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Let's all do our part this season and recycle as much as we can. I'll start with this post from last year, because today is Black Friday in the USA and this seems particularly relevant.
Like all old codger stories, this one begins with the phrase, "When I was young." I realize this is cliche, but it's probably less annoying than using, "Before you were born" as an opening.
In any case, when I was young the Christmas shopping season began much more gradually. There was no "Black Friday" shopping blitzkrieg the day after Thanksgiving. The process took time and not everyone did it at once.
But today, as soon as Halloween is over the Christmas decorations come out and the Christmas sales begin. We roll our eyes. We joke. We grit our teeth. But it still happens this way every year. People write op-eds about how ugly and consumerist America has become, because it wasn't like this in the "Good old days." Unfortunately our current grotesque, soul-crushing orgy of prolonged and rapacious spending was unavoidable. We all hate it, even as we participate in it. It's nobody's fault, really. It's just the unintended consequence of a couple of perfectly understandable forces.
Let's set aside the whole Birth-of-Jesus / religious holiday thing and agree that lots of people like to celebrate Christmas. Maybe they like the lights, or the food, or the family, or the notions of peace and harmony, but just about everyone enjoys the exchanging of presents on some level. Even if you don't like shopping for racist Uncle Walt – who you only see every other year when he shows up to the Christmas party to complain about politics with his mouth full and drink more than his share of the booze – there's an undeniable charm to seeing a kid's face light up when they find a box with their dreams in it. Keeping the gift-giving to once a year ensures the proper level of delight and appreciation from the little ones. And it always feels good to get that one present for your friend that you knew they would love but would never think to buy for themselves.
Depending on what goods they sell and what statistics you believe, retailers move something like one-third to three-quarters of their yearly goods during the "Christmas shopping season". If we split the difference and say halfYes I realize that's not splitting the difference. But look, the numbers are all over the place. You can justify any figure you like, provided that figure is really large., then that means that half of everything you sell will be sold in the last month of the year. This creates some really annoying throughput problems. Assuming that business is evenly distributed throughout the rest of the year, it means you suddenly need your store to handle over ten times the normal monthly volume.
Stores have finite storage space. There's only so much crap you can ram into the back area. And there's an upper limit on how fast you can have more goods delivered, particularly if the weather is bad and everyone else is also trying to get huge volumes of stuff delivered. If you run out of goods – or if you just run low enough that it becomes inconvenient for people to shop at your store because they have a long list of stuff they want to buy and they want to make the smallest number of stops possible – then shoppers won't want to come to your store. Losing out on a week of sales in August is worrisome. But losing out on a week of sales during the Christmas season is brutal. If Christmas accounts for half your sales, then missing a single week of Christmas sales will cost you a heart-stopping 12% of your annual income. To be clear, that's more than the profit margins of some retail chains. Like, a 12% dip in income means you have to fire a few thousand people and maybe close some stores. And nobody wants to do that kind of stuff right after Christmas.
(This is usually where people start complaining about executive salaries. Look, I understand that it's really upsetting to some, and I can understand if you oppose huge salaries on some sort of moral grounds, but executive salaries aren't even worth discussing here. Wal-Mart made almost half a trillion bucks last year and the CEO got 25 million. If you took all his pay away and gave it to the employees, it would add up to just $10 per person, per year. The CEO salary accounts for less than 0.0052% of the company profits. If you made every single executive put double their salary back into the company coffers, it wouldn't increase revenue by a tenth of a percentage point. Maybe you don't like the idea of people making twenty five million bucks for a cushy desk job, but the truth is that on the scale of global mega corporations their incomes just do not matter. So please don't sidetrack this with stuff about salaries. Let's just forget that for now and focus on retail throughput, which is a much more interesting problem. In fact, I INSIST. Last time I posted this, some people decided to argue about this anyway and it started a flamewar so bad I had to close the comments. I was nice about it in 2014, but this time I'm just going to unceremoniously delete any such comments. Merry Christmas!)
The point is: Retailers hate this as much as we do. The Christmas shopping season is rife with risk and unwanted expense. They have to hire a bunch of temp workers and pay to train them. So they're paying more and getting lower quality work. They have to pay a premium to have huge volumes of goods delivered at a time where everyone else is also having massive goods delivered. The influx of stuff means everything is packed tighter. Goods get crushed, broken, stolen, and lost, on both a macro and micro scale. From the shipment that got left in the warehouse an extra week to the USB speakers that fell off the pallet and got crushed under the boxes of plastic Christmas lights, the uptick in volume results in a broad range of financial losses.
Retailers would love it if our business was spread evenly over the entire year. But the mess we're in now was as inevitable as the seasons. It began innocently enough…
Early 80's
I'm running Stuff-Mart. On the other side of the shopping plaza is my hated rival, AmeriGoods. I know that Shoppers are going to show up in December and buy tons (literally!) of goods. Now, I can order those goods in November like I normally would. However, those assholes over at AmeriGoods are going to do the same thing. Since we carry a lot of the same stuff, we're both talking to the same wholesalers. Those wholesalers are going to crank up their prices when the demand spikes. Worse, the cost of shipping is going to also spike in November, because:
1) Gas prices always go up because consumers and trucking companies are all burning extra gas.
2) Truckers want to spend the holidays with their families.
3) AmeriGoods is shipping stuff too, making the previous two problems worse. Jerks.
But! I can get those same goods way, WAY cheaper if I'm willing to order them just a couple of weeks sooner. Maybe have the stuff arrive in mid November instead of early December.
It works out, and my profits go up. I pay less for the goods and I sell them for the same price. The only cost is that the back storage room of my store is kind of overstuffed for a couple of weeks.
Late 80's
AmeriGoods has caught on to my plan and they're ordering their stuff a couple of weeks earlier. So I have to order my stuff even sooner to stay ahead of them. After a couple of years of this we've got Christmas goods coming in at the tail end of Halloween. We literally don't have room for it in storage. The best we can do is shove it out on the sales floor and maybe catch some early sales.
Early 90's
Both my store and the filthy shysters over at AmeriGoods are both starting our big Christmas sales right after Thanksgiving. We tried moving it sooner than that, but consumers hated that. Heck, they hate seeing the stuff on the sales floor that early, so putting it on sale and advertising it just pisses them off even more.
But still. The back room is so stuffed we can barely function. I need to front-load as much shopping as possible to get us some breathing room. My plan this year is to have a huge sale right after Thanksgiving. I'll put a couple of limited quantity loss leaders in the paper. I'm hoping two hundred people will show up looking to buy one of the VCR / television hybrids that I'm selling at a loss. I've only got 50 of those, but the other 150 people will probably stick around the store and do the rest of their Christmas shopping here. That should free up some space for the customers in December.
It turns out my idea worked better than I could have dreamed. I didn't get 200 shoppers, I got a thousand. I think I'm onto something here.
Late 90's
This whole "Day after Thanksgiving" thing has caught on. They're calling it Black Friday now. People are expecting huge deals. If I don't have some insane sale to draw them in, then they'll all go to AmeriGoods and I'll end up drowning in all this stock. I've already lined up my December shipments. (Just like shoppers are starting earlier every year, so am I. I have to line up deliveries way in advance, before the prices spike.) If I don't move literal tons of goods on Black Friday, then when the December stuff arrives I won't have room for it in the building. Then it will sit in the loading bay until it's stolen or ruined by weather. So I have to move these goods.
Hm. You know, consumers won't stand for the big sale before Thanksgiving, but what if I just opened early on Black Friday? It wouldn't have to be super-early or anything. I just need to be open an hour before AmeriGoods.
Early 2000's
I guess I should have seen this coming. We now open at 5am on Black Friday. The crowd of early shoppers is large enough to be a physical danger. The employees don't want to be here, the shoppers say they hate it but show up anyway. The news is always parked outside getting footage of people standing in line and blaming S-Mart for this mess.
This is the same throughput problem I had in the 80's, except now more concentrated.
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Before we heap blame on "evil corporations" or "dumb consumers", we ought to note that this is actually a pretty natural result of consumer demand: People want to buy HUGE quantities of goods at the end of the year, but they don't like doing it before Thanksgiving. This wave of shopping is so huge that a company can thrive or perish based on how well they perform. This entire mess is the result of retailers trying as hard as they can to distribute those sales as much as possible without having their competition ninja the first sales (the best ones) away right at the start.
My hope for the future is that the wave of online shopping might save us. I'm willing to bet it's more efficient in terms of time, cost, and fuel burned to have dedicated delivery vehicles bringing stuff to our door as opposed to everyone driving to the mall, fighting over parking, and standing in line for hours to get the same stuff. (Yes, those UPS delivery trucks are fuel hogs, but if you distributed its payload among fifty cars and had them all compete for driving and parking space, my guess is that you'd end up burning a lot more fuel and a lot more hours of human time.)
Just like the rise of Black Friday didn't happen overnight, I think the rise of online shopping will take a few years. (For the record: We did all of our shopping already, and we did 80% of it online.) I wonder what will happen to retailers. They're already struggling, and even having a third of their Christmas business vanish is enough to kill some of the smaller chains. Plus there will be residual damage to secondary markets: Fast food places will make less money if there are less hungry shoppers.
Anyway. Happy Thanksgiving. Remember: Nobody in this mess is really evil. There are no bad guysExcept for me, because if I smell even a whiff of politics I'll put you right on Santa's naughty list.. This is not a conspiracy. We're all victims of culture, throughput, and infrastructure. Be good to those clerks, be patient with the other shoppers, and remember that the executives don't know how to fix this either.
[1] Yes I realize that's not splitting the difference. But look, the numbers are all over the place. You can justify any figure you like, provided that figure is really large.
[2] Except for me, because if I smell even a whiff of politics I'll put you right on Santa's naughty list.
Punishing The Internet for Sharing
Why make millions on your video game when you could be making HUNDREDS on frivolous copyright claims?
Project Frontier
A programming project where I set out to make a gigantic and complex world from simple data.
Project Button Masher
I teach myself music composition by imitating the style of various videogame soundtracks. How did it turn out? Listen for yourself.
The Gameplay is the Story
Some advice to game developers on how to stop ruining good stories with bad cutscenes.
Overused Words in Game Titles
I scoured the Steam database to figure out what words were the most commonly used in game titles.


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Aksum, also spelled Axum, powerful kingdom in northern Ethiopia during the early Christian era.
Despite common belief to the contrary, Aksum did not originate from one of the Semitic Sabaean kingdoms of southern Arabia but instead developed as a local power. At its apogee (3rd–6th century ce), Aksum became the greatest market of northeastern Africa; its merchants traded as far as Alexandria and beyond the Nile River. Aksum continued to dominate the Red Sea coast until the end of the 9th century, exercising its influence from the shores of the Gulf of Aden to Zeila on the northern coast of Somaliland (modern Somalia and Djibouti).
During the 2nd and 3rd centuries ce its growth as a trading empire increasingly impinged on the power of the kingdom of Meroe, the fall of which was brought about in the 4th century by an Aksumite invasion. During the 4th century the kings of Aksum were Christianized—thus becoming both politically and religiously linked to Byzantine Egypt. At the same time, they extended their authority into southern Arabia. In the 6th century an Aksumite king reduced the Yemen to a state of vassalage. In the latter part of the 6th century, however, the Persians invaded South Arabia and brought Aksumite influence there to a close. Later the Mediterranean trade of Aksum was ended by the encroachment of the Arabs in the 7th and 8th centuries.
Gradually, Aksumite power shifted internally to the Agau (Agaw, or Agew) people, whose princes shaped a new Christian line in the Zagwe dynasty of the 12th–13th century.


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The Atari 800XE was the last 8-bit machine produced by Atari. It was almost the same machine as the 800XL with a case almost the same as the 130XE. It was only sold in East European countries, mainly Germany and Poland.
The main hardawe difference with the 800XL was FREDDIE, a new memory management custom chip (also found in the 65XE) allowing to address up to 128 KB of RAM and to better share RAM area with ANTIC, the graphics chip.
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The Hope College Symphonette will present solo and combined works in concert on Saturday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Violinists Alexandru Hamzea, a freshman from Brasov, Romania, and Jennifer Tuinenga, a junior from Holland, will perform the "Concerto in D minor for Two Violins" by J.S. Bach. Cellist Keirtsen Schwanbeck, a senior from Williamsport, Pa., will perform "Elegie" by Gabriel Faure. Trombonist Aaron Hawn, a senior from Midland, will play the "Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra" by Vaughan Williams.
In addition, Amanda Danielson, a junior and piccolo player from Alto, will be featured in the "Concerto for Piccolo and Strings" by Antonio Vivaldi; and Carol Beth Steiner, a junior and flutist from Rochester, will present the "Fantasie for Flute and Orchestra" by Faure.
In addition, other works on the program will be the "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber; "Petite Suite for Orchestra" by Claude Debussy; "Hoe-down" from "Rodeo" by Aaron Copland; and "Fete Polonaise" by Emmanuel Chabrier.
The concert will be the last concert before the Hope College Symphonette Tour 2006, which includes six concerts in Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida.
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These make excellent storage containers for small parts. Made from durable transparent polypropylene, each has a number of fixed compartments, and is supplied with dividers that can be used to make smaller compartments.
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SQLBits is Europe's Largest SQL Server Event
That's right, just take a moment to let that point hit home. If you are only able to attend one SQL Server event in Europe this year, this is the one you are going to want to choose!
Maybe the PASS Summit 2010 is not a practical option for you, no problem, get yourself registered for SQLBits – The 7 Wonders of SQL and give yourself the opportunity to learn from top SQL Server speakers.
Three days packed full of SQL Server content to wet the appetite of data professionals from all backgrounds. Whether you're a DBA, Developer, Report Author, Analyst or just starting out on your SQL Server journey, there is something for everyone at SQLBits.
You Can Vote for the Sessions You Want to See
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It's a 3 Day SQL Server Packed Extravaganza
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- Thursday – Pre-Conference Sessions – for £350 – Want to really immerse yourself in your chosen topic? Pre-Con sessions provide the opportunity spend a full day focussing on a certain area.
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Whether you are after regular sessions or really want to get deep into a particular subject, you have the choice to do all of them.
Meet SQL Server Professionals Just Like You
A problem shared is still your problem right :-) but we can certainly help you with it. Attending SQLBits is a fantastic opportunity to meet other data professionals just like you. You'll be amazed at how many people understand what you are going through and have had to overcome the very same issues.
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An Invitation to be a Signatory of the Manhattan Declaration
On Friday, November 20, 2009, His Grace Bishop Basil sent an invitation to his flock, inviting them to sign a statement affirming the historic Christian teaching on life, marriage, and religious freedom. He wrote:
"Dear to Christ:
We invite you to join with other Christians across the nation who support the sanctity of life, traditional marriage and religious liberty by endorsing the Manhattan Declaration.
Throughout the centuries, God has graciously provided His people with teachers and prophetic voices who apply His word to the critical issues of the day and who lead their hearers to embrace His life-giving authority and counsel in the midst of cultural madness. The Manhattan Declaration extends and honors that tradition, and we urge you to join us in affirming it. The Manhattan Declaration addresses with urgent eloquence the devaluation of human life, the corruption of marriage, and the erosion of religious liberty. With careful instruction, it brings light and clarity to all who read it. We trust that millions of believers will sign it, that countless others will be drawn or driven to give it fair consideration, and that our society will be changed by its strong yet sweetly reasonable message.
The Manhattan Declaration was released today, Friday - November 20, 2009, at a press conference in Washington D.C. It bears the signatures of many religious leaders, including myself, but this is just the beginning. The list of supports will grow dramatically in a short time and those who most need to hear this word will not be able to escape or downplay it. It has already grown ten-fold since its release at 12 noon (EST). So if, after carefully reading the document, you feel so moved, please endorse this document by your signature and spread the word to others who might endorse it as well. Thank you.
Click here to view the Manhattan Declaration and prayerfully consider lending your name to those who have already signed: www.ManhattanDeclaration.org.
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'Deep Throat' Dead At 95
W. Mark Felt, who as anonymous source "Deep Throat" helped bring down President Richard Nixon, died in his sleep in Santa Rosa, California Thursday. He was 95.
The Washington Post said he died quietly:
According to his daughter Joan, her father "was fine this morning" and he was "joking with his caregiver." She said he had a big breakfast before saying that he was tired, and went to sleep.
"He slipped away," she said.
Felt steered the Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their reporting on a break-in at the Watergate building, helping the reporters understand how the burglary was connected to a deeper conspiracy that went to the top of the executive branch.
By the time he was dubbed "Deep Throat," by Post editors, Felt was a bitter, spurned Justice Department deputy. He'd been passed over to lead the FBI, even though he had effectively been running the bureau under an ailing J. Edgar Hoover. Nixon appointed a loyalist instead. And when Woodward came knocking on his door one night, Felt decided to cooperate, establishing an elaborate routine for arranging clandestine meetings. (Nixon's aides still came to suspect him of leaking information to the press.)
Nixon was eventually forced to resign thanks to the newspaper articles, hearings, investigations, and other information that emerged after Felt guided the president's criminal wrongdoing into the public eye.
Woodward then guarded Felt's identity for three decades, until Felt revealed himself in Vanity Fair in 2005.
While Felt had been lurking in the shadows, journalism remade itself around Watergate-style reporting, embracing anonymous sources of often impure motives, just as Woodward and Bernstein had done. That change will be as big a part of Felt's legacy as Nixon's resignation.
It's been a controversial shift, particularly as anonymous sourcing has spread far beyond the standards set by Woodward and Bernstein, to even the most pedestrian news stories in the most prestigious news outlets. The internet has carried anonymous sourcing to further extremes, with sources anonymous even to the reporters they communicate with, and information floated speculatively, as rumor, with no prior attempt at verification.
Felt encouraged more reporting by Woodward and Bernstein, not less. He provided information on a "deep background" basis that, on its face, required more investigation. He doesn't get blame for the evolution of newsgathering any more than he gets full credit for ending Nixon's presidency. But, as with Nixon, he was a damned important catalyst.


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- AnonymousAugust 4, 2010 at 7:10 AM
what a lovely picnic!! gorgeous pictures make me wish I could be there.ReplyDelete
Beautiful view, Beautiful food and a wonderful picnic!ReplyDelete
You always have the most beautiful post of any. It looks good enough to eat,"no pun intended!!". I will be looking forward to your bow tie spinach salad. That looks delicious. Thanks for always sharing your wonderful recipes.ReplyDelete
looks like you had so much fun, such a pretty table! i love being outside and such a great location, i haven't seen those falls since the 70s~ReplyDelete
wow, how sweet.. a picnic! it looks lovely! how romantic!ReplyDelete
This is fab. Love the Italian sodas. So now I'm waiting for the Bow Tie Pasta recipe! So so pretty, Jacqueline. xx'sReplyDelete
Beautiful picnic...what a view you have there! Bridal Veil Falls is such an appropriate name- Gorgeous! Looking forward to your recipes. Thanks!ReplyDelete
The pictures look awesome!ReplyDelete
I just made your southwest burgers yesterday for the freezer. I'll be posting them in the next week or so!
I'm hosting BSI this week if you want to make any ground turkey recipes and submit it! More info on my blog, thanks!
Wow Jackie. I really need to be more like you and enjoy this place we live. Love the beautiful pictures and the great picnic idea. Your so fun. Lucky husband you have. Love ya!!! Lets do a double date and go on that picnic.ReplyDelete
Looks like a grand-slam! Beautiful view, wonderful food and great company-enjoy!ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting my GA on your side bar:@)
How do you do it?? Amazing and just gorgeous! When I saw "Bridal Veil Falls" I thought you were visiting here since we have falls here with that name. Anyway, your picnic looks great. I have to look for the soda. I wonder if it comes sugar-free, lol??ReplyDelete
We share this as one of our favorite romantic rendezvous! Your pictures are beautiful and your picnic sensational. I posted a similar salad today...it must be a new Idaho/Utah treat! Thanks for a fun trip down memory lane!!!!!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness! Gorgeous landscape, beautiful picnic and delicious food! Puts my picnic to shame, but now I'm inspired with all your tips! Thanks! (We do have a beautiful landscape, I just need to work on the other two components:))ReplyDelete
What a pretty place for a picnic, and the food looks great! This is a beautiful post, Jacqueline. Loved your ice cream x 4 post too! I think you are a fabulous cook!ReplyDelete
Hugs and blessings, Beth
Gorgeous! Both the food and the view! This is my kind of picnic. I love going on picnics. ~ TracyReplyDelete
Jacqueline, I have never had such a delicious looking picnic lunch before! The falls are beautiful, too.ReplyDelete
Please thank your hubby for helping you share both with us?
I look forward to seeing the recipes later in the week.
- AnonymousAugust 4, 2010 at 1:44 PM
Thank you Thank you for commenting on my pantry makeover post on my blog! I've been waiting to get a new comment :) And I am loving having the meal baskets ready when it comes time to make dinner. I love this picnic by the way!!! So pretty and yummy looking.ReplyDelete
I'll put on my hiking shoes and be there in just a bit! This is such a lovely picnic, and I can almost feel the crisp clean air as I sit and enjoy your delicious fare. Thank you for sharing your charming design. Cherry KayReplyDelete
Jacqueline -- what a great setting for a picnic! I haven't been there for years and I do wish they still had the tram going on to the falls. I remember going to a dance there in college. Lovely picnic fare...Crystal Geyser also has a great passion fruit drink! JoniReplyDelete
Who doesn't love Target?!! Such a fun and pretty picnic scape! I wish we had somewhere like that as claose. Our former home in NY was just off the Appalachian trail and we spent many wonderful hours at the Hawk's Nest overlooks.ReplyDelete
We always have Italian soda in the fridge right next to the Pelligrino! :)
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What a beautiful picnic! I love Italian sodas.ReplyDelete
What a neat post! The food looks delicious, the view fabulous!ReplyDelete
I've never seen lemon cucumbers before, sounds good!
This post describes a perfect afternoon to me! I love how you packed such a pretty picnic. My favorite part is actually the dressed up oriental take out boxes. Simple and pretty!ReplyDelete
I will be checking back to see that salad recipe.
This looks like a truly PERFECT DAY! Picnics are so charming. You put so much love into this preparation. Your photography is just beautiful.ReplyDelete
Those waterfalls are so beautiful! So high up too! The picnic looks delicious! I am anxious to try and find a lemon cucumber! I love tomatoes anyway they come and fresh off the vine has got to be the best! Looked like a fun day and you are so fortunate to live so close to such beautiful scenery! Will be back posting soon. I'm just recovering a bit from a fall I took on my bicycle. I'm fine just a little beat up!! LOL!! Hope you are having a great week. Again such a wonderful post! Sherri : )ReplyDelete
What a lovely picnic, the food looks so yummy and I will look forward to the recipe. Beautiful photos of the waterfalls and food.ReplyDelete
Hi, and thanks so much for stopping by my garden post and leaving such a nice comment!! Yes, those Cinderella pumpkins are quite special. We've always grown these pumpkins, and all of our squash and pumpkins, from seeds, and have found the seeds in the grocery store some years, or ordered them from Burpee or from Seeds of Change. That's so funny about your husband not cutting the grass but two times since you've been married!! He was a good sport to go up to that gorgeous waterfall with you to help set up the photos for this great post. That waterfall really does look like a bridal veil - so pretty! Ciao, bella!ReplyDelete
To have a waterfall nearby where you can picnic - How romantic!ReplyDelete
Just love your picnic that you put together. Bowtie pasta and spinach are some of my favorites - I look forward to your recipe!
Also the infused oils - I have a lot, I mean a lot - wheelbarrel fulls - of rosemary I need to do things with!
Hope you have a fantastic day,
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I have just toured yours and let me just say that you're a girl after my own heart. My chocolate heart that is!!! It sounds like you love chocolate as much as I do! I also love the pocketbooks and the ruffled skirts that you made. I sure do wish I could sew! I'll definitely be back again! Thanks for sharing the picnic. My mouth is already watering just looking at it, and it's only 8:25 in the morning here!ReplyDelete
Well how romantic you and your husband are. I thoroughly enjoyed pictures of your day today. Love the wicker baskets and the addition of colorful tissue paper. You have a beautiful blog. I just scrolled down and copied off a recipe and am your newest follower. Thank you for your visit to my blog. Do come again! DonnaReplyDelete
This looks like a lovely picnic...I first visited Wisconsin this summer and really enjoyed it...cheese curds were a first time treat for this southern girl...ReplyDelete
Jacqueline, Your pictures and settings are just beautiful. This was a very special picnic! I can't wait for your bow-tie pasta recipe. That is one of my favorite types of pasta. And I never knew about the lemon cukes. I have seen them, and now I will try one. This weekend I am planning to make your purple chocolate cupcakes! LindaReplyDelete
What a beautiful blog and post. I'm so glad I found you and I'm now a follower too.ReplyDelete
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How fun!!!! I have never seen Lemon Cucumbers...yum. Your picnic looks fabulous:)ReplyDelete
I love a great picnic with real food and real dishes. Fabulous! And I'm jealous. We've lived 2 hours from the park for 18 years and have never made it in yet! I'm happy to live vicariously thfrough your picnic.ReplyDelete
Oh, everything looked so good. I love the idea of using Chinese take-out containers and giving herbal vinegars as gifts. Very attractive looking!ReplyDelete
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What a wonderful picnic! Your photos are great!ReplyDelete
Oh, my, I would love to be there right now! What a beautiful setting, yummy looking food and each detail was just right. As soon as it cools off, I am going on a picnic!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful picnic -- you thought of everything! Loved your salad dinner in your newest post -- and those salad servers really caught my eye - stunning! Thanks for your very sweet visit.ReplyDelete
I'm not sure my comment went through earlier so hopefully I'm not repeating this...sorry if so.ReplyDelete
How wonderful to live so close to such an amazingly beautiful place. I'd love to visit this in person someday.
I can imagine a picnic there...looks and sounds like a lovely, lovely time you and your hubby had.
Thank you for sharing your picnic with us.
I've never tried lemon cucumbers! I'll be sure to look for them next spring.ReplyDelete
What a charming picnic! What a feast!
Beautiful view! I'd love to have a picnic there!ReplyDelete
What a fantastic view while having a picnic, I would be to busy gawking to eat!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness - amazing view and terrific food. Just amazing.ReplyDelete
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Wow! I love your perfect picnic!ReplyDelete
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Hi. Thanks for visiting. What a lovely picnic! You make food look gorgeous! We have a town a few hours away in Oregon called Bridal Veil; and many brides get their wedding invitations postmarked there.ReplyDelete
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Fathers of the Church
Letter LXXX. to the Prefect Eutrechius
by Theodoret in c. 448 | translated by Blomfield Jackson
I have been much astonished that no information has been sent me by your lordship of the plots against me. To counteract them would very likely have been a difficult matter to any one not having the means of convicting their promoters of lies; but to give information of what was going on needed not so much power as friendliness, and we had hoped that when your excellency had been summoned to the imperial city, and had been chosen to adorn the prefect's exalted seat, every tempest of the Church would be calmed down. But we suffer from such disturbances as we did not see even in the beginning of the dispute. The churches of Phoenicia are in trouble; in trouble are those of Palestine, as all unanimously report; and the distress is proved by the letters of the most pious bishops. All the saints among us groan and every pious congregation is lamenting. While looking for a cessation of our former troubles we have been afflicted with new ones. I myself have been forbidden to quit the coasts of Cyrus, if the dispatch is true which has been shewn me, and which is said to be an autograph of our victorious emperor. It runs as follows "Since so and so the bishop of this city is continually assembling synods and this is a cause of trouble to the orthodox, take heed with proper diligence and wisdom that he resides at Cyrus, and does not depart from it to another city." I have accepted the sentence, and remain still. Your lordship can bear witness to my sentiments, for you know how on my arrival at Antioch I departed in a hurry, on account of those who wished to detain me there. And those were unquestionably wrong who gave both their ears to my calumniators and would not keep one for me. Even to murderers, and to them that despoil other men's beds, an opportunity is given of defending themselves, and they do not receive sentence till they have been convicted in their own presence, or have made confession of the truth of the charges on which they are indicted. But a high priest who has held the office of bishop for five and twenty years after passing his previous life in a monastery, who has never troubled a tribunal, nor yet on any single occasion been prosecuted by any man, is treated as a mere plaything of calumny, without being allowed even the common privilege of grave-robbers of being questioned as to the truth of the accusations brought against them. Yet they have done wrong; I have done no wrong. But I am ready for even more serious troubles. Though they be ever so much annoyed at my bewailing the calamities of Phoenicia I shall not cease so to do so long as I behold them. The only judgment that is awful to me is the judgment of God. For them, nevertheless, I pray that from the God of all they may obtain forgiveness; for your excellency, that you may ever live in honour, excel in all good things, speak boldly against lies, and fight on the side of the truth. And let the contrivers of this plot know that, though I depart to the uttermost ends of the earth, God will not suffer the confirmation of impious doctrines, but will nod His head and destroy them that bow down to doctrines of abomination.
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Sean Penn and Fidel Castro? The actor's top 5 forays into journalism.
The star of "Milk", actor Senn Penn, is in Cuba, reportedly to interview Fidel Castro for Vanity Fair magazine about how the Obama administration has affected the island.
Oscar-winning actor, political activist, and part-time Big Name interviewer Sean Penn is currently in Cuba hoping to land what may turn out to be the biggest "get" of all his journalistic dabblings.
He's angling to interview ailing revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. And, if recent history is any guide, he's got as good a shot as any imperialist Yankee to sit down for an on-the-record with the bearded ex-president. Last year, he sat down for a seven-hour gabfest with Fidel's younger brother and current Cuban President Raúl Castro. (See below). And he hung out with Fidel back in 2005.
Celebrity news source TMZ.com reports that Penn is there to do a piece for Vanity Fair magazine on how the Obama administration has affected Cuba.
Cuba's government-controlled TV showed Mr. Penn walking in the town of Nueva Gerona on the Isle of Youth, accompanied by Cuban painter Alexis Leyva. (Somehow, I doubt Penn will get stuck on the island begging ferry operators to bend arcane Communist rules to let us leave the way a Monitor photographer and I had to do while reporting a three-part series on how change is coming to Cuba.)
Penn's latest foray into journalism prompts us take stock of the past few years of his reportage.
Herewith, the Top 5 Sean Penn reporting trips.
5) Iran. In 2005, Penn traveled to Iran to cover that country's elections for the San Francisco Chronicle. The result: A five-day series. Here's a sample:
Back at the hotel, I went for coffee and scrambled eggs at the downstairs buffet. A canned, Muzak version of "I Will Always Love You" plays. The scene downstairs reminded me of similar scenes in Iraq, at Baghdad's Al Rashid and Palestine hotels. International journalists with that "What the [bleep] are you doing here, Mr. Penn?" look on their faces.
4) Iraq. In 2004, Penn reported for the San Francisco Chronicle that the occupation by US forces there "could ignite a powder keg." This came a little more than one year after he used an ad in the Washington Post to ask former President George W. Bush not to go to war in Iraq. "I beg you, help save America before yours is a legacy of shame and horror," Penn wrote in an open letter to Bush.
3) Cuba. Weeks before President Obama was elected last year, Penn had dinner and drinks with Cuban President Raúl Castro during a seven-hour conversation in Havana. Mr. Castro told Penn he'd be open to meeting with Mr. Obama, if he won the election. Penn wrote the visit up for The Nation, a liberal news magazine.
Penn flew to Havana from Caracas, Venezuela, on a plane loaned to him via the Venezuelan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum. Just don't razz him about it. "If someone wants to refer to that as a payoff, be my guest," he wrote. "But when you read the next report from a journalist flying on Air Force One, or hopping on board a US military transport plane, be so kind as to dismiss that article as well."
Touché, Mr. Penn. Touché.
2) Venezuela. Before flying on to Cuba (see #3) Penn spent some time hangin' with President Hugo Chávez, prompting this response by George Packer of The New Yorker:
Why does someone like Penn think he can do this job, which isn't his job? Perhaps because he can write down and relay the words of famous people to whom his own fame gives him access, and because certain thoughts pass through his mind while he's writing them down. Penn's moonlighting shows a kind of contempt for journalism, which turns out to be rather difficult to do well. It also shows that he's missed one of the main points of Obama's election, which has Penn shedding tears at the end of his dispatch. Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy. In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too—a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well. Nor should any journalist, however accomplished, expect to land a leading part in Penn's next movie.
1) Fidel Castro doesn't do many interviews these days. If Castro grants Penn an interview, it could be one of the last the leftist icon grants to a Western "journalist" – or movie star. And that would make it No. 1.
If you could get an interview with Fidel Castro, what would you ask him?


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Seizo Onoe, head of DoCoMo's R&D strategy division, said the solution is to use existing 3G bands for next-generation services like LTE (Long Term Evolution), a specification for high-speed networks that is emerging as the global standard. He also called on component makers to put more effort into multiband support.
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The problem of LTE and other services running on different frequencies in different regions has been a major headache for device makers like Apple. The company stopped promoting its new iPad as compatible with 4G networks in Australia after a local consumer commission filed a complaint with the federal court in March.
Australian operator Telstra runs its 4G service in the 1800 megahertz (MHz) band, while Apple's newest iPad can connect only on 700 MHz and 2100MHz LTE bands, which are used in the U.S. and Canada.
Onoe said DoCoMo, which launched its LTE service in December 2010, now has nearly 3 million subscribers and aims for coverage of 98 percent of Japan's population by March 2015.
He said the company is also actively preparing to implement LTE Advanced, an enhanced version of LTE, and is testing the technology in some parts of Japan. He said DoCoMo has achieved rates of 1 Gbp for downloads and 200 Mbp on uploads, though real-world implementations will be slower.
DoCoMo is leaning toward using an implementation that combines macro towers and small cells to provide service, an approach that provides broad reach and maintains local connectivity, Onoe said.
The company runs Japan's largest mobile operator, with just under half of the country's mobile subscribers. The company has the best coverage and strongest network, but has lost users in recent years to smaller rivals such as Softbank, the first domestic carrier to offer the iPhone.
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LÉVESQUE, FRANÇOIS, merchant, justice of the peace, legislative and executive councillor; probably b. 29 June 1732 at Rouen, France, to François Lévesque and Marie Pouchet; m. 16 Aug. 1769 Catherine Trottier Desauniers Beaubien in an Anglican service at Quebec, and they had nine children; d. 15 Jan. 1787 at Quebec.
Nothing is known of François Lévesque's early years, except that he came from a Huguenot family, prosperous weavers originally of Bolbec, France. His reasons for leaving that country are also unknown, as is the precise date of his arrival at Quebec. Nevertheless, it seems that before 1756 he joined forces with his two cousins François Havy* and Jean Lefebvre*, who were already established at Quebec as merchants. The Seven Years' War then caused separation of the associates: Havy went to La Rochelle and Lefebvre left Quebec for France in 1760. After Lefebvre's departure Lévesque was given responsibility for recovering the debts owing to his partners.
Lévesque quickly gained the confidence of the existing authorities, and was able to take advantage of favourable business opportunities. Thus in 1764 Governor Haldimand made him the sole trustee of 87 stoves and 310,000 pounds of iron from the Saint-Maurice ironworks, which was later liquidated. The administrators of the Séminaire de Québec entered into numerous transactions with him: for example, he lent them 3,000 livres in 1761 and supplied 6,000 paving stones in 1774. In another connection, on 11 Aug. 1781 the bursar of the seminary, Thomas-Laurent Bédard, granted Lévesque a lot with a frontage of 60 feet in Quebec's Lower Town.
Lévesque embarked on a large wheat business which greatly enhanced his wealth and status. About 1773 he is even said to have owned a fleet of vessels for his trade with Europe. While engaged in commercial activities, he also pursued a career in public office. In 1769, in his marriage contract, he was termed a justice of the peace; then in 1772 he became a member of the Council and in 1775, under the Quebec Act, of the Legislative Council. As councillor he opposed the fixing of wheat and flour prices, which was proposed in 1780.
On 6 Nov. 1786 Lord Dorchester [Carleton*] announced the creation of a committee of council on commerce and police, which was to study "External and Internal Commerce and regulation of the Police, having an Eye to the ancient Laws and usages of the Province," and to report to Lord Dorchester. The committee's appointed members, Edward Harrison, John Collins, William Grant*, George Pownall*, and François Lévesque, were authorized to summon witnesses and undertake interrogations, and to examine records and pertinent documents. The committee met for the first time on 13 November, and its report was submitted shortly before Lévesque's death on 15 Jan. 1787.
There is a well-established tradition that Lévesque was converted to Catholicism through his wife's influence. Nevertheless, his burial certificate is to be found in the Anglican register at Quebec. The obituary in the Quebec Gazette of 18 January bears witness to the respect in which his compatriots held him: "His social and patriotic virtues have long since acquired him the esteem, love and gratitude of this province, to whose interests he always shew'd his attachement, which renders his loss the more regretted by the public in general, and his friends in particular." The important political offices he assumed, as well as his social success, make him typical of the bourgeoisie of his time.
Lévesque's wife died in 1807 at Saint-Denis on the Richelieu, where she had retired to be near her daughter Catherine and her nephew Pierre-Guillaume Guérout.
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Stanford, Wisconsin make big BCS move
Stanford was the big winner in the latest BCS standings.
The Cardinal, along with Wisconsin, all but locked up bids to the Bowl Championship Series, and Oklahoma earned a spot in the Big 12 title game by outpointing Oklahoma State and Texas A&M on Sunday.
Auburn and Oregon also switched places at the top of the standings, with the Tigers slipping by the Ducks into first place - but that hardly matters.
Both are still on track to play for the national championship on Jan. 10 in Glendale, Ariz. Auburn needs to beat South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference championship game on Saturday to lock up its spot and Oregon needs a victory at Oregon State in the Civil War rivalry.
The only difference between one and two in the BCS is No. 1 gets to wear its home jerseys.
TCU is third and in position to grab an automatic bid - possibly to the Rose Bowl - now that Boise State is no threat to swipe it from the Horned Frogs. The Broncos lost to Nevada 34-31 in overtime on Friday night.
TCU is also on-deck for a spot in the national championship game if one of the top two teams trip up.
But Stanford made the most important jump of all this week, taking the fourth spot after completing its season 11-1 with a 38-0 victory against Oregon State. BCS rules ensure the top four teams in the final standings a bid to the five big-money games.
Stanford was in danger of getting left out altogether because its fans generally don't flock to long distance bowl sites. As long as the Cardinal don't fall when the final standings are released next week - and there's no good reason why they would - one of the bowls will be forced to take them.
The BCS standings also broke the Big Ten's three-way tie at the top in favor of Wisconsin, which is fifth in the standings, a spot ahead of Ohio State.
Unless some strange voting takes place in the Harris and coaches' polls after Championship Saturday, the Badgers are headed to the Rose Bowl.
The Buckeyes are a good bet to land an at-large bid, but the Big Ten's other tri-champion, Michigan State, will have to settle for a second-tier game. The Spartans were eighth in the BCS standings.
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M finished tied at 6-2 in the Big 12 South, but the BCS tiebreaker went the Sooners' way. Oklahoma was ninth in the standings, Oklahoma State was 14th and Texas A&M was 18th. The Sooners beat Oklahoma State 47-41 on Saturday night to make the jump up the standings.
The Sooners will play Nebraska in the conference championship game and the winner lands a Fiesta Bowl bid.
Virginia Tech and Florida State will play in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship, with the winner getting an Orange Bowl bid.
Connecticut is in command of the Big East race. The Huskies will clinch the league and a BCS bid by winning at South Florida on Saturday. If UConn losses, West Virginia could win the league and the BCS bid by beating Rutgers.
Arkansas was seventh in the standings and the Razorbacks seem to be in good shape to receive their first BCS bid after beating LSU 31-23 on Saturday.
If Auburn goes to the national title game, Arkansas is a good candidate to be selected by the Sugar Bowl.


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
This task is on my list.I need some time to finish my current tasks (1-2 days) and then I will need more information about your X10 devices, especially those that are sending commands back to computer like alarm system.
I know the type of the devices, but us far as I know you can set on their back which device to trigger.I only have recieving devices here. So i'm not qiute sure what will happend in this situation :Motion detector detects motion and sends ON to A1, A2 and so on.Is anything sent to computer? (it doesn't have a code assigned to it, so I only hope that I will be informed via X10 protocol)Can you search your CM11 logs (in /var/log/pluto/) for string "CM11A wants to notify us of Something"
Bad news is that in the code which receives messages from CM11 doesn't trigger events.I don't know too much about all X10 devices (there are to many of them) so please post your suggestions here about what device could trigger what.For example if motion detector is triggered than we should send an alert to security plugin.If some other device then we must notify this and this. and so on.


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New search engine demonstrated by Vodafone at Cebit show uses images, not text, for search parameters.
Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News
Search isn't just about text anymore. At the Cebit trade show in Germany, Vodafone is demonstrating Otello, a search engine that uses images as input.
Instead of entering a word or phrase users send pictures via MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) from their mobile phones.
The picture can be anything from a historical building to a CD cover, according to Vodafone. Otello then returns information relevant to the picture to the mobile phone, just like a normal search engine.
Vodafone's reasoning behind image search is that it's more convenient to take a picture than to enter search terms with a phone that lacks a normal keyboard.
Starting Monday Vodafone is conducting a trial with German paper Bild. Readers can find out more about specially-marked articles by photographing them with their mobile phone camera and sending the image to Bild.
This gives the reader access to additional multimedia content, such as photos or videos.
The next step for the service remains to be seen. Vodafone won't to comment on when Otello will be used in more than trial.


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Cold sores are a result of infection with the herpes simplex 1 virus. This is a viral infection that once you have contracted stays in your system for life. The only treatments available are antiviral management, because there is no cure.
A person who suffers from atopic dermatitis should be extremely cautious around anyone with a cold sore. Atopic dermatitis, better known as eczema, is rashes and irritations on the skin caused by any number of environmental allergies. This condition causes very itchy dry patches of skin that can break open and are prone to secondary infection from scratching. Studies have shown that patients with eczema are more likely to carry stash on their skin than those who do not.
The herpes simplex virus can spread rapidly in a person with atomic dermatitis. This can cause an infection known as eczema herpetic. It can spread over the whole body or remain localized in areas of active eczema outbreak. This situation should be monitored very carefully by a medical professional.
Herpes virus is very contagious and the spreading capability increases in the person who has eczema. The virus can spread over the whole body very quickly leaving you open to secondary infections and especially staph. As noted above the eczema carrier is also more apt to have the staph already present on their skin, thus when scratching sores or rashes, the staph can penetrate and make a bad situation even worse.
If you have eczema and been exposed to the herpes simplex virus, it is important that you see your doctor immediately. They may want to start you on an antiviral medication sooner rather than later to ward off a potential outbreak.
Signs that you may be getting a herpiticum outbreak will include blisters, sores within the areas of eczema. These tiny blisters will soon pop and spread the virus at an alarming rate. There is a chance of fatality if not treated properly. You may feel tired or feverish and notice some swelling in the area of the rash.
It is important to note even if you are not overly concerned for yourself, you should be concerned for your family and coworkers. The virus is very contagious and should be treated immediately. Besides early treatment can lessen the severity and duration of your outbreak.
In very severe cases, your doctor may prescribe a bleach bath to kill the bacteria. However, this should never be undertaken without a doctor's advice as the wrong dilution can cause severe problems. Phototherapy and laser therapy are also alternative therapies that your doctor or dermatologist may consider.
The main thing to remember is prevention is better than cure, use good hand washing practices and keep yourself healthy. When you are run down your immune system becomes compromised and less able to fight off infection and the herpes particles.


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John Boehner Will Not Abide Questions About His Smoking
When Fox News' Chris Wallace asked Speaker of the House John Boehner about his smoking habit, he snapped back: "Why do you bring this up again? It's a legal product. I choose to smoke it. Leave me alone."
At the beginning of this clip, Wallace also brings up everyone's other favorite topic when it comes to John Boehner: His crying. Say what you will: The man's got some habits!


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This handsome t-shirt features the logo of this year's Rickshaw Run and is £16.00 and available with other merc at the site's shop:
FYI – One person's Rickshaw is another person's Vespa Ape or Lambretta Lambro or Tuk Tuk.
I happen to know a team that is on the Rickshaw Run right now . Calling themselves "The Ugly Americans," the team is made up of David Fogarty (aka "Doughnut" to the Pacific Northwest scooter crowd) and Mark. All of the teams are raising money for a very worthy charity: The Frank Water project is a British based charity that is working to bring water purification technology to areas of India that are in need.
So if you've ever wanted to donate something on behalf of ScooterSwag for all of the pleasure this little blog brings to your OCD collecting life, please consider making a donation. Every little helps. Several teams have far surpassed their goals and I know Doughnut and Mark would like to donate even more. The "Just Giving" button is on the team's page where you can also keep track of their exploits:
And ahem ((clearing throat)) GO UGLY AMERICANS GO!