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On a morning when most red-meat eating sports fans that populate the North Coast are down near the lakefront eating…well, red-meat and quaffing away at something that will sufficiently lubricate them by 1:00 PM, Indians' fans (all couple hundred of us these days) are left to dissect an Indians-Royals series with the cellar in the AL Central on the line.
Despite some interminable rain delays, the Indians have taken the first two from the Royals as their climb out of last place has reached the 62-win "plateau". Of course, that means that the Indians need to win only one more game in their final 14 to be assured of avoiding a 100-loss season and (while anything is possible with the current Indians' team) it would seem that the Indians will finish the year with a loss total somewhere in the low-to-mid-90's.
Nevertheless, those 14 games remain and while most eyes are fixed on the Orange and Brown and/or the Scarlett and Gray, the Indians' season…say it with me…rolls on in earnest and as long as it does and it is Sunday, we'll keep the white sphere rolling with another Lazy one.
And with that, we're off…
Starting from the top, whenever Anthony Castrovice has broken open the mailbag and is working the Inbox, that's where we're going to get started and, as usual, AC doesn't disappoint. As a quick aside, is it wild to anyone else that Castrovince's "Inbox" is must-read material while the "Letters" to the other beat writers are simply fodder for humor and satire because of the (
borrowing a phrase here
) anachronistic nature of some of the other beat writers?
Regardless, let's all enjoy AC and the Inbox before he moves onto bigger and better things as a sports journalist, which is inevitable and deservedly so. Back to the matter at hand,
the lead topic for the "Inbox" is one Matt MaTola
and what can be gleaned from his 2010 season and how it relates to his future potential:
… the Indians don't like to judge a player on his first 500 at-bats, and LaPorta will have every opportunity to show improvement next season. He has shown the raw power to hit -- and even mis-hit -- balls out of the ballpark. But his general inconsistency has clearly demonstrated his immaturity as a Major League hitter. He's been accused of being pull-happy.
Whether LaPorta's inconsistency is derived from a lack of focus, lingering issues with the left hip or the simple acclimation process many young hitters go through at this level is a question I can't answer. All I know is the Indians have to hope for more from LaPorta next season, or the CC swap will receive even more scrutiny than it has already.
This is the LaPorta conundrum in a nutshell as he's been wildly inconsistent and prone to "Peraltan" (and this should find a place in the Indians' dictionary, along with the already-minted "Sowersian") periods of ineffectiveness at the plate, looking bad on swings-and-misses and showing none of the power that was purported to be MLB-read a solid 2 ½ years ago. Among his hits (and there haven't been many this year), only 6.5% of them have gone for extra bases and if you want some context on that, 6.3% of Tofu Lou Marson's hits have gone for extra bases and 6.1% of the hits by Trevor Crowe (who should not be counted on to be much more than an easy DFA decision going forward) this season have gone for extra bases.
No, seriously…
The addendum to that is that MaTola is not far off from his 26th birthday and his season compares not too favorably with an older former top prospect that is likely seeing his last couple of weeks in an Indians uniform:
Marte – 2010 (Age 26)
.212 BA / .288 OBP / .363 SLG / .651 OPS in 163 PA
LaPorta – 2010 (Age 25)
.220 BA / .304 OBP / .361 SLG / .665 OPS in 385 PA
While I'm not going to enter the realm of calling LaPorta a "bust" at this stage in his young career, he certainly has firmed up his spot on the "disappointment" side of the ledger for 2010. Of course, there remains the possibility that his hip issues have robbed him of some of his power or have forced him into some bad habits at the plate, and if that is indeed the case, the Indians better hope that LaPorta heals quickly and can translate his AAA success to MLB in short order for next year. Going further on this,
Jon Steiner has a great piece on LaPorta at WFNY
, in which he paints the situation pretty accurately:
In 579 big league plate appearances (about a full season), LaPorta has a .232/.306/.384 line. Those are numbers you might tolerate from a slick-fielding SS who saves runs with his glove, but not from a lumbering first baseman with little-to-no defensive value. In short, LaPorta must adjust next season, or his big league career could be in serious jeopardy.
MaTola has shown power in the Minor Leagues, but this year his numbers have paled in comparison to even what "place-holder" Ryan Garko did in his final full year as an Indian (.273 BA / .346 OBP / .404 SLG / .750 OPS…as a 27-year-old, by the by) and if LaPorta was seen as an upgrade over the likes of Garko and Jordan Brown (whose slap-hitting tendencies simply aren't suited to translate for a LF/1B/DH in MLB), well…that "upgrade" isn't too evident these days.
Certainly, the pedigree is still there for LaPorta as a top pick/former top prospect who has mashed in MiLB, but his importance to the future success of this team (in the short and long-term) cannot be underestimated as a RH bat (and supposedly a power RH bat) to this lineup going forward. To that end, let's think about what the 2011 lineup figures to look like, and I'm listing these players in order of how much confidence I have in them in 2011 and not as a proposed 2011 batting order:
Choo – Left
Santana – Switch
Hafner – Left
Cabrera – Switch
Sizemore – Left
Brantley – Left
…you picking this up yet?
LaPorta – Right
Donald – Right
Fill in the 3B – Probably Right
Sure, Santana is a switch-hitter, but everyone knows that he posted an OPS of 1.002 as a LH hitter and a .582 as a RH hitter this year, right? By no means am I saying that this will be par for the course for Santana (MiLB OPS as a LH hitter of .879 and a MiLB OPS as a RH hitter of .960), but the team is otherwise completely devoid of RH power (and Weglarz and The Chiz are both…wait for it…LEFT-HANDED), unless LaPorta is able to step into that void…something he needs to do in short order.
The LaPorta "issue" is emblematic of the MAJOR issues facing the Indians going forward as Vince Grzegorek absolutely nails (in
a "Dear John" letter saying goodbye to the Indians' season for Yahoo! in a piece that you must read
) when Vince captures the importance of the recently-acquired prospects in the grand scheme of things as to how the Indians find themselves where they are and where they're going:
We get it. You had to trade Lee, Martinez, and Sabathia. You couldn't afford to sign them. Economic landscape of baseball... blah blah blah. We get it. (It's here that I'd add you didn't have to fork over $57 million over four years to Travis Hafner, but whatever.)
Really, we get it though — small market team, narrow window, gotta trade and draft well, build through the minors, everyone has to stay healthy. This year wasn't unexpected. We knew you would be bad. But...
... well, it's almost time for those prospects and acquisitions to come through. Probably not next year, but definitely the year after.
You had to unload your gaudy soon-to-be free agents but you had better show us something in return. Brantley, Santana, LaPorta, Carrasco and others need to play and produce and not turn into Trevor Crowe or Marte or Jeremy Sowers Part II.
Admittedly, that last line was bolded by me for emphasis and I will say again to
please click on the piece as Vince does completely nail the tenor of the season
and avoids the easy cheap shots at the organization that so many of those that write about the team are so quick to simply fall back on, putting together an accurate assessment and recap of the nightmarish season that still hasn't ended.
Again, what stands out is the realization that "Brantley, Santana, LaPorta and others need to play and produce" will ultimately determine how quickly/slowly this "Reload/Rebuild/Whatever" starts to bear fruit or dies on the vine, with the future of the Indians perhaps at stake.
Among all of the players that have been acquired over the past two years, the two most important pieces are the aforementioned LaPorta and Carlos Carrasco, mainly because the complementary pieces acquired via trade are nice (and don't mistake that for me calling Santana or CF Perez just "complementary pieces"), but the middle-of-the-order hitter and the front-end-of-the-rotation starter are what you're looking for when you're trading reigning Cy Young Award winners.
As much as Jason Knapp is claimed as the "key" to the Lee deal, Carrasco's importance to the return to contention for the Indians is much more critical and his recent success hopefully serves as a harbinger of things to come,
as Terry Pluto writes
, "at 23 with a 93 mph fastball, excellent control and a sharp slider he can throw at any point in the count, he seems ready to take a prominent spot in next season's rotation."
For the sake of the Indians and their short-and-long-term future, they had better hope so (and here's where I drop in the fact that the collective numbers for Carmona, Carrasco, and Masterson in the month of September are a cumulative 1.72 ERA, a cumulative 0.97 WHIP, and 56 K against 16 BB in 68 innings over 10 games), and if what
a scout tells B-Pro's John Perrotto on Carlos Carrasco
is true, the Indians may have a young pitcher who has turned the first proverbial corner towards effectiveness:
Indians right-hander Carlos Carrasco:
"He looks a lot more confident than he did when he was up in the big leagues last September. He throws 93 mph but the big difference is that he's throwing his curveball and changeup for strikes now. If he can keep doing that, he's going to be a very effective starter for a long time."
While the "going to be a very effective starter for a long time" line conveys a bit of a dismissive view of him, (and I don't know how many times this has to be repeated, but I'll keep repeating it) he's 23 years old and if he's progressed to this point and the Indians control him for 6 years as a "very effective starter", some optimism does return in terms of Carrasco's future, something that didn't exist at this time last year.
The 2010 Indians find themselves in the bed that they've made and while
the "analysts" at FanGraphs fall all over themselves over Kyle Drabek's debut
(in a piece that is interesting to note in that it mentions that Drabek really doesn't have an effective change-up yet) and t
he Phillies' return for Lee
has amounted to the "key" to the trade being demoted from AA to Single-A, another player being arrested on cocaine possession, and the third player (a pitcher no less) having hip surgery after posting a 4.82 cumulative ERA as a 21-year-old in A+/AA, there's no question that the returns for CC and Lee are going to determine where this team goes from here.
Chief among players that are going to determine the short-and-long-term future of this team are LaPorta and Carrasco and, while that may scare the pants off of you, those two players are going to be given every opportunity to justify their inclusion in those trades and the prospect pedigree that led them to be ostensibly the main players acquired for the two biggest trading chips in the breakdown of the Indians' team of the mid-to-late-2000s.
If LaPorta turns into a middle-of-the-order presence from the right side of the plate, things get a lot easier for the Tribe going forward, just as the future of the rotation looks much brighter if Carrasco's brief stint with the Indians this year is a glimpse as to what's coming and isn't remembered as simply being a tease.
That may be stating the obvious, but it cannot be stated forcefully enough that those two players are the key players for the success (or, let's be honest…for the failure) of the Indians over the next 3 to 5 years as we've seen that the pipeline was essentially dry and covered in cobwebs when both were added to the organization and their presence as "ready" or "near-ready" contributors to the middle-of-the-order or the front-to-middle-of-the-rotation will go a long way in determining what the Indians' 2011 and 2012 season looks like and whether the Indians truly are stuck in a vortex that will continue to drag them down or if the seeds of success have already been sown and simply need time to germinate and bloom.
While optimism can be gleaned from the recent performance of Carrasco, the same cannot be said for that of LaPorta (who, as Rick Manning said,
"did what you're supposed to do" to a fastball down the middle last night
) and the importance of BOTH of those players to turn into more than "mistakes" or "miscalculations" on the part of the Indians will ultimately determine whether better days are on the horizon because it's always darkest before dawn or if the Indians are on the precipice of an extended period of darkness.
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It's Time to Shut Down "Uncommon Descent," William Dembski!
Do you really want people like this writing curricula for schools? Barry Arrington at the Uncommon Descent blog writes:
A couple of months ago a young university student contacted my law office seeking help in a dispute she was having with a university here in Colorado. [To protect my client's privacy, I am using neither her name nor the name of the university. ] The previous week she had voiced opposition to Darwinism to her biology professor, who proceeded to scream at her, denigrate her religious views, and generally demean and humiliate her in front of the rest of the class. After hearing her story I sent a demand letter to the university seeking redress. Good news. We resolved the matter on very favorable terms.
I have my doubts as to whether Mr. Arrington should be airing this story at all if it really happened; doing so could constitute an ethics violation. But if that were not troubling enough, he is holding a contest for the "best reply" to this alleged professor who supposedly dressed down a student for objecting to "Darwinism" (whatever that is).
Then, as if this were not enough navel-gazing, commenter and moderator KairosFocus proclaims this unnamed professor's actions to be rape. That's right - actual rape.
So a real rape victim replies, "As someone who has actually been raped before, I find your 'metaphor' despicable!" As do I. Well, the comment goes up...
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Oh, who isn't reminded of the actions of Jesse Ventura after Paul Wellstone's memorial? "Violated! *Sniff* I feel violated!"
But what truly pisses me off is that, in an earlier post, this same KairosFocus character claimed that how women dress should affect their rapist's guilt:
Oh yeah, right, KairosFocus.
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This blog is the most repulsive example of nihilism I have ever seen. After accusing PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins of "exhorting violence" and shitting repeatedly on the grave of Charles Darwin, they have the effrontery to equate an insult with rape a la Catherine McKinnon.
Intelligent Design cannot even differentiate between words and actions!
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Not-for-profit UK housing firm uses Fusion ioDrive Duo devices to improve infrastructure and application performance over 20X.
The Challenge
Isos Housing Limited is a not-for-profit organization providing affordable housing for those in need across the North East of England. Isos was created when four separate housing providers merged their services. Each of these companies previously operated its own distributed infrastructure. Transitional and Technical Supervisor, Iain Knott and his team faced the daunting task of migrating 300 employees onto a single, centralized system to streamline management and improve user performance.
Mr. Knott explained, "We had a number of different desktops and IT systems, some of them quite old. We needed to modernize and restructure to facilitate the needs of the group. Because many workstations were being "End-of-Lifed", it was a good time to pursue virtual desktop infrastructure."
Implementing virtual desktop infrastructure across disparate IT infrastructures needed a solution that met the following requirements:
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As Mr. Knott's group began to research solutions, they discovered Fusion ioMemory products. He explained, "We had seen a demo of Fusion ioMemory, which is certified with VMware Horizon View, and we liked that. So we picked a supplier that was happy to work with SanDisk® as a solution."
Easy Overnight Migration
Mr. Knott wanted a migration that was transparent to end-users and easy for his team to manage: "We needed a 'big bang' solution where each organization would run its own location on one night, and the next morning would be serviced by the central location."
Fortunately, the ioDrive Duo cards deployed in industry standard servers made what might otherwise be a herculean migration easy. First, it made virtual desktop infrastructure easy to deploy remotely: "Because each ioDrive Duo card hosts up to 120 desktops per server, we could build, test, and deploy the desktops on servers at each remote location that communicated initially with central storage at corporate headquarters," said Mr. Knott.
This high desktop density made it possible to start remotely and then centralize the servers physically when each location was up and running. "Once we were ready to bring things into the middle, it was easy to just pick up the servers and physically relocate them to the data center. Users logged on in the morning without noticing any difference," Mr. Knott said. "Our biggest success here was that we were able to break the migration down into smaller components."
Iain Knott,
Transitional and Technical Supervisor, Isos Housing
Faster than Workstation Performance
One of the critical aspects of any virtual desktop infrastructure installation is performance. Users have low tolerance for delays, and especially for unpredictable delays beyond what they see in a physical desktop. Because virtual desktop infrastructure essentially replaces a local, dedicated PC with shared central storage, it can be very expensive to implement using traditional disk-based SAN or NAS products because of the sheer number of disks required to meet this expectation.
ioDrive Duo products elegantly solve this challenge with persistent, high- performance, high-capacity flash technology that resides in an industry-standard server. ioDrive Duo provides the storage performance needed for both reads and writes, even when many users contend for resources, such as during a simultaneous booting of many systems. At Isos Housing, Mr. Knott explained, "While moving to a virtual desktop infrastructure, we took the opportunity to enhance security using Secure Two-Factor Authentication with Smart Cards and Pin numbers. With the older physical machines, our staff would turn on their computer and then go get a cup of coffee, because it took at least three to four minutes for desktops to boot. Now they put in their Smart Card, punch in the pin, and within seconds they have a usable desktop."
Not only were login times decreased significantly, applications also performed more quickly. Mr. Knott commented, "Programs such as Outlook took 15 to 20 seconds to load, but this is now almost instantaneous."
Courtney Burry,
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VMware Persona for a Cost-Effective Persistent Desktop Experience
Mr. Knott discussed how he used VMware View Persona to create a persistent desktop-like experience for end users, while avoiding the costs of persistent desktops on flash. "When you move away from a SAN, you might worry about losing persistence features," he explained. "But VMware View Persona eliminates these concerns. Our users access desktops with Smart Cards and pin codes now. This gives them flexibility to use terminals at any of our sites or even login from home, and have the desktop pop up exactly how they left it."
Distributed Architecture and High Desktop Density for Easy High Availability
Because Isos was centralizing without a SAN, Mr. Knott needed to protect desktop availability against server failure through alternate means. The high desktop density made it easy for him to design a distributed architecture that required far less hardware than one might expect. Mr. Knott said, "Our distributed architecture, combined with ioDrive Duo scalability, allowed us to deliver full redundancy for 300 employees on just six servers."
Saving IT Maintenance Cycles
The new infrastructure immediately affected the maintenance routines for Mr. Knott's IT staff. "The average number of Service Desk requests per day has halved since moving to our new virtual desktop infrastructure architecture," stated Mr. Knott.
The distributed architecture was also a key component for Isos's Disaster Recovery (DR) program—and was put to the test within the first few months of the virtual desktop infrastructure deployment, when the main office flooded. Mr. Knott explained, "This is the second time we implemented our DR plan. The first time we had physical PCs and recovery took 48 hours. The second time, our SanDisk powered virtual desktop environment recovered within two hours."
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As a not-for-profit organization, Isos had a strong incentive to manage costs. The SanDisk-based system helped Isos to control capital and operating expenses by allowing the IT architects to scale performance and cost linearly with the needs of the organization. This provided a cost-effective starting point and a predictable budget for future growth. Mr. Knott commented, "If you reach your limits on a traditional SAN, then you are buying a new SAN and the costs involved are quite complicated. With SanDisk, we know exactly what it's going to cost. If we need to expand, we know that we get another 100–120 users for the cost of a server and an ioDrive Duo card."
From an operating expense standpoint, the SanDisk powered solution minimized overall costs because the use of accelerated servers in place of complicated SAN equipment eliminated the need for additional management or training of existing staff.
System Overview
Isos Housing Limited realized the following benefits after implementing Fusion ioMemoryTM ioDrive® Duo:
Mr. Knott is thrilled with the solution, especially as it affects the workers in each of the subsidiaries: "The benefits of the VMware and SanDisk solution were the performance, flexibility, and consistency our users receive from the new environment. Our staff now gets a persistent personal desktop from any of our offices or from home. Staff can remain logged on to a desktop and move to any office or work from home, and pick up their desktop where they left it."
About ISOS Housing
Isos Housing is now responsible for the day-to-day management of almost 12,000 homes across the North East of England, from Berwick in the north down to Stockton in the south, and across to Cumbria in the west. ISOS operates from offices in Newcastle, Hexham, Morpeth, and Prudhoe, delivering a customer-focused service tailored to individual needs. By listening and responding to what the residents want to see in their local area, ISOS is able to build real communities with the residents. Isos is a not-for-profit organization, which means that all monies raised goes back into improving service to customers.


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The per capita monthly income, a measure to assess standard of living, grew at a slower rate of 13.7 per cent to Rs 5,130 in 2011-12 at current prices compared to Rs 4,513 in 2010-11.
"The per capita income at current prices is estimated at Rs 61,564 (per annum) in 2011-12 as against Rs 54,151 for the previous year, depicting a growth of 13.7 per cent as against an increase of 17.1 per cent during the previous year", said the revised data of national accounts released on Thursday.
On the Gross Domestic Saving (GDS) front, the data revealed that the growth at current prices in 2011-12 slowed to 30.8 per cent of GDP at market prices as against 34 per cent in the previous year.
The GDS is estimated at Rs 27,65,291 crore (Rs 27,652.91 billion) during last fiscal as against Rs 26,51,934 crore (Rs 26,519.34 billion) in 2010-11.
The slower growth in GDS has been mainly due to decline in financial savings of household sector from 10.4 per cent to 8 per cent, private corporate sector from 7.9 per cent to 7.2 per cent and that of public sector from 2.6 per cent to 1.3 per cent in 2011-12 as compared to 2010-11.
The rate of Gross Capital Formation at current prices is 35.0 per cent in 2011-12 as against 36.8 per cent in 2010-11.
The gross domestic capital formation has increased from Rs 28,71,649 crore (Rs 28,716.49 billion) in 2010-11 to Rs 31,41,465 crore (Rs 31,414.65 billion) in 2011-12 at current prices.
It further revealed that the per capita private final consumption expenditure (PFCE) at current prices in 2011-12 is estimated at Rs 42,065 as against Rs 36,677 in the year 2010-11, showing an increase of 14.7 per cent as against an increase of 15.7 per cent in the previous year.


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CALIFORNIA - Influenced by natural forms and subtle movements, Rebecca Overmann creates jewelry that expresses clarity, simplicity and elegance. She studied jewelry design at Savannah College of Art & Design and launched her collection in 2000. She uses a mix of metals and sets each piece with raw, rose cut and fancy diamonds in subtle, natural hues. Her jewelry is hand-made in her San Francisco studio and all materials are sourced from reliable, responsible suppliers, incorporating recycled metals and conflict-free diamonds.
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There are two common methods for launching glider planes: aerotow launching and winch launching. In aerotow launching the glider is towed behind a powered aircraft and they take flight together. Once your glider pilot reaches the desired altitude, the rope from the powered aircraft is released and the sailplane begins independent flight. Winch launching involves a powerful stationary engine located on the ground. The glider is attached to one end of a cable, the winch quickly winds it in, and then the glider is launched skyward as its journey begins.
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Robert L. Sellars
May 8, 1928 – Aug. 25, 2013
Surrounded and comforted by family that he loved deeply, Robert L. "Bob" Sellars passed away peacefully to eternal life Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013, at age 85. It was a fitting end-of-life for a life well lived, which was rich with intimate relationships, professional accomplishments, and service to his church, professional organizations and community.
Bob is survived by his wife, Libby; his four children and their spouses, Kathy (Jeff) Huntsinger, John (Deb), Bill (Julie) and Tom (Liz) Sellars; and his 10 grandchildren and their spouses.
Robert L. Sellars was born in Mooresville, Ind., on May 8, 1928, the son of Sumner A. and Dorothy L. Sellars. He had two sisters, Martha Sellars and Mary Ann (Sellars) Mills. Bob grew up in the Quaker faith on a farm during the depression and World War II.
While those were very trying times, Bob had even further challenges due to health issues that resulted in leg and hearing handicaps. In spite of his handicaps, Bob played baseball throughout high school and his first year of college. In addition to his focus on academic achievements, he was involved in music activities. He was able to work on the farm where he learned hard work, persistence, patience, sacrifice, empathy, relationship building, integrity and love of nature. During those challenging years, he focused on his education and earning enough money to fund his college and graduate school education.
Bob received an A.B. degree from Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., in 1951, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1955 and 1957 and an honorary doctorate of agriculture from Purdue in 1993.
In 1993, after 32 years of service, "Dr. Bob" retired as senior vice president of technology from Chr. Hansen's Labs, a global leader in food ingredients. Although he was a scientist, he had faith in God as the divine creator. Looking to nature to understand science enabled Bob to achieve scientific advancements. Bob also was a people person who was very supportive of those who worked for him, many of whom he mentored.
Among his many accomplishments, he notably was a pioneer in probiotics. He led the introduction of probiotics into food, animal feed and diet supplements. Also, Bob was awarded two patents related to lactic starter-cultures that cut the production time of cheese in half.
Bob was a professional member of a number of scientific organizations including the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) and the International Dairy Federation (IDF), where he served in a number of leadership positions. He was awarded the ADSA's highest recognition, the Award of Honor. He received IDF's highest award for his numerous contributions to the U.S. and international dairy industry.
Bob also was an emeritus member of the Board of Visitors in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received its prestigious 1996 Honorary Recognition award. Bob was a farm boy that distinguished himself and traveled the world working in his industry.
Bob was an active member of the First Congregational Church of Waukesha. He served on a number of boards and committees and as moderator. He was a choir member for 40 years. For a number of years, Bob was active in Scouting as a coleader. He was a member of the Golden K Kiwanis group in Waukesha. He loved his music, his Western movies and his Packers and Brewers.
While Bob's accomplished professional career and service life brought him joy, he was first and foremost a strong Christian and loving and devoted husband, father and grandfather. In 1952, Bob married Elizabeth Van Liew Sellars, his wife of 61 years. He and Libby formed a marvelous match and together they created a close, committed and loving family of four children – Kathy, John, Bill and Tom – who all reside in the Milwaukee area with their spouses and children.
Bob was highly interested and engaged in his family's lives. His unconditional love, support and encouragement were a constant. One example is that Bob and Libby provided critical support to their children in the creating and building of Sellars Absorbent Materials into a successful business. Bob's legacy of his core values lives on at Sellars.
Bob was a joyful and caring person who was not afraid to express his love and emotions. He was a strong man of faith and a role model in how he lived his life. He will be dearly missed by so many. We will cherish his memory forever.
A memorial service will be held Sunday, Sept. 1, at the First Congregational Church in Waukesha, 100 E. Broadway, Waukesha, WI 53186. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. with the service at 2:30 p.m., followed by a reception.
Memorials may be given to the First Congregational Church of Waukesha (address above), or the Purdue University Food Science Department, 745 Agriculture Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2009, Atn. Dr. Suzanne Nielsen.
Krause Funeral Home, 414-464-4640, is serving the family. For more information, visit online on www.krausefuneralhome.com.


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ASIST 2012 Annual Meeting
Baltimore, MD, October 26-30, 2012
Information Outsiders of the 21st Century: Access and Implications for Information Behavior Research
Jennifer Arns, Clayton Copeland, Paul Jaeger, Bharat Mehra and Mega Subramaniam
Monday, 3:30pm
Equity of access is an imperative in the global information world of the 21st Century. For the information outsider however, or those who are disenfranchised by social constructions, or economic, educational, or political circumstances, information poverty is a disheartening reality (Chatman, 1992; 1996; 2000; Burnett, Bessant, & Chatman, 2001). The functions of this panel are to explore the information worlds of select marginalized populations and the resulting implications for information behavior. It is intended to begin providing a framework for understanding the interactions between information, information access, and information behavior. The presentations and ensuing discussion offer insight into physical and virtual or digital information access for information outsiders and implications for Library and Information Science (LIS) education and practice.


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Gain an understanding of the inner workings of the mind while preparing yourself for a rewarding career or graduate school.
A B.A. or B.S. in psychology from LeTourneau University will give you the insight needed to grow you into a knowledgeable professional with the communication, research, and interpersonal skills many employers are looking for. You will gain the ability to analyze and respond to emotional, psychological, and interpersonal problems with empathy and understanding.
While many career opportunities are available, pursuing a B.A. in psychology is particularly helpful for students interested in social work, counseling or therapy.
Pursuing a B.S. in psychology is beneficial for students interested in pursuing careers in health or psychology research. Students pursuing a psychology B.A. take a greater number of language courses, while a psychology B.S. requires more mathematics and science courses.
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The location of this condo is excellent for the price. It is ski in and you can walk (albeit uphill, about 10 minutes) or shuttle to Snowflake Lift. We had a car so cannot comment on access to town via foot or shuttle. We were able to park right in front of our room. The space was clean, well decorated and roomy, the fireplace a lovely addition. The shower in the main br was broken and repaired within hours after a phone call to the front desk. Staff was friendly and the dvd collection in the Office held great flicks. The hot tub was welcome after a long day on the slopes. We would definitely stay here again.
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Last update in Fiesta Rallycross gallery: 2009-07-30
In the American company Roush, which is known for modifications to the Ford Mustang, presented pickup F-150 Nitemare.
The American company will extend the production of cars due to high demand.
The US became a place, where begin road tests of a mysterious crossover, which is completely covered with camouflage.
The United States of America has become a place for testing the latest Ford Focus ST.
Ford will make 9 new products in a couple of years. According to Western media executive vice president of the company Hua Tai-Tang, the names of some sedans will not disappear from the market.
Ford distributed a 44-page document "A Matter of Trust", where we can see the information about images of the first serial drones.
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Jay Fancher wrote this essay for distribution to his Anthropology 101 students at Washington State University. We thank Jay for contributing this resource for use on these web pages.
Do Archaeologists Dig Dinosaur Bones?
Jason M. Fancher
Washington State University
Department of Anthropology
It might surprise you, but the answer to that question is no. Scientists who study dinosaur bones (or fossils) are called paleontologists. Paleontologists have a lot in common with archaeologists - both excavate and study animal bones. Archaeologists who specialize in animal bones study zooarchaeology, which means "the archaeology of animals". You might wonder: if dinosaurs are animals that existed in the past, and zooarchaeologists study animals from the past, then why don't they study dinosaurs? Here's the key difference between paleontology and archaeology: archaeologists study the human past. Zooarchaeologists specifically study the relationships between people and animals in the past.
One of the easiest questions that can be answered by animal bones buried in an archaeological site is "What kinds of animals were people eating?" People ate all sorts of animals including bugs, fish, mice, monkeys, and even mammoths. So, why didn't they eat dinosaurs (this is kind of a trick question)? Most dinosaurs were huge and must have had a lot of meat. Maybe dinosaurs were too dangerous for people to hunt. Actually, the reason people didn't eat dinos is much simpler. The last of the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. Our earliest hominid (human-like) ancestors didn't arise until about 5 million years ago. So, despite what you see on The Flintstones, people and dinosaurs never lived on our planet at the same time! It would have been impossible for people to eat dinosaurs, or go for rides on them, or keep them as pets. For the entire time that people have been around, dinosaurs have been extinct.
Dinosaurs are fascinating, and their fossils help paleontologists study the history of life on earth, but dinosaur bones aren't very helpful to archaeologists who want to understand human prehistory. Maybe someday dinosaurs will walk the earth again (like in the Jurassic Park movies), but for now, people and dinosaurs have never existed at the same time.


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Djokovic offers to play doubles for Serbia but lineup vs US remains unchanged
BOISE, Idaho – Serbia's doubles team remained unchanged for its matchup against the United States in a Davis Cup quarterfinal despite an offer to play from World No. 1 Novak Djokovic.
Serbian captain Bogdan Obradovic on Saturday kept to his original doubles lineup of Nenad Zimonjic, a former No. 1 doubles player and multiple Grand Slam winner, and Ilija Bozoljac, currently ranked No. 1,150 in doubles.
Bob and Mike Bryan, the No. 1 doubles team in the world, will play for the United States.
The U.S. and Serbia are tied 1-1 after Friday's first day of singles action.
Sunday's card features reverse singles matches with Djokovic playing Sam Querrey, followed by Viktor Troicki of Serbia versus John Isner.


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As team ropers who also happen to be twin brothers, Clay and Andrew Wieste are often on the same page when they step into the ring. Except, of course, when they're not.
As team ropers who also happen to be twin brothers, Clay and Andrew Wieste are often on the same page when they step into the ring. Except, of course, when they're not.
"It seems like a lot of the time in team roping we think the opposite," said Clay, the older of the two.
Still, Clay said on good days he notices a special connection with his twin, not too much unlike the near-telepathy one sees on television or in the movies.
Another big screen twin cliche — people constantly confusing one twin with the other — also rings true for the St. Cloud, Florida-born brothers.
Friends whom the two have known for years will sometimes address Andrew as his brother Clay, or vice versa.
Even their mother sometimes confuses the two.
There are some differences between the two, Clay said, that people can pick up on.
"Sometimes I can be a little more outgoing and he can be a little more reserved," he said.
Outside of team roping, the two actually compete against one another in other rodeo events. Despite going head to head, Clay and Andrew are usually each other's biggest fans.
"I kind of root for him and he kind of roots for me," Clay said.
"We help each other through the hard times and feed off each other," Andrew said. "If he goes on a bad streak and misses some calves and I end up getting one, it gives him a spark to keep going."
Being from Florida, where rodeos are fewer and father between than in other parts of the country, Clay and Andrew said travel is often a big part of their summer. Andrew said he wishes Florida had more rodeos to offer, but he's come to accept the time it takes to compete in the sport he loves.
"It's part of it," Andrew said. "You have to travel to rodeo."
As soon as the IFYR is over, the Wiestes will extend their trip even father, driving to Rock Springs, Wyoming for the National High School Finals Rodeo.
The two have also settled on a college — Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas.
Both will participate in the rodeo program there at the start of the school year. Clay plans to get started in the pre-vet program and Andrew hopes to earn his degree in agricultural business.


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WENATCHEE, Wash. — Northwest cherry marketers are looking for ways to improve late-season marketing and are viewing it as opportunity rather than challenge.
Years ago, Northwest cherries basically sold out on the Fourth of July or shortly thereafter, enjoying a market window ahead of and relatively free of competition from other fruits.
But the crop has virtually doubled in size and expanded into July and August with a growth of late varieties. In recent years, June volume has been suppressed by rains and in 2013 the July peak surpassed the June peak for the first time.
Cherry marketers are now embracing direct competition with grapes and other fruits in July and August that they once feared.
A panel of marketers talked about it at the North Central Washington Stone Fruit Day at the Wenatchee Convention Center, Jan. 21.
"July and early August is when our largest cherries are. It's proven consumers want large cherries. It's helping us become more well-known. I don't look at it as a challenge but a huge opportunity to grab market away from blueberries, grapes and other stuff," said Scott Marboe, director of marketing for Oneonta Starr Ranch Growers, Wenatchee.
Tate Mathison, sales team leader at Stemilt Growers Inc., Wenatchee, said less certain supply leading up to the Fourth has put more pressure on the late season and led to quality inflation. But it's the most plannable period with the highest quality, largest size and most consistent volume, he said. Smooth flow requires aligning picking, packing, promotions and sales, he said.
California's 8-million-box cherry crop usually is harvested ahead of Washington's 20-million-box crop. But Californians say they have the acreage to reach 11 million with northern district Sweethearts competing with Washington's early Chelans, said B.J. Thurlby, president of Northwest Cherry Growers, Yakima.
Findings show promotions are crucial to sales and store ads reached 14,635 in late July, an increase from past years, said James Michael, Northwest Cherry Growers vice president. The growth market is affluent, urban buyers, he said.
Large blueberries sell for higher prices so "we're looking at 9-row (large) cherries and charging for it," said Mac Riggan, vice president of Chelan Fresh Marketing, Chelan. Promotions need to engage as many kids as possible so they will be future buyers, he said.
The group agreed that new, electronic defect sorting will increase quality consistency and increase repeat sales.
"I'd like to see us increase our export demand," Riggan said. "Anything to shrink domestic supply, increases demand."
And in reference to the Fourth of July becoming more of a past tradition of peak sales, he said, "If I could wave a wand, I would want Congress to enact a new national holiday at the end of July."


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Adam Smith, the Enlightenment thinker who invented the idea of the free market, was an incisive economic commentator. It is interesting to imagine him as a columnist for the Herald.
On the idea of a living wage, for example, Smith wrote: "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged." (The Wealth of Nations I, Chapter VIII).
Of price-fixing (by supermarkets, say, or banks), he remarked: "Our merchants complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people." (I, Chapter IX).
On governments dealing with merchants (Warner Brothers, say, or Sky City, or the Trans-Pacific Partnership), Smith commented: "The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it." (I, Chapter XI).
On tax avoidance: "The rich should contribute to the public expence, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion." (V, Chapter II).
Adam Smith railed against mercantilism, the rule of the merchants, as a fundamental threat to the operation of free markets. For him, much of what passes as free market thinking in New Zealand would be a cynical ploy - mercantilist wolf dressed up as free market lamb.
If he were writing in the Herald today, one can only imagine the vigour with which Adam Smith would be attacked. How ironic is that?


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'Grampire,' 'Buffy,' 'Dracula' and More Joss Whedon Movies We Never Got to See
Director Joss Whedon is on top of the world now that The Avengers is firmly ensconced as the third highest grossing film of all-time – which makes it fun to speculate on what projects the filmmaker might tackle next. While we're sure there's a veritable mountain of scripts and projects that would love to have Whedon onboard, Tumblr blog Whedonesqued has stumbled across a Variety article from way back in 1998 that outlines some of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's projects that never came to be. We'd kinda like to see Whedon take a crack at some of them now that he's free to do whatever he wants…
Obviously, vampires were big on the Whedon project list back in 1998. The article highlights a second Buffy film that was in development but never came to pass back in the early '90s, but also mentions an animated musical take on Dracula (we can only imagine the scene with Harker and the Brides in that version…) and a family comedy entitled Grampire.
Dracula was to be based on a Whedon script – his first original project under his then new deal at Fox. For whatever reason, it fell apart – although we'd really like to see how Whedon intended to take the classic horror novel's sexual subtext and make it kid-friendly. If anyone could have pulled it off, it was probably Joss Whedon.
Grampire, on the other hand, sounds pretty silly. It was supposed to be about two kids who suspect their grandfather is really a blood-sucker. Apparently the idea came about during Buffy writing – and Whedon was set to team up with his writing staff to create the script.
At least a few of the ideas didn't involve vampires but still kept Whedon pinned down in horror territory. Alienated was supposed to be a comedy about a person kidnapped by aliens who "turns the tables on his captors," while Cheap Shots was a midseason pilot he was developing along with Buffy writer Ty King about a group of people making low-budget horror movies. That was also a comedy, but it's interesting to see how Whedon was being pigeonholed as a genre talent at this point in his career.
None of these projects ever came to be – which is mostly a good thing in retrospect. Instead of making something like Grampire, Whedon eventually found time to give us the fantastic (and far too short) Firefly. Had he made Grampire or Dracula, Whedon might not have ever made that classic series or wound up making The Avengers.
If Whedon were going to make anything on this list, our vote would be the Buffy the Vampire Slayer sequel, albeit one with the TV cast and not the actors from the original film. In a perfect world, though, we'd get more Firefly. What say you, readers? If you could pick Joss Whedon's next project from this list, what would you most want to see?
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The Catholic and Dominican Institute sponsored a lecture titled
"The Messiah" on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 7 pm in Hudson
The lecture was given by Patrick Doering, PhD and David Berger,
The Messiah Lecture gathers scholars to discuss
the meaning of 'Messiah' for Judaism and Christianity. It
is hoped that this dialogue will foster greater understanding
between these faith traditions as well as a deeper
understanding within each tradition.
Lector Patrick Doering, PhD, is an adjunct
professor of theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh,
PA, earning his doctorate in 2006 from the same institution. His
dissertation was on the Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas and
Jacques Maritain in light of the philosopher Michael
Polanyi. He currently teaches Christology, Faith and Reason,
Faith and Atheism, and other courses in Philosophical Theology. His
book on the consciousness of Christ, The Self-Awareness of God
in Christ, was published in 2007.
Lector David Berger, PhD., is Ruth and I. Lewis
Gordon Professor of Jewish History and Dean at the Bernard
Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. He was also
co-chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of the national
Foundation for Jewish Culture and has served as a member of
the Academic Committee of the Rothschild Foundation Europe and
of the Executive Committee of the American Academy for Jewish
Research, where he is a fellow. He serves on the Council of the
World Union of Jewish Studies and the editorial board of
Tradition. From 1998 to 2000, he was president of the
Association for Jewish Studies. Berger is the author of The
Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages, The
Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference,
and co-author of Judaism's Encounter with Other Cultures:
Rejection of Integration?


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Men's toggle duffle coat for husband
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I found some bargain Melton wool at Spotlight for $5/metre in January this year and bought the rest of the roll. Thankfully, there was 2.4metres left so I knew there would be enough for a jacket or coat. I thought the fabric would be perfect for a duffle coat for my husband*, so I went in search of a suitable pattern.
In some ways, it was more difficult finding a nice men's coat pattern than sewing the coat itself! I looked through the Vogue/Burda/Simplicity/McCalls pattern books etc. etc. to now avail. I scoured garage sales, op shops, flea markets, online and finally… jackpot: a Japanese pattern book on etsy. A Book of Men's Coats by Ryuichiro Shimazaki. I had never sewn from a pattern book before but I thought it might be fun to try. Although the book was all in Japanese, the diagrams were easy enough to interpret (with a little help from my Japanese friends.) It was a lengthy process though, firstly tracing the pattern pieces and then adding the seam allowance or hem allowance, which was something that I was not used to. My only criticism was that the length of rope listed at the beginning of the pattern (1metre) was shorter than required (20cm X 8 loops = 1.6 metres) sending me to the haberdashery once again.
The toggle duffle coat is mostly unlined, only the pocket, pocket flaps, sleeve tabs and yoke are lined. The seams are finished with bias binding and then top-stitched and enclosed to one side. I found the wooden toggle buttons on ebay and my husband wanted the sleeve tab buttons a chin flap buttons to be of a similar walnut-brown wooden appearance.
I had lots of fun sewing this project even though it took me a while to finish… and there's still 1 month of Winter coldness here for this coat to be worn.
*Thanks husband for agreeing to model your new favourite coat
Material Notes
Melton wool, Charcoal, 147cm wide, 60% wool, 40% polyester/other ($5/metre – clearance pile!); cotton lining (for pocket, pocket flaps, sleeve tab, yoke); cotton bias tape; string; wooden toggle buttons; buttons for sleeve tabs and chin flap; thread.
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- Fall, Winter
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- Men
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- Coat/Capes
- Style
- Casual, Classic, Preppy
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- Cotton, Blends, Wool
- Ryuichiro Shimazaki
A Book of Men's Coats Japanese pattern book
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Aug 2, 2015, 06.09 PMby Luda Tomashevska
Wow! Gorgeous!
Aug 28, 2012, 08.47 PMby Csmall87
That is an amazing coat!
Aug 13, 2012, 08.43 PMby owlache
amazing job!! he's lucky!
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Aug 20, 2012, 10.53 AMby cynthia-1
Thanks everyone for your positive comments. I had fun sewing it!
Aug 13, 2012, 06.38 PMby chililietje
This coat looks awesome, very well done!
Aug 11, 2012, 04.59 PMby janul
absolutely gorgeous!!! I love it!
Aug 11, 2012, 10.10 AMby carolientje
nice job !
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Is IQueryable A Bad Choice For APIs?
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Mark Seemann suggests in his article "IQueryable is Tight Coupling" that designing an API such that it exposes an IQueryable<T> interface is a bad idea for several reasons.
..the IQueryable<T> interface is one of the best examples of a Header Interface that .NET has to offer. It's almost impossible to fully implement it.
This simple fact means that you can never be sure that the method will return a complete implementation of the IQueryable interface.
Even so, the interface is so flexible and expressive that with a single exception, it's always possible to write a query that a given provider can't translate.
The only implementation that fully implements IQueryable<T> is the in-memory implementation
According to Mark, this makes the abstraction leaky because more often than not, the IQueryable will be implemented by a Store provider inside your code.
While the argument makes perfect sense, a counter point could be, how bad is the leaky abstraction? Does it make writing code at least somewhat simpler that we can bear to live with it?
For instance, ASP.NET Web API magic makes it easier to use the same webapi for filtered data through request parameters, if the return type is an IQueryable. Similarly we have WCF RIA Services where the DomainContext methods returning IQueryable can used by the client to fetch only required data by using filter descriptors right in the XAML or from your JQuery Client.
What do our readers think? Do the benefits of the flexibility outweigh the leakiness?
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Totally Agree
Jason Young
This reminds me of another common, but IMO flawed approach to implementing the repository pattern. You will often see people advocating creating a general IRepository<T> and a Repository<T> that exposes a single IQueryable, or a Find method that uses an linq Expression. These techniques completely lose the point of the repository pattern, the whole point of the repository pattern is to invert the dependency on your data, the contract for the repository should be defined in the business layer, it's implementation should reside in the data layer. By exposing a single method for finding entities you get the following issues.
a) It is very difficult to understand what queries are actually being performed
b) It is difficult to optimize a particular query, e.g. replace with a store procedure, of course new methods can be added, but they will break the existing contract, and tracking down all the places in the code that might be using the "old" un-performant query is then a manual process.
c) Most importantly, you have NOT inverted you dependency on the data layer, you have tied yourself explicitly to it.
With all that said, the query side of CQRS can quite effectively make use of IQueryable via specially designed query models, again, as long as they are not exposed directly as a WCF end point.</t></t>
Totally Agree too.
Sake .
And it's already here in the comment too.
Microsoft OData is another step in very wrong direction.
Agreed in almost all general header interfaces cases too!
Ethar Alali
In the specific case of message contracts, the trade off is that the system doesn't necessarily scale well if each individual 'role interface' is required for processing units. There is a lot of extra effort to develop architectural units to deal with them and if individual services require more than one such interface to complete the necessary dataset required for processing and it is is not explicitly defined in any greater contract, then it may require multiple calls which, as with all RPC/RMI mechanisms, will impact performance severely.
Indeed, role interfaces can increase coupling in a different way, by potentially adding to the number of required processing units needed to deal with the specific interface implementations, even if the same object is exposing two or more role interfaces, if needs be.
Anyway, I digress. But as usual, careful thought and some trade-off analysis is necessary, given specific contexts.
Re: Totally Agree
Steven Pena
IQueryable rules
Olmo del Corral
* Implementing IQueryable is also incredibly hard. I'm the developer of Signum Framework Linq provider and I've been working on it for 3 years already. You can never fully implement it, at the expenses of some runtime exceptions for un-supported expressions.
* IQueryable<T> and Repositories don't work together: I'm not an expert of DDD, but AFAIK the whole point of Repositories is to abstract away where entities are saved, so you can mock it ant test it.... and mocking an IQueryable is hard.
* Also, because lambda quouting is transparent, most developers don't really know if they are worknin in SQL or memory.
But IQueryable is the sweetest API ever.
* It's a perfect abstraction over a queryable store. The LINQ operators are incredible expressive, I haven't seen any other API that is able to express such complex queries in such an elegant way. Any other API fights the C# language, or are more limiting, while IQueryable beats SQL readability by far.
* It's true that there are IQueryable implementations that produce bloated queries, but very often the reason is that SQL is less expressive, not a translation issue.
* Even if a complete implementation is not possible, the partial implementation is familiar to the API consumer. I think this is more important.
* At the end, any other implementation lacks projection operators, they only filter, so there are important performance consideration on reporting scenarios.
So back to the main point, if Repository don't work with IQueryable, then Repository is the one that should be removed.
* IQueryable protects your queries from adding removing and renaming database fields and tables (since it has refactorings and compile-time checking), something that happens very often on live applications.
* Repositories allow you to change the ORM... I've never done that in an application. Did you?
The other use of repositories is to keep your application more modular, so you can replace your data store from a Sql Table to a web service.... Bullshit!:
At the end you are going to join Orders, Customers and Products, how can you do that if Orders is implemented as a MongoDB collection, Customers is a web service and Products a Csv file? At the end you end up writing most of the code below the repository abstraction, so your code is not abstract anymore.
My final point: An interfaces is a door that keeps two rooms separated. Making five doors just inside a bathroom creates more problems that it solves. All this inversion of control paranoia costs money. </t>
Eugene Tolmachev
Seems to me the argument boils down to static verify-ability. Is that really what we are asking for in deferred evaluation?
I admit mocking it is hard, so I've got a small linq-to-objects implementation that stubs out a given repository for me. Sidestep the issue and move on.
In exchange it gives me a way to traverse tiers in very efficient and flexible manner.
All abstractions are leaky, the question is "does a given abstraction offer enough benefits to significantly outweigh drawbacks?" and to me, IQueryable does.
Re: IQueryable rules
Francois Ward
Re: Totally Agree too.
Daniel Fisher
OData is a very nice HTTP Query Protocol.
It has nothing to do with IQueryable - beside the fact M$ is using the interface in their implementation (WCF Data Services). WCF Data Services and the OData Project (odata.codeplex.com/) are so thightly coupled that it's not possible to 'just use the OData-Parser' cuz there is none...
Thats leaky abstraction
Re: IQueryable rules
Daniel Fisher
Re: IQueryable rules
Daniel Cazzulino
IQueryables are exposed from a context, which is the unit of work. That unit of work/context might be called "Repository" as it abstracts the storage, I think...
Totally Agree too.
Nikos Baxevanis
Re: Totally Agree too.
Jacek Helka
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Read well the article he doesn't say it's slow, he says it takes time to install and that the first start up is slow (subsequent ones are faster, and the installation problem is connected to some font recompiling that happens at installation run time).
Actually this browser on Sam is as fast and in many cases WAY faster than OWB. Heavy sites that are a total chore to browse in OWB have been very fast on SamFlex (like www.IGN.com something i never experienced before) and many stuff I never seen working on Amiga finally do (such as Amazon's recent hystory feature that stalls on the spinning circle going on forever and now finally works, or Wikipedia embedded videos that now finally play just to name a few).
But the most important part is that is that it's a VERY early Alpha which the authors are saying is much slower than what the final version will be.
I hear people saying that they prefer Chrome because it is more light weight, and yet here we have an Amiga Native FF implementation that goes as fast (at the very least least) as webkit based OWB and it's still in Alpha state! Final version might be the only browser on earth to deliver lightning speed (if this is any indication) and features all rolled into one, quite an achievement IMHO...


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GLASTONBURY, CONN. (May 2015) - High school seniors from Baltic, Colchester, East Lyme, Griswold, Groton, Lebanon, Ledyard, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Oakdale, Old Lyme, Pawcatuck, Stonington, Uncasville, and Waterford were recognized as the state's top scholar-athletes at the 2015 Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS)/ Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) Scholar-Athlete Banquet sponsored by McDonald's. This year, McDonald's Brand Ambassador John Cisna, the Iowa high school teacher who lost nearly 60 pounds eating only at McDonald's served as the guest speaker at the awards banquet.
A 32-year sponsor of the program with a longstanding commitment to educational programs in Connecticut, McDonald's joined CAS/CIAC to honor the following local students as the best of the best in the state at an awards ceremony held at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville, Conn. on May 3.
• Sarah Majewski, Academy of the Holy Family, Baltic
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The Connecticut High School Scholar-Athlete 2015 Awards Banquet is the largest program of its type in the state. Only one male and one female student are eligible for the award through a nomination from their principal for: demonstrating exemplary academic and athletic careers including participating in an interscholastic athletics; possessing personal standards and achievements that are a model to others; exhibiting outstanding school; and community service and carrying themselves with high levels of integrity, self-discipline and courage.
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Fast-casual restaurant Pei Wei Asian Diner kicked off a charitable promotion this month as part of #GivingTuesday, a global movement to create a day of giving during the holiday spending season.
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Grant Wood Prints for Sale at the Library
Prints and note cards illustrated with Grant Wood's painting titled
"New Road" are available for purchase at the Solon Public Library.
"New Road" belongs to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It was gifted to them by
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Strasburger in 1982. The painting is one of only two Grant Wood works owned
by the National Gallery. Permission was granted to reproduce this painting for fund-raising purposes.
The oil painting, created in 1939, depicts a pastoral scene about five miles west of Solon.
The oil painting, created in 1939, depicts a pastoral scene about five miles west of Solon.
In the foreground is a simple wooden marker which reads "SOLON 5 MI".
Availability of mat colors and frame woods varies.
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large unframed prints - $25.
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Current Trends in Foodservice and How They Affect the Marketing Mix of American Restaurants1 Gillian Folkes and Allen Wysocki2 1. This is EDIS document RM 007, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published October 2001. Please visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Gillian Folkes, graduate student, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Allen Wysocki, assistant professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function without regard to race, color, sex, age, handicap, or national origin. For information on obtaining other extension publications, contact your county Cooperative Extension Service office. Florida Cooperative Extension Service/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences/University of Florida/Christine Taylor Waddill, Dean. Introduction Currently, the restaurant industry accounts for four percent of the U.S. gross domestic product and is the nation's second largest employer next to the Federal government (Dumagan and Hackett, 1995). Seventy-five percent of restaurant customers report a significant increase in the number of restaurants from which they have to choose compared to only two years ago (NRA, 2001). Because of growing competition between restaurants, it is not surprising to see restaurant owners paying more attention to growing trends in Americans' eating habits. Restaurants that follow even the most minute trends could see a change in their market share and survivability. This paper will look at five of the largest food service trends in the United States and how to adapt to a more contemporary marketing mix. Eating Trends This paper will focus on five eating trends: 1. The money spent at food service establishments. 2. The role of convenience in consumers' food and restaurant selections. 3. The increasing emphasis on health in the American diet. 4. The increasing demand for meal variety. 5. The importance of food safety in consumers' shopping patterns. Trend 1: Money Spent at Foodservice Establishments Continues to Grow During the last 10 years there have been noticeable changes in the eating habits of Americans. These changes have been reflected in increases of money spent at foodservice establishments compared with money spent on in-home meals. However, this does not mean that fewer meals are eaten at home. On the contrary, the number of meals has not changed, just the origin or substance of those meals. The growing availability of take-out meals from restaurants well illustrates this trend. This not only allows the customer to eat at home, but satisfies another of the recent trends in eating: people craving high quality meals with short to no preparation time.
Current Trends in Foodservice and How They Affect the Marketing Mix of American.... 2 Trend 2: Convenience Is King The rise in convenience foods over the last 10 years has been illustrated in the steady growth of fast-food chains in the United States. The broad success of the cell phone is symbolic of Americans' greater mobility. This on-the-run mentality has created the need for quick, easy-to-prepare foods. The increase in single parent households, women in the workplace, and the amount of disposable income of teenagers have added to the need for ready-to-eat meals. Convenience foods need to be easy to make for any age group, with easy cleanup and little or no waste. Most meals are eaten on-the-go, so the ability to hold the food item with one hand and the freedom to eat without utensils are important. Trend 3: Healthy Is "In" Another trend in U.S. eating habits is the desire for healthy meals. Whether eating at home or out, consumers are starting to demand healthy alternatives to the usual menu fair. This change has been spawned by increased public awareness of heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses. Along with disease awareness has come public education on disease preventionmost of all, by modification of the diet. People now take into account more than ever the amount of calories, fat, and sodium consumed. Other popular concerns include all natural ingredients and use of organic produce. Trend 4: More Than Just Meat and Potatoes In addition to healthy foods, consumers are requesting more multicultural meals. With minority populations growing at increasing rates, the mobility of consumers, and the globalization of the marketplace, consumer tastes are broadening to include many different cultures. For example, a decade ago Mexican restaurants were few and far-between but have now joined Italian and Chinese restaurants in the mainstream market (Mills, 2000). With Hispanic and African-American populations on the rise in the United States, additional changes for the restaurant industry are imminent. Trend 5: Is Our Food Safe? Lastly, there has been increased public concern about food safety. After outbreaks such as the E. coli O157:h7 in ground beef at Jack-in-the-Box restaurants and the amplified use of genetically modified foods, consumers are looking for assurances that their food is safe and that its safety is maintained throughout the cooking process. Changing the Marketing Mix This section will discuss the four parts of the marketing mix and how each can be modified for today's changing marketplace. The four parts are product, promotion, place, and price. Product Because of the increasing variety sought by consumers, many menus have undergone revisions within the last few years. By changing product lines to include healthy choices such as baked, not fried, and alternative choices such as vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free, restaurants can target consumers with special diet restrictions or preferences. Also, fun new ways of eating foods are emerging to provide more variety and convenience as well. For example, many menus now include wraps, which are hand-held and can be consumed on-the-go (Hedden, 1997). One way to incorporate more multicultural foods is to add new flavors to sauces or seasoning packs. This offers an inexpensive way to test market different flavor mixes without an overhaul of the menu. As new flavors become popular, whole entrees can be based around the flavor mixes while still incorporating classical American ingredients and larger portions. This way Americans have greater options without the fear of trying completely new things. The product component may also be manipulated to be tailored towards some of today's biggest spenders: consumers under the age of eighteen. Offering kid-friendly portions; fun, brightly-colored meals; and incentives such as toys included in the meal, should stimulate more business from younger consumers. Another avenue to pursue may be the gross-out factor. This would include providing
Current Trends in Foodservice and How They Affect the Marketing Mix of American.... 3 items such as green ketchup and gumballs that look like eyeballs for pint-sized consumers (Gilleran, 1993). Promotion The marketing mix can be updated through promoting and advertising products. Promoting options that add convenience for the customer may gain new customers or repeat business. Offering services such as full-menu take-out from sit-down restaurants or resealable packages for easy clean-up from quick-service establishments may be just enough to persuade a new customer to try a restaurant. Although a restaurant may be gaining business in take-out or drive-through marketing, it may also be increasing future in-house sales, especially in cases of sit-down restaurants with very long wait times. Alternative menu choices or expanded menus for restricted diets need proper advertising. Advertisements showcasing these options can mean bigger profits and happier customers. Also, restaurant reviews in newspapers and magazines can provide publicity for expanded menus. Place-and-Price Place-and-price in the marketing mix is affected to a lesser degree by changes in American eating habits. Although consumers crave things such as convenience or kid-appropriate meals, the place-and-price of meals does not need to be adjusted if the product (menu) has already been modified. However, many fast food restaurant chains have felt compelled to offer special pricing based on bundling meal solutions together. Today, value meals are an integral part of the fast food marketing mix. Place-and-price may also vary according to the physical environment of a restaurant. Current statistics show that restaurateurs are spending more each year on interiors of their restaurants. For restaurants ringing up check sizes of less than $20 per person, the cost of interior design per seat is $1,000 on average compared to $3,000 per seat for restaurants ringing up $50 per person. Most improvements fit under general interior design, but the largest increase has been in themed restaurants or restaurants known for their atmospheres or food (NRA). Because of the increasing variety of restaurants from which to choose, great food may not be enough to set one apart from the next. Instead, owners are using atmosphere as an extra bargaining chip. Restaurant owners who rely heavily on themes in their marketing mix face a real challenge in deciding what theme to pursue and how to keep this theme relevant to the fickle restaurant-going public. Planet Hollywood is a good example of how quickly a themed restaurant can become outdated. Conclusion This paper focused on several ways to update a restaurant's marketing mix to meet today's eating trends. It is imperative to keep up-to-date in today's foodservice marketplace. With people becoming more mobile and pressed for time, more Americans are eating on-the-run while still being concerned about healthy foods. Modifying product, promotion, place, and price to mirror trends in American eating habits may ensure restaurateurs of a prosperous future. Above all, restaurateurs should remember that variety and convenience are keys to success. For more information, please contact Dr. Wysocki at (352) 392-1826 x403 or firstname.lastname@example.com. References Dumagan, Jesus C. and John W. Hackett. U.S. Trends in Eating Away from Home, 1982-89: A Survey by Eating Occasion, Type of Foodservice Establishment, and Kind of Food. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 1995. Gilleran, Susan. Kids Dine Out. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1993. Hedden, Jenny. Unwrapping the Latest Food Trend. Restaurants USA, January 1997. http://www.restaurant.org/rusa/1997/january/ 9701p26.htm. Mills, Susan. A Cultural Melting Pot. Restaurants USA, May 2000. http://www.restaurant.org/rusa/2000/may/ fst0005a.html.
Current Trends in Foodservice and How They Affect the Marketing Mix of American.... 4 National Restaurant Association. 2001 Restaurant Industry Forecast, 2001. http://www.restaurant.org/research/forecast.html.