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Thủ tướng Hàn Quốc kêu gọi sớm thông qua FTA với Mỹ
Phát biểu tại cuộc họp nội các, thời trang tóc, ông Han Duck-soo cho biết chính phủ đã đệ trình kiến nghị FTA Hàn Quốc-Mỹ lên Quốc hội ngày 7/9, song hai tháng trôi qua mà văn bản này vẫn chưa được đưa vào chương trình nghị sự.
Theo Thủ tướng Han Duck-soo, các Bộ trưởng nội các phải nỗ lực hơn nữa để Quốc hội thông qua.
Hàn Quốc và Mỹ đã ký FTA song phương hồi cuối tháng 6, thời trang tóc, tuy nhiên thỏa thuận này phải được Quốc hội hai nước thông qua trước khi có hiệu lực./.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Toronto FC used a second-minute goal from Matias Laba to claim a 1-0 win against the New England Revolution at Gillette Stadium on Sunday night.
The Revolution (8-8-6, 30 pts) out-shot Toronto (4-10-8, 20 pts.) 17-6 on the night, and out-possessed the visitors 63.7% to 36.3%, but the Reds made the early goal stand while goalkeeper Joe Bendik made two saves in the win.
Laba staked the Reds to the early advantage, capitalizing on a Revs' defensive miscue and stripping a New England defender near midfield to sprint toward goal. Revs defender Stephen McCarthy committed to the tackle at the edge of the 18-yard box, but Laba cut back and went in clear on goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth. He beat Shuttleworth one-on-one, but while Revs midfielder Scott Caldwell streaked in to disrupt the shot, Laba got on the end of the loose ball and slotted it home for a 1-0 Toronto FC lead.
The Revolution, which had two shots cleared off the goal line by the TFC defense in the first half, controlled the game throughout and had several chances to equalize.
The Revs had their first chance in the 13th minute when Dimitry Imbongo picked up a long bending pass down the sideline from Juan Toja and streaked toward goal. At the end line, he turned and sent a low ball back through the goal box, but Bendik palmed it into the oncoming path of Diego Fagundez and the 18-year old's right-footed shot was blocked by Ashtone Morgan on the goal line to prevent the equalizer.
Bendik came up big again in the 17th minute when he stopped a Lee Nguyen first-time volley off a Saer Sene pass. Nguyen let loose from the top of the box with his right foot, taking the ball off the bounce, but the goalkeeper stood for the save to again prevent a Revs goal.
The Revs had an entertaining series in the 34th minute that nearly leveled the game. The play started with a simple one-two interplay between Sene and Andrew Farrell down the right wing. Farrell came away with the ball and advanced toward goal, but a pair of defenders closed down on him and disrupted his pass. He was able to get on the end of the bouncing ball and over-head kicked it into the area to Imbongo, who rose up and chested Farrell's pass to Fagundez. His shot was cleared off the line by Richard Eckersley, but was cleared back to Farrell on the right wing, who found Caldwell outside penalty arc. Caldwell's shot from distance was blocked, but fell to Chris Tierney lying deeper on the left wing. Tierney then launched a longer-distance shot that was on a line, but inches high of the goal and Bednik's out-stretched hand.
The Revs had another chance in the 42nd minute when Imbongo's cross from the right side was just deflected by Bendik's reach. The ball landed at Sene's feet on the far post and the Frenchman shot with his right foot into the open net, but mis-fired and found side-netting, again unable to notch the equalizer.
At the half, the Revs had out-shot Toronto 10-3, but Laba's goal still stood as the difference.
While the Revs continued to maintain a decidedly strong edge in possession in the second half – 64.6 to 35.4 – they only managed seven shots – one of which was on target. However, after switching to a 3-4-3 formation in an attempt to find the tying goal – by removing McCarthy and inserting forward Chad Barrett – the Revs pushed, but continued to find a congested TFC defense.
In the game's dying minutes, Fagundez had one final go. Off a free kick on the right sideline – after Barrett was tackled near his face – Nguyen found Fagundez rising up at the far post. Fagundez's side volley beat Bednik, but clipped off the crossbar and the final whistle came moments later.
The Revolution returns to action on Saturday, Aug. 10, when the team travels to face Sporting Kansas City at Sporting Park. Kickoff is set for 8:30 p.m. ET, and the match will be broadcast live on TV by Comcast SportsNet and on the radio by 98.5 The Sports Hub.
For up-to-the-minute information on the Revolution, visit the team's official web site at revolutionsoccer.net, or join the conversation and interact with fans on any of the team's social platforms: Twitter (@NERevolution, #NERevs), Facebook (NERevolution), Google+ (+NERevolution), Instagram (NERevolution), Pinterest (NERevolution), Vine (NERevolution), YouTube (NERevolutionSoccer) and Flickr (NERevolution).
For more information about 2013 ticketing options, including multi-game plans and individual game tickets, please visit revolutionsoccer.net/tickets.
New England Revolution vs. Toronto FC
August 4, 2013 – Gillette Stadium (Foxborough, Mass.)
New England Revolution 0, Toronto FC 1
Scoring Summary:
TOR – Matias Laba (unassisted) 2
New England Revolution: Bobby Shuttleworth, Chris Tierney, Jose Goncalves, Stephen McCarthy (Chad Barrett 74), Andrew Farrell, Diego Fagundez, Juan Toja (Kelyn Rowe 60), Scott Caldwell, Lee Nguyen, Saer Sene, Dimitry Imbongo
Substitutes Not Used: Matt Reis, Kevin Alston, A.J. Soares, Andy Dorman, Ryan Guy
STATS: Shots 17, Shots on Target 4, Corner Kicks 10, Saves 1, Fouls 10, Offsides 2, Passes 443 (78.6%), Possession 63.7%
Toronto FC: Joe Bendik, Richard Eckersley, Steven Caldwell, Doneil Henry, Ashtone Morgan, Reggie Lambe, Jonathan Osorio, Matias Laba, Bobby Convey, Andrew Wiedeman (Justin Braun 69), Jeremy Brockie (Jeremy Hall 80)
Substitutes Not Used: Stefan Frei, Alvaro Rey, Darel Russell, Gale Agbossoumonde, Michael Thomas
STATS: Shots 6, Shots on Target 2, Corner Kicks 3, Saves 4, Fouls 13, Offsides 2, Passes 249 (61.4%), Possession 36.3%
* Note that all statistics are unofficial as supplied by Opta
Misconduct Summary:
TOR – Reggie Lambe (caution) 38
TOR – Matias Laba (caution) 74
NE – Lee Nguyen (caution) 79
NE – Dimitry Imbongo (caution) 90
NE – Jose Goncalves (caution) 93+
TOR – Justin Braun (caution) 93+
Referee: Ricardo Salazar
Assistant Referees: James Conlee (AR1), Kevin Klinger (AR2)
Fourth Official: Geoff Gamble
Weather: 75 degrees and partly sunny
Attendance: 11,543
Team Records
New England Revolution – 8-8-6 (30 pts.)
Toronto FC – 4-10-8 (20 pts.)
- With the loss, the Revs dropped to 8-8-6 (30 pts.) overall and 4-4-3 at home
- Coupled with a loss in their last home match – a 2-1 loss to Houston on July 13 – the Revs have now lost back-to-back home games
- The Revs fell to 5-4-6 against Toronto FC all-time, including a 5-2-2 at home
- The Revs are now 6-4-3 against the Eastern Conference this season
- Sunday's loss snapped the club's two-game winning streak, that included a 2-0 win at Columbus on July 20 and a 2-1 win at D.C. on July 27
- The Revs 17 attempts on goal against Toronto are tied for third most this season … the Revs recorded 19 attempts on goal twice this season
- The Revs also tied their season-high in corner kicks with 10 … the Revs had 10 corners against Real Salt Lake on May 8 at Gillette Stadium
- Sunday's loss marked the first game in which the Revs were shutout since June 8 against D.C. United, a span of seven league games and nine across all competitions … on the season, the Revs have been shut out seven times through 22 games
- Tonight's game marked the 17th game this season – in 22 – that the Revs have allowed one goal or fewer in a game
- Juan Toja returned to the starting lineup for the first time since July 17 at Colorado … Toja played 60 minutes in the loss
- Diego Fagundez tied his season-high for shots (six) and shots on goal (three) in the loss
- Lee Nguyen picked up a yellow card in the loss, his fourth yellow card of the season

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Even though I've recently changed jobs, I'll still be speaking at a lot of SQL events across the country and internationally. There are still a few trips that I've yet to finalize, in particular with the fine folks in Houston, run by my friend Nancy Hidy (blog | twitter), and my friends in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, run by my friend Mark Ginnebaugh (blog | twitter). Also, do to some missed deadlines, it looks like I won't be speaking at the Nordic SQL Rally this fall. My bad! On the other hand, you can see when checking my roster, that I hardly have time to catch my breath with this travel schedule.
I'll also be doing several on-line events with the PASS Professional Development Virtual Chapter, run by Mark Caldwell (blog | twitter), through out the year.
Here's what's on the docket up through the start of the holiday season:
New York City
SQL Saturday 158, August 4
The Colorado User Group Tour
And you know I'll be visiting all my friends at SQL Server Professional and Windows IT Professional magazines!
Boulder PASS user group meeting, August 14
Colorado Springs PASS user group meeting, August 15 (Register here for Colorado Springs PASS user group meeting).
Denver PASS user group meeting, August 16
Comatose, August 17 (Not an actual city in CO).
SQL Saturday Performance Tuning Pre-Con, September 28
SQL Saturday 151, September 29
SSWUG 2012 Fall vConference, Oct 2-4, (Please register using code 'VCKEVIN'. I will personally hug you, virtually.)
SQL Saturday Performance Tuning Pre-Con, October 5
SQL Saturday 165, October 6
Cedar Rapids
East Iowa PASS user group meeting, Oct 8 TBD
Quad City PASS user group meeting, Oct 9 TBD
Nashville (Go Titans!)
SQL Saturday Leadership Skills for IT Pros Pre-Con, October 12
SQL Saturday 145, October 13
SQL Connections, Las Vegas, Nov 1-4
PASS Summit 2012, Seattle, Nov 6-9
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Alexis Maillet, 20, of Westminster was taken by ambulance to the hospital after firefighters and police pulled her from her burning car, according to Police Chief Salvatore Albert. Two other victims, Robert Walker, 59, and his passenger, Patrick Cooley, 54, both of Westminster, were taken to Heywood Hospital in Gardner for apparent minor injuries.
The accident occurred just before 9:30 p.m. near 196 Worcester Road (Route 140), adjacent to a series of S-curves. The chief said Ms. Maillet's 2002 Oldsmobile Alero went out of control, crossing from the northbound lane into the opposite lane, colliding with Mr. Walker's 2010 Chrysler 300. Ms. Maillet's vehicle then burst into flames.


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I saw that!!
Montale Dark Purple but it's neither pineapple nor watermelon, and Tom Ford Black Orchid
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------ EDP Frederic Malle: Carnal Flower
-------- Neela Vermire Creations: Trayee
------ Parfum MDCI: Invasion Barbare
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If you search "rotten fruit" or "decayed fruit" (in quotes) in the basenotes search engine, you will find reviews for different fragrances that contain that quality. That may be one place to start.
When I think of "dark fruit" I also think of Serge Lutens "Arabie", but it does not have a "tropical" vibe. If I were to create a "dark and tropical" mash up, I would imagine it to be something along the lines of Lutens "Chergui" with the addition of perhaps something like a coconut note underneath the dark smokey woods, spices, and tobacco.
Purple Black by Atelier Flou
YOSH Sombre Negra is a subtle pineapple + campfire.
Definitely Poison.
Caron's Acaciosa has a pineapple note, but it's not really a dark fragrance in the way you describe.
"What is this secret connection between the soul, and sea, clouds and perfumes? The soul itself appears to be sea, cloud and perfume..." - from Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.
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I've got samples of agaraura's Koten Jinkoh and Royal Assam and they smell how you describe after the initial oud has mellowed out.
BPAL also do lots of fruit / gourmand oils that might interest you.
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Farewell from NLP
by The Editors
New Left Project has closed. Here the editors offer some parting reflections on their experiences running the site.
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New Left Project has closed. Here the editors offer some parting reflections on their experiences running the site.
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On her 100th birthday, Christian Høgsbjerg pays tribute to the life of Chinese-American political activist, Grace Lee Boggs.
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With the Labour Party still in reeling in the wake of May's disaster, we spoke to former front-bench Labour MP Bryan Gould - formerly one of the party's most prominent critics of economic orthodoxy - about what went wrong.
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Wit, provocateur, sharp social satirist. Oscar Wilde was, famously, all these things, but he was also a highly engaged participant in the radical political circles of late Victorian London. Nowhere was his stature as a serious political thinker more evident than in his 1891 essay, 'The Soul of Man under Socialism.'


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Anzhi Makhachkala director German Tkachenko says QPR has "lost its mind" with its big-money move for Christopher Samba.
Samba signed for the Premier League bottom club side for 14.5 million euros, with boss Harry Redknapp claiming the 28-year-old took a significant wage cut to complete the switch.
However, Tkachenko says QPR is paying Samba - who he rates as "one of the top five defenders" in Europe - a similar wage to what he was receiving in Russia, and revealed he cried when leaving for London.
"At QPR he will earn almost as much as he did at Anzhi," he told sports.ru. "In my view QPR have lost their minds.
"Everybody says that he ran away from the club, but that's not true. He didn't put any pressure on the club until we received an offer from QPR for 12.5m pounds, the amount required by his contract. When they agreed to pay his release fee we wept. He wept."
Tkachenko says Samba's move back to England is less surprising given the apparent threat in Russia to the safety of his family, with billionaire Suleyman Kerimov's team based in the volatile region of Dagestan, but hopes he will one day return to the club.
"[The move] was linked to the threat that he would lose contact with his children. That was a big blow," Tkachenko said. "He was a guy who loved all of us. And besides, he is a very good defender. I think he is one of the top five defenders currently playing in Europe.
"If we are successful and playing in the Champions League, I dream that Samba will become an Anzhi player again."


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The airfare was booked through caradonna dive travel. However, I believe the airfare was ultimately, booked by the boat we were on, which was the indo siren.
On their website, can you choose Indonesia as the country? I would assume this would work and shouldn't cause problems.
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that was averaging 107.6 point per sport.
Nikola Pekovic scored 22 points to cause Minnesota, but was held to help eight in the second half. Kevin Like had 14 points along with Alexey Shved added 11.
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of Lutheranism identified as Laestadianism.
They live in a house they cant fit them all and get close to in a vehicle so "mortifying to drive" that it must be known as the "character building van." They are supposed to renounce television set, popular music and, certainly, dating outside the church. Its faith is absolutely central towards the family, with all its delights and limits: In such a framework, how can you leave? But how are you able to stay?
"You know the best thing about this church is your family, and also the worst thing about your family is a church," remarks Matthew, the particular boyfriend of Tiina, as he is intending to get her to tell the woman's parents she no longer considers.
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Pylvinen herself spent my youth in the sect and left, the chapters on the characters exactly who struggle with leaving the religious organization are especially powerful, like the one focused on Nels, which begins, simply nonetheless portentously, "Nels went to a party."
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Date: March 10, 2008
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The above-named bank has reported that counterfeit money orders issued in the bank's name and using the bank's correct routing number of 102003918 are being presented for payment nationwide in connection with various up-front fee scams involving Internet purchases, work-at-home job offers, and charitable Internet sites.
While the counterfeit items strongly resemble the authentic items, counterfeits may be identified by the following traits: items are a consistent green and white in color, with no fading tones and contain a remitter name of either Keith Corry or Louis Harry. Checks presented to date have been made payable in the amounts of $350 and $2,450 and contain hand-written payable-to names. Due to possible variations in appearance of the bank's official items and scams, it is suggested that officials of KeyBank, National Association be contacted to verify authenticity of any of the bank's official items, if received from an unknown or questionable source.
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Lenawee County is fortunate to have two good candidates, albeit for slightly different reasons, in the Michigan House 57th District race.
Incumbent Nancy Jenkins, R-Clayton, used her first term to help reform some of the state's structural budget problems and make spending more sustainable. That aided lawmakers in producing a balanced budget by June instead of Oct. 1, pay down some of Michigan's debts, improve its bond rating and rebuild the state's rainy day fund.
Her challenger, Jim Berryman, D-Adrian, is a former Adrian commissioner and mayor and state senator well-versed in education issues, having spent the past 13 years as a Michigan Education Association representative for 15 union bargaining groups. He's also run for the state House and briefly for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Both candidates are knowledgeable, likeable, responsive and familiar with Lansing and Lenawee County.
From looking at their records, we don't believe either is so beholden to their party that they won't listen to the other side. Berryman says it's important both parties debate issues but reach compromises. Jenkins can point to numerous cases in which she voted against GOP interests. She voted for a Democratic amendment to save the Earned Income Tax Credit. She voted against GOP bills to let community colleges issue four-year degrees, and voted to maintain state regulations on hospitals adding long-term "swing beds." She voted against GOP committee efforts to cut Meals on Wheels and, after listening to lake-area constituents, voted against a GOP-led law prohibiting temporary road-end docks.
As we said two years ago in endorsing Democrat Harvey Schmidt for this seat, we felt both he and Jenkins could offer good representation. Jenkins provided that during two productive years. She supported what we believe were necessary tax shifts to encourage more business development, remove the state's unfair system of giving younger government workers tax-free pensions and set reasonable health insurance limits. She sponsored the law that resumes bringing the state's individual tax rate back down to 3.9 percent, where it was before the 2008 hike. She also supported the tougher emergency manager rules needed to persuade communities to put their fiscal affairs in order themselves and avoid having the state step in.
Berryman supports removing those limits and bargaining every issue "locally," a position with which we respectfully disagree. On the other hand, as we've said before, we believe the GOP did go further than it should have with a few laws. Berryman certainly would be able to explain those missteps to the majority.
It would be a mistake, however, to roll back Michigan's budget structure to where it was four years or even two years ago. Michigan's unemployment rate has fallen from 12.8 percent when Jenkins and the current batch of lawmakers was elected in 2010 to 9.3 percent. Companies such as Inteva and Van-Rob Tecumseh (formerly Lenawee Stamping) are expanding, along with smaller firms. We think controlling Michigan's spending and tackling legacy costs played a role.
Traditionally, we've supported House incumbents who've performed well and shown no clear reasons for removal. That was largely why we endorsed Democrat Dudley Spade's re-election in both 2006 and 2008.
Although we're sure Berryman would represent the district well and provide the voice of divided government that we find appealing, Jenkins' first term was a success for the state and the county, and we endorse her re-election Nov. 6.
Our View: Jenkins has earned House re-election
Lenawee County is fortunate to have two good candidates, albeit for slightly different reasons, in the Michigan House 57th District race.


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Put a friendly face right into the action with the built-in Face Raiders game. Using the camera, you can take a photo of yourself, a friend or family member, which is then placed right onto a range of shooting targets. To play, you'll need to move with your Nintendo 3DS system, physically leaning and turning to search all around and aim high and low, taking out your targets. 3D gameplay combined with the gyro sensor feature makes Face Raiders a fun surprise for any type of gamer.
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The cashier at Del Taco is required to maintain the work code and follow the company's policies. He/she is required to be a real team player and always aim to set high standards at work. The main responsibility of the cashier is to complete the sales transactions.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel apologized Wednesday to Medal of Honor recipient William Swenson for having to wait so long for the Army to recognize his heroism.
Speaking during a Pentagon ceremony inducting Swenson into the Hall of Heroes, Hagel said that while mistakes were made, the Army, which initially lost the paperwork for the medal, corrected the wrong.
"We're sorry that you and your family had to endure through that, but you did," Hagel told Swenson and the crowd gathered for the ceremony. "And you handled it right. And I think that deserves a tremendous amount of attention and credit."
President Barack Obama presented Swenson with the nation's highest military honor at the White House on Tuesday, citing the Army captain's bravery for repeatedly exposing himself to enemy fire in order to recover fallen comrades and help save others during a battle against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan in September 2009.
Five Americans, 10 Afghan troops and an interpreter were killed in the battle.
Swenson was first nominated for the award in 2009 but the paperwork was lost. It was resubmitted in 2011. Army Secretary John McHugh said Wednesday that he has issued a new directive that requires stricter oversight in the Medal of Honor nomination process, including status updates every 30 days, in order to ensure none are ever lost again.
During the Pentagon ceremony, Hagel also said Swenson proved his valor on the battlefield and then again by having the courage to question the Army.
After the attack, Swenson complained to military leaders that many of his calls for help were rejected by superior officers. The Army conducted an investigation, and two Army officers were reprimanded for being "inadequate and ineffective" and for "contributing directly to the loss of life."
"Even after the battle, Will was not afraid to point out deficiencies in the operation that caused difficulties in obtaining the appropriate and timely support necessary," Gen. Ray Odierno, chief of staff of the Army, said Wednesday. "He recognized the importance of assessing performance and had the character to stick to his convictions."
Swenson was a trainer and adviser embedded with the Afghan Border Police Mentor Team in support of 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division when dozens of Taliban insurgents ambushed him and his team that September morning as they headed on foot to meet with village elders in rural Ganjgal in Kunar Province in northeastern Afghanistan.
Under a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades and mortar and machine-gun fire, Swenson returned fire before risking his life to help evacuate a wounded comrade, and then later to recover injured Afghan soldiers and fallen Americans.
Swenson has asked that he be allowed to return to active duty, a rare move for an officer holding the Medal of Honor. The Army is reviewing the request, and U.S. officials have said it's likely he will be able to rejoin, pending a physical and other routine checks.


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A native plant along the Columbia River has been listed as threatened, but a Franklin County Farm Bureau leader says concerns about the impact to private property have been alleviated.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently affirmed its decision to list the White Bluffs bladderpod as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Bridget Moran, consultation and conservation planning division manager for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said the agency will develop a recovery plan for the bladderpod. The process typically takes up to a year, she said. The agency will look for conservation partners to help with recovery.
According to a press release, the service revised the designation for the bladderpod to limit the critical habitat to federal lands, excluding private property and state lands, in response to information provided by the public, including aerial photography and visits with landowners.
The exclusion of private property from critical habitat alleviated some concerns for James Alford, president of the Franklin County Farm Bureau.
But he remains concerned that some U.S. Bureau of Reclamation ground with waste way canals containing water for irrigation could be considered part of the critical habitat. The bureau expects to review maps in January.
"It's part of an infrastructure that we depend on," he said.
"We do not believe this listing will have any impact on private landowners or their water use," Moran said.
The bureau said private property was not considered because it has been altered or wasn't suitable for the plant, Alford said.
"The ground has been altered, excavated, gravel roads, canals, sprayed chemicals, so it's the same logical thought process," he said.
The bureau and other organizations challenged the position that the White Bluffs bladderpod was a unique species through DNA testing. oran said the genetic report submitted to the agency included language by the author that the results could not be considered definitive or final. The agency consulted five separate experts, who unanimously concluded the results were insufficient to warrant a change, she said.
Alford said his organization is having the DNA results peer-reviewed.
"They don't have the money to do their own DNA testing, yet in their action plans they would like to allocate more than $500,000 within the next five to 10 years to see how they could work on saving the plant," he said.
Alford felt the DNA results were not acknowledged by the service.
"It's kind of against what the Endangered Species Act is, considering they're supposed to utilize the best technology available," he said.
"The scientific underpinnings of all our decisions are of high importance to us," Moran said.
Moran does not see remaining questions or a further need to examine the study.
The bureau is asking for donations to the Washington Farm Bureau legal foundation, which has handled funding for the bladderpod issue, including the cost of DNA testing.
The bureau will meet with the Franklin County Natural Resources Advisory Committee and stakeholder groups in January.
The bureau hopes to continue the peer-review process on the results of the DNA testing. Alford said there have been instances during formation of the action plan where a species is no longer or was never threatened.
"It becomes eligible for removal (from the endangered species list)," he said. "We want to get to that point, because we want it to have the least amount of impact on the farmers."
The service believes threats to the bladderpod include wildfire, excess groundwater-induced landslides and slope failure and harm by recreational activities and off-road vehicle use.


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The Limited Late Models, a fan favorite, return to highlight action Saturday, Aug. 29 at the Lancaster Super Speedway.
To date in the Limited Late Models, the "Rock Hill Bad Boy," Ben Watkins, has posted two wins, while track veteran Timbo Mangum has one victory.
The Limited Late Model Division has been providing great car counts during the 2015 racing season at LSS.
Lancaster Super Speedway action featured a wild night of racing at the half-mile oval Saturday, Aug. 22.
In the Faith Funderburke Realty Super Stock main event, the front row was Brandy Baker and Johnny Starkey.
When the green flag dropped to start the race, it was Baker, Starkey, Joseph Engelbrecht and Joseph Richardson battling for the lead entering turn one. Exiting turn two, Baker, Starkey, Engelbrecht and Andy Hodges battled for the lead.
Lancaster Super Speedway is set to host six divisions of racing, headlined by the SECA Crate Late Model Division on Saturday, Aug. 22 at the half-mile oval.
The Saturday night racing card will feature the SECA Crate Late Models, Faith Funderburke Realty Super Stock, Deal 1 Auto Sales SECA Crate Sportsman, Cauthen Motors Renegades, U.S. Bonding Vintage and M&M Garage Extreme 4.
After the wild and exciting night last Saturday evening at LSS, anything is possible to happen this week at the track which is in its 61st season.
Robbie Helms captured an exciting win in the Cauthen Motors Renegade main event at Lancaster Super Speedway on Saturday, Aug. 15.
Andrew Baker and James Marion were on the front row for the Renegade race.
When the green flag waved, it was Andrew Baker, Marion, Brandy Baker, Russell Kaye and Helms battling for the lead entering turn one.
When the field came out of turn two for the lead, it was a dogfight, as all drivers had a chance for the lead.
As the laps ticked off, it was soon Baker, Marion and Helms battling for the lead.
Lancaster Super Speedway is back in action Saturday, Aug. 15 when LSS hosts the Back To School Bash and Fan Appreciation Night at the half-mile track.
LSS, after taking Saturday, Aug. 8 off, will feature five divisions running.
Track action will include the Faith Funderburke Realty Super Stock, Deal 1 Auto Sales SECA Crate Sportsman, Cauthen Motors Renegades, U.S. Bonding Vintage and M&M Garage Extreme 4.
The Faith Funderburke Realty Back To School backpack giveway is for the first 50 kids, ages 5-12, through the grandstands gates.
Lancaster Super Speedway will host the Smokehouse 25 on Saturday, Aug. 1.
Headlining the night will be the SECA Crate Late Model Division paying $2,000 to win with a $100 entry, 12 or less cars $150 start, 13 or more cars $200 to start.
Some of the Carolinas top SECA Crate Late Model drivers will compete for the $2,000 payday.
For the 2015 racing season, the SECA Crate Late Model winners list is Steve Banal with two wins; Timbo Mangum, two; Brandy Baker, two; Benji Knight, one and Trent Ivey, one.
Lancaster Super Speedway will feature the return of the Limited Late Models, with some of the area's top Limited Late Models and 525's drivers expected to be at the half-mile dirt oval on Saturday, July 25.
Heintz Performance has put up a tire and wheel bonus for the race.
Lancaster Super Speedway had another rain out for the 2015 racing season Saturday, July 18 at the half-mile track.
LSS officials, with the weather cancelation, are gearing up for a big race this weekend.
Lancaster Super Speedway features six divisions of racing Saturday night, July 18 at the half-mile track.
Lancaster Super Speedway will offer bang-up racing action at the half-mile oval on Saturday, July Fourth.
LSS will host the Cauthen Motors July Fourth Showdown to highlight its Independence Day celebration of our nation's 239th birthday.
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The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo of Pisa, who was known as Fibonacci (named after, he did not discover). Fibonacci's sequence was first introduced to the western world in 1202 by Fibonacci, the sequence had been noted by Indian mathematicians as early as the sixth century.
The fibonacci also defines how the density of branches increases up a tree trunk, the arrangement of leaves on a stem, and how a pine cone's scales are arranged. Yet you will not see the fibonacci everywhere, as nature has many different methods and shades of survival.
The fibonacci spiral appears not only in the perfect nautilus shell,
but in events and objects viewed from a far. An energy system in the shape of a fibonacci moves with limited losses. Hurricane Irene.
The fibonacci as some of the largest structures in the universe. Spiral galaxies are the most common galaxy shape. Galaxies group together in superclusters and superclusters group together in walls. Currently the largest known structures are these walls or filaments of numerous superclusters that are gravitationally bound and separated by large areas of void. The Milky Way's dust obstructs us from seeing the depth of these filaments or sheets, so we do not yet know the exact shape of these walls.
The fibonacci appears in the smallest, to the largest objects in nature. It is a way for information to flow in a very efficient manner. Here, a microscopic view of the ovary of an Anglerfish.
Cancer cell division. This composite confocal micrograph uses time-lapse microscopy to show a cancer cell (HeLa) undergoing cell division (mitosis). The DNA is shown in red, and the cell membrane is shown in cyan. The round cell in the centre has a diameter of 20 microns. Credit Kuan-Chung Su, LRI
The mathematics of the golden ratio and of the Fibonacci sequence are intimately interconnected. The Fibonacci sequence is a recursive sequence, generated by adding the two previous numbers in the sequence.: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987…
If you were to draw a line starting in the right bottom corner of a golden rectangle within the first square, and then touch each succeeding multiple square's outside corners, you would create a fibonacci spiral.
Fibonacci as starting point of life.
Romanesque broccolli is a striking example of the fibonacci.
Spiral aloe. Numerous cactus display the fibonacci spiral.
Marlborough Rock Daisy by Sid Mosdell
All pinecones display a fibonacci sequence.
American giant millipede. The fibonacci is thought to be the design of least resistence. Image by Alan Cressler.
A monarch caterpillar about to form a chrysalis.
Fibonacci and armor = very safe.
Fibonacci in spores. A fiddlehead or koru. Photo by Sid Mosdell.
Snails and fingerprints.
The Great Wave at Kanagawa (from a Series of Thirty–Six Views of Mount Fuji), Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1831–33
Katsushika Hokusai
Water falls into the shapes of a fibonacci during numerous events. Another example would be a vortex.
One blogger has applied the fibonacci sequence to population density and land mass. In Africa the majority of highly populated cities fall on or close to where the spiral predicts.
Shell Fossil
Fascinating! A must watch!
Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin explores hidden properties of that weird and wonderful set of numbers, the Fibonacci series….
Check out the Custom Fibonacci Spiral Generator – chromatism.net
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Are there Latin names for modern army officer ranks? The Roman army was organized very different from modern armies. Some officer ranks seem to have Latin origins:
"sergeant" from "serviens"; like with "minister", a word meaning "servant" has come to mean "subordinate official", but its literal Latin meaning looks a bit unsuitable to use for an army officer.
"corporal" from "corporalis"
"colonel" from "columnalis"?


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The Muppets' Beaker Burns Through Kansas' 'Dust in the Wind'
The Muppets' fruitful association with classic rock continues. In this viral video, the oft put-upon but always gentlemanly lab assistant know Beaker offers his acoustic and meep–filled rendition of 'Dust in the Wind' by Kansas to an online audience. He certainly puts his own unique stamp on the tune.
Beaker starts out with his feet up on the desk, with a keyboard in front of him. He is surrounded by tons of long candlesticks and candelabras — not those scented, girly, filled-jar candles. He is going for aura and ambience. There is a red backdrop behind him as he strums. One could say that his guitar gently, um, "meeps."
Beaker's attempt at tackling this classic ballad doesn't last long, as a firestorm of criticism pops up on the screen from fictional commentators, stuff like "Fail" and "It sounds like someone punched a goat." Beaker's version of this ballad even gets labeled his "diasterpiece." Then the poor guy's guitar catches on fire and so does he! Poor Beaker – he's always subjected to physical torture in Dr. Bunson Honeydew's lab.
At the end of the clip, Beaker is left a burnt, smoky, wide-eyed, hacking mess before finally passing out. The screen then cuts to those ornery and disagreeable old codgers Waldorf and Statler, and of course those two crotchety bastards are having a grand old time at poor Beaker's expense!


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"Get Your Preak On" At The Pier Concert With Phil Vassar Set For Saturday, May 11
"Get Your Preak On" At The Pier Concert With Phil Vassar Set For Saturday, May 11
BALTIMORE, 04-02-13---The Maryland Jockey Club today announced Phil Vassar will headline a "Get Your Preak On" kickoff concert at Pier Six Pavilion in Baltimore's Inner Harbor on Saturday, May 11. The 138th running of the Preakness Stakes (G1), the middle jewel of racing's Triple Crown, will be held at historic Pimlico Race Course the following Saturday.
Tickets will go on-sale Friday, April 5 at http://www.piersixpavilion.com/. Ticket prices range from $25 to $60.
Old Dominion, a Nashville-based country act, will open for Vassar, who performed at the 2011 Preakness InfieldFest at Pimlico.
"The Preakness is quickly approaching so we decided to kick off the week with a party at the Pier," said Maryland Jockey Club president Tom Chuckas. "Phil Vassar was one of the most popular acts to perform at Preakness InfieldFest and we are happy to work with him again."
Vassar has hit Billboard Country's top 5 seven times with songs like "Carlene," "Last Day of My Life" and "American Child" and topped the charts with "In A Real Love" and the perennial favorite "Just Another Day in Paradise." Known as one of Nashville's top song writers, the 48-year-old has two ASCAP Songwriter of the Year trophies and was named Billboard Country Songwriter of the Year in 1999. His songs have been taken to #1 by Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson and Jo Dee Messina.
The Get Your Preak On concert is one of three musical events during an eight-day stretch surrounding the Preakness experience. Preakness InfieldFest (May 18) will include performances by Pitbull and by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis on the main stage in the public Infield at Pimlico, while Chevelle, Florida Georgia Line and Kristen and the Noise will perform on the Jägermeister stage. Additional information can be found on www.preakness.com.
Grammy-nominated Goo Goo Dolls will headline a concert at Pimlico on Black-Eyed Susan day Friday, May 17. Additional information can be found at www.blackeyedsusanday.com.
The Preakness grassroots team will be making numerous appearances in the Baltimore metropolitan area to promote the middle jewel of the Triple Crown, including the Baltimore Orioles home opener on April 5, Tigerfest in Towson on April 19, Federal Hill Spring Festival in downtown Baltimore on April 28 as well as three events at the Mt. Washington Tavern near Pimlico (April 7, April 25 & May 9) and one at Padonia Station in Timonium on May 3.
The events include the chance to win daily passes to Pimlico Race Course valid during the spring meet, Black-Eyed Susan concert tickets and vintage Preakness items.
About Pimlico Race Course
Historic Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness® Stakes, the middle jewel in horse racing's famed Triple Crown, first opened its doors on October 25, 1870, and is the second oldest racetrack in the United States. Pimlico has played host to racing icons and Baltimoreans have seen the likes of legendary horses such as Man o' War, Seabiscuit, Secretariat, Affirmed and Cigar thunder down the stretch in thrilling and memorable competition. For more information on Pimlico, visit www.pimlico.com.
Pimlico Race Course is a Stronach Group company, North America's leading Thoroughbred racetrack owner/operator. The Stronach Group racetracks include Santa Anita Park, Gulfstream Park & Casino, Golden Gate Fields, Portland Meadows, Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course, home of the world-famous Preakness. The company owns and operates the Palm Meadows Training Center in Florida and is one of North America's top race horse breeders through its award-winning Adena Springs operation. The Stronach Group is one of the world's largest suppliers of pari-mutuel wagering systems, technologies and services. Its companies include AmTote, a global leader in wagering technology; Xpressbet, an Internet and telephone account wagering service; and Monarch Content Management, which acts as a simulcast purchase and sales agent of horseracing content for numerous North American racetracks and wagering outlets. The Stronach Group is also a major producer of televised horse racing programming through its HRTV cable and satellite network and is North America's premier supplier of virtual online horse racing games, as well as a leading producer of social media content for the horseracing industry.


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Wanted (US - BD)
Gabe Powers enjoys a head damaged trip around some curving bullets...
Anxious, and abused office clerk Wesley Gibson is berated by his overweight boss and generally disrespected by everyone around him on a daily basis, including his girlfriend, who's sleeping with his best friend. One day a sexy minx named Fox contacts Wesley and informs him that his father was a professional killer that belonged to an ancient organization called the Fraternity and killed by the skilled and powerful Cross, a hit man that has betrayed the Fraternity. Under the tutelage of the Fraternity Wesley prepares to face his father's killer.
I know we've talked about this little thing called 'The Hero's Journey' before. In fact, I seem to be bringing it up more and more often lately. The Hero's Journey is most often attributed to George Lucas' Star Wars movies, but it's not as if he created the concept, or was even the first to exploit for modern means, it's just so easy to attribute the cliché to him. Wanted is like a dirty New Hope, or a dirtier Matrix if you'd rather. It concerns a simple man thrown into an extraordinary world where he is fated to become a hero. Along the way he meets teachers who train him in a special brand of combat. Luke learns to use the Force, Neo learns to bend the Matrix, and Wesley learns to break the rules of physics in other ways. At the very end of this story the Journey is slightly fiddled with, but overall there's no meat on the bones of Wanted's story.
But speaking of breaking the rules of physics, Russian director Timur Bekmambetov is behind the helm, so the story is immaterial anyway. Timur was the fellah behind the super fun, easily misunderstood, and equally Hero's Journey concerned Night Watch and Day Watch, two films I adore despite a sizable twinge of guilt. Bekmambetov has been called Wachowski-lite with good reason by many better critics, but I actually prefer his goofy, pulpy visual overdrive to the more self-important anime attribution of the Matrix movies (though the Brothers did kind of go the other direction with Speed Racer).
Wanted's visuals follow the precedent set by the Watch films—they make no sense unless you're entirely willing to suspend just about every ounce of disbelief in your body. Bekmambetov's style isn't immediately original, but it's immediately recognizable. The most over the top moments are similar to other moments we've seen in big budget action (Timur really likes to cut into super sol-mo way too much), but there's a colourful whimsy missing from the films of more popular and 'original' directors. Quite often the scope of the silliness in the visuals undercuts the 'realism' of the adaptation, leading one to wonder why they didn't stick to the super villain angle, and bringing up a few more questions than normally comfortable in disbelief straining entertainment (the opening action scene exhibits far more superhuman abilities than the rest of the film, which screws with the calibration a bit)
Thank God for that R-rating though, I don't know if I would've enjoyed the overbearing daffy action as much had it not been as gory. There's a great dark humour in Bekmambetov's violence, and it's good to know that someone's still making escapists action entertainment for grown-ups. I actually think it could've been taken a lot further (the gun through the face shot had me giddy), but the comics would've probably garnered an NC-17 if directly adapted (too bad there was no unrated version—yet). Some of the more traditionally funny comedy misses the boat. The early satire of American office life is like Fight Club for dummies, and in the hands of a less skilled actor Wesley may have been an entirely irredeemably whiney hero. His narration is not on par with Ed Norton's, but it'll do for the most part.
Bekmambetov seems to have taken the phrase 'eye candy' pretty literally, given his proclivity for candy coloured visuals. This 1080p transfer is expectedly clean, but excels in its colour representation. There's pretty much nothing realistic about any of film's look, even seemingly simple shots of people wondering around daylight Chicago. The pallet is warmer than that of real life, and the colours Bekmambetov intends us to see leap out of the screen. Check out the reds of the butcher's meat, the cool whites of the healing room, and the steely blues of the interrogation room for further proof.
Here's a fun game, listen closely to the Wanted soundtrack and count the heartbeat stand-ins. The heartbeat is an important element to the story, and the sound designers have hid it all over the track, from the literal, to the figurative. The one advantage Bekmambetov's films seem to inarguably have over his competitors is their sound design, which pound for pound almost rivals even the awesome purity of the Star Wars films. Wanted is a symphony of audacious sound effects, and some of the volume choices come out of nowhere. One prime example is comes during the film's big car chase, where the sound builds to a slow motion shot of Jolie narrowly avoiding being smashed by an oncoming bus. The music and effects don't simply cut out as catastrophe is averted, they are replaced with a multi-channel rush or Jolie's over-stylized exhale.
I'll start this section off with the U-Control extras, which includes in-scene motion comics, a scene explorer option, assassin profiles, and a making-of PiP option. The comics and PiP option didn't work on my Profile 1.0 player, but were available elsewhere on the disc. The assassin profile option gives on screen specs for the tools of the trade and, the assassin doing the deed on screen at any given time, and offers a GPS locater option as well. Scene explorer, as in the case of the Hellboy 2 and Incredible Hulk discs, offers three more viewing option for specific scenes (usually action scenes)—storyboard, pre-vis, and pre-effects footage.
The standard extras begin with the film's alternate opening (in HD), a very pricy looking bit of chicanery that sets up the mythology of the film in a much grander manner. The two and a half minute scene would've made a more smooth transition from Bekmambetov's Night Watch films, but ultimately is too tonally different from the rest of the film. An amusing extended scene follows, which appears to have been deleted for reasons of too much humour too early in the film, rather than pacing.
'Cast and Characters' is s reasonably informative featurette focused on the major characters and the actors playing them. It's similar to the kind of EPKs that usually play on pay cable between movies, but is pretty spoiler heavy, pretty much running down the entire film in twenty minutes. It's followed by 'Stunts on the L-Train', which sort of speaks for itself, and runs only a few minutes.
Quickly afterwards we move to the first of two nine minute special effects featurettes: 'Art of the Impossible'. This bit concerns the physical effects, which actually concerns more of the overall SFX than you'd probably think. There's a lot more green screen removal than computer generation here. 'From Imagination to Execution', in turn, concerns the in computer creations, of which there are still plenty. It's pretty cool, and a little surprising that Universal was willing to go through Bekmambetov's Russian effects crew (unless you consider the reasonable $75 million dollar budget), and for the most part nothing is lost in the transition.
'The Origin of Wanted' is a nice eight-minute lesson plan for those of us that may've missed out of Mark Millar's original comic. The super villain angle of the original book isn't hammered home, but Millar himself gives a few hints. Millar states his influences, which don't include Chuck Palahniuk, curiously enough. Also ignored is the obvious fact that the Fox character is based visually on Halle Berry, not Angelina Jolie. A collection of motion comics augments our knowledge of the comic. Here us novices can see plainly that the characters of the comic are not 'assassins' but 'super villains'. The motion effects are minor, but the production is decent, and the voice acting better than average (though Millar's aggressive dialogue doesn't sound too hot aloud). There are eight in all, running a total of about fourteen minutes.
The extras are completed with a nine minute featurette concerning director Bekmambetov called 'Through the Eyes of a Visionary', which is downright silly in its overstatement of the man's skill set and vision, and a look at the making the sequel video game. No trailers, strangely enough.
I really couldn't call Wanted a good movie, but I enjoyed it enough, and am happy it represents an important lynch pin in director Bekmambetov's career. Perhaps with the surprise success of his first Hollywood production the hyper-surgurized Russian can complete his Night Watch trilogy in style, or even move onto something more original. The Blu-ray passes all the tests, so fans should be happy.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 2nd December 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS 5.1, German DTS 5.1, Spanish DTS 5.1
Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English HoH, French, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Extras: Alternate Opening, Extended Scene, Cast and Characters, Stunts on the L Train, Special Effects: The Art of the Impossible, Groundbreaking Visual Effects: From Imagination to Execution, The Making of Wanted the Game, Wanted Motion Comics, The Origins of Wanted: Bringing the Graphic Novel to Life, Through The Eyes of Visionary Director Timur Bekmambetov, U-Control, PiP
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Common, Marc Warren, Konstantin Khabensky, Thomas Kretchmann
Genre: Action
Length: 105 minutes
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COBOL Resartus
Revisiting the re-tailored COBOL universe
Then, according to Artur Reimann (writing for Fujitsu Software in 1999 in Object Oriented Programming in "COBOL 2000"): "'COBOL 2000'… will provide full support for the constructs of Object Oriented Programming (OOP)… [although] OOP will not replace conventional programming, but will be used just for specific programming tasks, for which it is better suited.
Traditional COBOL programming will not go away, but will be complemented by new language features for defining classes and objects". I'm not sure that the hybrid approach implied by this will please OO purists - but, then, neither does a lot of C++ - but, nevertheless, if you know any COBOL, I think the Fujitsu Software article quoted shows clearly that OO can fit well with the forms of traditional COBOL.
COBOL, then, is far from dead and it is not even uninteresting to play with, especially as COBOL code may provide the best available documentation of the fundamental business processes your company has been running on for decades.
And there's still a lot of COBOL about although it seems hard to pin down the precise amount of it actually in use today (perhaps because a lot of it is in mission-critical financial systems, that owners don't want to talk about). A tutorial from the University of Limerick Department of Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) quotes Gartner estimates for 2002 of about two million COBOL programmers world-wide compared to about one million Java programmers and one million C++ programmers.
Similarly, IBM quotes "generally accepted statistics" to the effect that 70 per cent of the world's business data is still being processed by mainframe applications written in COBOL (with an estimated 30 billion COBOL transactions are processed daily, more than the number of total web pages viewed in the same period), here.
Whatever the exact amount, a lot of banks have some COBOL and it often represents many man-years of analysis – this COBOL both documents and embodies a great deal of business process, probably not effectively documented anywhere else. Translating a COBOL system into another language isn't hard – but, unfortunately, making sure that the business process it represents hasn't been compromised is very much harder and more expensive (the devil is in the regression testing).
So why bother to even attempt to "rip and replace" all your COBOL legacy? It usually makes no business sense, since COBOL can now co-exist with the latest technologies. For example, according to Dobbins, "developers are now able to map COBOL data fields to XML elements, in both traditional and .Net flavours of the language".
Through the use of a wizard-enabled development environment, COBOL data structures can be generated from XML schemas, removing any barriers to the use of XML as both input and output data. And IBM is promoting EGL (Enterprise Generation Language), "an easy to learn programming paradigm" which lets you generate optimized code (including COBOL) for a target runtime platform from technology-neutral EGL logic.
COBOL is easy enough to learn, anyway (Micro Focus offers a five-day "COBOL Programming for Business Success" course here). If you can read your COBOL legacy you can package it as a service, effectively loosely-embedded in more modern systems.
Perhaps you should add COBOL to your CV – if you can speak C++ or Java, how hard can it be? COBOL's days may indeed be numbered, but some numbers are pretty large.
For more information, the COBOL Portal is here. ®


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1. When we receive the funds, we must verify
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3. If a credit balance exists after the funds
have been credited, the Bursar's Office generates a refund
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If you have any questions regarding the financial
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Refund checks are generated by the Bursar's Office and
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Loan. Unlike undergraduate PLUS loans, where the borrower
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The Graduate PLUS Loan will be beneficial for students
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Students in need of additional aid will have to decide
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'Love & Hip-Hop New York' Recap: Marry Me… Or Nah?
Last night's episode of Love & Hip-Hop: New York did not make me want to curse profusely or throw my remote in a fit of frustration. For those of you who have been following the show and my recaps in the past couple weeks, you realize what a proud moment this is.
Honestly, there was some growth displayed by a number of characters, and minus Erica Mena's girlfriend and almost boyfriend, everyone was relatively civil and downright tranquil. Of course, that can only last for so long (a whole week), which means we need to cherish the moment until the ruckus returns (and we can cherish that, too). —Michael Arceneaux (@youngsinick)
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An effective organization constantly looks at where it has been and what lies ahead. The Durango Area Tourism Office is doing just that.
As bikes, kayaks and lawn mowers are put away in favor of skis, sleds and winter boots, DATO is looking at what has worked to attract tourists while planning for the coming shoulder season, winter and 2013.
By all accounts, 2012 has been a solid year for tourism in the Durango area. City lodgers-tax collections are up 10.7 percent year-to-date and have been up six of seven months, including the last five consecutive months. Sales-tax collections for the city of Durango and La Plata County are up 6.3 percent and 6.4 percent, respectively.
The Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, our summer season kickoff, was sold out months in advance for the 2012 Memorial Day weekend and drew large crowds. Monsoonal rains arrived in the nick of time, and our area was spared from major forest fires, allowing for strong Fourth of July travel (sans fireworks). The USA Pro Cycling Challenge provided new and impressive media exposure for our area, and our tourism should benefit for years to come.
Looking ahead, the "shoulder seasons" in Durango have been challenging for tourism. Back-to-school and unpredictable changing weather patterns are among the factors that account for our off-peak visitation during those months. DATO will be focusing more on promoting our fantastic art, culture, culinary and heritage offerings to increase tourism and tax collection during these periods. This is all part of DATO's role of marketing a four-season destination to unique target markets.
An example of a great program that encompasses multiple venues is "First Thursdays Art Walk," coordinated by the Durango Arts Center. Regardless of the weather, we can show our travelers a fabulous sampling of galleries, museums, restaurants and live music. As locals, we can enjoy and support arts and culture businesses while the roads and sidewalks are less crowded.
Looking toward 2013, DATO's staff, marketing committee and finance committee have been busy compiling tourism research, writing operating plans and budgeting for 2013. We are reviewing both primary tourism feeder markets as well as target demographic and psychographic visitors. While keeping our mission at the forefront of our planning – generating visitation and overnight stays in La Plata County – we are working to ensure that we maximize every dollar in our budget.
Data indicate that every $1 spent promoting Colorado brings in more than $12 in tourism spending. That is a healthy return on investment for our local economy. DATO is taking great care in planning, enabling tourism to continue to be a top economic driver for our area.
If you own or work in a tourism-related business, contact our staff or stop by the Durango Welcome Center and share your ideas or ask us questions. While we have much to be thankful for and we are encouraged about our future, we need to work together to keep our tourism sector strong and vibrant. All in all, things in the rearview mirror look pretty good, and the road ahead looks promising.
email@example.com. Kris Oyler is chairman of the Durango Area Tourism Office board of directors.