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GREECE SITUATION UPDATES: The death of a 19-year-old Greek student has come to symbolize everything that's wrong with austerity!!!
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Greeks are the most vurnable nations to these kind of troubles. It only the last 30 years that we have no serious conflicts between us. And this years there was a constant fight between Pasok and ND people. So it is not hard to triger this I am afraid.
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For sure, but this is not the 40's anymore, people have evolved since then and been educated to unknown levels for this country. Parastate leftists and fascists (who too are funded by somewhere btw) will probably keep rioting against each other, but who gives a fuck about them, let them destroy each other if that's what they want, i consider this a blessing, the good thing for me is that the people are not buying it and taking a part in it, i'm sure that TPTB are pissed that their "movements" haven't gathered more pace here, simple peoples are not joining them and i think that the most have figured it out whats this BS is all about. The bigger tests are ahead of us though, i've said this before but i will repeat, the extreme social unrest and turmoil is planned for January to May, hope everyone will keep their heads cool and will probably be a good thing for people to have a back-up plan to go back to their villages when TSHTF.
I dont know IFUN we fight like dogs for stupid things and I am afraid that when you are starving you wont have the clear thought. I was hoping with the crisis people to come closer, help each other. Instead I see people becoming more and more selfish. I work in a shop and I have a daily contact with people.
Thankfully as I have said before I always have a back-up plan.
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Off course mate, we are far from perfect, but i don't think that we've reached to this point when one will kill each other, we are loudmouth, we fighting each other all the time, i compare us with the Asterix village many times, but i think that when the cause calls for it we are united, i'm not saying that 100% nothing will happen, but talking with people in various cities i visit for work, i'm very surprised to state that i see most of them being awake and aware of who the enemy is so far.
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For doing walls, there is a practice with cellulose that most installers call dense packing. This is real and beneficial. They put the insulation in at a somewhat higher density which makes it fill better and eliminates any possibility of settling over time.
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Great book on insulating: "Insulate and Weatherize", Harley.
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Asbestos siding can't be drilled to allow for the insulation to be blown into the wall cavities in the typical fashion such as wood siding or shingles. The shingles need to be carefully removed so that they are not damaged, cracked or broken.
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Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has been serving a 42 month sentence at Pune's Yerwada jail after he was convicted for illegal possession of weapons in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. And now Sanjay is likely to be out of jail around July- August ...Daily Bhaskar, 1 month ago Sanjay Dutt's furlough period to be reduced due to delay in return Deccan Chronicle, 1 month ago Sanjay Dutt surrenders as furlough extension is rejected The Hindu, 2 months ago Cops clear Sanjay plea Calcutta Telegraph, 2 months ago
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Irrfan Khan, Sanjay Gupta, Priya Dutt soak in the colors of Holi
Bollywood is taking a break from their hectic movie shoots and script reading sessions today, on the occasion of Holi. This festival of colors has always been close to B-town stars and their movies. Seen here is Sanjay Gupta celebrating Holi with ...Pink Villa, 3 weeks ago
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By Barkha Dutt Personally, I am not a fan of Greenpeace. I find their disruptive methods of protest breaching the security of nuclear and power plants, ramming their boats into larger vessels on the high seas, clambering up buildings and towers, ...Navhind Times, 4 weeks ago
Centre vs Priya Pillai is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
At a time when the PM sent out a strong message on religious freedom, why is the BJP is investing so much of its capital fighting voices of dissent? Personally, I am not a fan of Greenpeace. I find their disruptive methods of protest — ...Hindustan Times, 1 month ago
Will adhere to rules for Sanjay Dutt's furlough: CM Devendra Fadnavis
After a controversy erupted over the granting of repeated parole and furlough to actor Sanjay Dutt, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said his administration will strictly adhere to the rules and treat everyone equally. "Government will strictly ...DNA India, 2 months ago Sanjay Dutt furlough ends, to go back to Yerwada jail The Hindu, 2 months ago
Sanjay Dutt family sees him off as he returns to jail
Sanjay Dutt with his wife Maanyata and children Shahraan (bottom R) and Iqraa (bottom L) as he prepares to return to the Yerwada Jail after the end of his furlough in Mumbai. (AFP) Sanjay Dutt is pictured with his children Shahraan (bottom L) and ...Emirates247, 2 months ago Sanjay Dutt escorted by his wife and twins to jail Emirates247, 2 months ago Back to Jail: Sanjay Dutt family sees him off Emirates247, 2 months ago
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt makes most of his short time out of jail
MUMBAI: Sanjay Dutt is making the most of his short stay out of jail. The actor, convicted under the Arms Act in 2013, has been serving sentence of a little less than four years and was recently granted a 14-day furlough by the Yerwada jail in Pune.Yahoo! India, 2 months ago Out on furlough, Sanjay Dutt parties hard with near and dear ones India Today, 2 months ago
Homecoming for Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay and Manyata Dutt brought in the New Year with a low-key get-together of family and old friends at their Bandra apartment. However, word soon spread and by the time the guests started arriving, photographers were swarming the venue looking for ...Times of India, 2 months ago
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Pair Programming Economics by Olaf Lewitz describes three activities in programming: typing, problem-solving and reading code. How does pair programming help? By making the balance between those three activities better.
I was poling around for a good definition of DevOps and found a thoughtful article written by Ernest Mueller called What is DevOps? Highly recommended reading as it includes lots of insight about the relationship between Agile and DevOps. FWIW, I feel that the concept of the Definition of "Done" is Scrum's own original take on the same class of ideas: breaking down silos in an organization to get stuff into the marketplace faster and faster. I even talked about operationalizing software development back in 2004 and 2005 as a counterpoint to the project management approach which puts everyone in silos and pushes work through phase gates.
Whenever I run a Certified Scrum Product Owner training session, one concept stands out as critical for participants: the relationship of the Product Owner to the technical demands of the work being done by the Scrum team.
The Product Owner is responsible for prioritizing the Product Backlog. This responsibility is, of course, also matched by their authority to do so. When the Product Owner collaborates with the team in the process of prioritization, there may be ways which the team "pushes back". There are two possible reasons for push-back. One is good, one is bad.
Bad Technical Push-Back
The team may look at a product backlog item or a user story and say "O gosh! There's a lot there to think about! We have to build this fully-architected infrastructure before we can implement that story." This is old waterfall thinking. It is bad. The team should always be thinking (and doing) YAGNI and KISS. Technical challenges should be solved in the simplest responsible way. Features should be implemented with the simplest technical solution that actually works.
As a Product Owner, one technique that you can use to help teams with this is that when the team asks questions, that you aggressively keep the user story as simple as possible. The questions that are asked may lead to the creation of new stories, or splitting the existing story. Here is an example…
Suppose the story is "As a job seeker I can post my resume to the web site…" If the technical team makes certain assumptions, they may create a complex system that allows resumes to be uploaded in multiple formats with automatic keyword extraction, and even beyond that, they may anticipate that the code needs to be ready for edge cases like WordPerfect format. The technical team might also assume that the system needs a database schema that includes users, login credentials, one-to-many relationships with resumes, detailed structures about jobs, organizations, positions, dates, educational institutions, etc. The team might insist that creating a login screen in the UI is an essential prerequisite to allowing a user to upload their resume. And as for business logic, thy might decide that in order to implement all this, they need some sort of standard intermediate XML format that all resumes will be translated into so that searching features are easier to implement in the future.
It's all CRAP, bloat and gold-plating.
Because that's not what the Product Owner asked for. The thing that's really difficult for a team of techies to get with Scrum is that software is to be built incrementally. The very first feature built is built in the simplest responsible way without assuming anything about future features. In other words, build it like it is the last feature you will build, not the first. In the Agile Manifesto this is described as:
Simplicity, the art of maximizing the amount of work not done, is essential.
The second feature the team builds should only add exactly what the Product Owner asks for. Again, as if it was going to be the last feature built. Every single feature (User Story / Product Backlog Item) is treated the same way. Whenever the team starts to anticipate the business in any of these three ways, the team is wrong:
Okay, but what about architecture? Fire your architects. No kidding.¹
Good Technical Push-Back
Sometimes stuff gets non-simple: complicated, messy, hard to understand, hard to change. This happens despite us techies all being super-smart. Sometimes, in order to implement a new feature, we have to clean up what is already there. The Product Owner might ask the Scrum Team to build this Product Backlog Item next and the team says something like: "yes, but it will take twice as long as we initially estimated, because we have to clean things up." This can be greatly disappointing for the Product Owner. But, this is actually the kind of push-back a Product Owner wants. Why? In order to avoid destroying your business! (Yup, that serious.)
This is called "Refactoring" at it is one of the critical Agile Engineering practices. Martin Fowler wrote a great book about this about 15 years ago. Refactoring is, simply, improving the design of your system without changing it's business behaviour. A simple example is changing a set of 3 radio buttons in the UI to a drop-down box with 3 options… so that later, the Product Owner can add 27 more options. Refactoring at the level of code is often described as removing duplication. But some types of refactoring are large: replacing a relational database with a NoSQL database, moving from Java to Python for a significant component of your system, doing a full UX re-design on your web application. All of these are changes to the technical attributes of your system that are driven by an immediate need to add a new feature (or feature set) that is not supported by the current technology.
The Product Owner has asked for a new feature, now, and the team has decided that in order to build it, the existing system needs refactoring. To be clear: the team is not anticipating that the Product Owner wants some feature in the future; it's the very next feature that the team needs to build.
This all relates to another two principles from the Agile Manifesto:
Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
In this case, the responsibilities of the team for technical excellence and creating the best system possible override the short-term (and short-sighted) desire of the business to trade off quality in order to get speed. That trade-off always bites you in the end! Why? Because of the cost of fixing quality problems increases exponentially as time passes from when they were introduced.
Refactoring is not a bad word.
Keep your code clean.
Let your team keep its code clean.
Oh. And fire your architects.
¹ I used to be a senior architect reporting directly to the CTO of Charles Schwab. Effectively, I fired myself and launched an incredibly successful enterprise architecture re-write project… with no up-front architecture plan. Really… fire your architects. Everything they do is pure waste and overhead. Someday I'll write that article
From the excellent Ron Jeffries, we have "Refactoring – Not on the Backlog!"
I am regularly asked for examples of where Agile Practices could be used that are not related to software development.
I recently came across this video and just had to share the link to it.
The company encourages all team members to participate, keeps things time-boxed and makes appropriate use of subject matter experts.
It's awesome to see what can be done in 5 days.
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Isráfíl Consulting is finally prepared for the first series of its Agile Software Engineering Practices training courses. This series is offered in partnership with Berteig Consulting who are graciously hosting the registration process. Their team has also helped greatly in shaping the presentation style and structure of the course. The initial run will be in Ottawa, Toronto (Markham), and Kitchener/Waterloo.
Topics covered will include Test Driven Development (TDD), testability, supportive infrastructure such as build and continuous integration, team metrics, incremental design and evolutionary architecture, dependency injection, and so much more. (This course won't present the planning side of XP, but covers many other aspects common to XP projects) It makes a great complement for training in Agile Processes such as XP, Scrum, or OpenAgile. The overview slide presentation is available for free download from the Isráfíl web site.
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The course is $1250 CAD per student, and participants receive a transferrable discount of $100 CAD for other training with Berteig Consulting as a part of our ongoing partnership. I initially prototyped this course in Ottawa this December, and am very excited to see this through in several locales. Class size is limited to 15, so we can keep the instruction style more involved. The above schedules are linked to Berteig Consulting's course system and have registration links at the bottom of the description. Locations are TBD, but will be updated at the above links as soon as they're finalized.
A further series is planned for several US cities in March, and we'll be sure to announce them as well.
This post is a little geeky and technical and product-related for AgileAdvice, and is a shameless self-promotion. Nevertheless, since testability, test-driven-development, and incremental design are non-exclusive sub-topics of Agile, I though I'd report this here anyway.
Many developers use the Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control (IoC) patterns through such IoC containers as Spring, Hivemind, Picocontainer, and others. They have all sorts of benefits to testability, flexibility, etc. that I won't repeat here, but can be read about here, here, and here. A great summary of the history of "IoC" can be found here. J2ME developers, however, especially those on limited devices that use the CLDC configuration of J2ME, cannot use the substantial number of IoC/DI containers out there, because they nearly all rely on reflection. These also often make use of APIs not present in the CLDC – APIs which could not easily be added. Lastly there's a tendency among developers of "embedded software" to be very suspicious of complexity.
In working out some examples of DI as part of a testability workshop at one of my clients, I whipped up a quick DI container, and being the freak that I am, hardened it until it was suitable for production, because I hate half-finished products. So allow me to introduce the Israfil Micro Container. (That is, the Container from the Israfil Micro project). As I mention in the docs, "FemtoContainer" just was too ridiculous, and this container is smaller than pico-container. The project is BSD licensed, and hosted on googlecode, so source is freely available and there's an issue/feature tracker, yadda yadda.
Essentially I believe that people working on cellphones and set-top boxes shouldn't be constrained out of some basic software design approaches – you just have to bend the design approach to fit the environment. So hopefully this is of use to more than one of my clients. It currently supports an auto-wiring registration, delayed object creation (until first need), and forthcoming are some basic lifecycle support, and a few other nicities. It does not use reflection (you use a little adapter for object creation instead), and performs quicker than pico-container. Low, low overhead. It's also less than 10 classes and interfaces (including the two classes in the util project). It's built with Maven2, so you can use it in any Maven2-built project with ease, but of course you can always also just download the jar (and the required util jar too). Enjoy…
P.S. There are a few other bits on googlecode that I'm working on in the micro-zone. Some minimalist backports of some of java.lang.concurrency (just the locks), as well as some of the java.util.Collections stuff. Not finished, but also part of the googlecode project.
This was actually cribbed from a Bruce Schneier blog post about security…
Security engineers see the world differently than other engineers. Instead of focusing on how systems work, they focus on how systems fail, how they can be made to fail, and how to prevent–or protect against–those failures. Most software vulnerabilities don't ever appear in normal operations, only when an attacker deliberately exploits them. So security engineers need to think like attackers.People without the mindset sometimes think they can design security products, but they can't. And you see the results all over society–in snake-oil cryptography, software, Internet protocols, voting machines, and fare card and other payment systems. Many of these systems had someone in charge of "security" on their teams, but it wasn't someone who thought like an attacker. Â
There's an interesting parallel between this statement and how most software quality is handled. Quality and Security are similar. In fact, I see security as a very specific subset of quality-mindedness. Certainly both require the same mindset to ensure – rather than thinking merely "how will this work", a quality-focused person will also, or perhaps alternately think: "how might this be breakable". From this simple change in thinking flows several important approaches
 Schneier goes on to ponderÂ
This mindset is difficult to teach, and may be something you're born with or not. But in order to train people possessing the mindset, they need to search for and find security vulnerabilities–again and again and again. And this is true regardless of the domain. Good cryptographers discover vulnerabilities in others' algorithms and protocols. Good software security experts find vulnerabilities in others' code. Good airport security designers figure out new ways to subvert airport security. And so on. Â
 Here again – I think it's possible to help people get a mind-set about quality, but some do seem to have a knack. It's important to have some of these people on your teams, as they'll disturb the waters and identify potential failure modes. These are going to be the ones who want to "mistake proof" (to borrow Toyota's phrase) the system by writing more unit tests and other executable proofs of the system. But most importantly (and I can personally testify to this) it is critical that people just write more tests. It is a learned skill to start to think of "how might this fail" until it becomes a background mental thread, always popping up risk models.A related concept is Demmings' "systems-thinking", which, applied to software quality, causes one to start looking at whole ecosystems of error states. This is when fearless re-factoring starts to pay off, because the elimination of duplication allows one to catch classes of error in fewer and fewer locations, where they're easier to fix. There are many and multifarious spin-off effects of this inverted questioning and the mindset it generates. Try it yourself. When you're writing code, ask yourself how you might break it? What inputs, external state, etc. might cause it to fail, crash, or behave in odd ways. This starts to show you where you might have state leaking into the wild, or side-effects from excessively complex interactions in your code. So quality focus can start to improve not only the external perception of your product, but also its fitness to new requirements by making it more resilient and less brittle. Cleaner interactions and less duplication allow for much faster implementation of new features.I could go on, but I just wanted to convey this sense of "attitude" or "mindset," over mere technique. Technique can help you get to a certain level, but you have to let it "click", and the powerful questions can sometimes help.
Building software is expensive. I'm not talking about creating software, I mean taking software as written (source code) and running it through compilers and linkers and post-processors and packagers and obfuscators and installer-generators. It might not seem so, but look under the covers and you will find a wealth of costs and potential savings…
The developer has a concept he needs to translate into software. He (or she) does not sit and meditate until it comes to him, then streams it effortlessly into the computer. Rather he tries something, and tries something else, and writes some conditions (tests) to limit the scope of his options, and cycles over and over and over again between four main activities: creating -> building -> executing tests -> discovering. The developer then wraps around, having discovered and learned (found the bug or identified a future direction) and begins to create again.
If you break this down, there are two states – active and waiting – that the developer is in at any point. He is active when he is learning and he is active when he is creating. He is waiting when he is building and executing tests. So the developer's ability to do further learning/creative work comes from how long he has to wait for building/executing the software.
There is an interesting article called "Software Estimates and the Parable of the Cave". It starts out well. The cave parable is effective and clearly conveys the problem with estimating software work. However, there is a big section of the article called "Applying this Wisdom" which I think does a dis-service to everyone. Let's look at this closely…
In agile software development, automated testing plays a big role due to the emphasis on quality. A friend of mine, Tom Cooper, whom I worked with a few years ago at a major capital markets firm, passed these links on to me yesterday. There are some folks at NIST and the Univ. of Texas who are building a tool called FireEye. Here is the press release, here is the pdf presentation.
Lisa Crispin has written an excellent article about defect tracking in agile environments. The article is a couple of months old now, but if you haven't read it yet, you definitely should! I particularly like the perspective that Mary Poppendieck offers in the article…
Is boosting productivity simple? Yes! Just cut code! One problem here. The gap between code complete and feature done is bigger then it appears. That was my thought as I was looking at statistics.


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The class wanted to put jubilant ending instead of happy ending which was from the word work we recently did. This was an easy lesson to get kids to think about how authors use different kinds of ending. We did take a child's story and talk about how could we make her ending...with a wish or a surprise.
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And the riches could be spread far and wide, as the salary cap surges from $63 million this season to a projected $84.4 million in 2016-17. Every team in the league could be under the cap in two years (even the spend-happy Nets), creating a cash surplus that—under the NBA's system—must be spent on players. Bleacher Report
The current collective bargaining agreement actually runs through 2021, but either side can opt out in 2017, and the players are almost certain to do so, for obvious reasons: 1. The union made massive financial concessions in 2011, giving up $300 million a year. 2. The new TV deal, as James indicated, removes the NBA's rationale for those concessions. "I think it's a pretty good bet, based on both of those things," that the players will opt out, Michele Roberts, the union's new executive director, told Bleacher Report in a recent interview. She added, "It would be silly for anyone to assume" otherwise. Bleacher Report
Roberts made that prediction before the new TV deal was completed, but both sides have long known that the huge revenue spike was coming and that it would prompt a reassessment of the labor deal. Indeed, Roberts said, "The minute I was told I was selected to be the executive director (in July), I started preparing for the opt-out." Bleacher Report
Dave McMenamin: LeBron on why he signed a 2-year deal w/ CLE w/ TV deal looming: "It was being a businessman. I understand the business of this sport" Twitter @mcten
Dave McMenamin: Just like a new TV deal was negotiated years ahead of time, LeBron wants to work on new CBA now: "We would love to do it sooner than later" Twitter @mcten
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Ben Bolch: CP3 on TV deal: "It shows that our game is a global game and it's great for players, it's great for fans, it's great for the entire NBA." Twitter @latbbolch
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Rod Boone: Despite new TV deal, Deron said he definitely still expects a lockout in 2017. #Nets Twitter @rodboone
Mike Mazzeo: Deron Williams is already preparing for the possibility of a lockout, feels like players made a lot of concessions last CBA deal #Nets Twitter @MazzESPN
Sam Amico: LeBron adds "no way" NBA owners can tell players they're losing money after new TV deal, as owners said during last CBA. "That won't fly." Twitter @SamAmicoFSO
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Jared Zwerling: From NBPA statement post-media rights announcement: "It is clear that the league is now entering a period of unprecedented revenue growth." Twitter @JaredZwerling
Howard Beck: One more NBA $ note: New TV deal guarantees players will get 51% of league revenue in 2016 and for duration of CBA. Remember, the "50-50" deal struck in 2011 actually called for a range in which players earned between 49-51% of BRI. It will now be 51. Twitter @HowardBeck
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LONDON – Olivia Williams (Hyde Park on Hudson), Rory Kinnear (Broken) and Stephen Campbell Moore (The History Boys) have joined the cast of Man Up, directed by The Inbetweeners helmer Ben Palmer and starring Simon Pegg and Lake Bell.
Also on board the rom-com are Sharon Horgan (Pulling), Harriet Walter (Atonement) and Ken Stott (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey).
The movie, which began shooting in the British capital this week, details the story of a couple on a first date "like no other" as they embark on the evening without realizing they are not meant to be on the blind date together.
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I pulled my begonia bulbs out of the garden when it began to get cold and left the foliage on as I was instructed to allow it to die off on it's own (apparently to reduce chance of disease.) The bulbs still have roots and a lot of soil clumped on to them. Should the bulbs be cleaned somehow before putting them in sawdust or should I leave them as they are?
At this point in time, you can gently brush any loose dirt from the bulbs. The stems should come off with a very gentle tuck (if they don't, cut the stems a few inches above tuber level, but do not pull the stem off).
I like to put them in a flat bed of dry vermiculite in the basement, but sawdust or wooden shavings will work als).
You can leave them as they are, if you like, however.
The stems are left on to allow the tuber to cure. The contents of the stem nourish the tuber. Using your hands, scrub off the dirt. Soak the tubers in water and rinse off the rest of the soil. You can strip off the roots at this point. When they dry store them in sawdust. If you feel any mushy tubers, discard them.


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but big Bourque is a lot tougher to replace.
As I said after the game against the leafs...not so sure that's true.
Diaz has really become an important part of our attack and his smart stick play and passing gets us safely out of the zone. Kaberle twice almost screwed us. I don't hate him, but he's a liability with the potential for a good play here and there while Diaz is not just safe, but integral.
I will miss Bourque's play, particularly this weekend - I think he would have done very well against these two teams and helped Pleks and Gio, so I totally agree with you there. Then again, I didn't think there were any fwd holes against the leafs (or Sens ftm). I really hope this becomes a sniping party for Chucky. It's about time his shot got him some goals.
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Farmers Market Report Week 9
After last weeks windy farmers market, when my canopy was broken, I was eying the weather to decide what to do this week. The forecast was good so I decided to go for it. My friend David decided that he didn't have enough produce to make it worthwhile for him, so I was on my own.
Here's my booth with no canopy this week. I was able to order the parts that broke, so I may have a canopy again. These things sure are fragile. If I do the market next summer I'll have to invest in a more heavy duty canopy.
I took a few shots of some of my goodies...
Blueberry Scones
Pretzel Rolls
Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls
AnnT's Decadent Caramel Rice Krispie Treats
I also had my jams, frosted cinnamon rolls, Asiago bread and pumpkin bread.
I figured it would be a slower market now that Labor Day was pass and the kids are back in school. I was actually pleased with sales.
I was in a new position, close to the center sidewalk.
Sidewalk row to the left and to the right.
There were fewer vendors this week. The USDA inspector came through last week, that may be part of the reason. Others probably won't be back until next year. I definitely need a canopy...my frosting was melting later in the morning. I hope I can get it fixed for next week.
I signed up to do the Winter Market in the library. That starts Nov 1 and will be every week through May, then it's back outside again. I debated on what to do but it's inside and they furnish the tables so set up will be easy. This will be the first year they are doing it every week. Last year it was just once a month. I guess I feel like I'm supporting the FM, even if it's slow. There are at least 15 vendors already signed up.
Am I crazy?????
Farmers' Market in the library! Now there is an idea! Inside out of the cold/damp/snowy weather, a table set up for you, now, if you just get the traffic you need to sell out! I'm wishing good things for you - please do report back how it goes.
I'd kill for one of those blueberry scones about now! Oh, wait....I have blueberries in the freezer. I know what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning!
Hmm. I also have blueberries in the freezer. I'll be strong.
Everything looks delicious. I am especially drawn to those pretzel rolls.
I'm curious why you don't have the same spot each week. It would make it easier for regular customers to find you.
I'm looking forward to your report from the library.
Jude, thanks, I wish you could be a regular customer too.
Teresa, did you make blueberry scones this morning?
I think the winter market at the new library will be interesting. I can only hope sales are good. They did a good job of building it with a community room but there is only a limited number of spaces, so when it's full that's it. I paid up front for the whole season...it's only $130.00 (if paid in advance) for all seven months.
Eileen, I'm one of the new vendors, that's why my spot keeps changing. The market manager tries to keep us in a cluster with not too much open space. I check in with her when I get there (some do not) as she knows who is not going to show up. It's also because I just did a week to week agreement rather than paying up front for the whole season, so I wasn't really assigned a permanent location. It's worked out pretty well. I keep getting better spots.
Annie, yes I am optimistic, always have been. The thing is, I like to bake but don't want to eat it all and I like the social interaction with the customers and other vendors. The challenge is good for me, can't sit on the computer all day, every day. You know I've been in sales all my life.
I think I'll suspend reports for now. I'm not sure how many are reading this and I don't want to bore people to death.
I'll update once the winter market gets going but that isn't until Nov. 1.
Nancy!!! Don't stop the weekly reports!!...many of us love to read and look and drool....even if we don't post a follow up!
As for the winter market...I suggest you stock up on your preserves....so if there is a week you can't bake you still will have something to sell.
And perhaps as it gets closer to The Holidays, take a stock of baskets and perhaps "Easter grass" and encourage people to fill a basket for a gift!
Thrift shops have a supply of cheap baskets. Scrub them, dunk in a little bleach water and spray with varnish or paint.
Nancy, I think it is wonderful that you are going to participate in the Winter Market. I bet your fans will follow you inside.
For the remaining weeks, make sure you let your buyers know that you will be around all winter.
If you haven't done it already, maybe you should create your own business card and or flyer to hand out.
I'm not bored. I love your weekly reports.
I'm not bored with the reports either, please keep doing them. I love seeing what you bring to sell each week and wish I could be a customer. This week I want to take some of your blueberry scones right off my screen. I'm glad you decided to add scones!
I think you will do very well at the library market and wonder if you are going to take orders for the holiday season.
Lee, looking forward to your next report.
Oh Nancy, I love your report. Like a lovely travelogue with a focus on luscious baked goods.
I appreciate your entrepeneurial spirit and I love to see women making money creatively-baking-one thing a lot of cfer's do so well. I love details- what you make, what sells, the weather, your cohort, the customers, etc.
Thanks for sharing.
Nancy, I have loved to read your report each week and I love to dream and drool over your pictures.
I have a question. What has been your biggest sellers? I'm thinking about renting a booth at a local festival in October. It's called "Under the Harvest Moon" I haven't done anything like this before with baked goods, jams or produce. Some years ago I was involved in several craft shows with my dried and silk flower wreaths and arrangements.
Since this is a one time sale for me, I would like to bake things that will sell quickly and easily. I have canned many jars of Habanero Gold jam, green tomato relish and canned Jalapeno peppers. All of which I will take, however the baked goods are what I would like to make sure sells in a one time sale. I would really appreciate your thoughts on this.
Thanks and please keep the reports coming.
OK, I'll keep the reports coming on the weeks that I am at the market. We are getting into the time of year that the weather will be changing. Even if I do get the canopy fixed, I have to be careful as I now know it won't take much wind.
Karen, dried and silk? From 1988 to 1992 I owned a company that did dried and silk wreaths and arrangements. We sold all over the country and even had products in a couple of mail order catalogs. We were wholesale only and did the gift shows in Chicago. Then the look died and I gave it up when I moved here.
Under Michigan's Cottage food law you are limited on the canning to jams, preserves and jelly. No salsa's, relishes, tomatoes or pickled items or low acid vegetables in general. But you can take your chances since you are doing a one shot festival. We had the USDA guy come through last week and I know several were told they couldn't do some things, those people were MIA this week. Labeling also needs to follow the rules. You should read the law, they are pretty specific.
Baked goods in general are OK as long as they do not contain too much dairy. Cream pies are a no but fruit pies are fine.
Some items I would think about for a Harvest Festival.... Cinnamon rolls if you have morning hours, they won't do as well later in the day. Pumpkin donuts, pumpkin bread, apple breads, cider donuts, apple bars, apple pies, caramel anything....AnnT's recipe for the Caramel Rice Krispie Treats went over big time this week and I'll continue doing those through fall. Caramel corn in bags is another idea. People like to buy goodies they can eat as they walk around and items to take home.
Some things can be made two days ahead, other things you have to do the day and night before. I do the pretzel rolls last, as the salt draws out the moisture and dissolves. That is one thing I wouldn't do for a one shot show.
Don't forget to cut up some things for samples. I keep plastic containers tucked away and offer as needed. If you put them out people will grab them that have no intention of buying.
Hope this helps, you can email me if you have other questions..
Thank you so much Nancy for the thorough information and suggestions for variety of fall items. I will read the Cottage Law. I didn't realize you couldn't sell relishes or pickled items.
I do have some other questions that I will email to you.
That is funny about the dried and silk business you had. Mine of course, were hand made and I did this around the same time frame you were doing the same. And, as you said, it died and I stopped making the items. It was fun for a while. Now, I'm dabbling in making "cottage" rag rugs. It's fun so far. I will take some of them to the festival with me and see how they do.
Glad to hear you are continuing your reports Nancy. I enjoy them. Our indoor winter farmer's market does very well. There are many that continue in different surrounding towns through the cold winter months. It is a chance to socialize with friends and see what new items people have at their booths. I hopefully will be selling at a farmers' market come this spring. You and the others that sell their wares have inspired me! And I have already checked out the state requirements for selling and permits etc. Just have to perfect my Blueberry BBQ sauce recipe. Keep posting the photos. They are great! NancyLouise
I too, am a follower of your Farmer's Market posts, and though I rarely comment, I get much enjoyment from both your descriptions and your pictures. I'm glad you've decided to continue them!
Besides that, I love TC/Charlevoix/Petosky and it brings back good memories any time I see pictures of "The Lake"