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Which one is it ?[edit]
"ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming)"
"ABAP is an abbreviation of Allgemeiner Berichtsaufbereitungsprozessor"
FiP 14:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
The first one. It used to be the second one. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 18.104.22.168 (talk • contribs).
- Original name: "Allgemeiner Berichtsanalyseprozessor". For marketing purposes, it was changed to "Advanced Business Apllication Programming". So, concerning the initial name, it's an acronym, with its "internationalized" name it's a backronym. Now the funny part is the english translation of its initial name, which would be "Common Report Analysis Processor". Try to find an acronym for that ... -- C. Deelmann 08:50, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
- Nice innuendo and thanks for the info, but I'd suspect "Allgemeiner" is usually translated as "General", not "Common" ;) --220.127.116.11 (talk) 07:44, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
It appears to be a virtual machine, why is not called as such in the article? Mathmo Talk 02:14, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Data integrity[edit]
The article includes a statement to the effect that the ABAP Dictionary enforces referential integrity. I believe it doesn't, so I'll change this in a while unless anyone objects. 220.127.116.11 19:05, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed. The DDIC does not enforce integrity. You can declare it but this will not have an effect on SQL statements that interact with the database. There is no way of cascading deletes and inserts will not fail when they violate declared relationships. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 21:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
SIze of article / origin of article[edit]
This is huge -- it seems more like a programming manual than an encyclopedia article. This also leads me to wonder where all this material came from -- is this definitely copyvio-free?--NapoliRoma 18:44, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
- copyvio-free? Who knows? And since it's impossible to proof, who cares? If someone complains about something, we remove it, as usual. --Sigmundur (talk) 08:50, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
- It's an obvious copy from SAP's help manual. Compare the section "Internal Tables as data types" with http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/EN/fc/eb35de358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm
- I totally agree that the article is quite blown up with details. I started to remove some WelfVonBayern (talk) 07:15, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Article is definatedly too long, also it looks a bit overpostivie about ABAP. Why isn't there a criticism section (like in i.e. Java or C# articles)? There are several annoying featues of abap and none are mentioned(for. ex. the largest DB field is 64K (no BLOB nor anything))?. "It is a special strength of ABAP that you can define a great variety of data types and objects that span the spectrum from very elementary data types to very complex and dynamic types." - how is it a special strength? Cerainly not compared to general purpose languages like c/c++. It could be compared to PL/SQL, but the whole statement is unclear. The "advantages over contemporary languages" are also dubious - most of them are described in an insubstancial way. For example how is exception handling an advantage over Pascal/C++/C#/Java (it actually works the same way)? Again, maybe it's an advantage over some application-specyfic languages, but the title just says "over languages". Same thing: how is the concept of internal tables "unique" - how is it better than for example generic containers? All this looks as if SAP had some1 write a nice article about their product. Wheather it is so or not the article needs shortening, and is definatedly too one-sided. 188.8.131.52 (talk) 00:46, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
- I haven't read the complete article and there are annying things about ABAP but ABAP does have BLOB and String types both on the database as well as during runtime. Exception handling is indeed pretty Java-like (probably derived from there). Itabs are certainly a somewhat specific notion, which of course doesn't mean that they are "better" than alternative construct. I don't know other languages that have a construct that can serve the purpose of DB result set, Hash table, Associative array and general collection, so this would justify to point this out as a characteristic trait of the language. I didnt write the original statements and I'm not not saying that Itabs are better than constructs of other languages but itabs seem like a (maybe somewhat quirky) speciality of ABAP. This is not a defense - just my 2 cents as somebody who is using the language but who is too lazy to revise the article. 126.96.36.199 (talk) 21:46, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Mind you, the article is also wrong in that it states that there is no such thing as an array in ABAP. An array - "work area" - is the basis for a table. The author must have been a novice programmer who had never defined an array directly or as a structure in the data dictionary. Furthermore, surely a "strength" of ABAP is its incorporation of openSQL, and thus its manipulation of mass data in general. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 00:49, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
How about using fold-outs (or what are they called; that you can expand and contract; show and hide)? At least the examples and specific features could be hidden away. --Sigmundur (talk) 08:48, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Aspects to consider[edit]
I think this is something that is really too specific, and rather personal - perhaps one could say not a NPOV! Therefore, I've removed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 12:28, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Comparison of ABAP and Java[edit]
This article was proposed for deletion on the grounds of unfixable original research. I deprodded as it seemed to me that a comparison between the two was reasonable, but I don't know enough about computer programming to properly assess and fix the article. Any assessments of it and editing would be welcome. Fences&Windows 16:05, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
ABAP is a language only for SAP applications. It can not be used for other developements. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 05:06, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
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I want to make a customer table and how a customer table will autamatically updated —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 09:03, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Delete sections[edit]
I'm working on a cleanup of the ABAP article (I'm not the original author but I had noticed that much of the original article was obsolete or contained questionable information). As part of that work I have marked following sections for deletion:
- Advanced topics: this section only mentions batch input. This is not a key topic in an article describing the language and I think it is best left out. Furthermore, if batch input is discussed then alternative techniques like CATT would also have to be mentioned, which would make the article even longer.
- Other features: contains simply a list of unrelated features, some of which are already mentioned earlier in their proper context
- Example and Example (Report): these are very long and, except for ABAP programmers, fairly meaningless examples. Anyone who wants to see a full ABAP program can find any number of examples on the Web. The short and documented examples earlier in the article are far more useful.
Mark Mergaerts --184.108.40.206 (talk) 14:13, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
As suggested on this discussion page before, I think part of this page is copyright violation. I have added the teplate (I don't know if correctly). --126.96.36.199 (talk) 22:09, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Link: "ABAP History". SAP-technical.com - AVIRA Reports a script malware — Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.104.22.168 (talk) 19:35, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Instruction manual[edit]
Much of this article reads like an instruction manual and could use cleaning up, probably including removal of much of the material. The Syntax section in particular seems to be just a straightforward tutorial with no encyclopedic content at all. -- Fyrael (talk) 15:14, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
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Cambridge, Mass. Sophomore Chrissy Muller scored with seven seconds left in the first overtime period, allowing the 15th-ranked Quakers to hold off Harvard, 11-10, on Saturday afternoon.She finished the game with one goal and three assists while Ali Ryan and Rachel Manson each notched hat tricks in the win.
The Quakers (6-4, 3-1 Ivy) opened up the offensive barrage, with Ryan tallying her first goal of the game on Muller's first assist of the game with 17:51 remaining in the first half. Harvard then collected to goals to take the lead, 2-1. Manson then notched the score at two with an unassisted goal at the 10:23 mark. The Crimson (2-7, 0-3 Ivy) took a 3-2 lead before Manson collected her second goal of the game off of a pass from Allie Juras with 8:02 remaining in the half. Emily Cochran scored on a free position shot at the 4:00 mark to give Penn the 4-3 lead heading into halftime.
Manson completed her hat trick to open the second half. Her free position goal came with 28:08 remaining in the game. Harvard scored twice more to tie the game at five before the Quakers opened up on offense. Ryan connected with the back of the net at 24:35 on an assist by Muller and then she fed the ball to Allison Ambrozy for her goal at the 23:40 mark. Ryan, again assisted by Muller, scored her team-leading 17th goal with 22:38 remaining in play and Katie Spofford scored off of a pass from Emily Cochran to give Penn the 9-5 lead with 21:31 left in the game.
It was all Crimson for the next 10 minutes, as Allie Kaveney collected her second goal of the game at the 20:56 mark before Tara Schoen had a hat trick, scoring one unassisted goal and two free position shots to tie the game at nine all with 12:33 left in play. Karen Jann gave Penn back the lead on a free position shot at 9:28, her second goal of the season. Harvard tied the game at 10 with 4:36 remaining to send the game into overtime.
Muller's game-winner came after Harvard goalie Caitlin Cahow stopped two Quaker shots in the closing minutes of the extra period. Muller picked up the rebound of the second shot and tucked into the cage to put Penn ahead by one.
In goal, Liz Lorelli had eight saves for the Quakers. Cahow had nine saves in the game for the Crimson. It was her first collegiate start.
The Quakers are next in action on Wednesday, April 13 when they host No. 3 Princeton on Franklin Field. Game time is slatted for 7 p.m.
Written by Jennifer Hildebrand, athletic communications assistant
Prd Time Team Type Goal Scorer Assists
1. 1st 17:51 PENN EVEN RYAN, Ali (12) MULLER, Chrissy
2. 1st 14:19 HARV EVEN Orr, Casey (1) Simmons, Caroline
3. 1st 12:34 HARV EVEN Gamble, Liz (5) Free position shot
4. 1st 10:23 PENN EVEN MANSON, Rachel (14) Unassisted
5. 1st 8:49 HARV EVEN Kaveney, Allie (9) Unassisted
6. 1st 8:02 PENN EVEN MANSON, Rachel (15) JURAS, Allie
7. 1st 4:00 PENN EVEN COCHRAN, Emily (14) Free position shot
8. 2nd 28:08 PENN EVEN MANSON, Rachel (15) Free position shot
9. 2nd 27:32 HARV EVEN Belitsos, Elaine (14) Simmons, Caroline
10. 2nd 26:43 HARV EVEN Curtis, Natalie (14) Unassisted
11. 2nd 24:35 PENN EVEN RYAN, Ali (16) MULLER, Chrissy
12. 2nd 23:40 PENN EVEN AMBROZY, Allison (4) RYAN, Ali
13. 2nd 22:38 PENN EVEN RYAN, Ali (17) MULLER, Chrissy
14. 2nd 21:31 PENN EVEN SPOFFORD, Katie (12) COCHRAN, Emily
15. 2nd 20:56 HARV EVEN Kaveney, Allie (10) Free position shot
16. 2nd 17:52 HARV EVEN Schoen, Tara (7) Unassisted
17. 2nd 16:23 HARV EVEN Schoen, Tara (8) Free position shot
18. 2nd 12:33 HARV EVEN Schoen, Tara (9) Free position shot
19. 2nd 9:28 PENN EVEN JANN, Karen (2) Free position shot
20. 2nd 4:36 HARV EVEN Gamble, Liz (6) Kaveney, Allie
21. OT 0:07 PENN EVEN MULLER, Chrissy (11) Unassisted


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Underground Metro - Articles and news items
Building on the success of Italy's first underground VAL network
Issue 4 2013 • 22 August 2013 • Giancarlo Guiati, Sole Administrator, Infra.To
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● Participation in the study group for the transport and financial planning of Line 2 of the Turin Underground
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Assessing fire development in underground metro cars
Issue 2 2011 • 6 May 2011 • Professor Haukur Ingason, Senior Research Scientist, SP Technical Research Institute
In the fire safety design process for underground metro systems, the design fire is usually an issue that requires long discussions and consensus among designers. The main reason is the complexity of fires in metro cars and lack of large scale test results which confirm the design assumptions. This article gives an overview of fire development in underground metro cars and gives an insight into a large scale test series that is planned for autumn 2011 in Sweden.
Increased demand for mass transport
Rapid advances in underground construction technology and increased demand for mass transportation of people force us to build more-and-more complex underground mass transport systems. The fire risks and conse – quences of fires usually become key issues in the design process.
Evaluating safety aspects for underground metro networks
Issue 2 2011 • 6 May 2011 • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alfred Haack, former Executive Board Member at STUVA (Research Association for Underground Transportation Facilities) and Past President of ITA (International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association)
A functioning mass transit system is most important to back up mobility in large cities and conglomerations. This has been recognised for nearly 150 years: the first metro worldwide was inaugurated in London in January 1863. It was a steam driven system. The first electrified trains started in November 1890, again in London. The first metro on the continent followed in 1896 and was installed in Budapest. Paris started its metro in 1900, Berlin in 1902 and Hamburg in 1912.
The size of the route network depends on the population of the city or the area served by the subway system. London operates its underground network with a length of 410km and 270 stations – by far the largest network in Europe (and worldwide), followed by Madrid with 325km, Moscow with 300km and Paris with 215km.


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Sania-Huber through to 3rd round of Wimbledon
The sixth-seeded Indo-American pair had to sweat it out for little over two hours to get the better of their unseeded opponents 7-6 3-6 6-2 late last night.
Even though Sania and Huber committed more unforced errors than their opponents, they enjoyed better share of break points conversion, utilising two out of the five opportunities that came their way.
Sania-Huber combination will face unseeded pair of Shuko Aoyama of Japan and South African Chanelle Scheepers in their next round.
Sania is also in the fray in the mixed doubles event where she is pairing up with Horia Tecau of Roumania.
Sania and Tecau, who got a bye in the first round, are seeded second in the mixed doubles event and the duo will play all German combination of Martin Emmrich and Julia Goerges in the second round.


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Subject: [John_Lit] Re: John 6:1 (was: Chapter 21)
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> >Paul, I've read and enjoyed your demolition of Parker, and I've a few
> >comments on it later. If there's a stone you don't leave it unturned.
> Thanks, Ken. I'll be polishing it up for submission to a journal, so any
> comments will be appreciated.
Parker's article was written so long ago it hardly seems worthwhile spending
so much energy refuting it point by point for publication. One problem with
it is the equal weight he gives to various reasons for doubting BD=JZ. By
tackling it in sequence you risk falling into the same trap. If I were
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then deal with the stronger ones first, and I would reduce the length to
about one third of yours. I would probably start with your a,b,c, comments
at the end of point 21.
Parker dismisses the early death of JZ theory and mentions Paul's reference
in Galatians, but the Marcan story which assumes both disciples were
martyred, and which is not refuted in Matthew, contradicts the tradition
that JZ lived a long life in Ephesus. That coupled with the evidence of a
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During a grueling 120-mile bicycle race, Marshall DeRosa, professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University, rode past several Florida prisons. It was not the first time a cycling route had taken him that way. However, on that particular afternoon, seeing the prisons sparked an idea.
While teaching at a West Virginia liberal arts college in the mid-1980s, DeRosa had found success teaching West Virginian prison inmates, as the state allowed inmates to take courses for college credit. Surely, thought DeRosa, something similar could work in Florida.
DeRosa had previously partnered with the Charles Koch Foundation for various academic grants, so he decided to call the Foundation to discuss his idea about starting a civics course in a privately operated prison in Florida.
After getting the Foundation and GEO Group Inc. (which operates the prison) on board, DeRosa garnered the approvals necessary to start a state-certified pilot program called the Inmate Civics Education Enhancement Project (ICEEP). It launched in 2015 at the GEO prison facility in South Bay, Florida.
"The class was supposed to be capped at 15 to 20 students, but we ended up with 38," says DeRosa. There was so much interest in the course that inmates who were not able to get into the pilot class were already requesting a class the following year.
Inmates read and discussed a book called The Five Thousand Year Leap: 28 Great Ideas That Changed the World. DeRosa, who facilitates the class with a counselor, stressed that students should learn about civics in terms of personal responsibility and values.
"We go back to the founding principles and talk about how successful liberty has been [at] advancing prosperity and progress."
Many of his students expressed astonishment. "They had never heard this before," he says.
Being incarcerated is a transitional and a transformative period in an inmate's life. It's an opportunity to make that a positive transformation rather than a negative one.
DeRosa has long been interested in criminal justice reform, especially reducing recidivism among returning citizens. One of his goals with ICEEP is to change the culture within the prison and prepare inmates for their return into society.
Throughout the first course, DeRosa witnessed inmates accepting responsibility for their actions. He also repeatedly heard statements like, "I didn't know I had value. I didn't know that I was somebody and had responsibilities that I should have adhered to."
Many of the students started writing letters to family and friends. They shared these newly learned principles and values in an effort to break the cycle of incarceration in their communities.
The pilot course resonated so deeply with inmates that they pleaded with DeRosa to teach more. DeRosa applied for a grant and will launch two courses in 2016. This time, second-year students will have a chance to mentor first-year students.
Changing the culture within the prison system and reducing recidivism will be difficult, but DeRosa believes it is possible. "These guys need to have hope rather than being thrown back out on the street to the same situation they lived in previously."
DeRosa shared about a time when he had to cancel class because of a security issue. When he came back the next week, the class was filled and the students greeted him with a standing ovation.
"They're genuinely thankful and can't wait for the next week, because physically they're incarcerated, but we're liberating their minds."
The Charles Koch Foundation requests proposals from scholars like DeRosawho are already working to understand the challenges facing our criminal justice system, like recidivism, and work towards solutions.


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Hey guys, maybe you can shed some light on the subject. OK so, I have gotten to be super close with one of my best friends which is understandable he is one of my best friends. This has transpired over the past 5 years approx. He has a girlfriend who he has been with for quite some time and I truly believe he loves her etc. About 3 years ago the drunk text messages started they got worse or better depending how you look at it ha ha and finally I called him out on it in a joking way but it got the point across. It stopped but the flirting didn't I try to keep it funny as in joking but part of me thinks he's serious and I ignore that sense. We hang out all the time and talk to each other almost every day. I know he sees me more than her which I find disturbing. I love him to death ( as a friend) and maybe if it were another time and another place it would have worked and been appropriate. Long story short are a drunken man's words a sober mans thoughts? and if so what do I do? How do I treat this situation?
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Well it sounds like you're like me, basically, you COULD possibly be with him if circumstances were different, but they're not, and since he's a best friend, you'd rather just keep that as is. If you ant to keep it absolutely platonic, I wouldn't encourage the behavior by flirting back or joking back in that manner. If he texts "those" kind of texts when he's drunk, I wouldn't respond. OR if you do respond to anything, always make sure it's 100% platonic :). Good luck girl!00|00|0


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AT least 25 people have been killed and 250 injured in an earthquake that struck a remote area of south-west China near the border with Myanmar, state media reported.
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Another day, another sound bite from the publicity stunt presidency.
On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed the "Buy American, Hire American" executive order, following up on the president's campaign trail pledges by taking aim at foreign worker visas and government purchasing of overseas goods.
"The buy and hire American order I'm about to sign will protect workers and students like you," Trump reportedly said at a Wisconsin public appearance. "It's America first, you better believe it. It's time. It's time, right?"
Rhetoric aside, this order won't do anything of the sort. The numbers just aren't there.
Trump's new policy calls for a review of two main programs: first, the H-1B visas which allow companies to sponsor visas for skilled, foreign workers, and second the Buy American laws under which government agencies and contractors must provide specific rationales whenever they choose to use foreign suppliers instead of domestic ones.
Neither of these programs is big enough to have any significant effect on the labor market, even if White House follows up on its reviews with concrete action. This is true of the H-1B program, and it's especially true about the much less known Buy American laws.
The latter that deserves the biggest spotlight, because, until Tuesday, most people didn't know that many agencies operate under a directive to buy domestically. Let's start, however, by touching on the visa issue.
It's small potatoes.
H-1B visas have stirred controversy for a long time. Critics argue that they allow companies to replace domestic workers with cheaper, foreign staff. Defenders of the program argue that it allows companies to staff jobs, primarily in STEM fields, in which there's not enough domestic talent.
"There's different points of view," said Harry Holzer, a professor of Public Policy at Georgetown. "The people on the left, like the Economic Policy Institute, like to point to studies that define engineers broadly, [studies] that say there's a big supply of those people who are native born… Whereas the companies like to say that their interests are far more narrow. They need people on the frontier, the cutting edge of things."
The H-1B program probably does affect engineering jobs and salaries somewhat, but equally probably not that much. From an economy-wide perspective, though, it just doesn't affect that many people.
Every year the State Department allows a maximum of 65,000 new fresh H1-B applicants, and up to 20,000 additional if they hold a U.S.-issued graduate degree. That's a maximum of 85,000 workers per year for three-year stints.
By contrast, the economy has created over 560,000 positions since the start of 2017 alone, and more than 14 million since the end of the Great Recession. Compare that to the potentially fudged H-1B applicants, well, there's no comparison.
"That's not a trivial number," Holzer emphasized, "but it's also a very, very small slice of all engineers in America."
The same is true of Buy American.
Buy American laws require government agencies to buy some of their materials and manufactured products from U.S. sources. There's a wide range, as these laws have been passed on and off since 1933.
The most common Buy American laws relate to steel and iron. For example, under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Department of Transportation has to ensure that all "iron, steel, and other manufactured goods used in [a] project are produced in the United States." For a non-comprehensive list of the many buy American laws floating around out there, see this page.
(Classified and sensitive defense contracts also adhere to this standard, but through a different and generally uncontroversial set of laws.)
While much of the coverage of Trump's order has focused on the H-1B program, the administration has made much more of Buy American. The President even staged his Tuesday announcement at a Kenosha tool company in front of an American flag made of wrenches.
Trump claims that his order will give the steel mills and die casting plants of the heartland their biggest customer back. This ignores several realities. Buying more steel has increasingly little to do with hiring more workers… and that this policy can't make much difference overall.
Despite much of the response, on their own Buy American rules have never mattered all that much. They mean that taxpayers pay somewhat higher prices for a defined set of products, but in the scheme of government spending this has always amounted to little more than a pork barrel appropriation.
Farmers get their subsidies, homeowners get tax credits, steelworkers get Buy American rules… for better or worse this is how the U.S. government does business. Inefficient, but not abnormal, and riddled with special exceptions and waivers. By one count, 59 countries have waivers which the Trump administration would continue.
All of which is why there's no low hanging fruit here.
Even if government agencies do play fast and loose with buy American rules, a crackdown would lead to marginal gains. A few more projects would by U.S. iron and office chairs and steel. Some companies would see gains, and would reflect that through some combination of increased automation and hiring.
A few other companies would probably see losses. Every additional dollar spent on an I-beam, after all, is a dollar not spent on software or someone's salary. The money has to come from somewhere.
And big picture? Just like the H-1B visas, the Buy American program doesn't account for that big a slice of the U.S. economy. What fudge factor the administration could smooth out through its review process accounts for even less. Out of a $3.8 trillion federal budget and a 16.77 trillion dollar economy, moving around a few federal vendors won't matter much to that many people.
"The Buy American thing, it would not have a big effect on the overall economy," Holzer said, "because we're talking about either how the federal government procures goods or groups that get federal funding, how much iron and steel they buy. Those are very particular slices."
"It could raise the demand for American steel a bit, I would argue not dramatically," Holzer added. "It could affect manufacturing industries that produce some of the goods that the us government buys, but again, not dramatically."
This, then, is the problem with Trump's vaunted Tuesday order: it's very small thinking.
For a big ceremony meant to herald a big campaign promise, Buy American Hire American won't affect many actual Americans.
Does that make it a bad idea? No. Years of reporting have made clear that some companies do try to use H-1B visas to undercut wages, but even if every single H-1B job was legitimately taken from a U.S. worker it would still represent 0.03% of the positions created in 2016 alone.
As a way to bolster local industry, Buy American falls somewhere between a perfectly normal subsidy and inefficient pork barrel spending. But as a jobs program? Somewhere between 87,000 and 145,000 people work in and around the U.S. steel industry. Again, a small number compared to the scale of the economy and likely to be influenced only slightly by a few more government purchases.
Had Trump directed his staff to look into this, or brought it up as a laundry-list item of government housekeeping, then these decisions would have been laudable. Certainly in the case of the H-1B program, the government could review and improve.
But, said Holzer, "for the aggregate U.S. labor market neither one of them is going to matter a lot. They both effect particular slices of that labor market and if you're in one of those particular slices you might be affected more."
For everyone else, he said, how much difference can it really make?
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Great post! '92 was definitely a good year for the reasons you named. There were also some major debuts in '92 - Yokozuna and Razor Ramon. Also Bob Backlund returned.
Forgive me if this thread has already been done. I did not do a thorough dig to check. It's also a bit long, so if you don't want to read through it, I won't be offended. Really. Anyway...
Upon rewatching all available WCW and WWF programming for the year 1992 chronologically, I can only conclude that it might be my favorite year in wrestling history.
I should start by saying I was a WWF kid through and through in the 90s, and HBK and the Hitman were my guys. I should also say that I have always loved a good work rate, even back before I knew what a "work rate" was. I knew that Bret's matches and Shawn's matches entertained me more than Hogan or Warrior's matches. That being said, 1992 was the year where, to my eyes, work rate started to win out over muscle bound super hero gimmickry. We all know why: The first inklings of the steroid scandal to come had shown their face, Hogan was missing from WWF TV for a large part of the year, and Warrior was on-again, off-again with his various suspensions and firings. With the sea change in talent and Vince knowing he needed to usher in something new, guys like Bret and Shawn were brought to the forefront. 1992 is the year it really started to happen.
The main things I liked about WWF '92 were Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels' fairly rapid ascent. The year begins with Bret dropping the IC belt to the Mountie at a house show, then going over Roddy Piper clean at Wrestlemania to win it back. Fast forward to Summerslam and you have what I might argue is Hart's greatest moment: the epic match in which he carried a stoned Davey Boy to a fantastic match in front of a capacity crowd at Wembley. Amazing stuff. Not long after, he wins the world title from Ric Flair in Saskatoon and becomes the "fighting champion". Meanwhile, Shawn becomes a singles competitor, developing the HBK gimmick on the fly. You can actually SEE it growing and changing week to week throughout the year. As the months wear on, he gains confidence, experience, and heat. He faces Bret Hart at a TV taping in WWF's first ladder match in July. He goes on to win the IC strap from Davey Boy on Saturday Night's Main Event, thus catapulting him into the high mid card -- a spot from which he would only ascend and below which he would never drop again. At the last PPV of the year, Survivor Series, he faces Bret in a champion vs champion match. I cannot stress enough how different Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels main eventing a PPV seemed at that time, coming off seven straight years of Hogan and crew.
Aside from the ascent of Shawn and Bret, you have Ric Flair's two-time title winning tour of the WWF. To see a guy we all knew was from the OTHER company walk in wearing THEIR championship belt...that was quite a moment. It's hard for today's wrestling fans to imagine it, but that was something you just did NOT see back then. It was mind boggling. Then the Royal Rumble win and, best of all, his feud with Savage. What an awesome, awesome program those two put on. As much as everyone wanted to see Hogan vs Flair and called it a missed opportunity, the Savage vs Flair feud was just awesome. Great promos, great matches, great story, great chemistry.
So....Shawn, Bret, Savage vs Flair...a work rate fan's dream! And no more constant Hogan and Warrior superhero nonsense! None of this even begins to mention the slow rise of the OTHER big 90s star, the Undertaker. 1992 was just a well booked, exciting, interesting, and very different kind of year. A transitional year, and one that set the stage for the decade to come.
Since this post is already running a bit long, I won't go into much detail about WCW, but wow. Just some of the amazing roster that year: Sting, Vader, Ron Simmons, Steve Austin, Jake Roberts, the Steiner Brothers, Barry Windham (when he was still worth a damn), Arn Anderson, Ricky Steamboat, Rick Rude, Brian Pillman, Cactus Jack. WOW! So many quality matches, even in spite of the often terrible booking that year. The Dangerous Alliance? Pure awesomeness. Again, a transitional year for WCW, and one that led to what I would consider a much less impressive '93 and '94 for WCW. This, to me, was the last really great WCW year until '96 or so. '93 paled in comparison and '94 saw Hogan run over the whole roster and bring in his old WWF pals. By late '95, things slowly started to come back to life. A story for another day...
Anyway...between WCW's awesome roster, WWF's ascent of Bret, Shawn, and 'Taker, and the Flair-Savage feud, 1992 was just a stellar year. Feel free to add any thoughts, disagreements, or embellishments you can think of. Thanks for reading!
Great post! '92 was definitely a good year for the reasons you named. There were also some major debuts in '92 - Yokozuna and Razor Ramon. Also Bob Backlund returned.
WCW '92 is one of my favorite years. That roster was just insane. The Dangerous Alliance was so damn entertaining. Rude/Steamboat is a feud that needs more love, I feel.
WWF '92, is one of my favorites simply because of the wackiness. They start off with huge names and by April several of them are gone. Shango/Warrior is a guilty pleasure of mine. However, the undercard with Bulldog/Hart/Michaels made for fun matches. Savage/Flair, Money Inc. run.. Such a good time overall.
WWF 1991-1992 are the golden years for me, this was what I watched growing up, it was the GOAT roster, Hulk, Warrior, Savage, Piper, Roberts, Taker, Bret, Bulldog, Flair, Sid, Perfect, HBK, LOD, Money Inc, Papa Shango, The Mountie, The Model, hell I even liked Virgil, too legit to quit! Pure nostalgia love for this era of WWF for me.
I watched through the WCW 92 tapes on the Network a while back for the first time, it was REALLY good stuff.
I'm a huge fan of WCW circa 89-92. The 92 PPV collection is something I missed out on as a kid, but I was still a huge WCW fan back then. Being able to watch them all now on the network is pretty sweet. I'm actually watching Beach Blast as I type this. Sting vs Cactus: Pinfalls Count Anywhere (with Bill Alfonso as referee). Nuff said.
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WCW 1992 is great. With Flair leaving, it was almost like they entered the "New Generation" first, and put out maybe their best calendar year of pay per views, setting things up for a promising future. With Flair's return in '93 and Hogan becoming available the next year, they reverted back to the future, but 1992 is like an alternate universe of what WCW could have been in late 90's with Sting, Austin, Pillman, Cactus Jack, Dustin Rhodes, Ron Simmons, Vader, Steiners leading WCW through the 90's.
WWF was much more hit or miss for me. I'm not as nostalgic for a lot of the gimmicks, but there were some high points. Flair's Rumble performance, Two classics at WM8, Hart-Bulldog at SummerSlam, and the debuts of Razor Ramon, Lex Luger, Jerry Lawler and a heel Shawn Michaels. A lot of crap too.
I think WCW won 1992, with WWF setting themselves up nicely to win 1993.
I regret not watching 1992 WCW in real time just because I missed out on the awesomeness that was the Dangerous Alliance. Love those guys. Would have been a pleasure to see them do their thing every week in real time.
My interest in real time 1992 WWF ebbed and flowed. Flair & Mountie kicked the year off with a bang by winning the WWF Title, Rumble & (briefly) IC title. Then I was all about Papa Shango and babyface Undertaker. Enjoyed HBK's rise to the top. But even young mark me could see things weren't quite what they used to be by the end of the year. In the 1992 mindset WWF Champ Bret vs. IC Champ HBK made then-current WWF look like the JV squad when you consider just two years earlier you had WWF Champ Hogan vs. IC Champ Warrior in pretty much the biggest match ever (or at least since Hogan/Andre).
The company going into 1992 was still the WWF of the Golden Era, with the roster to go with it. However the steroid scandal had almost paralyzed the WWF and drastically altered its booking direction. Hogan was being forced out and his designated replacement Sid Justice was no longer viable. The roll of champion fell to Randy Savage, who failed not because of anything on his part but simply because the WWF failed to run an angle propelling the Flair/Savage feud forward after WrestleMania. From April until July there really was nothing taking place to draw interest, and the gates showed it.
But more important than this was the absolute decimation of the roster. I'll give you the top 10 wrestlers in January 1992, and then again in December 1992:
January 1992 December 1992
Hulk Hogan Bret Hart
Ric Flair Ric Flair
Randy Savage Randy Savage
Sid Justice Razor Ramon
Rowdy Roddy Piper The Undertaker
Jake Roberts Shawn Michaels
The Undertaker Yokozuna
Bret Hart Kona Crush
Big BossMan Big BossMan
Davey Boy Smith Marty Jannette
You have to look at the December 1992 roster and think of where they were in the eyes of the fans at the time. Shawn Michaels was still in the first year of his singles push after having been a tag-team wrestler for the four years prior. His partner Marty Jannette was back and getting a singles push as well. After wrestling in a tag-team for six years, Bret Hart was now a World Champion. Scott Hall had been The Diamond Studd on WCW seven months earlier, while Yokozuna was brand new.
In the intervening months, the company had lost: Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior, "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith, Sid Justice, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Rowdy Roddy Piper, The Mountie, Hawk, Animal, Nailz, The Warlord, The Barbarian, "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka, "Texas Tornado" Kerry Von Erich, and Jim "The Andvil" Neidhart. It was a tremendous loss of talent, most of who had been involved in key feuds.
The best comparison would be if WWE today were to lose John Cena, Randy Orton, Roman Reigns, Rusev, The New Day, The Big Show, The Usos, Samoa Joe, The Miz, and Dolph Ziggler in a short period of time without sufficiently building up their replacements. Yes this would be a great opportunity for Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, Shinsuke Nakamura, Jason Jordan, Enzo A'More, and a few others, but without the passing of the torch moments you are left with an inorganic elevation of some talent that was previously viewed as mid-card material or tag-team wrestlers.
Thanks. I appreciate you taking the time to respond and I certainly see the logic behind your opinion.
That being said, one of the main reasons I really like the WWF in 1992 is the matches.
Bret vs Piper - Not a mat masterpiece, but a cool clash of eras on the biggest stage of them all. Bret goes over clean.
Savage vs Flair - Good angle, good match, great in-ring chemistry.
Savage vs Flair 2 - My only regret is that this was not on a big PPV but a TV taping instead. Another good match with Savage selling his "hurt knee" big time.
Bret vs Bulldog - Arguably one of the best matches in WWF history, not to mention the location, the crowd, etc.
Bret vs Shawn ladder match - the first ladder match in WWF history. Not a barn burner, but an important historical moment.
Bret vs Shawn title vs title - A good match and one that clearly showed the direction the WWF would be heading in the 90s.
L.O.D. vs Money Inc - Entertaining tag team feud.
Savage/Perfect vs Ramon/Flair - Cool for its mixing of eras. A bit odd that Perfect had to sub for Warrior, of course.
Undertaker vs Kamala - First Casket Match in WWF history.
So all of that happened in ONE calendar year! Quality matches, mixing of wrestling eras, ascent of Hart, Michaels, and Taker, and the first ladder and casket matches in WWF history. To me, that's a great year. I understand though, due to the loss of the stars you mentioned and the shrinking gates, why you feel otherwise.
Thanks again for your counterpoint perspective.
Great American Bash of 92. Damn. I feel ashamed of myself. Never seen it until now. What a show. Sting vs Vader and a tag team tourney featuring Austin, Windham, Liger, Pillman, Steamboat, Dustin, Hase, Williams, Rude, Gordy, Hashimoto and more? Yeah, that is my kinda card.
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1992 was definitely an odd year. It was a changing of the guard where we got sprinkles of the past and glimpses into how the future would be.
Who is the boss? Who made wrestling? Who is sports entertainment?
Great thread, I echo a lot of the comments here. Flair in WWF was fucking nuts. Macho Man got his belt back. Bret Hart becomes a megastar. And yet, WCW had the better product!
My Top 5 1992 for the hell of it:
5 - Sting vs Vader, GAB
4 - Hart vs Bulldog, Summerslam
3 - Sting vs Cactus, Beach Blash
2 - Liger vs Pillman, Superbrawl
1 - War Games
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I attended a lively and entertaining talk by Glasgow-based textile artist, Jilli Blackwood yesterday. Her famous 'Slash and Show' textiles are a riot of colour and texture and embellishment. They include hand-dyed fabrics, layering, weaving, pleating, with freely worked hand and machine embroidery. She has a loom in her home studio, and this informs her work, and she returns to weaving between her embroidery projects.
I had researched this artist in respect to contemporary embroidery in an earlier article, so will not repeat that material here.
As a third year graduate, Jilli had been invited to meet fashion designer, Jean Muir, who encouraged her to make a 1 metre square version of a layered and cut sample. She also offered Jilli a job, which she turned down, despite being a huge fan of Muir's designs. Jilli strikes me as a very independent person, who was keen to develop her own ideas.
Her breakthrough moment for the future direction for her work came with the Millenium Kilt, an altered, second-hand kilt with a three-dimensional surface created with the techniques mentioned above. She told us that she had had a last minute moment of doubt about exhibiting the kilt in The McManus Galleries in Dundee (2000) as part of an exhibition called 'Textiles for the 21st Century'. Was an 'altered' garment an original work of art? However, she need not have worried, as it went on to win the award for first prize and was then exhibited at the V&A as part of an exhibition called 'Men In Skirts'. Despite several offers to buy this piece, Jilli retained ownership of it, but went on to create a series of similar pieces for sale. A collection of 'Art to Wear' pieces, forms another series, including kimonos.
Jilli Blackwood, Millenium Kilt, 1999-2000
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It was interesting to hear about Jilli's working practice: the piece above started as a sketch on an envelope, before hands-on work on the kilt itself. At other times she will dye the fabrics first. She uses Kemtex dyes because of their light-fast qualities. The dyed fabrics will be hung together so that she can see how the colours interact, as she selects a colour palette for the project in hand. Next, an A4 – A3 sized sample may be made, before the full sized piece is worked on. The work moves from floor to wall to sewing machine as Jilli works on it by hand and with her sewing machine, adding and subtracting elements until she is happy with the outcome. This process can take several years to complete on a single piece. Although, The Glasgow School of Art can make digitally rendered prints if large scale production is required.
One piece that she brought along to show us had not, she felt, worked, but instead of discarding it, she ended up cutting it in half, re-joining it with two upward arcing lines now meeting in the centre. This gave it a new dynamism that resembled various buildings she had seen, and Jilli wondered if the influence of this architecture had subliminally affected her development of the piece. The colour was altered by folding and over-dyeing the wall hanging several times, and it now has a background of dark lines with the bright pink elements glowing against it.
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For the Flag Handover Ceremony at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, Jilli designed an eye-catching red tartan for the entire Scottish team. One aspect that she had to give thought to was that it had to be 'larger than life' as the human figures would be tiny in the huge stadium to the audience there, but would also be seen around the world on television. The design had to work in these two, very different situations.
After she had designed the Team Scotland parade outfit for 2014 Commonwealth Games, she was dismayed to find that the outfits had been photographed for publicity purposes, against a green countryside background, instead of the grey or dark background that she had envisaged. The interaction between colours is very important to this artist.
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More recent work has been embroidery over worn, antique, South African rugs, echoing the existing pattern. Jilli mentioned that as well as being extremely hard to work on, she was amazed to find all the 'errors' in the seemingly perfect patterns on the rugs.
Her future plans include re-branding her website and producing a luxury catalogue and generally 'raising her game'.
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This was a timely example of how wonderful textiles can be created or altered, and will feed into my experimental approach to creating textiles on Part 5 of the course. Jilli's playful, colourful, 'anything goes' approach was very refreshing, as was her persistence with pieces that aren't quite working, but can be altered and re-formed by changing the format or colour palette, for example.
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