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|Casey Affleck
Affleck in June 2006
|Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt
August 12, 1975
Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
|Years active
|Summer Phoenix (2006–present)
|Ben Affleck (brother)
|Casey Affleck
Affleck in June 2006
|Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt
August 12, 1975
Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
|Years active
|Summer Phoenix (2006–present)
|Ben Affleck (brother)
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (born August 12, 1975), is an American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He first came to attention for his performances in Gus Van Sant's films To Die For (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997) and Gerry (2002). He appeared in Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2006). Affleck gained widespread recognition in 2007,[1][2] starring in Gone Baby Gone, directed by his brother Ben Affleck, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary I'm Still Here, starring Joaquin Phoenix. He also received critical acclaim for his performance in Out of the Furnace and Ain't Them Bodies Saints (both 2013).
Affleck was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts.[3] He has English, Irish, German, Scottish, French, and Swedish ancestry.[4][5][6] His mother, Christine Anne "Chris" Affleck (née Boldt),[7] was raised on New York's Upper East Side by her mother Elizabeth Shaw (née Roberts), director of public information at the Museum of Modern Art for over thirty years,[8][9] and her mother's second husband, Samuel Shaw, an attorney who served in World War II.[10][11][12][13] Her father, O'Brien "Obie" Boldt, was a Democratic activist and professor of political science at the City University of New York.[14][15][16][17] Chris was educated at Radcliffe College and Harvard University,[18][19] was a Mississippi freedom rider in the 1960s, and taught at The Brearley School before becoming a public elementary school teacher.[20][4]
Affleck's father, Timothy Byers Affleck of Rhode Island, was a stage manager, director, writer and actor with the Theater Company of Boston in the mid-1960s[21][22][23] and worked alongside Dustin Hoffman,[24][25] Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner,[26] Jon Voight[27][28] and James Woods.[29][30] During Affleck's childhood, he worked as an auto mechanic,[31][32] a carpenter,[33] a bookie,[27][34] an electrician,[26] a bartender[35] and a janitor at Harvard University.[36][37][38][39] His parents divorced when he was eight due to his father's chronic alcoholism.[26] Affleck was raised by his mother.[40][29] When Affleck was thirteen, his father moved to Indio, California, entered rehab, became an addiction counselor and later reconnected with his adult sons.[26][41][42][43]
Affleck is three years younger than his brother Ben.[44] They were childhood friends with actor Matt Damon,[45][46][47] He was raised in a mostly Episcopalian family.[48] Affleck attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. He was inspired by his high school drama teacher Gerry Speca.[49] As a child, he had numerous pets, including cats, snakes, guinea pigs and turtles.[50] Affleck went to George Washington University to study politics[51] and later transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in physics, astronomy, and Western philosophy, but never graduated.[52] Affleck worked sporadically on television while finishing high school and attending college during the early 1990s.
Affleck's first movie role was as a sociopathic teenager in Gus Van Sant's 1995 dark comedy To Die For, alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Nicole Kidman.[53] After co-starring with Halle Berry in the 1997 box office flop Race the Sun, later that year he appeared in two films featuring his brother Ben: Chasing Amy and Good Will Hunting.
Affleck's next few films, the underground movie Desert Blue (1998) with Kate Hudson, the black comedy Drowning Mona (1999) with Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell, and Danny DeVito, and the 2001 horror movie Soul Survivors (co-starring Luke Wilson) were all critical as well as commercial failures.[54]
In 2001, Affleck became part of an ensemble cast in the remake of the Rat Pack movie Ocean's Eleven, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Supporting the star leads, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, Affleck played Virgil Malloy, one of the pair of Mormon brothers hired to drive the getaway vehicle. Affleck reprised this character in two sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). In the third installment of the trilogy, several scenes are set in Mexico and he has extended dialogue in Spanish. Affleck lived in Mexico as a child and speaks Spanish.[55]
Affleck co-wrote the screenplay for the 2002 film Gerry with Gus Van Sant and Matt Damon. The film, about two men who get lost while hiking in the desert, received mixed reviews; after premiering at the Sundance film festival, it got only a limited release in the United States in 2003.[56] In 2006, Affleck featured in Lonesome Jim and The Last Kiss, where he plays a friend of Zach Braff's character. He then made a cameo in the Joaquin Phoenix-directed video "Tired of Being Sorry" for Balthazar Getty's band Ringside.
In 2007, Affleck starred in the Western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, playing Robert Ford opposite Brad Pitt's Jesse James. For his performance, he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture, and an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. Entertainment Weekly observed that "a revelatory Casey Affleck brings Ford to life with a mature sense of an underling's craven, fawning petulance."[57] Other reviewers praised Affleck for being "terrific"[58] and a "real revelation"[59] while making "an indelible impression as the insecure, physically unprepossessing weakling."[60] The film's director, Andrew Dominik, said that Affleck was so good in the role partly because, like Ford, he "knows what it's like to live in somebody's shadow," referring to Affleck's older brother.[2]
Affleck also played his first leading man in a mainstream production in 2007. He starred in the Boston crime thriller Gone Baby Gone as the protagonist, Patrick Kenzie. Directed, produced, and co-written by Ben Affleck, the film was critically acclaimed and earned Casey further plaudits for his acting.[61] The Boston Globe commented, "I'd never stopped to consider Casey Affleck as a movie star before, but under his big brother's tutelage, he blooms as a leading man of richly watchable savvy and intelligence."[62] The New York magazine similarly praised Affleck's portrayal of the tough private detective and concluded, "Casey Affleck has never had a pedestal like the one his brother provides him, and he earns it. His Patrick is pale and raspy ... He's not physically imposing, but he reels off four-letter words so fast that it leaves his bigger and more dangerous opponents staring in disbelief."[63]
In 2010 Affleck released his first major directorial effort, I'm Still Here, a mockumentary about the musical career of his friend and brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix, who attempted to live a lifestyle of a rapper in one year.[64][65] After much speculation, Affleck admitted shortly after the film's release that Phoenix's role was a "performance" rather than genuine behavior, stating that he "never intended to trick anybody", rather, the production was a work of "gonzo filmmaking" inspired by journalists such as Hunter S Thompson.[66]
Next, Affleck teamed with Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson in The Killer Inside Me (2010), a film adaptation of the 1952 novel of the same name.[67] In January 2010, The Killer Inside Me premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was received poorly by many critics and created controversy due to its graphic portrayal of violence against women, which prompted many viewers to walk out of the screening.[68] However critics generally praised Affleck's performance as a serial killer.
Affleck starred opposite Rooney Mara in the independent modern-day Bonnie and Clyde film Ain't Them Bodies Saints and opposite Christian Bale in the boxing drama Out of the Furnace, both released in 2013. In November 2014, he will have a supporting role in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.[69] Affleck also co-wrote a screenplay with brother Ben and David Mandel for the baseball drama The Trade, to be directed by Jay Roach.[70] He also sold an animated comedy television series to FOX.[71][72]
Affleck and producer John Powers Middleton announced in June 2014 that they were launching a production company, Untitled Casey Affleck/John Powers Middleton Project. Affleck will serve as an equal share producer, while continuing to pursue writing, acting, and directing projects.[73] Affleck is set to direct an as-yet-untitled biopic about baseball player Josh Hamilton, from his own screenplay. Jack Reynor is expected to star.[74]
Affleck will play the lead in John Hillcoat's heist thriller Triple Nine, due to shoot in the summer of 2014.[75][76] He has also signed on to star in a HBO minseries Lewis And Clark.[77] He is attached to star as a detective in Boston Strangler, to be directed by Mark Romanek.[78]
Affleck married actress Summer Phoenix, his girlfriend of six years, on June 3, 2006 in Savannah, Georgia.[79] The couple were introduced by her brother, Joaquin. They have two sons, Indiana August, born on May 31, 2004 in Amsterdam,[80][not in citation given] and Atticus,[81][not in citation given] born in January 12, 2008.[82] He resides in Los Feliz, Los Angeles with his family.[55]
Affleck is involved with many animal rights movements and campaigns for PETA and Farm Sanctuary.[83] He is a vegan, and thus does not eat "meat or any other animal products."[84]
In 2010, Affleck was sued by two former female co-workers for sexual harassment;[85] the cases were settled out of court.[86]
|Lemon Sky
|The Kennedys of Massachusetts
|Robert Kennedy (12–15)
|TV mini-series
|To Die For
|Russel Hines
|Race the Sun
|Daniel Webster
|Chasing Amy
|Little Kid
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National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
Nominated — Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year
Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture
Runner-up — Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Runner-up — Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
|Gone Baby Gone
|Patrick Kenzie
|Prism Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film
Nominated — Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Irish Film & Television Award for Best International Actor
|The Killer Inside Me
|Lou Ford
|I'm Still Here
|Directorial debut film
|Tower Heist
|Charlie Gibbs
|Mitch Downe
|Out of the Furnace
|Rodney Baze, Jr.
|Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
|Ain't Them Bodies Saints
|Bob Muldoon
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quote:Sad to see someone like Costas has joined the angry mob
quote:So supporting harsh punishment for a university that enabled child rape=angry mob?
quote: his rant about NFL players celebrating.
quote:The entire university enabled child rape?
quote:We shouldn't drop the atomic bomb. It's not right for the citizens to be punished for the actions of their leaders. Let's invade and allow one million of our own soldiers to die instead.
quote:What a fricking stupid analogy. What is gained by banning Penn State FB? Who is protected or saved? No one. Its punishing innocent people for no good reason. Its just satisfying an angry mob, nothing more.
quote:i think punishing the student/athletes for the failures of there leaders is not a just action. thats just like my opinion though
quote: Until the vast majority of PSU fans can comprehend JoePa was a horrible person, then they don't deserve to play football
quote:But should the university get off due to the innocence of the current players?
quote:I agree with this. Let the players play this season, but be allowed to transfer to any school as soon as the season is over with no penalty.
quote:Until the vast majority of PSU fans can comprehend JoePa was a horrible person, then they don't deserve to play football.
quote:death penalty would effectively screw over all the current players on this team because of something they had zero involvement of


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Icing Fur?
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|Mon, 07-14-2014 - 3:46pm
Ok bakers, has anyone made fur or hair or grass with frosting using a tip like this: Wilton Tip No. 233? My sister is having a Monster's Inc. 1st Birthday party for my niece, and being the good aunt that I am *wink* I said I'd make cupcakes to go along with the cake she ordered. So I picked out making Sully after seeing this photo:
I may/may not do the horns.
So here's my questions - 1) would it look dumb without the horns? (I.E. can you tell it is still Sully, being that the party will have Monsters Inc stuff all around), 2) I'm guessing a thick buttercream would work best to stand up? 3) would the above tip give me this look and how hard is that tip to use? (I'm imagining all sorts of clumps, lol!).
|Tue, 07-15-2014 - 2:06pm
Those look neat! IMO the horns are neat, but I think you could get by without them since it's a themed party. I'd use a medium consistency buttercream. Depending on the recipe, and how forgiving it is, you can change the consistency by the amount of milk you are adding into it. I'd go with a pretty stiff one to get the nice fur definitions. I've not used that tip but I would definitely make a few fur clumps before starting on the cupcakes. Get a feel for how fast it comes out, as well as knowing if it's stiff enough. Good luck and be sure to share! I'd love to see how they turn out!!
|Thu, 07-17-2014 - 10:43pm
I think they would look fine without the horns .. You could alwaya cheat a little and use some kind of candy (like a big candy corn ) for the horns .
|Fri, 07-18-2014 - 3:15pm
Thanks everyone, I'm getting ready to start on them now. :o I've decided to try and do the horns. I'm going to use a marshmallow fondant. We'll see.


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I work in applied microeconomics. My main areas of interest are 1) economic decision making in social contexts and 2) the economics of language and culture. I use a range of empirical methods from lab and field experiments to observational data. I completed my Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 2007. I also have an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Chicago.
Negative Emotion, Mood Disorders, and Income
Abstract Emotional experience is a more direct measure of well-being than income. Income is easier to measure and employ in welfare analysis. Using repeated measures of emotions, this paper estimates a negative causal effect of prior-year income on the frequency of negative emotions. Identification comes from state-industry-year differences in average wages. Careful analysis of the exclusion restriction shows the elasticity of negative emotion is reasonably bounded between -0.22 and -0.27. Semi-parametric estimates show the elasticity is twice as large for low income as high. Excess negative emotion characterizes mood disorder. The semi-elasticity of mood disorder is bounded by -0.018 and -0.022.
Are the World's Languages Consolidating? The Dynamics and Distribution of Language Populations
Abstract Scholars have long conjectured that the return to knowing a language increases with the number of speakers. Recent work argues that long-run economic and political integration accentuates this advantage, leading to a consolidation in which the largest languages increase their population share at the expense of the rest. I show using a new dataset that, to the contrary, language size and growth are uncorrelated except for those very small languages with <35,000 speakers. I incorporate this finding into a model of language coordination in which agents interact locally over a network. The steady-state distribution of language sizes follows a power law and precisely fits the size distribution of the 1,900 languages with >35,000 speakers. Simulations suggest the extinction of 40% of languages with <35,000 speakers within 100 years.
Mental Accounts and the Mutability of Altruism
Abstract This study investigates the fungibility of earned and windfall income in sharing decisions using a framed field experiment. Participants play a dictator game with income accrued as earnings from a real-effort task and/or as a windfall. I find support for the contention made in the mental accounting literature that earned and windfall income are not fungible at the margin (Thaler, 1999). Sharers who had access to a single income source, either earned or windfall, shared 19% of a marginal windfall token but only 11% of a marginal earned token. Most strikingly, sharers who had both income sources were sharply less generous, sharing only 9% and 4% respectively. Overall, earned and windfall income are partly fungible. Mental accounts have an effect on sharing both because 1) participants felt less inclined to give from earnings than windfall and 2) participants felt much less inclined to give from either source when both were present. The second result is consistent with existing evidence on more complex decision frames inducing selfish behavior by making it easier to deceive oneself (see Benabou and Tirole, 2011). This aspect of mental accounts has thus far received little attention. A follow-up experiment shows that sources must qualitatively different, not just multiple in number, to induce more selfishness.
Industrialization and Bilingualism in India
(Journal of Human Resources, Winter 2014)
Abstract: Many of the world's poorest people live in countries where hundreds of languages are spoken. Languages bind ethnic groups together and are central to cultural identity. However, language differences create barriers to economic exchange, such as employment, that can create economic incentives to learn a second language. Economic development can thus drive cultural change. I study how the growth of industrial employment increased bilingualism in India between 1931 and 1961. I exploit industrial clustering and sectoral demand growth for identification. The effect on bilingualism was strongest among local linguistic minorities and in linguistically fragmented areas. Language learning, rather than migration or assimilation, was the main mechanism. My results shed new light on human capital investment in developing economies and on the long-run evolution of languages.
Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering
With Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Michael Kremer
(Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2009)
Abstract: We estimate the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Our method compares successful and unsuccessful applicants in a lottery used by Pakistan to allocate Hajj visas. Pilgrim accounts stress that the Hajj leads to a feeling of unity with fellow Muslims, but outsiders have sometimes feared that this could be accompanied by antipathy toward non-Muslims. We find that participation in the Hajj increases observance of global Islamic practices such as prayer and fasting while decreasing participation in localized practices and beliefs such as the use of amulets and dowry. It increases belief in equality and harmony among ethnic groups and Islamic sects and leads to more favorable attitudes toward women, including greater acceptance of female education and employment. Increased unity within the Islamic world is not accompanied by antipathy toward non-Muslims. Instead, Hajjis show increased belief in peace, and in equality and harmony among adherents of different religions. The evidence suggests that these changes are more a result of exposure to and interaction with Hajjis from around the world, rather than religious instruction or a changed social role of pilgrims upon return.
Deindustrialization in 18th and 19th Century India: Mughal Decline, Climate Shocks and British Industrial Ascent
With Jeffrey Williamson
(Explorations in Economic History, Vol 45, Issue 3)
Abstract: India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market, primarily to Britain. The ensuing deindustrialization was greatest c1750-c1860. We ask how much of India's deindustrialization was due to local supply-side forces -- such as political fragmentation and a rising incidence of drought, and how much to world price shocks. An open, three-sector neo-Ricardian model organizes our thinking and new relative price database implements the empirical analysis. We find local
supply side forces were important from as early as 1700. The size of Indian deindustrialization is then assessed by comparison with other parts of the periphery.
Winner of the Explorations Prize for best paper in Explorations in Economic History in 2008
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Debt Delinquency among First-Time Homebuyers with Daniel Hartley and Justin Sydnor
Empathy, Political Identity, and Altruism: An Experiment with Online Workers
Conspicuous Consumption, Status, and the Value of Looking Good
Self-Serving Bias, Luck, and Redistribution with Justin Sydnor and Mark Votruba
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Breakfast Topic: What's your favorite raid boss?
Here's a good question from the official forums: What's your favorite raid boss, and why? The original poster chose C'thun, from classic WoW's second-hardest raid, AQ40; Bornakk agrees. I haven't actually seen C'thun, but from what I hear it was both incredibly frustrating and incredibly awesome. Crygil picks Doomwalker, but he might be a little biased.
As for me, picking out of the fights I've done, I'm going to say Hodir. I don't remember classic raiding very clearly, and I only got through Karazhan and most of Zul'aman in BC. Ulduar is probably my favorite raid instance out of all the ones I've done, and the Hodir fight is really fun and demands a good amount of coordination from your group. What's your pick?
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Requests for gun permits soared in Mecklenburg and surrounding counties last month, mirroring a nationwide buying spree fueled by fears of tougher gun laws after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
In all, 1,971 people applied for handgun purchase permits in Mecklenburg in December, compared with 860 who applied in December 2011, according to data from the Mecklenburg County Sheriffs Office.
Sheriffs office spokeswoman Julia Rush said the department has a backlog of applications and has used overtime to deal with what she called a deluge of requests. North Carolina law requires that handgun purchasers get a permit from their local sheriffs office. The permit must be presented to the gun shop before the purchase can be made.
Such permits are not required for shotguns and rifles, including the Bushmaster AR-15 assault-style rifle used in the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 schoolchildren and six faculty and staff members dead. Federal law does prevent felons, certain types of domestic abusers and people with a history of mental illness from possessing the firearms.
Local gun stores have had lines of would-be purchasers stretching out the front door in some cases. Larry Hyatt said the crush of sales at his gun store on Wilkinson Boulevard in December was remarkable.
When The Observer visited the shop Dec. 21, a wall that had held assault-style long guns was nearly empty. Before the Newtown shooting, it had been full.
It was just overwhelming, Hyatt said. We couldnt even (get) people in the store. Its like going to the grocery store when it snows. We started running out of some things.
Surrounding counties are reporting similar increases in the number of permit requests. In December, the number of gun purchase permits more than doubled in Lincoln, Catawba, Rowan, Union and Iredell counties compared with the prior year. In Union County, permit applications were up more than 200 percent.
And FBI data on national criminal firearms background checks, required before firearms purchases, shows there were 74,023 such checks in North Carolina last month. Thats 50 percent more than in December 2011 and the states highest monthly number in at least three years.
I think theres a lot of paranoia now that President (Barack) Obama has spoken up and said something will be done, said Gail Neely, executive director at North Carolinians Against Gun Violence.
Potential gun regulations introduced Thursday in Congress include a ban on high-capacity magazines and a bill to stop the online sale of ammunition. A ban on assault weapons and stronger background checks could also be put up for consideration.
Paul Valone, president of the self-described no compromise gun rights group Grass Roots North Carolina, said many firearms purchasers are worried that more sweeping gun regulations will be passed, eventually banning firearms.
This is about a general agenda to disarm the American public, Valone said. Consequently, what we see is people seizing the opportunity what they assume might be the last opportunity to purchase firearms for self-protection.
Sales in overdrive
Gun sales typically increase in the fourth quarter for a number of reasons. December is the last month of deer season in Mecklenburg and surrounding counties. Gift-wrapped guns also find their way under Christmas trees.
Sales have also risen since the 2008 election of Obama, who was expected to be tough on gun control. The National Shooting Sports Foundation said that November was the 30th straight month that national firearms background checks increased, and Black Friday this past year saw the most background checks ever for a single day.
But gun buying has gone into overdrive after the Connecticut school shooting.
Mecklenburg gun permit applications soared immediately. In the first two weeks of December, the Sheriffs Office received 671 requests for handgun permits. In the final two weeks, 1,300 permits were requested.
That was likely due at least in part to calls for gun control that followed the Newtown shooting. At an emotional memorial a few days after the shooting, Obama said the nation needs to do more to stop such shootings.
In the coming weeks, I will use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens from law enforcement to mental health professionals to parents and educators in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this, he said. Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?
Hyatt Gun Shop saw a jump in customers the day after the president made his remarks, Larry Hyatt said. December became the single busiest month Hyatt has had since his gun store opened on Wilkinson Boulevard in 1959.
Hyatt typically has 12 or 13 staff members working the counter. During December, he had 30 coming in early and leaving late. His gunsmiths the people who repair guns, or add accessories were drafted as salesmen. Still, there were times when the store was full and the shelves emptied quickly.
The permit statistics likely dont reflect the total number of guns being sold.
The Mecklenburg sheriffs office says it takes 30-45 days to process permit applications, and the high volume of requests is causing delays.
Ammo also a hot item
After the Sandy Hook massacre, the National Rifle Association suggested there should be armed guards in every one of the nations schools to prevent future shootings; the group has said more gun control legislation isnt the answer.
Valone, of Grass Roots North Carolina, said the group will push a bill in the North Carolina legislature this year to allow the concealed carrying of guns on school property. He said the bill has a sponsor but declined to name the legislator.
The surge is showing up in gun manufacturers bottom lines. Firearms maker Smith & Wesson said in December that it expects sales for its full fiscal year to rise more than 35 percent, totaling as much as $560 million.
Lynn Elmo, co-owner of Elite Training Academy & Indoor Shooting Range in Monroe, said people are seriously concerned that gun rights will be curtailed.
People do have the fear that theyre not going to have the freedom to purchase what they want to purchase, she said. People are also stocking up on ammunition, at least according to anecdotal reports.
Elmo said she couldnt get a box of normally common 9 mm pistol ammunition from her distributor last week, and she has heard that .223 rifle ammunition, another popular caliber, is running short.
An increase in the sale of guns and the ammunition they fire can affect police departments In 2007, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department had to switch suppliers because of concerns over an ammunition shortage. Police spokesperson Officer Jessica Lawrence said the department doesnt have any such worries this year.
But the Sheriffs Office is placing its order for ammunition for next fiscal year now. Rush said thats because there is a minimum backlog of six months for the .40 caliber pistol ammunition the departments pistols fire.
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|16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
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I have had to buy a serial/usb convertor to connect a promethean board to a new laptop that has no serial port but I cannot get it working for the life of me.
It is one of the old prometheans with the power jack in the top of the serial connector.
The power light comes on on the board. The laptop detects the adaptor and that is as far as I can get. I have installed the latest promethean drivers but this made no difference.
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Does anyone know what I can do to get the blasted thing working??Do I need a different adaptor?
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SUPERIOR - WITC in Superior has teamed up with the Gordon Correctional Facility to start reforming some of their inmates through education and potential work.FOX 21's Morgan Kolkmeyer caught up with some of the inmates to find out what the program is all about.
WITC is providing grounds for a fresh start for those on probation, parole, and incarcerated. Fourteen individuals are taking part in a welding program -- getting their hands dirty and learn a new trade.
"Assuming all 14 graduate, we'll have roughly 74 students who've completed certificate," said Charles Glazman with WITC.
For 10 days, the trainees work from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m., learning the ropes of how to be a welder.
"As many as 50 perct of them that have graduated and stayed out of trouble have found work in the area," said Glazman.
The goal is to teach the importance of a strong work ethic.
"We require attendance, on time, that they be on time, that they be engaged, and that they act accordingly." Glazman said.
They can't curse, smoke or use their cell phones while training.
"I've always had troubles getting jobs and keeping jobs, so learning a new trade would benefit me a lot," said welder Donovan Payer.
Organizers say this year's group is doing exceptionally well.
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FOG is a fantastic and very capable tool, but it isn't going to assist you with your scheduled Windows updates unless your intention is to use if for regular re-imaging in places of updates?
WSUS has quite a bit of flexibility and you can set updates to occur automatically at scheduled times. We have ours set to automatically download new (approved) updates and apply them at 4pm every day, after all classes have finished. The computers will reboot as necessary to apply the updates. This eliminates the problems that you are having with updates applying during the day or "building up" over time for the computers that are rarely used. It sounds like you don't have your GPO settings configured correctly to accommodate this. I've attached a couple of screenshots showing our WSUS configurations for our PC Labs.
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Sells new and used recreational boats, including pleasure boats (such as sport boats, sport cruisers and yachts) and fishing boats, with a focus on premium brands in each segment. The Company also sells related marine products, including engines.
This company has a wide moat, and Bill McGill, the CEO, is a winner. He has been a longtime boat dealer in the best traditions of C.N. Ray, founder of Sea Ray Boats, and has weathered storms like this before (e.g. gas crisis). This stock will double in price.


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Swiss chocolatier Lindt is celebrates the opening of its flagship Lindt Chocolate boutique in the landmark Rolex building on Fifth Avenue in New York on May 10th.
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Hanna-Barbera StudiosWilliam Hanna, Joseph Barbera William Hanna, Joseph Barbera Warren Foster, Alex Lovy
- Hanna-Barbera Studios
- Featuring: Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Three Little Pigs, Big Bad Wolf.
- Directed By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera.
- Produced By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera.
- Animated By Don Patterson.
- Written By Warren Foster, Alex Lovy.
- Originally Released in 1959.
- Season: 1
- Color
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Pollo Tropical® Opens Its 93rd Company-Owned Location In Fort Myers, Florida
Pollo Tropical® recently opened its 93rd company-owned location in Fort Myers, Florida at the Gulf Coast Town Center, to much Florida fanfare! Pollo Tropical is a Caribbean-themed quick-casual restaurant, famous for its marinated flame-grilled chicken, guava barbecue riblets, roast pork and many more Caribbean-inspired favorites.
To celebrate its Fort Myers arrival, Pollo Tropical hosted a free Taste of the Tropics Beach Party.
Festivities began early in the morning, as the first 100 customers in line were entered to win free Pollo Tropical Chicken for a Year. Additionally, each of the first 100 customers received certificates good for a Create Your Own Family Meal on their next visit.
"Fort Myers is a natural compliment for our Pollo Tropical brand presence in Southwest Florida," said Danny Meisenheimer, Chief Operating Officer of Pollo Tropical. "We look forward to serving loyal fans of Pollo Tropical there as well as new customers for years to come."The Fort Myers Pollo Tropical location is open seven days a week, from 10:30 a.m. to Midnight, serving the ever-popular Pollo Tropical marinated, flame-grilled chicken, roast pork, made-from-scratch side dishes and much more. The restaurant also offers beer, wine, sangria, free limited table service, complimentary Wi-Fi and much more. Customers can dine in, take out or use the restaurant's convenient "Pollo on the Go" drive thru. For more information, visit www.pollotropical.com . About Pollo Tropical Pollo Tropical, a part of Fiesta Restaurant Group® (NASDAQ: FRGI), owns and operates 93 locations in the United States (Florida, Georgia and Tennessee) plus four licensed units located on college campuses in Florida. The company has 32 international franchised locations in Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Ecuador, Honduras, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela and Costa Rica and has agreements in place for additional franchised units in Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Guatemala and N. India. The first Pollo Tropical restaurant opened in 1988 in Miami, Florida. The unique restaurant concept is known for its fresh, never frozen, open-flame grilled chicken, marinated in a proprietary blend of tropical fruit juices and spices, as well as authentic "made from scratch" side dishes. For more information on Pollo Tropical, including menu items and nutritional information as well as information about international franchising, visit online at www.pollotropical.com. About Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc. Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc. owns and operates the Pollo Tropical and Taco Cabana® restaurant brands with 254 company-owned and operated restaurants and 44 franchised restaurants in the U.S., Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Trinidad and Venezuela. Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc. also has agreements for future development of franchised Pollo Tropical restaurants in Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Panama, Tobago and N. India. The brands specialize in the operation of fast-casual, ethnic restaurants that offer distinct and unique flavors with broad appeal at a compelling value. Both brands feature made-from-scratch cooking, fresh salsa bars, and drive-thru service and catering. Fiesta common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol FRGI. For more information about Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc., visit the company's website at www.frgi.com.
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Secession is not an option, said the White House. But they hadn't counted on my kid.
Three years ago, Hugh, my then 13-year-old Aspergerian, acquired a new obsessive interest: micronations. Micronations are pockets of territory that have some nominal resemblance to independent nations or states. But they are not recognized by the United Nations, nor any state or government – nor, in fact, anyone beyond the micronation's picket fence. And possibly not everyone within it, either. Past micronations include Lundy Island, England, whose previous owner/monarch immodestly put his face to bronze coins, and the Conch Republic in Florida ("We seceded where others failed").
Hugh researched micronations in meticulous Aspie fashion. He had in mind a nation of his own, to be called Huropa.


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Last week I presented at the 2014 SQE Orlando conference on a talk called "Choosing Between Scrum and Kanban". I recorded the talk on my laptop, and though it's not the best quality in the world, I did put it up online below. The slides are also available
On November 13th, I gave a talk at the SQE Orlando conference on "Choosing Between Scrum and Kanban". I've published the slides on Slideshare, or you can view them below!
If you're interested in learning how you can do this in your organization, give me a shout at foyc at coryfoy dot com!
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Thanks to everyone who came out to my Distributed Agility talk at Southern Fried Agile 2014. You can find the slides from the talk below:
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A huge thanks to Arjay Hinek and Greg Neighbors with Red Hat for having me out at the 2014 Red Hat Agile Conference. Here's the slides from my talks "Scaling Agile" and "Scaling Agility" (combined into one).
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When the Single Responsibility Principle is taught among developers, one aspect – the responsibility – is harped on the most. But what counts as a responsibility of a class or a method? Is it the concepts it touches? The number of classes it uses? The number of methods it calls?
While each of the above questions are very good questions to ask of your method, there is an easier way given right in Robert Martin's explanation – a responsibility is a reason to change. And it turns out that we can use something more than just code to determine that and help guide us to write good code.
As with many programming topics, code is the best place to start. Let's look at a basic class in Ruby:
class ReportPrinter def print_report records = ReportRecords.all puts "Records Report" puts "(printed #{DateTime.now.to_s})" puts "-----------------------------------------" records.each do |record| puts "Title: #{record.title}" puts " Amount: #{record.total}" puts " Total Participants: #{record.total_count}" end puts "-----------------------------------------" puts "Copyright FooBar Corp, 2012" end end
How many reasons could the method in this class change for?
- We need to change where we get records from
- We want to print different information about a record
- New records have fields other records don't have (conditional logic)
- We want to output to a different format
- We want to make sure line endings are set correctly
- We need to change the report title
- We want to change where the date is printed
- We want to change the separators
- We want to change the footer
- We need to print the report in a different language
10 lines of value add code. 10 (at least) reasons to change. Now, let's compare that code to this version:
class ReportPrinter def print_report records = load_records header separator records(records) separator footer end def load_records records = ReportRecords.all end def header puts "Records Report" puts "(printed #{DateTime.now.to_s})" end def separator puts "-----------------------------------------" end def records(recs) recs.each do |record| puts "Title: #{record.title}" puts " Amount: #{record.total}" puts " Total Participants: #{record.total_count}" end end def footer puts "Copyright FooBar Corp, 2012" end end
The first thing that should strike you is that this is exactly the same code. Yet, this class is better code because each method has a single responsibility – header prints the header, footer prints the footer, etc. We could continue the extractions by pulling out the duplication of "puts" into a writer method, and then dynamically swap that in.
But, I want to focus on the print_report method for a minute. It seems like there are lots of reasons for it to change – it does an awful lot. However, it has an important job – one that I will title a "Seargent Method" since that's the name I got from Alan Shalloway and Scott Bain. To understand its responsibility, let's step back and look at a way of defining ways of modeling software from Martin Fowler's UML Distilled. Fowler discusses three levels of modeling:
- Conceptual
- Specification
- Implementation
Coupling should happen at the Conceptual level, and never should there be coupling between the Conceptual and Implementation levels. The way I explain these levels is that the Conceptual level is the container that holds the concepts. The Specification describes what should be implemented, and the Implementation level how it should be implemented (see John Daniels' "Modeling with a Sense of Purpose" http://www.syntropy.co.uk/papers/modelingwithpurpose.pdf for more information).
With this in our mind, we can see that the print_report method has the responsibility of defining the specification of what it means to print a report. In other words, it gives us the algorithm for printing a report, and only needs to change if the algorithm changes. We are free to implement that in any way we choose without having to change the print_report method.
With this terminology, we can now look at the records method and be able to define what smells about it. It is operating at two levels – a specification level (loop over a set of records and print information about each one) and an implementation level (print the title, total and count). We could move the loop up to the print_records method, but that would be a true violation of Single Responsibility – it needs to not only know the order of operations, but how to loop over a collection. It's better to have two methods:
def records(recs) recs.each do |record| print_record(record) end end def print_record(record) puts "Title: #{record.title}" puts " Amount: #{record.total}" puts " Total Participants: #{record.total_count}" end
Which are now both operating at the correct level.
Sharpening your eyes to look for both increases in the reasons a class can change and the level of abstraction the class or method is operating at will open a whole new world of identifying code smells, and understanding where to put in divisions to your code to make it easier to grow and scale your code base.
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On July 16th I gave a talk for the Triangle DevOps group. Here's the slides from the presentation. Thanks for having me out!
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Julia is the ScrumMaster for Team Gumbo. They were recently formed as their organization's first foray into the agile world. They were all given a two-day Certified ScrumMaster class, and are collocated. But Julia has noticed that after two months of working together, they don't seem to be hitting their Sprint Commitments – and don't seem to care!
Many times organizations interested in adding more agile methods to their toolchain start with Scrum, since it seems one of the clearest and easiest to start with. They take a group of people, put them through some training, and tell them to go! But they really struggle, even after they should have been through the normal "Forming, Storming, Norming" phases.
One way of understanding the challenges is explained in the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni lays out a hierarchical model that shows the interdependencies of the dysfunctions. At the very top, we see the problem that Julia was seeing on her team – Inattention to Results. In Scrum, one of the keys to success is the ability to deliver increments of product, usually measured by Nebulous Units of Time (NUTs) like Story Points.
But when teams aren't delivering increments, or adhering to their commitments, we try to understand why by holding a retrospective. But by looking at Lencioni's model, we can see that if we haven't solved more underlying issues, then we're not going to have great luck:
- The team isn't delivering their commitments and don't seem to care (Inattention to Results) because…
- Team members aren't holding each other accountable to the commitments they made (Avoidance of Accountability) because…
- No one really committed to their sprint goals during sprint planning (Lack of Commitment) because…
- The members knew there were issues with certain members of the team, but didn't want to bring it up (Fear of Conflict) because…
- They were afraid that the person most identified as causing the issues would push back on being identified, and the remaining members wouldn't get support from management to be able to express themselves (Absence of Trust)
One of the challenges as a ScrumMaster is that, without Trust, Retrospectives are going to be fairly ineffective, since teams (or people working in close proximity being called teams) are not going to want to get to the real root issues – especially if they don't feel like they will be resolved.
For Team Gumbo, Julia held a series of one-on-ones and discovered the issues of missing trust. She worked with management to remove the problem member from the team, which greatly increased the confidence the team had. Julia noted a fairly rapid improvement with the members sharing challenges and concerns more freely. Ultimately she found that they started performing and delivering much more effectively – and seemed happier doing it!
So next time your team don't seem to care about delivery, ask yourself if that is really a tip of an iceberg that is keeping them from being an truly effective team.
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REST seems to always be in the way. Am I doing it wrong? What's its value? Is there some perspective I don't have which makes it better?
— Josh Cheek (@josh_cheek) May 5, 2014
A great thing about being a programmer today is the wide variety of libraries, packages, and patterns we have access to. Which is great, because we're building bigger, more distributed systems as a norm than ever before.
But code is ultimately about communication with other developers (that's why they are called programming languages). The following three programs output the same thing (credit to Peter Welch for the last two):
puts "Hello World!"
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My bets are, I'm mostly like to high-five my past self for only one of these three examples. But while our choice of languages and communication are usually easy to see, how we interface with other code is not always easy.
In the original Gang of Four Design Patterns book, one of the key principles was "Design to Interfaces". Oftentimes this gets confused to mean you should create interfaces which your objects implement - but that is literally an implementation detail. What the authors really meant was this:
Start with expressiveness first.
What this really means is - control your own API, the way you want your code to interface. Then adapt theirs to fit yours. While I gave some examples in an earlier blog post on how this can be used to scale component teams, the technique is not limited to just scaling.
As an example, in this great StackOverflow post the poster has a
Car object that can be created, updated and viewed. But there are also additional actions, such as the ability to purchase a car.
If we start with expressiveness first, it leads us to think about what really happens when we purchase a car. We aren't actually manipulating the car itself (at least, not yet). Instead, we have some set of operations that when bundled together form the concept of purchase. So we would set up the notion that the action of purchasing a car creates a new trigger for these set of operations, leading to the RESTful path:
POST /purchase
Of course, our code should not be littered with RESTful calls. We should instead centralize those into our own API we call. For example, using Ruby's rest-client gem, we can write the following:
require 'rest_client' class Car def purchase RestClient.post("#{Config.server}/purchase", self.to_json) end end
So our code base would merely call
car.purchase and not have to know anything about REST.
But we can take this one step further, and this is where the real power of expressiveness comes into play. Let's imagine we worked through the above example, and then find out that the vendor we work with provides an API which looks like:
POST /api/v1.1/car/123/purchase
While not the end of the world, that isn't the best way they could structure that. We could modify our
Car class above to call the updated structure, but then we are tying ourselves to that interface. Instead, we can continue to use the RESTful interface we think is correct, and use an Adapter to give us the interface we want.
For example, we could set up a tiny Sinatra server that looks like this:
require 'sinatra' require 'rest-client' post '/purchase' car = params[:id] RestClient.post("#{Config.server}/api/v1.1/car/#{car}/purchase", params) end
Now we rely on a RESTful service which is a thin adapter around the real service. This can be really helpful if multiple applications we are building all rely on the same RESTful services which are out of our control.
So, if your code is telling you to write something, listen to it and write the code you want to write. Only after you've done that should you go back and adapt it to the nastiness you really have to deal with. You gain expressiveness, readability, and as a bonus, an added layer of separation from your dependencies.
(Note: I don't feel this should end without a brief note about performance. Start with expressiveness, and then optimize for performance. There is no doubt an art to the balance between clean code and defensive programming, where everything is built up front and wrapped to the nth degree. But if we start with the code our problem is telling us to write, we can easily read it to figure out where we can make it faster - and better)
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On Friday, I had the wonderful opportunity to present at TriAgile 2014. My talk on The Agile Mindset – Agility Across Your Organization got a lot of great feedback, and I wanted to share the slides here. The key takeaway would be: if we relentlessly and ruthlessly focus on removing the delays in our organization, we'll begin to see the real benefits of agility that most companies – even ones saying they are doing agile – are not yet seeing. It's time for the next step to really begin to define what true organizational agility is all about.
Thanks to the awesome Tim Wingfield for the great action shot of me juggling – and eating – apples as part of the talk to highlight one form of agility!
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One of the most important patterns to come from modern web development is the idea of Model-View-Controller – in effect, separating out our data logic from the view of said data, as well as the separation of how that data and view gets wired up. This works really well when you have a single team, or group of teams, working cross-functionally in the code. As teams begin to scale, some organizations opt to split teams among components that will be assembled together, usually via service calls. This idea of a Service-Oriented Architecture has allowed some amazing advances in the ability for large organizations and teams to be surprisingly nimble in how they build software.
However, sometimes teams are split into component teams which may not work at the same pace as the consuming teams. Or the service to be consumed may come from an external vendor or contractor. Worse, the data may not end up matching the expected API, or there may be data quality problems. These problems can drastically slow down the agility of software teams, especially if they have to wait for fixes from vendors or downstream teams.
Luckily, Alistair Cockburn, in his article on Hexagonal Architecture has provided the vision of a solution for this problem. By providing adapters, we can separate out the coupling to components external to us. Further, we can provide stubbed data, and when we are ready to connect to a real data source, we can use a Remote Facade or Service Layer to connect to it. Let's take a look at how this would work to enable agility in concurrent teams working on various components of a system.
In this picture, you see a pretty basic three-tier setup. We have a Front-End, such as a web page, that gets data from a Data Services layer, which gets its data from several different data sources, some of which they have control over, and some which they don't. In this example, we'll have Team Grasshopper who works on the front-end, Team Sloths who provide the data services, and Vendor Valley who provides the vendor data sources.
The teams have been struggling to rapidly deliver software. Team Grasshopper requires the data to be sent to them to know how to communicate to the end-users. Team Sloths work as quickly as they can to provide those services, but have several other teams to provide for, and find that the data they attempt to pull from the vendor and public data sources isn't always reliable or correct. Can hexagonal architecture help here?
A trick I learned from Alan Shalloway and Scott Bain was that if you needed an API, but were having trouble getting it, you simply built the API you needed. Since both teams are struggling to get the data they need, let's start there. Both teams create thin API layers for the information they need to retrieve. These layers are usually known as Domain Models, with a famous implementation being Rails' Active Record. In the diagram to the right, you can see that Team Grasshopper created an API layer for the communication to the services, and Team Sloths have created three separate API layers for each of the data sources they talk to.
With these APIs in place, each team can hook up a stubbed data provider to the other side, and build away without having to worry about the data on the other side yet. This is the central point of Hexagonal Architecture – once the port to the data is extracted, then multiple ways of providing data can be inserted without the calling system having to change.
However, it doesn't end there for our teams, and this is where the power of this architecture really comes into play. As mentioned above, both teams have problems where the downstream services don't provide the information they need. Team Sloths discovered that the information coming from the vendor data has extra characters prepended to the data, while Team Grasshopper discovered that the service which was supposed to provide 50 records at a time was only providing 1 record per call. They could, of course, go back to the calling systems and have them fix the problems, but that would slow down development, since they are dependent upon those changes. So what should they do?
The answer lies in the original name of Hexagonal Architecture: Ports and Adapters. In the Design Pattern world, an Adapter is used to make the interface of an existing class work with other interfaces without modifying either's source code. For our teams, that means that if the API we expected is not present, we simply write a very thin adapter to wire it to the API we put into place. This can be seen in the design to the left. By using these adapters, Team Sloths can strip the extra characters coming from the vendor's data store before passing the data up through their API. Team Grasshopper could use the adapter to loop the single call 50 times, aggregate the data, and pass it up through the API layer while waiting for Team Sloths to be able to modify the original service call. And once the native call is corrected, the adapter can simply be passthrough the call to the original service.
While the overall design may look complicated, each of the layers are designed to be extremely thin and provide only the separation absolutely required. While they are drawn as separate abstract concepts, the boundary does not (and probably should not) be web service calls or other heavyweight communication mechanisms. The overall goal is to segregate our dependencies and be able to respond to them while keeping a stable API for internal use.
An additional advantage comes from a testing perspective. Team Grasshopper can write end-to-end integration tests that pass with the adapters and mock data in place – and continue to pass as the mocks are removed and the real data is wired up – all the way down. This can help provide an early confidence boost of having the tests in place, and knowing that they can help catch any errors on the way down.
So if you have concurrent teams which are struggling with waiting on information and data from other teams, you might find that a little adapting can go a long way.
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Table food with no teeth?
My daughter is almost 9 months old, and doesn't have any teeth yet: I'm still nursing, but I'm also feeding her two meals a day. At each sitting, she eats two 3rd Foods jars,...
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