.
I also got to write scan code for the non-COBOL systems. That was a lot of fun. Most of them were written in C and would be OK until the date overflowed in 2036 (if I remember correctly), but there were also a lot of STRUCT definitions that were dodgy. There are tons of other languages used by various systems, and lots of screen scraping. A fun time was had by all. Any problems found were referred to the system owners.
The management of this enormous mess was also a challenge. When the final hours came, I was there in the secret control centre with top management, running Lotus Domino servers and taking reports from all over the globe. It was exciting, and nothing very terrible happened.
Windows 8.1: Read this BEFORE updating - especially you, IT admins
Re: who are not in the US, UK or South Korea
I am in a major metro area (Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY) where somehow Verizon have thus far refused to install FIOS. I had ADSL until recently, which is not remotely broadband. I had originally installed it to do remote server maintenance. I replaced it with wireless from CLEAR. I did not want to go with my cable TV provider because I can't afford to be without internet for a week or two, waiting for the cable guy.
The wireless is four times faster than the ADSL, and only $10 a month more. Still, a good-sized download can take a while. We are currently all Mac here. An iPad update can take from 20 minutes to an hour, depending on what else is running, of course. It works best if I turn off the ATT connection and just use my wireless LAN connected to CLEAR.
Turkish TV presenter canned for flashing too much cleavage
Most Jews spent some time in various places, including Europe, but they originated right there in Israel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people
Be prepared... to give heathens a badge: UK Scouts open doors to unbelievers
Russia land of religious freedom
Yeah yeah yeah, now that the old Orthodox church is back in business, you can go to jail for blasphemy and for discussing homosexuality in public. Previously, Jewish citizens' papers were marked "Zhid" -- I wonder if they still are! It wasn't atheism that made Stalin what he was, it was Stalin. The habit of absolute belief made it easier for him to rule, is all.
Women in IT: 'If you want to be taken seriously, dress like a man'
At one time, for my sins, I did some visiting tech support at mostly Orthodox Jewish firms. I wore my Yentl outfit, consisting of an ankle-length skirt, tights, and a long-sleeved blouse. It was fine for crawling under desks, actually. Of course anything shorter would have been much less appropriate.
Never had a female applicant?
You might want to check the way you recruit or indicate willingness to hire. Also, ask your staff if they know any females who might be interested. Your channel may be restricted!
British spooks seize tech from Snowden journo's boyfriend at airport
Re: Voting power? 'fraid not
What we have in the U.S. is get-out-the-vote efforts by the lunatics, such as the "Teabaggers". If all the sane people declined voting, we would have an even more insane government than we have now. It would resemble Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood.
Tablets? Check. Mobes? Check. What's next, Apple? Fondlable CARS
Re: @ Evil Auditor - Usability
I have a,1996 Honda Civic, the last one available with cranked windows, a key lock, and a manual boot lock release. That's a lot fewer electronic gizmos to go bad, as in various rental cars I have experienced. I truly dread replacing it with these all-electronic wonders. I am an IT pro, but certain things don't belong in a car.
Microsoft's murder most foul: TechNet is dead
Not Outlook
I am retired now, but at my last job, my boss migrated our Outlook to a Google Mail service, which seems to do a lot for us, and we no longer need an Exchange server -- all good.
Apple: iOS7 dayglo Barbie makeover is UNFINISHED - report
What are they thinking?
If you have watched any commercial TV lately, you have seen Microsoft's ads for its fondleslab. The colours used are the same garish ones in this preliminary sketch. The icons shown contain more garish flat colour and less information. The current ones contain more muted colours and also use black or dark tones to give much better contrast. I am one of those complainers who hate white type on bright backgrounds, and require contrast. I also hate gumdrop colours. I am a female Apple fan, but this sure is a downer.
Girls, beer and C++: How to choose the right Comp-Sci degree for you
Re: Can somebody clarify...
In American English, the more women enter a career, the less the average pay available. This has two phases:
1) when a woman is hired, she is paid less, thus bringing down the average
2) subsequently, the offered wage is reduced because women can be hired for that, so men in phase 2 will have to accept it.
This is entirely against the law, but exactly who is going to bell that cat?
Re: "This weird new software was Unix"
I was working at that weird phone company -- actually at AT&T, and Bell Labs sent over a release of it to trial. This had to be around 1977 - 1980. I picked up the trial because nobody else had time to do it. It was a mind altering experience, especially as it was the first time I had tried to learn from nothing but sparse documentation (man pages!) I mostly used the shell, not C.
I was mostly involved with mainframes, though, and spent the next 25 years or so in a mix of languages. What I learned from my couple of years in Unix was a great help throughout. Now that I am retired, Linux has taken over.
CLIMATE CHANGE forces women into PROSTITUTION - US politicians
Re: More Fantasy
Obviously a right-wing nut. My coastal city went underwater first time ever with the superstorm. There is hardly ever snow here in New York City. The polar bears are being driven out and their populations are shrinking. We have a combination of drought and flood which has been wiping out our farmers, who are selling off their meat animals earlier than usual. Spring is definitely coming earlier, based on when various plants are flowering.
There is global warming. Whether man-made or not.
Re: transactional
Yeah, the kind that lacks "commitment".
In the kitchen...
I think ... I love you
Re: Half a dozen of one, but only six of the other. @Eguro @Eddy Ito
Actually I am rather glad you took the trouble to quote from the document presented by the Democrats:
'"Whereas the ability of women to adapt to climate change is constrained by a lack of economic freedoms, property and inheritance rights, as well as access to financial resources, education, family planning and reproductive health, and new tools, equipment, and technology;"'
Translated into English, this reads "Since women are in general poorer and even more oppressed than men in their cohort, and less likely than men to be able to bash their neighbours on the head when resources are short ... they (and children) will need additional support in the face of climate change."
The "Forces Women Into Prostitution" headline is just to draw attention.
How much will Google pay to bring fiber to Provo, Utah? Try $1
When will they come to Brooklyn?
Where I live, in high-tech Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, we don't have Verizon FIOS yet and I don't know when we will. We have crappy Time Warner cable. I have been using ADSL for nearly 10 years. Anybody remember what that is?
Game designer spills beans on chubby-fancying chap with his stolen Mac
Plod these days
Anyone know if it is better or worse since Thatcher? I'm a Merkin and have been wondering.
MISSING LINK between HUMANS and MONKEYS FOUND
Re: Lip Smacking eh?
Yes, they sit on their construction sites having lunch and do that. Never noticed the ladies liked it though.
Website which 'could have prevented Rwandan genocide' goes live
Epidemiology of violence
I think the idea behind this is to build some analytics around the use of hate terms. This database would be used as a reference base for the analytics.
US CDC have used terms around illness to track cases of flu via Google queries and Twitter messages. Using this tool to locate virulent hate outbreaks could be useful. At the moment, in the US, there are trends around American Nazis, KKK, gun nut paranoids, and any number of historically minor hate groups. Excessive activity could be indicative of possible threats.
Tax man to take a bite of tech employees' free meals?
Keeping the techs on campus
I once worked at a large telecommunications company as a rent-a-programmer. We were quartered in a warehouse about a half mile from nowhere in New Jersey. They served (well, left for us in the printer room) free Danish and coffee. This was clearly to prevent us from going on a break with our cars. That is entirely for the convenience of the employer.
Locating one's data center in the back of beyond is a strategy for 1) getting cheap land to build on, and 2) making it likely that your staff will never take a substantial break or meal, but will work right through.
Taxing us for the break room would have been just the worst.
By the way, in the US the employer's contribution to health insurance and other benefits is tax free. The IRS is looking into a way to make it taxable, of course. Right now it is only taxable to the gay spouse!
Hold on! Degrees for all doesn't mean great jobs for all, say profs
Re: Student Grant
The US took a similar route, with similar results.
But there is a hint of the decline of capitalism here, with "growth" in markets believed to be the only way to solvency. However, growth in the population of workers leads to a glut, qualified or not. The result is a poorer populace, thus less demand, thus a shrinking market. Resulting in less demand for workers, etc.
Any system that requires unbounded growth to work is a Ponzi scheme in sheep's clothing.
Re: Is a degree worth the paper it is written on?
A lot of this is simply discrimination against older applicants. HR departments are full of flimsy minds with crap educations, but one thing they know how to do is get the cheapest person for the job.
One-time wannabe governor charged for Facebook share Ponzi scheme
What kind of politician?
From Wikipedia:
"Craig Berkman (born about 1943) is a longtime venture capitalist and was an influential Republican politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. "
This means more to Americans, but sort of like Conservative politicians.
Insourced staff paid a pittance but don't want to leave
Re: Funny..
The company has to pay more to torture the techs at the outsource firm. The actual techs don't get the extra pay anyway -- it goes to management, who torture the techs.
I was a consultant for years, the kind who is a permanent employee of a consulting company. The employing company paid extra for superior tech knowledge and the ability to drive us nuts; plus markup for profit, of course. We also told their management the truth rather than sucking up. We always knew we would be out of there at some finite future point, leaving them stewing in it.
Ironically, most of this type of consulting is gone, outsourced to India. I was there when the flags came down.
What Compsci textbooks don't tell you: Real world code sucks
Write the comment first
Since I started programming in the days of the dinosaurs, I have found it useful to write down what I was trying to do BEFORE writing any code. I still do that, even in SQL. Changing the comment is automatic if a commented line of code is changing. That seldom happens, though. Generally a whole function is being extended in some way. So the description of how it works would require some thought. Essentially, the specification is contained in the code. It doesn't take up that much space! Adding my name and a date helps other team members keep track of what changes correspond to user requests.
Of course it helps that I think in English, and my first programming language was COBOL. There was an invalid assumption in those days that COBOL was self documenting. The people who taught me never let us get away with that.
Democratic congresswomen 'less feminine in appearance' than Republicans
More about ethnicity?
The Republicans feature more WASPy (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) people of both genders. I suspect they are considered prettier and more feminine by everyone (possibly unconsciously) than the more varied ethnic groups represented in the Democratic party.
Chess algorithm written by Alan Turing goes up against Kasparov
We are not all as smart as you are
Back in the day, we had COBOL, and sometimes CICS, and frequently a database -- or not. We also had teams. The best results came from communicating to the end users and the team members in some sort of common language. We used flow charts, pseudocode, and sometimes a sort of graphic prototype for screen flow. We also used something we called structured programming, which is more natural to the modern programming languages, starting with PL/1.
The prototype, if any, was contained in the structured program, in which control passed to PERFORMs, also known as subroutines. The comments at the beginning of each set of paragraphs in the PERFORM would be the statement of what it was supposed to do. While writing this non-code, we discovered errors in thinking and design.
We could do this as a group, because there were also CALLed programs, with parameters. The design team could say up front what should be in the program, and define its inputs and outputs. Common data definitions were put into the same sort of INCLUDE libraries used today.
There would have been no point in writing all this in the target language, COBOL (and sometimes assembly language). It isn't self-documenting, despite claims. Using and maintaining the comments, taken from pseudocode, was a best practice that lived on in some form through C and possibly Java. Anything larger than a single algorithm (e.g., an operating system, a compiler), requiring teamwork over a period of time, needs this thoughtful design phase. Even if, like Linus Torvalds, you ended up writing it all yourself.
Why do women pick IT as a career ?
Still in IT
When I started in IT, back in the mainframe days, it was pretty hard to get a job in IT at all, and there was lots of discrimination against women in all jobs (as well as against blacks, gays, and anyone who looked different). I was soon recruited by a consulting firm, whose owner realised that women were a great overlooked resource, so we actively recruited them. I have a feeling we were also paid less than the men, but it would be hard to prove. It's just the way it was in those days.
Women stayed, and got promotions. At some point male sales reps went out of fashion, so they were almost all replaced with what I called sales clones, attractive and bright young women.
Computer science meanwhile was starting to be important, and was somewhat less attractive to women than to men. Previously, programmers learned on the job, mostly. The women were frequently mathematicians, while the men were frequently recruited from accounting and the mail room, where the early tab equipment lived. I went back to school at one point, first in computer science, then transferring after a year to the MBA program, where I learned things I had never encountered in college. I had found the computer science curriculum overly academic and boring; my MBA was in Operations Research, which is applied mathematics.
I'll be retiring next year at age 71. IT has been good to me, but I don't recommend it now, as the opportunities seem to have shrunk over the years. Possibly today's women have realised that, and are fleeing to areas where they can find growth.
Raspberry Pi IN THE SKY: Wallet-sized PC is disaster drone brain
I wish I were much younger and much smarter. Maybe this will inspire the young and smart to create good stuff like this instead of going into finance.
Bradley Manning in court as lawyers wrestle over secret docs
Manning is a hero
It's hard to get anyone to expose the stupid and evil things done by our government. They know the full force of the wounded bulls will be all over them. Private Manning is a brave man. He apparently knew that what he was giving to the world would improve things somehow, by exposing stupidity and venality. He most likely had no intention of damaging our real security (and probably hasn't). Most whistle-blowers are accused of doing serious damage to something or other. (That's what they used to say about hackers who exposed vulnerabilities.) Generally it's a lie. Kind of like the damage done by some kid sharing a file.
So seriously, the leaks threatened the lives of informers in Afghanistan? If so, the leaks are still up there -- show us!
Ballmer says 500 MILLION 'users' to 'have' Windows 8 in 2013
Didn't there used to be a rule?
Don't use even-numbered releases of anything? I vaguely remember that it was true a long time ago, even before M$FT.
Yeah, once in a LONG while I fetch it to see the weather app, translate a foreign word, or use calc, if I happen to be sitting at the Mac. I mostly use the apps on my iPad for those, though.
Airport screener stuffs stolen iPad into (own) trousers
The terrorists have definitely won
They have got us all at each others' throats. They have poorly educated recruits from the criminal classes patting down little old ladies and treating our external hearing aids as if they might be bombs.
They win! No more flying vacations. Driving to Cape Cod is going to be the extent of my vacation plans. I only have to watch out for poorly educated recruits from the criminal classes driving trucks and SUVs on the interstate highways.
Unemployment rate inches up in the US
Second Great Depression
When we studied the Great Depression in school, nobody could explain how it happened. Like, why did there all of a sudden stop being employment for so many people? It was like explaining how a guy could be alive and then suddenly dead. What left him?
What President Roosevelt (FDR) did was try to employ as many people as possible in government jobs under programs like WPA. It wasn't enough, though. The way the depression ended was with Extreme Government Employment, also known as World War II. There was so much employment available that they had to hire WOMEN (imagine that!).
Throughout, the Republicans hated FDR and referred to him as "that man in the White House", with "man" probably a euphemism.
Murdoch & Co unveil iPad news rag The Daily
In the United States
We have enough idiots who will love this. It is once again embarrassing to be a Yank. They want to repeal our poor substitute for NHS. But -- do they buy iPads?
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Home prices in the Santa Clarita Valley rose 1.9 percent to a median of $580,000 in July — a new record for an existing single-family home locally, a Realtors group said Thursday. . .
In spite of forecasts that prices would begin to level off, the median housing resale price in the valley has risen more than $80,000, or 16 percent, since July 2004, according to figures from the Southland Regional Association of Realtors.
Since July 2001, when interest rates dropped to historic lows, valley home resale prices have skyrocketed more than 118 percent. In addition, an abundance of buyers and speculators, who added more pressure to an already limited housing market, contributed to the record high prices.
Historically, a "healthy" housing market has annual appreciation of 2 to 3 percent.
Despite the double-digit appreciation, it seems doubtful that a housing bubble will develop and pop, sending prices tumbling, said Jack Kyser, chief economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.
"We are watching, but it doesn't seem there is going to be a bubble that would wreck havoc. We see a leveling off (of prices)," Kyser said.
However, Kyser warned that homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages and interest-only mortgages could be vulnerable when interest rates rise.
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does anyone have any methods that do not use sp (stored procedures) to prevent sql injection when dealing with php and mssql besides add slashes?
Well, that is obvious, isn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by coo_t2
But if a certain value is supposed to come in, and is expected to hold an int, you're going to cast it, right? And if someone send string "12 or 25" instead of an int, you're obviosly casting a string to int.
There is so much crossfire in this thread, I have doubts that anything in it can be considered obvious.
Agreed. :agree: And so much pedantic point-scoring that I doubt it will be much use to anyone anymore. Best thing everyone can do is to stand back and review what has already been said before adding to the confusion. This is afterall a VERY IMPORTANT issue of concern to us all.Quote:
Originally Posted by samsm
My personal opinion is that the DB code/queries shouldn't care what the userQuote:
Originally Posted by dbevfat
input was, or how it was sent, etc.
Originally Posted by KTottE
I agree with sterefrog. Input validation and protecting your DB fromQuote:
Originally Posted by stereofrog
SQL injection are two different things. Or they should at least be looked
at as two different things.
I separate my DB code into DAOs from the rest of the app so that validating
input from the _REQUEST variables isn't even an issue. I don't see
it as the DB layer's responsibility.
Here's a partial example of one of my DAOs:
Now I do some validation here, but really, the data should of been checkedPHP Code:
class CampaignsDao_Mysql extends CampaignsDao {
function CampaignsDao_Mysql($dbConn)
function addCampaign( $name, $groupID, $pay_per_x_visits,
$cost_per_x_visits, $redirect_url=null )
if (!strlen($name) )
$msg = 'Must provide campaign name as first parameter to '. 'CampaignsDao_Mysql::addCampaign.';
return new DE_DataResourceError($msg, __LINE__, __FILE__);
elseif (!strlen($groupID))
$msg = 'Must provide a group ID as second '.
'parameter to CampaignsDao_Mysql::addCampaign.';
return new DE_DataResourceError($msg, __LINE__, __FILE__);
elseif (!is_int($pay_per_x_visits) )
$msg = 'Must provide an int value as third '.
'parameter to CampaignsDao_Mysql::addCampaign.';
return new DE_DataResourceError($msg, __LINE__, __FILE__);
elseif (!is_numeric($cost_per_x_visits) )
$msg = 'Must provide a numeric value as fourth '.
'parameter to CampaignsDao_Mysql::addCampaign.';
return new DE_DataResourceError($msg, __LINE__, __FILE__);
// It doesn't necessarily have to be passed in as a float,
// but the DB stores it as a float.
$cost_per_x_visits = (float)$cost_per_x_visits;
$name = mysql_real_escape_string($name, $this->_dbConn);
// $groupID is an alphanumeric string with length of 12
$groupID = mysql_real_escape_string($groupID, $this->_dbConn);
if ($redirect_url !== null)
$redirect_url =
mysql_real_escape_string($redirect_url, $this->_dbConn);
$campaignsTable = $this->_campaignsTable;
$campaignID = parent::_get_rand_id(12);
$query = "
INSERT INTO $campaignsTable
VALUES ('$campaignID', '$name', $pay_per_x_visits,
$cost_per_x_visits, '$redirect_url') ";
if (!$result = mysql_query($query, $this->_dbConn) )
$msg = 'Error adding campaign in '.
'CampaignsDao_Mysql::addCampaign : '.
return new DE_DataResourceError($msg, __LINE__, __FILE__);
$joinTable = $this->_campaignsGroupsJoinTable;
$query2 = "
INSERT INTO $joinTable
VALUES ('$groupID', '$campaignID') ";
if (!$result2 = mysql_query($query2, $this->_dbConn) )
$msg = 'Error adding campaign in '.
'CampaignsDao_Mysql::addCampaign : '.
return new DE_DataResourceError($msg, __LINE__, __FILE__);
return $campaignID;
before the method call was made. Just like any other method/function call, you have to make sure you feed it the values it wants.
I don't really see it as the DB layer's job
to validate data from the HTTP request. In terms of validation, the DB layer
only really needs to do what's necessary to do its job and protect itself.
It shouldn't really care what the application considers to be "valid" data. So if "12 or 25" is passed in when it is
supposed to be an int value, it shouldn't have even made it
to the point in your code that constructs a query string. So I guess my
point is, that input validation and SQL injection protection are two
different issues(as Stereofrog suggested earlier, you shouldn't confuse them) that should not be mixed together. Once you start looking
at them as the same issue, then you're data storage layer is having
too much influence over what your application code looks like.
I found that turning Magic_quotes_gpc on and keeping on prevent almost all injections people try.
This is a red herring. Magic quotes do not offer sufficient protection against SQL injection (which is simple to prevent), and they actually complicate a security-conscious developer's input filtering.Quote:
I found that turning Magic_quotes_gpc on and keeping on prevent almost all injections people try.
Therefore, I would argue that magic quotes decrease the security of an application rather than increase it.
Magic quote prevent Delete statements, insertion statements, and most other stuff. Its kept the infidels at bay for my site these last couple of years.
There's also addslashes and mysql_escape_quotes.
You really think so? :-) I think you'd be surprised what I could do to your database if you're relying on the escaping provided by magic quotes as your only protection. This is an extremely poor approach.Quote:
Magic quote prevent Delete statements, insertion statements, and most other stuff.
addslashes() is just the function magic quotes uses (well, magic_quotes_gpc, which is what most people refer to), so it has the same weaknesses. There is no such function as mysql_escape_quotes().Quote:
There's also addslashes and mysql_escape_quotes.
Imagine a delete query:Quote:
Originally Posted by Archbob
DELETE FROM table WHERE record_id = [parameter]
where [parameter] is a $_GET parameter. Aside of other problems that might occur, you'd also face a danger of someone sending you "43 OR (1 = 1)" (without the quotes) as that value. Since no special char is used, the variable is not escaped with magic quoting. Actually, NO escaping would protect you here, you'd have to use some other aproach.
Does something like this has to be talked OVER AND OVER AGAIN?!?Quote:
Originally Posted by dbevfat
We need something new here!!!
Anyway, just for being relevant, the solution to the 'quoted' post would be to use 'quoting' (as opposed to just "escaping", but in my world escaping is escaping+quoting).
And hey, has ANYONE ALREADY MENTIONED QUOTING AND ESCAPING?! No? Really? Check out the first page of this thread... If you can't find any of these two words then you should kill me.
I'm sick of this thread. This thread is evil. I'm unwatching it. I'm also evil though, so you should take this matter unpersonally and leave me alone.
I've tried alot of delete queries, they don't work. I use htmlspecialchars and strip_tags in conjunction with magic quotes but I doubt that changes anything. I probably have some other database setting turned on.
An int is an int, don't frigging quote it to make it a string :P
MySQL's query optimizer may go nuts with the indexes
Do the proper verification, is_numeric() won't hurt your fingers :)
Oh and it's even written here:
"Quotes around numeric data in queries"


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First it was 228 Miami-Dade police officers facing layoffs, then it was 110. Now, apparently, it's zero. At a press conference yesterday, Miami-Dade County mayor Carlos Gimenez said that no officer job cuts were now on the table for next year's budget after he had come to new agreements with vario ... More >>
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To sidestep union demands and deal with its burgeoning financial crisis, the City of Miami declared a situation of financial urgency. It is the second straight year the city has done this. The idea stinks. (The text of Martinez's declaration follows the jump.) It gives the union 14 days to nego ... More >>
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Today, Alice Glass announced her departure from – and thus the break-up of – Crystal Castles with Ethan Kath. She made a short statement on social media, including her personal Facebook page (with her first post since July): "I am leaving Crystal Castles. My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a multitude of reasons both professional and personal I no longer feel that this is possible within CC. Although this is the end of the band, I hope my fans will embrace me as a solo artist in the same way they have embraced Crystal Castles." Crystal Castles, who I had a chance to cover and photograph at two shows (one in Seattle in 2012 and the other in Oakland in 2013), and they were as unique in live form as they were in studio recordings. I thought I'd bid farewell to the band with a pictorial showcase of photos I shot at those two concerts, some of which have never been published previously. [Read more…]
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Tears for Fears at The Wiltern | Los Angeles, California | 9/23/2014 (Concert Review + Photos)
"Is that the new iPhone 6?" Roland Orzabal, early on in the show, as he and Curt Smith looked out over the sea of cell phones in the air, held by an exuberant sold out crowd at the historic Wiltern in Los Angeles last night. Tears for Fears, best known for their collection of timeless and classic New Wave hits from the 80s, do not tour very often, and when they do, the tours are usually not too many dates and cities. So there was a bit of an "event" feeling in the air, and based on some of their comments later in the show, they both seem to have quite an affinity for the City of Angels. As such, it seemed to be one of those special sort of shows, that unfold in a different sort of way. About halfway through the show, Curt even gave a shout out to Richard Blade, who was at the front of the GA crowd in the pit… if you didn't know him by his own lifetime in music, you would think he was the band's biggest fan (and maybe he is). Perhaps the development that represented the biggest point of fan service, prefaced by Roland with "nothing like changing it up for L.A.; obviously this is a special place for us…" was the surprise encore opener, a song that "we haven't done for many, many years". He said that this version will be included in their deluxe reissue of Songs From the Big Chair in November. He said it has been impossible for them to do live "until now", and then proceeded to play "The Working Hour". Definitely a special show by a fantastic band, and the place was certainly buzzing when it all came to a close after upwards of a two hour show.
Heart at Mountain Winery | Saratoga, California | 9/16/2014 (Concert Review + Photos)
"In the spirit of toasting, here's a song by Paul McCartney…" Nancy Wilson of Heart giving an appropriate intro to their cover of the Wings song, "Let Me Roll It", from 1974, with her sister Ann sharing the stage in the wonderful atmosphere at Mountain Winery in Saratoga last night. This was one of several cover songs performed, though the rest were Led Zeppelin songs for their encore. I've saw Heart twice last year, and they always deliver with stunning performances and are truly as great as they've ever been. In addition to their own vast and growing (with last year's Fanatic) catalog, they've also in some way become the caretakers of keeping Led Zeppelin songs alive and well (in addition to Jason Bonham's own Led Zeppelin Experience, which toured with them last year). Who else but Ann Wilson can give epic delivery of those vocals, and yet with her own trademark style? But of course fans turn out to hear Heart songs first and foremost, though they only played one song off the new album, "Mashallah" (which Ann said drives her into the stratosphere). Each time I see them, the familiar songs sound a bit different, as though they find new and innovative ways to translate them into a live experience. In any event, they put on a fantastic show in a gorgeous venue, so it was a wonderful celebration of them and their great music (as well as a tribute to some other greats in music).
"Big Block Party" with Morris Day & The Time (The Original 7ven), Sheila E., Guy, and Doug E. Fresh at Thunder Valley Casino Resort | Lincoln, California | 9/13/2014 (Concert Review + Photos)
"Sacramento… you may notice a bit of moisture forming on my forehead… falling down my face… I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, 'Morris has lost it.' You may even be thinking, 'Morris is not cool anymore.' But let me fix that shit for you, Sacramento. Just like you take a cool bottle of champagne out of the refrigerator, and you set it on the counter… what does it begin to do? See, it sounds like you all don't know. See, it begins to condensate, Sacramento. Because that's what you do when you're cool from the inside out… So please understand, Morris is not sweatin'. I'm condensatin'. And, hell yes, Morris Day is still cool!" Words from the legendary Morris Day from Morris Day & The Time (now The Original 7ven), headlining the Big Block Party by WorldOne Presents at Thunder Valley Casino Resort Saturday night. Having come on stage after the sun dropped out of view, which hit a high of 100 degrees, it left me wondering if the sweat rolling off everyone in the sold out concert venue was from the heat of the day, or the heat coming off the stage from the outrageous funk band, who followed the incredible line-up of Sheila E., Guy, and Doug E. Fresh.
Huey Lewis and The News at Mountain Winery | Saratoga, California | 9/6/2014 (Concert Review + Photos)
"We don't do this one often… this is awful fast; it's awful hard…" Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and The News giving an intro and tribute to a song they rarely play live in concert, "Hip To Be Square". He went on to explain to the crowd at Mountain Winery in Saratoga on Saturday night that San Francisco 49ers players Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott contributed backing vocals to the song, so were performing it to support their team. Having come off of their "Sports 30th Anniversary Tour" in 2013, they are still drawing large crowds with a mix of old and new material, which seems to change show to show. Whatever the setlist, they seem to have a lot of contagious fun, and their shows always have a family affair sort of vibe. As Huey introduced his band, he mentioned that he and drummer Bill Gibson even went to middle school together. I think the spirit of all that shines through in their music (recorded and live), and it's pretty remarkable that those relationships can endure in the music industry, when I've seen it completely tear other bands apart (even blood family members). They always put on an amazing concert, and Mountain Winery always serves as an awesome host, overlooking the night lights of San Jose and Silicon Valley.
80s Rewind Music Fest 2014 / Retro Futura Tour (Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey, Howard Jones, The English Beat, Katrina) at Thunder Valley Casino Resort | Lincoln, California | 8/31/2014 (Concert Review + Photos)
The show at Thunder Valley Casino Resort's Outdoor Amphitheater Sunday night was continuing on in WorldOne Presents' tradition of their annual "80s Rewind Festival Music Fest", and arrived in Lincoln, California with it's own unique line-up and variation on the newly christened Retro Futura Tour 2014 (formerly Regeneration Tour). With this event, the same co-headliners – Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey and Howard Jones – shared the bill, as did Katrina Leskanich (formerly of Katrina and The Waves. But in place of Midge Ure and China Crisis was the incredible English Beat featuring Dave Wakeling. As usual, the show took on a character all it's own, playing out to a large and enthusiastic crowd. I think the Katrina/English Beat/Howard Jones/Tom Bailey line-up featured artists that all have one thing in common: authentic optimism driving their music. Of course, the modern day '10s are not the classic '80s, and though the music played came from the past, it could also serve as a beacon of hope for the future. And, as with the show at Mountain Winery the night before, there seemed to be quite a reception for Tom Bailey, who stopped touring and performing live as Thompson Twins way back in 1987. It was another exceptional performance by all of the artists, and both shows are certainly on the short list for top concerts of the year for me personally.
The Eagles ("History of The Eagles Tour") at Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey's | Stateline, Nevada | 8/29/2014 (Concert Review + Photos)
"Yeah, I was from Detroit, Michigan. Where "mother" is half a word." Glenn Frey, founding member of The Eagles, which formed in 1971, alongside co-founders Don Henley and Bernie Leadon, using a bit of humor as the band introduced themselves to the sold out crowd at Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey's in South Lake Tahoe last night. Performing "History of The Eagles" alongside other great musicians with their own history with the legendary band, they played hit after hit in a set that passed the two hour mark. One of the most popular rock and roll bands of all time (critically and commercially, with six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, five number-one singles and six number-one albums), their success spans over six decades. The concert itself was fantastic for many reasons, but interestingly, it got better and better as it went on, and by the time the members were introducing one another and having some freedom on the mic, I felt that things really took off from that point forward.
Berlin Featuring Terri Nunn at City Winery Napa | Napa, California | 8/13/2014 (Concert Review + Photos)
"…I am extremely upset at losing Robin Williams – much more than I ever thought I would be when I first heard the news. It's really hard to see someone with that kind of talent and love from all over the world destroy himself. And I'm not saying he's wrong… I'm just saying it's hard… So we pulled this song that you've probably heard before, because I think it is what I want to say to honor him tonight. This is for Robin." A heartfelt and emotional intro by Terri Nunn of Berlin at City Winery Napa on Wednesday night, talking in a personal way about what has been on the minds of the masses around the world, as a preface to their special tribute cover of Duran Duran's "Ordinary World". All in all, it was a very intimate set, and probably the best I've seen them over the years. They have toured a bit more in 2014, in part to support their latest album, Animal. With their current sets comprised of a mix of old and new, it's become more and more seamless as the rest of the band have made each of the classic songs their own over the years. And they are still full of surprises, last night playing "Like Flames" for the first time since 1987. They are one of my personal favorite live acts today, and each time I see them it inspires me to turn out for future shows.
San Diego Comic-Con 2014: Photography Journal (Cosplay/Costumes/Sights of The Convention) (#SDCC)
As I have been covering San Diego Comic-Con on my sister site, The Original Prop Blog, since 2007, I am sharing some of the photos of the people and sights in and around the exhibit hall and the Gaslamp Quarter for this year's event. This feature focuses on photos of people in costumes. [Read more…]
San Diego Comic-Con 2014: Photography Journal (Sights Around The Convention Center and Gaslamp Quarter) (#SDCC)
As I have been covering San Diego Comic-Con on my sister site, The Original Prop Blog, since 2007, I am sharing some of the photos of the people and sights in and around the exhibit hall and the Gaslamp Quarter for this year's event. This feature focuses on photos of the convention at large. [Read more…]
Journey and Steve Miller Band at Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey's | Stateline, Nevada | 7/30/2014 (Concert Review + Photos)
"We'd like to play something off a very old record, but a very good record… it's called Infinity. This was not the beginning with Mr. Perry… this was one of the first songs I wrote with him… actually the second song. We wrote it sitting downstairs in Gregg Rolie's house… and then the song came out of nowhere – it wasn't about L.A., it was about San Francisco! I don't think they have a bay there… Is there a bay in L.A.? There's one in San Francisco!" Neal Schon of Journey reminiscing about creating some of the best rock and roll songs of all-time, as intro to "Lights". Journey and Steve Miller Band are just closing out a 41-date tour with Tower of Power that kicked off in mid-May, though this special one off show at the Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey's did not include the third band playing on the larger tour. The two classic rock bands provided plenty of music and energy on their own, playing to what appeared to be a sold out crowd. With many hits spanning decades, it was a great show with a lot of music history on display – both the songs and the people that made them. I've seen Journey a few times in the past couple of years, but I have to say that they've really cranked things up with this tour, and look and sound better than ever. It was my first time seeing Steve Miller Band, and while I'm not as familiar with them compared with Journey, I really loved that set as well. Both bands were in top form and put on amazing shows. One of the best tours of the Summer to be sure.
Huey Lewis and The News at Marin County Fair | San Rafael, California | 7/2/2014 (Concert Review + Photos)
"As I look out on all your faces, there's a few people here I don't know! Most of you I do know… most of you are on the guest list, I think!" Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and The News, peering out across the overflowing crowd within the tent at the Marin County Fair, it was more like a party than a concert, with friends and family making up a good portion of the audience. A hometown show (Huey is from Marin County and the band as a whole is identified with the area), it definitely had a certain magic in the air… a celebration of a band that has written and recorded a large catalog of fantastic music and stuck together now for about 36 years, the crowd was energized from beginning to end. They played songs going back from 1978 to today, and showed how, as a band, they eclipse the decade that they are best known for, and can showcase not only their own music but rock and roll songs written by others, using electric guitars and their famous horn section as well as coming together to the front of the stage for acapella. Definitely one of the most talented bands playing today, and, as always, one of the best tours going.


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After setting up a joint venture in China, the world's largest automotive market ahead of the US, Tata-owned British iconic brand Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has now set its eyes on West Asia. The company on Tuesday said that it has signed a letter of intent with the National Industrial Clusters Development Program (NICDP) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for an automotive partnership.
Agency reports said that JLR has signed a preliminary deal with Saudi Arabia to manufacture 50,000 Land Rover vehicles a year in the kingdom at an investment of 4.5 billion riyals (approximately Rs 6,516 crore), citing the country's commerce and industry ministry. The manufacturing plant is expected to begin work in 2017 in either the Jubail or Yanbu industrial cities.
When contacted, a JLR spokesperson said, "We have no further comment to make on this subject right now." The company release said that the details of the development options including level of investment, potential capacity and job creation are expected to be announced next year.
"We are committed to further international partnerships to meet record demand for our highly sought after vehicles," said Ralf Speth, chief executive officer, JLR.
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is an attractive potential development option, complementing our existing advanced facilities in Britain and recent manufacturing plans to expand in other countries including India and China," Speth said.
It is the world's largest integrated aluminum complex that goes on stream from 2014 at the Ras Al Khair facility that has attracted Tatas. "Also the favourable duty structure in the region and easy access to other Middle East markets from Saudi Arabia would help JLR," said VG Ramakrishnan, Frost & Sullivan's senior director (transportation & logistics), South Asia, West Asia and North Africa. "There is a flat 5% duty on goods, whether you buy a car or a soap or sell it."
A joint venture between Saudi Arabian Mining Company and Alcoa of the US, the aluminum smelter will have mining, refining and production of the aluminum at one facility. It is expected to produce lowest-priced aluminum in the world. Ratan Tata, the outgoing chairman of Tata Motors, in an interview to an automobile magazine had said, "This smelter could make the production of aluminum in Saudi Arabia very competitive."
Moreover, the contribution of emerging markets to JLR's overall sales has also seen a rise. For the eleven months to November 30, 2012, emerging markets contributed a 32% increase in global retail sales to 324,184 vehicles of JLR.
In the current calendar year, sales in the West Asia and North Africa have increased by more than 9% to 11,418 units.
JLR along with NICDP will undergo a detailed feasibility study to determine the viability of setting up an automotive facility. The company it has already sought opportunities in aluminum component production, which fits well with lightweight metals car project.
JLR recent formed a joint venture with Chery Automobile in China to manufacture vehicles at a new plant near Shanghai. The Chinese manufacturing plant is expected to open in 2015, taking the advantage of growing sales of JLR vehicles, which has seen a risen 80% in the past year. Moreover, JLR is also going through a separate expansion at its assembly facility in Pune, India.
"This is an exciting project that could enable JLR to establish a joint venture partnership in a part of the world where luxury vehicle sales are expected to rise," said Speth.
"JLR has been looking at selling more of its vehicles outside the UK and its China, India and now Saudi plan is to reach out to markets aggressively and at a competitive pricing," said an auto analyst.


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More than being one of the best selling albums of all time, more than having the most recognizable album cover the world over, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon was a cross-cultural, trans-generational album that connected with audiences on issues of death, greed, life-purpose and the horrors and t ... More >>
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