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Why carriers and customers are willing to pay for the iPhone 5
During Apple's Q1 2013 conference call, when asked about the mix of iPhone 5 compared to the lower priced iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 still on the market, Apple CEO Tim Cook responded that not much had changed from last year's iPhone 4S mix relative to the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G, then the discount options.
When all was said, done, and factored, the average selling price (ASP) was essentially the same. Why would carriers keep paying Apple their premium rates to stock the iPhone 5, and why would people keep paying more to buy it, when the iPhone 4 is now a cheaper, free-on-contract option? Horace Dediu of Asymco did the math:
The clue comes from the fact that the consumer is not the only buyer. It's operators who buy and re-price the product. They are hiring the product to sell broadband and the newest variant is still the best hire to do that job. This observation is crucial to understanding the growth dynamics of the iPhone and consequently, of Apple itself.
Carriers want to sell data services, we want to use data services, and the iPhone is still the best way to do that for everyone. This year, add LTE to the mix, and the iPhone 5 is the best iPhone.
Apple might one day find compelling business reason to explore less expensive iPhones for emerging, non-contract markets, but it looks like the top line is doing just fine.
Check out Dediu's full post for all the charts, and his exploration of how the iPhone business looks now that Apple is reporting is separately from accessory and services revenue.
Source: Asymco
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Why carriers and customers are willing to pay for the iPhone 5
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To bad you pay subsidized prices even after they phone is paid off. This new Straight Talk plan really has me thinking. ATT is ripping us off big time. Total cost over two years on ATT is $750 more then StraitTalk.
It's not $750 more. At best it's $300 more because you have to pay full price for an iphone. ($649 vs $199) Love how Straight talk leaves that part out. It's definitely a good option for some but when family plans are figured in these prepaid plans lose their value when you consider paying full price for equipment for 3 or 4 phones, and the carriers plans become cheaper with more people on them.
Not sure how you are coming up with something different.
He wasn't disagreeing with the price for an individual person, he was just explaining that it is more beneficial for people who are in a plan as a family or as a group to go with ATT and Verizon because they only added a certain amount more to add that person to the plan. I definitely agree that if I was in a plan by myself I would just by the phone and go prepaid but since I am in a family plan it is cheaper that way.
I like Apple but we definitely are in need of a new iOS with widgets. Will this ever see the light of day? The iPhone 4S is my first iPhone and it's gotten so damn tired.
Not all want widgets. To me they are very gimmicky and come at a cost of battery life and screen real estate. If apple can find a new way to do this (much like the weather widget in the notifications) then I'm all for it, but personally apple is smart for leaving them out.
Rene, as a long time iMore reader I love your blog, but I have to disagree with the conclusions made in this particular article. Carriers do not love to sell iPhone - they dislike iOS and iPhone and if they thought for a second that they can get away with not selling iPhone - they would. Apple is a pain in carriers a$$ - it gives Verizon's of the world no control over its OS and it never discounts hardware. On the other hand the question of why consumers pay more for iPhone baffles me. I was iPhone user with original iPhone, iPhone 3G model and recently iPhone 4S. In between I owned Nexus One, Nexus S, and now Galaxy Nexus. I have to say that in my opinion the reason why Americans buy iPhone is because they either locked into ecosystem (i have my iMac and I want iCloud on my phone) or because of the inertia. In my mind it goes something like this: 2 years ago i bought blackberry when I should've gotten the iPhone. So, this time I'll upgrade to iPhone.
It is my firm believe that given 2 devices to use side by side for 2-3 weeks 90% of people would've chosen Android. So would carriers, by the way - they already do. I know that when I went back to iPhone because my company handed me one - I was able to stay with it for 3 months and returned it back to the IT. I had to purchase my own device and hook it up to my work number.
Now, before I get a ton of comments that I'm an Apple basher, let me tell you - I'm not android fanboy or apple fanboy, I am a fan of technology. I read iMore and I read Android Central. I use MacBook Air at work, Chromebook and Windows at home, and I owned iPad, Nexus 7 and many more Kindles, Nooks, iPods, and other gadgets. The fact of the matter is - iPhone is a wonderful device, but iOS is simply not evolving anymore. I only hope that Apple can turn it around, and start innovating on the OS again. And Tim - bigger screen, please! As far as carriers - I do not think they will ever like iPhone & iOS - and that is one good thing that we love about Apple.
I think you might be at least partially right. I've never owned an Android. My first smartphone was a Treo and I stuck with Treo until the Palm Pre. I loved that phone but Palm died. I finally bought an iPhone 4S and then an iPhone 5 because of LTE. And I love the cloud. I love how I don't have to worry about my documents. I edit them on my iphone and they appear on my iPad and Mac or any other combination. I love how I download an app and it automatically appears on my iPad and my wife's iPhone. I love how facetime is integrated in the phone and I don't have to mess with Skype. I love how I can just say, "Remember to print out the files for XXX client". And that action appears in my inbox for my GTD Omnifocus system. I love how lightweight it is, and that I have a waterproof case that even with my case on, my phone is so lightweight and thin. So yes, I think it's the Ecosystem. It works well.
I'm a fan of technology too and in the 90s, when I was fed up with Windows and having to reboot my high-end new laptop 3 to 4 times a day, I got fed up. I build a linux box and I loved it. It was great. I could make it do whatever I needed. But it had one drawback—I spend too much time configuring it. When I found that Apple had done an Unix based OS, I waited until it seemed stable enough and in 2007 I bought a macbook pro. I use parallels to be able to access my one software program that I use that isn't available in OSX and I love it. I don't need to reboot as often and everything just works. And because it's unix based, I can usually configure it when I need to, but I usually don't need to. I love technology, but I've already gone through the phase of configuring the heck out of my tools. Now I just want something that works and that I don't have to spend time fixing.
One more thing. Customer service is great. About 5 times since 1997 I've had problems with my macbook pros: needed new motherboard twice, fell and needed new bottom, memory went bad and HD died. All of these were fixed within one day. I took them to an Apple store in the morning and by the afternoon the computer was fixed. The last HD repair was done in less than half an hour. I was never able to get that kind of service anywhere before. I work on my computer and I lose money from being away from it. So that is a big plus.
No, I'm not a fanboy and when I find an ecosystem that works better and cheaper and faster customer service, I'll drop Apple very fast. But that's why I buy Apple. I love using their products but I'm definitely not married to them.
I used android side by side as you say, heck i even used it for 6 months... Big mistake, yes it is fun to customize, move things around, install widgets but at the end of the day i missed the little things that worked just better on an iphone, you can only have fun organizing stuff for a period of time then it gets old and what you need is a better device, and to my needs that was the iphone.
Well written, but I disagree. Apple doesn't need larger displays for one and if there was an easy way to do it without fragmenting its number one asset (the eco system) . Not to mention, but why would apple mess with something that is selling well? For example, I always see people posting how apple is doomed if they don't listen to the market and make a larger iPhone yet we see things like the last couple days. 9/10 phones sold on AT&T are iPhones 3/5 phones sold on Verizon are iPhones and these are at the size of the iPhone 4, 4s, and 5. To me the market isn't demanding a larger phone it seems to me they are demanding iPhones. I don't need to go into the technical aspects that apple would need to do (and are in the middle of now with the iPhone 5) to make a larger iPhone. It comes at a huge cost to the Eco system and def isn't as easy as just making a larger phone apple has stuck to a strict code (if you will) for a reason as it has made for a thriving App Store that attracts the best devs in the market. Android is struggling big time in this and as you can see these giant phones all run phone apps. This is another speed bump apple must figure out to get a larger phone as simply blowing up apps that are created for 3.5 inch and now 4 inch display (which we still don't have a lot of apps optimized for and all that was changed was the vertical size of the phone). It just doesn't make sense for apple to do this right now. If the market does indeed demand this and apple sstarts to lose market share and revenue I'm sure they will make a larger iPhone, but unlike android they will surely do it right and it won't come at the cost of their eco system. It will come when they can x3 or x4 the resolutions they already run on the iPad and iPhone as a giant iPhone will affect both.
I know you only mentioned a larger iPhone as an afterthought to the rest of your post so I didn't mean to jump on a soap box only give my opinion. Anyways the reason I replied is you brought up a lot of great points and your post was very well thought out. I too have been on the android platform since the nexus one and love tech in all shapes, sizes, and brands. I own numerous devices from android including the galaxy nexus, gs3, and nexus 7 and have owned over a dozen phones and tablets on the android platform. I left apple with the iPhone 3GS And besides my MacBook Pro I didn't look back. Now I'm back and I couldn't be happier. I don't agree that iOS is stale. I think apple has done a lot to make sure that their phones and tablets run as best as they can. Widgets and live wallpapers (among many other things) are great but come at a cost. Apple has done the opposite and made sure to build the entire OS around fluidity and overall performance. It is very rare if iOS ever drops frames or "lags" but I experience this all the time on all my android devices. When it comes down to it an OS is only really a launcher and first party apps with the option to download great 3rd party apps (among other things like music, tv shows, movies, etc) though their app stores. I didn't think I would ever say it, but customization is something I don't need if the OS is going to run like android currently does. To be fair it has gotten better with project butter, but it is still a long ways from iOS. I do think apple will need to put some time and effort into iOS and come up with a design that works without leaving its non geeky users in the cold not knowing how to use their OS, but I gladly will take less choice for better performance any day.
Like I said above I also have been given a phone through work, but mine is a galaxy note 2 and I can't stand using it. It is far too big, very clunky interface (I just don't like skinned android and prefer vanilla nexus devices as skins seem to magnify the problems I meantioned above), and the app eco system is a barren wasteland. The latter is what bothers me the most. Maybe I'm spoiled by apples 3rd party App Store, but there is a giant difference between androids offerings and apples. This is why I feel the way I do about a larger iPhone if they launch one all those apps have to be recoded and it is frustrating now not seeing great apps like infinity blade 2 not even coded for the iPhone 5. Some apps will just be left behind and I don't think apple is ready to do this and nor should they when none of these bigger android phones are coming any where near selling as much as apples iPhones. Anyways, I went back to my iPhone 4S for work and my note 2 is sitting on my desk at home. Thanks for the post and please don't take my post as anything more than an opinion to what you posted.
The only reason apple didn't do it earlier is they refused to make a crappy phone and let's face it the early lte offerings from Samsung, HTC, and Motorola have been horrible (I should know I owned about half of them). All needed to be charged multiple times a day, where much too big (seems to be a trend. Android oems didn't find magic in a larger display they just couldn't make smaller ones with the high end specs we see today), all could barely keep lte connection (some would drop lte all together), and the market wasn't large enough to even support it. Hell, the iPhone 5 wasn't 4" because the market wants a bigger phone it was because they needed more room for a battery and the parts in it). Apple waited for the right time and the iPhone 5 has a lot of innovation in it.
Crappy is subjective and your opinion. The 2 VZW 4G LTE phones I have had have been extremely satisfactory to me. I could/can do things with them that the current iPhone (at the time - includnig the 5 vs my current phone) simply cannot do, technically.
Screens being too big is also subjective and your opinion. I value the bigger screen highly. Apparently, a lot of other folks do, too. My g/f has an iPhone 4S, a Macbook Pro, an iPad and and iPad 3. She now wants to change to a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 just to have the bigger screen.
So, what innovation does the iPhone 5 have? Meaning, what does it bring to the table that no other phone already had?
Besides the obvious one where it "innovated" the concept of not being able to use 4G LTE data and talk on the phone at the same time, on Verizon? Being the ONLY LTE phone on Verizon that CAN'T do that.
You make some good points here.
The larger 4" screen and LTE on the iPhone 5, came a year (or two in the case of larger screen) after Android had them. Excuses can be made for Apple being late to the party with year old hardware innovations, but the bottom line is that, Wallstreet isn't buying it. Cook's sidestep response to questions from analysts did not answer questions about growth beyond the Apple fanbois/fangirls. It's a given that Apple faithful will buy Apple's new products annually, but how many new customers are joining those waiting lines every year to get the new incrementally upgraded products? For the record, I came to an iPhone 4S from an HTC EVO 4G (thanks to iMore) and the only things I wish I could change are the screen size and lack of LTE (which the iPhone 5 has) but at upgrade time this October, what I'd like to see Apple do is improve the battery life of the iPhone along the lines of the Razr Maxx HD. If Moto can do it and maintain the thin size of that phone, Apple can do it too, and they should. The point is that, other than a couple of things that Android Phones already had a year or two earlier (a 4" screen and LTE) Apple didn't really bring anything new with the iPhone 5 that didn't already exist on Android. Siri isn't fascinating enough to warrant a switch from another platform. Like it or not, Samsung, Motorola, and others are innovating and if Apple doesn't bring something this year that has any measure of WOW factor beyond an incrementally upgraded iPhone 5S, Wallstreet won't be the only ones questioning Cook's mojo. I will continue using my 4S until it either no longer works properly, the battery no longer holds a charge, or I find a phone that meets all of my needs without me having to squint at the screen. I hope it's an iPhone but if it's not, I will not apologize for that.
To tell the truth I had an iPhone 5 for 13 days and returned it. The hardware is great and so is the ecosystem but I found iOS 6 to be lacking their is nothing new or big in it. Apple isn't innovating at all when it comes to iOS. I will agree that apple has built a very polished os I would rather deal with some bugs but get a platform that is moving things forward not one that is riding on the bandwagon


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Every year, the Village Players produces a show in early January, meaning rehearsals have to surround the holidays.
Auditions came early and the rehearsal period was longer than other Village Player productions, but the cast got a long break for the holidays. There was only one formal rehearsal the week of Christmas, picking back up the week of New Year's.
Gordy said the level of difficulty to get through the break depends on the cast.
"Quite honestly, we run into this every season," Director Jake Gordy said. "I've been very fortunate … my actors actually got together two more times [during Christmas week] independently and ran lines."
Gordy didn't have to worry about New Year's.
"Especially with an older cast, or a more mature cast, New Year's doesn't seem to be such a problem. They're not as apt to go out and party it up on New Year's Eve," Gordy said.
"The Queen of Bingo" will begin a three-week run on Jan. 10 at the Village Players Theatre, 2740 Upton Avenue. The show is the directorial debut of Gordy, who has been working with the Village Players since 1996.
"I'm very excited; I have a wonderful cast and I like the script," he said.
Gordy said he was waiting to direct a show he loved, and this is that show. The show also includes veteran actors returning to the stage: Nancy Janney and Pam Kelso. The two have both served on the Board of Directors and the Play Reading Committee in previous years.
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Jasper Fforde's delightfully zany Thursday Next series shows no signs of slowing down with its seventh entry, The Woman Who Died a Lot.
Despite being semihappily semi-retired from SpecOps, Thursday accepts the head librarian position at the Swindon library. But soon threats from a supreme Deity, a mnemonomorph, and the nefarious Goliath corporation press Thursday back into active duty.
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"Great continuation of the Thursday Next series"
I wish I could rate this at 4.5 stars. It falls a bit short of 5 stars, but deserves better than a 4 star rating.
A must read for anyone following the series. But if you're following the series, you know you'll read this book eventually.
While the book before this (One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing) occurs almost completely in the book world, this one occurs almost completely in the real Thursday's world. The story was interesting throughout, and narration was perfect. I don't usually listen to an audiobook again immediately after finishing it, but this one was interesting enough that I did so, and managed to pick up some nuances I missed the first time around.
I would not recommend this book to anyone who hasn't read the Thursday Next series before, however. I started with one of the books in the middle and it took a while figuring out what was going on. Start with the first book for maximum enjoyment.
"Jasper Fforde is back! Awesome!"
I've read all of the Thursday Next series, and I thought the last 2 or 3 books not as good as the first few, but with this edition I thought Jasper Fforde got his stride back. This story definitely had that extra spark that the last few books were lacking. The writing was spot-on and hilarious. This series is one where I frequently find myself laughing out loud, which is really embarrassing sometimes when I'm sitting in my cubicle at work and people start looking at me weird.
I liked the new story with the Library Service and Fforde's explanation of that branch of the military(?). This whole alternate reality that Fforde has created with Thursday Next is continually expanding and this was particularily humorous in this book.
Emily Gray does a very good job shifting through all the characters. She definitely is a great narrator with perfect comedic timing.
Well, these stories bring more laughs than tears most of the time, but the bit about Jenny at the end was kind of saddening, but hopeful. I don't want to give to much away there.
Definitely worth a listen for any Thursday Next fan! You'll be really happy you did. I'm already gearing up for the next edition.
"Excellent Series Addition"
The Thursday Next series continues, as mind-boggling, entertaining and thought-provoking as always. Emily Gray's reading again makes the most outlandish situations seems perfectly reasonable. The humor is both timely and timeless. I loved reading the book and love the audio edition too; I have already listened to it a second time. As usual with Fforde's fiction the prose is so full of jokes, puns and references that it is almost impossible to catch everything the first time, especially when the reader/listener gets caught up in the plot. Essential for fans of the series.
I love the BBC and British mysteries, but my tastes are very eclectic. I live with my husband and menagerie of rescued cats and dogs.
"Catching Up With Old Friends"
I would only recommend this book for those who are already dedicated to the series. It was more like catching up with old friends than anything else. Fforde did not let us into the book world this time, and that has always been one of my favorite parts, and Thursday was the only character who really did anything of interest.
As always Emily Gray did a spectacular job on all the characters in this series.
Most Definitely! Even though it is a weak offering in the series (not the weak-est), it would still make a terrifically fun movie!
"middle-aged Thursday Next"
I think this is fifth in the Thursday Next series. A worthy addition, tho the plot pattern is beginning to get familiar. other reviews have summarized well, I have 2 points to make:
1. Start at the beginning with the Eyre Affair, or as early in the series as you can. The first book introduces a bizarre and amusing world and the following couple books add some wild dimensions.
2. Emily Gray sounds like she's middle aged or beyond and perhaps appropriate for Thursday's time of life in this book. Her words are clipped and quick but excellently enunciated and I have no real complaint. But Elizabeth Sastre did the earliest narrations and her voice is a real treasure. Her voice is richer, like Glenda (witch of the north in Wizard of Oz) but sexier. Definitely more pleasant to hear and more appropriate for a young Thursday. I got the earlier books on cassette or CD from the library and the first 3 for sure are narrated by her. I notice some of the same books are by Emily Gray on Audible: get the Elizabeth Sastre versions if you can.
"Thank God it's Thursday"
I love the character of Thursday Next. The supporting characters are great too.
I loved the fabulous absurdity of the dialogue and the intricacy of the plot. Although I love the book world, this real world story captivated me.
She is the perfect voice for Thursday.
You'll wish everyday was Thursday.
Great series. One of the wittiest and most original I have read. Highly recommend.
Book Lover
"Another great chapter in the Thursday Next series"
Although I really miss the bookjumps into fiction, and meeting all the crazy characters from well-loved classical literature, Fforde still manages to entertain me with Thursday's adventures. If you're a fan, you'll enjoy this. NOT recommended if you haven't read the previous books. You simply won't understand what's going on. The good news is that this book sets us up for Fforde's next Next adventure - a jump into the dark reading material at the center of the universe. Can't wait!
"Delightful as always - but read series in order"
As always, Thursday Next is a tough and tender character and the crowd of zanies around her bring humor and craziness to the world. It's best to listen to the series in order as there are many references to earlier books.
Doctor Bull
"Not much Book World, but lots of fun"
I get a great kick out of Jasper Fforde's quirky humor. When I want a pick-me-up I listen to the mp3 recording I made of the "had-had" discussion in "The Well of Lost Plots". Pure genius. And Jasper does not disappoint in the latest Thursday Next.
Thursday doesn't get back to the Book World in this one, although the Book World plays prominently in the search for "Dark Reading Matter" (a literary analogy to the Dark Matter and Dark Energy that physicists theorize constitutes a lot of our universe). There's a good bit about time-travel, but not too much of paradoxes to make your head hurt. Lots of standard Thursday Next fare too, the Chronoguard, SpecOps, smitings and marmolite and whatnot.
I had to pay close attention to the Park-Lane family's discussions of the daughter Jenny - a few times I backed up to re-listen to one section or another. Aornis Hades is back, not killed (as I thought) in "Lost in a Good Book".
Emily Gray does her usual great rendition of the characters in Thursday Next's world. I've always thought that a lot of her male voices sounded pretty much the same, but that's just a minor quibble.
If you're new to this series, I would recommend listening to them in order. There's a fair amount of continuity between the books, and while Jasper Fforde does a pretty good job filling in the back-story, it will help a lot if you've already heard it.
Lots of fun. You won't be disappointed.
I like mysteries (particularly British ones, historical fiction and nonfiction, science fiction and fantasy.
"Thursday Next and the Smiting of the Unjust"
Not quite as good as some of Fforde's other books, this was still an entertaining story. A bit slow to get going, this is not the book for someone just being introduced to Jasper Fforde's multiverse. For those of us who are old hands though, the dazzling array of puns and allusions are great fun.
Since the disbanding of most of SpecOpps, Thursday is living in middle-aged retirement outside of Swindon with her husband Landon and their two children, Wednesday and Tuesday. Tuesday is a sixteen year old genius who is working on a shield to protect Swindon from the wrath of an angry god when not attending school and doing her best to do things a normal teenager would be expected to do. Wednesday is working at a do it yourself store and brooding over the loss of his future purpose.
Meanwhile Thursday ends up with a new job as a library director, has a problem with a mindworm that makes her think that she has a third child, and finds herself replaced by synthetic Thursdays made by Goliath. The reappearance of her old nemesis, Jack, now number 91 on the corporate ladder, adds to her problems, as does her rival, the ambitious Commander Phoebe Smalls
Recommended for Thursday Next fans.
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I have bread coming out of my ears. Everywhere I turn, I stumble upon a boulangerie: baguettes, ciabattas, pain de campagne, rustiques, white, whole wheat, multi-grain, dense and chewy, light and fluffy, the good, the bad and the ugly. Makes perfect sense. I mean, I live in the Land of Bread, Le Pays du Pain.
Yet, as the old saying goes, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, absence makes the heart grow fonder, Bob's your uncle (no, sorry, not that last one. I just like the sound of it…). I am bored of baguettes, fatigued of flûtes, miches are monotonous, blasé of boules and simply tired of pain de campagne.
Now, I love good bread. I know which boulangerie has the best bread in the neighborhood and which stall at the market has the pain levain that I love. Bread and cheese to round off a meal with a glass of wine is one of this country's true pleasures, or a hunk of cheese and a good baguette as the basis for an improvised picnic is a must. But as good as the bread is here, and don't get me wrong it is very good, sometimes I crave what I just can't get. A square of warm cornbread drizzled with honey, a dense, chewy bagel studded with sweet raisins, a slice of cinnamon-raisin swirl toast with butter melted on it, Jewish rye piled high with roast beef and slices of thick, ripe, juicy tomatoes or smeared with cream cheese and loaded with lox, and soft, light as air, warm-from-the-oven, big, squishy dinner rolls.
Big, huge white dinner rolls topped with salty butter were a restaurant treat for me as a kid: pulled apart and dipped into succulent, garlicky scampi sauce after an oh-so-adult meal at Peg Leg's down at the end of De Soto Parkway, sopping up barbecue sauce from among the bones as we sit squashed together on long wooden benches at the bbq joint, piled high in cloth-lined baskets like clouds in the summertime at The Lobster Shanty snuggled up all cozy next to the golden delicious hushpuppies, high school cafeteria rolls that were lunch along with a carton of chocolate milk and occasionally a handful of fries for this 17 year old… I loved them. They were so fancy schmancy and somehow quite elegant, nothing that we ever had at home, so, oh, white bread, something to be served with roast beef and green beans or home-fried chicken, food that never saw the day at our house. We were more the rye bread and bagel type, bread that really served a purpose, bread that stayed with you, bread with substance and heft, not something as ephemeral, something as cloud-like as soft, airy dinner rolls.
They were always, truly, something otherworldly, like nectar of the gods.
The first time I tried making homemade dinner rolls I was a young, inexperienced bride (inexperienced in the art of bread making, that is), flipping through the pages of our brand new Paul Prudhomme cookbook. The photograph of his Mama's dinner rolls blinded me with its beauty, made me yearn for something so magical and lovely, so ethereal that I knew I had to make the attempt. Sadly, and for lack of understanding, they came out hard. I had utterly failed. I felt that I just didn't have the talent to make something so wonderful. I doubted my own capabilities. Maybe it just wasn't meant to be. And for years after I stuck to cake and cookies, quick breads and muffins.
Years later, I tentatively returned to the task, determined to beat it, overcome the fear of yeast bread, conquer the mastery of bread baking. Trial and error, lots of reading, staring time and time again at bowls of frothing yeast, trying to break through the mystery. And, finally, here I am today, making Challah and pizza dough, whipping up bagels and bread sticks, focaccia rich with olive oil and sweet with cherry tomatoes, cinnamon buns the size of saucers, studded with chocolate chips and drizzled with glaze, everything I yearn for, anything I crave.
And last night I decided to attempt the heretofore unattainable, climb my own personal Everest, face my own private Waterloo, reach for the stars. And I was determined to conquer.
And, of course, this gorgeous success, this amazing triumph of breadly goodness, this story of small town girl done good goes to Susan at Wild Yeast for this week's Yeastspotting, a showcase of all things yeast.
The desire to produce a fragrant pan of soft dinner rolls, the poke in the back, the encouraging whisper in the ear came from La Table de Nana on whose wonderful blog I saw them, the most amazing vision of light and fluffy. I ended up reworking the recipe to use what I had on hand, so instead of using yogurt and milk I used buttermilk and cream. And the rest, as they say, is history. Thank you Nana for inspiring me.
Soft Buttermilk Dinner Rolls is a very easy recipe perfect for those of you who are afraid of making yeast breads. It is extremely straightforward, no trying to figure out yeast required. Dry + wet + kneading pretty much sums it up to give you the most delicious, light-as-air dinner rolls. The next time I make them, I'll let the shaped rolls rise and bake in a slightly smaller tin so they rise up rather than out, giving taller, narrower buns; more fluffy center and less top. I will also brush the tops of the rolls with melted salted butter as soon as I pull them out of the oven to give them the restaurant flavor that I remember from my childhood.
For 12 dinner rolls. Halve the recipe to make 6.
1 lb (500 g) bread flour
2 Tbs (30 g) sugar (I used light brown)
1 ½ tsp salt
1 ½ heaping (6 g) tsps dry active yeast
1 cup (250 ml) buttermilk
¼ cup (60 ml) light cream
4 Tbs (60 g) unsalted butter, preferably at room temperature
1 large egg + 1 egg for wash
Mix together all of the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. In a small bowl, lightly beat 1 egg.
In a medium-sized saucepan, gently heat the buttermilk, the cream and the butter together until just warm. Remove from the heat and stir the warmed liquid until the butter is completely melted.
Quickly stir the beaten egg into the warm liquid ingredients then pour over the dry ingredients. Using a wooden spoon, stir the wet into the dry ingredients until all of the dry ingredients are moistened and form a sticky dough.
Scrape out onto a floured work surface and, adding more flour as needed, knead the dough for 6 – 8 minutes. The dough should be smooth and elastic and no longer sticky (though not dry!).
Place the dough in a large, clean, oiled bowl, turning to coat all sides of the dough, cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise for 1 hour until doubled in bulk.
Once doubled, scrape the dough back out onto the floured work surface and punch down. Divide into 12 equal pieces and shape each into a ball (or roughly). Place the balls of dough in parchment-lined cake tins or baking pan, spacing them about 1 to ½ inches apart. Cover once more with plastic and allow to rise a second time until doubled, another hour.
Preheat oven to 325°F (170°C).
Brush the tops of the rolls with the egg wash (an egg lightly beaten) and pop into the oven. Bake for about 20 minutes until the tops are a deep golden brown.
Eat warm, preferably with butter. I reheated some the following day and, although not as perfect as fresh out of the oven, they were wonderfully delicious. I froze some, too.
30 comments:
- buffalodick said...
I make my own pizza doughs, and a few kinds of bread pretty well.. But I'm more of a cook than a baker! Hats off to anyone that can bake bread like you!
- August 21, 2009 at 7:20 AM
- Chef E said...
I have been craving these the past few months and finally made some with my students, and two more times...yours are beautiful, and now I want more...
Buff does makes some good bread, I have seen it!
- August 21, 2009 at 7:29 AM
- Elra said...
One of my sister still afraid to bake just about anything, especially anything with yeast involves. So this recipe is perfect for her. Of course, for all of us too.
- August 21, 2009 at 7:45 AM
- Muriel said...
Brilliant ! I have some buttermilk in the fridge and I didn't really know what to do with it ... Next batch of rolls will be your recipe,thanks Jamie.
- August 21, 2009 at 7:51 AM
- Heavenly Housewife said...
I am a bread lover in all its many forms. If i had to pick only one food, bread is my favorite in the world, the one thing I couldnt go without. Most notably I do love a good crusty baguette (with butter though daaahling).
Still, anything fresh from the oven is simply divine!
- August 21, 2009 at 7:55 AM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
I cannot live without bread!
Your bread rools look fabulous and so smooth!
Cheers and have a great weekend,
- August 21, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- asiangrrl said...
I'll take a dozen, Jamie. They look sooooo good!
- August 21, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- the ungourmet said...
These are just beautiful!
I have baked a simple loaf now and then. I'm never ecstatic about the results but it's never terrible. I've never braved a roll of any kind. I would love to try. I should challenge myself this fall!
Bob's your uncle! HA! ;0)
- August 21, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- Mary said...
You've outdone yourself. These look delicious and they don't seem hard to do. I loved the post. I hope you are having a wonderful day.
- August 21, 2009 at 9:57 AM
- 5 Star Foodie said...
Mmm... freshly baked rolls sound heavenly! Need to make some, thanks for a great recipe!
- August 21, 2009 at 11:27 AM
- Jenn said...
I've recently in the past few months only begun to make my own breads. Saves money and so fresh. the house smells awesome after they're baked. I think I'll try this for my next baking adventure. yum!!
- August 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- Natashya said...
Lovely rolls! Congrats on overcoming your fears!
Bread doesn't scare me anymore.. now I am on to cheese. It still scares me.
Well, I need something to go with all this bread!
- August 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM
- Barbara Bakes said...
I've been eating whole wheat breads lately, but a roll like this is definitely a treat! Hot out of the oven with some jam!
- August 21, 2009 at 2:35 PM
- Irina@PastryPal said...
Good grief, these look good. I know exactly what you mean about getting tired of something that's in your face every minute of every day. When I spent a month in Italy, I actually got tired of Italian food! All I wanted was a bowl of stir fried rice.
Thank you for luring me to your blog. It's a lot of fun. And thanks for all your lovely comments! I'll be checking in.
- August 21, 2009 at 4:30 PM
- Reeni♥ said...
These look lovely! Soft and so perfect!
- August 21, 2009 at 5:29 PM
- Chow and Chatter said...
what a great post love the rolls, i agree its good to have variety in types of bread
- August 21, 2009 at 6:52 PM
- Katy ~ said...
Stunning, achingly beautiful! Well done. Few things beat a perfect homemade dinner roll.
- August 22, 2009 at 2:49 AM
- Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella said...
OH I can absolutely see how light and fluffy they are! It's things like this that are the most challenging to make I find for me at least. Thankyou for sharing and for your wonderful stories!
- August 22, 2009 at 3:55 AM
- My Carolina Kitchen said...
The photo of the bread at the boulangerie is fabulous. In fact it would be a great screen saver.
You are indeed the queen of bread. Your rolls look divine.
- August 22, 2009 at 5:04 AM
- Donna-FFW said...
These look super fantastic, light, flaky, airy. Ill have one with jam please, no two!
- August 22, 2009 at 5:07 AM
- lisaiscooking said...
These look incredible! I can smell them baking just by looking at the photos.
- August 22, 2009 at 5:28 AM
- zurin said...
M glad you tried them.
- August 22, 2009 at 6:09 AM
- The Cooking Ninja said...
my my ... u r one busy bee in yr new kitchen I see. :) U r churning out more posts than I have the time to read. hehehe
Those are truly delicious looking bread. I'm back in my house and it's hot hot hot in the south. The thot of baking and turning my house into a even hotter oven quickly doused my baking fever. :p
- August 22, 2009 at 6:29 AM
- Joanne said...
The only yeasted thing I have made has been pizza dough but I have been meaning to try more things with it. You have certainly inspired me to get to it!
- August 22, 2009 at 8:13 AM
- Cucinista said...
Those do look airy, heavenly, nectar of the gods-like.
Confession: the first time I was allowed to have dinner on my own (about age 11 or 12), I decided instead to go to the store to buy Pilsbury frozen dinner roll dough and I made the entire batch and ate them all. I was not allowed to have dinner on my own again for some time after that.
- August 22, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- Jamie said...
@Cucinista: That is so hysterical! Your my kind a girl!
@buffalodick: Thanks. In our house, husband is a true cook and I'm the baker. There is definitely a difference.
@all: this is definitely a recipe to try for the yeast-challenged among you and friends.
@Irina: Welcome and thanks for coming over!
@The Cooking Ninja: Welcome home!
@the ungourmet: Bob's your uncle!
- August 22, 2009 at 11:10 AM
- The Purple Foodie said...
The dinner rolls look great. I wish I could bake bread more than I do.
- August 22, 2009 at 12:36 PM
- Esme said...
Bonjour-thanks for stopping by-I will need to come visit you. I passed through Nantes once about 2 decades ago.
- August 24, 2009 at 7:24 AM
- Susan/Wild Yeast said...
Oh, I loved these rolls in childhood too, and also never got them except in restaurants. What a treat!
- August 27, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- Mimi said...
The rolls are gorgeous!
I had to laugh at your post. We all want what is not available. I want all of the wonderful bread you have access to. Since you are in France, you are yearning for things so quintessentially american!
- August 28, 2009 at 8:13 AM


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Executive Dashboards typically have several small graphs on a single page. These graphs are intended to provide a quick overview of a company's key performance indicators (KPIs). Of course, when executives see something that doesn't look right, they immediately want a closer look to confirm the graph is really displaying something odd.
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Paste Buttons on Worksheets
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Why I Did This
I created an app to design my kitchen. The app uses XL's shapes to draw floor plans and cabinet positions. Each shape had to be precisely drawn and positioned which required entering dimensions into a table. But having the table on the drawing's worksheet was clumsy and ugly. I needed to work with shapes on one worksheet and enter dimension in a table on a different worksheet at the same time. That requires a form.
Options 1 – Create UserForm Manually
I considered creating a form the old fashion way:
- manually adding labels and text boxes
- setting each control's properties
- coding routines to move data between the table and the controls
- coding validation routines
- etc.
For the particular table I was working with, that meant 21 labels, 20 text boxes, 1 combo box, and 2 command buttons. That seemed like a lot of duplicate work considering the table had the data validation already.
Option 2 – Use XL's List Form
Since 2003, XL has had an option to create dynamic forms over lists using a single line of code (see: Add Forms to Edit Tables). Unfortunately XL's dynamic form has two shortcomings: it only works with the active worksheet and it can't start on a specified table row.
Option 3 – Create a Dynamic Form
I wanted a method that:
- created the form for me using the table's data validation, column headings, and cell protection
- worked over tables not necessarily on the same worksheet
- worked only on rows I specified.
Solution – frmData
frmData is a blank user form with:
- OK and Exit command buttons
- a textbox for user messages
- code to add all other controls based on the table sent to it.
frmData is really all I needed but I wanted more.
Enhancement #1 – clsInpMsg
I also wanted the data validation's input message displayed when editing a table's cell. For that I created class clsInpMsg. clsInpMsg responds to labels, textboxes, and combo boxes being selected or the mouse hovering over them and puts the associated cell's data validation input message in frmData's user messages textbox.
Enhancement #2 – clsForm
I also wanted the form to be a little more dynamic and fun than the standard drab gray user form. So I included class clsForm. clsForm adds a worksheet's theme colors and "glowing" effects for command buttons when the mouse hovers over them. If you want normal, just remove two lines from frmData and (optionally) remove clsForm.
Final Result
DynamicForm.xlam is an Add-In with all forms and classes assembled together for easy workbook integration.
AddInDemo.xls demonstrates the DynamicForm Add-in and shows how to dynamically install/uninstall add-ins when projects open/close.
Want it? Get it.
Here is a PDF explaining everything: DynamicForm.PDF
Want a Free Gantt Chart App?
Introducing a new approach to Gantt Charts in XL – BabyGantt.xls
Bar Charts
This type creates a stacked bar chart with the first series being the duration from project start to task start. This series' fill color is set to "No Fill" so it appears that the second series – the actual task – is floating by itself. It is a clever and effective means to small Gantts – about 30 or less tasks. It can leverage XL2007 and later's improved aesthetics.
Conditional Formatting
This type uses spreadsheet cells and conditional formatting to make colored cells into Gantt Chart bars. This method can accommodate many more tasks but also creates a lot of formulas and calculations.
Introducing BabyGantt.xls
BXL's Baby Gantt uses shapes and VBA. It has the advantage of Conditional Formatting's "many tasks" without the formula overhead. It also shares the Bar Chart's improved graphics capabilities. But best of all, there's no setup – at least – not for the chart.
All Gantt Charts require tasks and dates. But that's all Baby Gantt requires us to enter. We don't need to add and configure charts or enter and autofill formulas across massive ranges. The VBA in Baby Gantt reads our task entries and generates the graphics on the fly. And because it is Excel, we can use formulas to calculate task start and end dates.
BabyGantt.xls can be downloaded from my DropBox. Here is a link to the instructions:
The instructions include:
User Instructions – Step by Step guides on how to enter your project with examples
Download Instructions – Links to a fully functioning, totally free, unprotected BabyGantt.xls
Technical Documentation – All of the code with explanations and all data validation entries with screenshots.
SQL, UDFs, and *DTAARA (Data Areas)
Getting data from IBM's iSeries into XL is normally no different than other platforms. There are exceptions. The iSeries' multi-member files, such as source files, are problematic for SQL. So are data areas. This post deals with simple Data Areas.
To read simple Data Areas from SQL we need a little help from IBM's iSeries. We need a "stored procedure" which we must create, which means we must program on the iSeries. This post assumes you have access to your iSeries via a "green screen". If you don't know what I'm talking about, bale now because this won't make any sense to you.
I'm going to use an example to help explain things. In this example imagine we have a data area containing a numeric ID. The steps to create this stored procedure are:
- Code CL source to pass parameters and retrive data area's contents
- Create a CL Module from the code source
- Create a Service Program from the CL Module.
- Code an SQL Script to create a stored procdure using the Service Program
- Run the SQL script
The first step is to write the CL source. Let's put it in member GetMyData in QGPL/QCLSRC. Here is the example:
The next step is to create the CL Module. At a command prompt type:
CRTCLMOD MODULE(QGPL/GetMyData) SRCFILE(QGPL/QCLSRC)
After the above executes succesfully, type this command:
CRTSRVPGM SRVPGM(QGPL/GetMyData) MODULE(QGPL/GetMyData) EXPORT(*ALL)
Next we write our SQL Script. Create source member GetMyData in QGPL/QDDSSRC:
Create Function GetMyData() Returns DECIMAL(10, 0) Language CL Specific GetMyData Deterministic No SQL Returns Null on Null Input No External Action Not Fenced External Name 'QGPL/GetMyData(GetMyData)' Parameter Style SQL;
Lastly, we run the SQL script from a command line:
RUNSQLSTM SRCFILE(QGPL/QDDSSRC) SRCMBR(GetMyData)
Now all that is left to do is test it. Using command STRSQL to start an SQL session, run this SQL statement:
Select GetMyData() From SYSIBM/SYSDUMMY1
SYSIBM/SYSDUMMY1 is a special one record file we can use for this sort of thing.
As you can see, there's not a lot of work involved once you know how. And if you look carefully, you can see many possibilities for doing things far beyond reading simple data areas!
- IBM iSeries Redbooks: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/portals/systemi
- A Fast Path to AS/400 Client/Server Using AS/400 OLE DB Support: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245183.html?Open
- Stored Procedures, Triggers, and User-Defined Functions on DB2: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246503.pdf
"Can there be Dynamic Ranges for VLOOKUP and Data Validation List for an Invoice?".
This question was posed and answered by "Mr. Excel" and "Excel is Fun" in a recent YouTube post by the same title. Their solutions work well. I'm going to answer with what I believe is a better approach. It uses Tables. Tables have some great characteristics:
|Tables grow/shrink as rows/columns are add/deleted.
|Nieghbor Aware
|Tables automatically move other tables as they grow (with some restrictions)
|Structured References
|In Excel 2007 and higher (XL'07+), tables create special names so we can address a table's column by its heading. Ex: =Table[Column]
|Table Styles (in XL'07+) dramatically improve data formatting.
|They can link to external data.
|Duplicate Removal
|XL'07+ includes a menu option to remove duplicate rows.
Creating tables is easy. If you have a range that contains data, simply select any cell in the range and use the keyboard shortcut: CTRL-L (in XL2007 and later you can also use the more intuitive CTRL-T). Once a table has been created, you can change its name by selecting any cell in the table and using the menu tab Table Tools. The Table Name input box is on the left in the Properties grouping.
Tables have some drawbacks.
|Not Supported Prior to XL'03
|So if you're using old versions of Excel, use the "Mr.Excel" or "Excel is Fun" approach – or upgrade and start using Excel's Tables.
|External Data Source Restriction
|MS Query and Data Validation can't see tables without a Named Range Wrapper.
A Named Range Wrapper (NRW) is simply a name assigned to a range. To create an NRW for a table just select the table's entire range and assign a name by typing it into Excel's Name Box or using the menu path Formulas > Define Name. If you are working with a .xls, you're done. But if you're working with a any of the new formats (.xlsx, .xlsm) you must change the name's Refers to: reference from a table reference to A1 notation. That's it. The new range is every bit as dynamic as the best dynamic named range formula – without the formula.
"Can there be Dynamic Ranges for VLOOKUP?"
In XL'07+ VLOOKUP works with tables already. If you have a table called "Products" you can use it in VLOOKUP like this:
=VLOOKUP("ABC", Products, 2, 0)
Where "ABC" is the value in the first column of Products you're searching for. In XL'03 VLOOKUP needs an NRW. Once the NRW is created, we use it as we did above.
"Can there be Dynamic Ranges for Data Validation?"
Data Validation does not recognize tables but we can still use them. We can either apply a "Named Range Wrapper" over the table and use the name in Data Validation or we can exploit a quirk of using tables.
QUIRK! Any reference placed over a table becomes dynamic, even absolute cell addresses.
So if we have a table in cells $A$4:$C$10 and we want our Data Validation rule to use the first column's values (excluding the header) as a list, we can put =$A$5:$A$10 in Data Validation's Source: box. Now if we add entries to our table, the Source box's values will change automagically! How cool is that!
Clearly, tables are far simpler than the "Mr.Excel" and "Excel is Fun" approaches (both good approaches, both compatible with older XL, neither requiring VBA). Note that we will never have to worry about other tables on the worksheet like we would with the traditional "COUNT" approaches. We don't have to worry about the table's location – ever. We don't have to worry about blanks, or numeric data, or character data or any combinations thereof that can throw off COUNT methods.
Getting User Names from Outlook Into Excel
The company president's mother died. The staff wanted to express their sympathy. Cards were purchased and now we needed to make sure everyone got a chance to sign them. We needed names on a check list to circulate with the cards so when someone signed, they could check their name and hand the card to someone whose name remained unchecked. So how do we make a list with everyone's name and make sure no one is left off?
Everyone in our office has a computer. Everyone uses Outlook. All we needed was a quick way to get all user names into Excel to edit, format and print. This is different from the contact list. The contact list may, or may not have all users in it and it definitely has far more names than users.
NOTE! Requires Excel 2003 or later because of ListObject
Open Excel and get to the VBE (Alt-F11)
- Use Ctrl-R to bring up the Project Explorer
Double click ThisWorkbook to bring up its code window
Enter this code then run it.
Sub Network_Users()
' Date Ini Modification
' 04/10/11 CWH Initial Programming
' 04/03/14 CWH Added email addresses
Dim olA As Object 'Outlook.Application Start Outlook (OL)
Dim olNS As Object 'Namespace OL identifiers context
Dim olAL As Object 'AddressList An OL address list
Dim olAE As Object 'AddressEntry An Address List entry
Dim lo As ListObject 'An Excel Table
On Err GoTo ErrHandler
' Create a ListObject/Table in the spreadsheet
With ActiveSheet
.Cells.ClearContents 'Clear worksheet completely
.Cells.ClearFormats 'Clear formats as well
[A4:B4] = Array("Names","Email") 'Add a column headings
Set lo = .ListObjects.Add(1, [A4].CurrentRegion, , xlYes)
lo.Name = "Names"
End With
' Open Outlook, set context, open "All Users" address list
Set olA = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set olNS = olA.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olAL = olNS.AddressLists("All Users")
' Add each address entry name to the Excel Table For Each olAE In olAL.AddressEntries With lo.ListRows.Add .Range(1) = olAE.Name .Range(2) = olAE.GetExchangeUser.PrimarySmtpAddress End With Next
' Format Results
lo.HeaderRowRange.Style = ActiveWorkbook.Styles("Heading 1″)
ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = True
' Do this ONLY if you want to close Outlook
ErrHandler: If Err.Number <> 0 Then MsgBox _ "Network_Users - Error#" & Err.Number & vbCrLf & _ Err.Description, vbCritical, "Error", Err.HelpFile, Err.HelpContext On Error GoTo 0
End Sub


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After getting 21 runs on hits, the Yanks fall a little 'flat' in this one...
My free play is on the Tex Rangers at 8:05 ET.
Losing a game after taking a 5-0 lead in the first inning is rare. Losing a game after taking a 5-0 lead by an eventual final of 21-5, is "off the charts," rare! The Yankees adjusted their rotation for their series with the Rangers by giving Chris Capuano a spot start Tuesday, in order to give MasahiroTanaka and Michael Pineda extra rest. Capuano couldn't get more than two outs before giving up FIVE runs but New York's strategy worked out just fine, as the Yankees rebounded with an 11-run second inning, on the way to a 21-5 win.
New York is 9-2 since the All-Star break and pulling away in the AL East (now SEVEN games up on the Orioles), thanks to an offense that has piled up 42 runs in its last four games. Tanaka has pitched with at least five days' rest in every outing since returning from a stint on the disabled list on June 3 with a strained right forearm. He's 5-2 with a 3.79 ERA in nine starts in that span (Yanks are 7-2), including winning three straight starts behind a 2.82 ERA, 20 strikeouts and an opponents BA of.152..
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"I was surprised to get an invitation from SCETV's Amanda McNulty, host of 'Making It Grow,' asking if I could be a guest on the program. At first, I was hesitant about being a guest, as I had little TV experience," Judy Thornton of Summerville, owner of JuJu's Gourmet, explained.
"You just talk about your food products, tell us what your customers say, respond to our questions about your business and be yourself," advised McNulty, "You will enjoy the experience, and the publicity will be good for you."
"I agreed to the appearance and it has turned out to be one of the high points in the development of my business," added Thornton. The growth of her business traces Judy's passion for food preparation back to the young age of 5 when she learned the art of biscuit making from her grandmother. On her website www.jujusgourmet.com, she explains her grandmother's advice about how to bake biscuits; she continues to use that advice to make her biscuits rise to perfection.
"Little did I know then that this advice would lead me to open a commercial operation right here in Summerville to provide my products to customers and retail stores in Summerville and Orangeburg," she proudly said.
While her business is located in a former 1200 square foot home which she purchased in 2011, it is in every way a commercial kitchen, maintaining the characteristics of her grandmother's southern home, which is so much a part of the business culture.
Looking back, she told how she expanded JuJu's scope of operations. "I joined the South Carolina Food Association in 2011 and became active in its program to expand awareness of various foods made within the state. This led me to meet Jackie Moore, Executive Director of the Association, who advised me to create a web site and do more advertising to improve my markets. She told me about the ETV program 'Making It Grow' and how it might be able to help me publicize my local products in South Carolina," she explained.
"Mrs. Moore talked to me about my business. I explained how my products were gaining acceptance here and how we would like to show them to a larger audience. This led to my appearance on the show where we were able to showcase my pimento cheese, biscuits and sweet tea cinnamon rolls. I enjoyed being on TV, as I spent most of a day in the studio as we planned, rehearsed my portion, and then we went 'live' on the ETV network. I can't thank the ETV team enough as they helped me display products so attractively and gave me a few 'pointers' to improve my interview," Judy said.
During the TV show, Judy pointed out one of the key advantages JuJu's offers.
"Not only do our customers love our recipes, but they like the extra convenience of being able to take home our products for baking and serving. Being frozen they stay ready to be baked and served whenever desired for a meal," she said.
Thornton also pointed out local people who have helped her.
"Mr. K and his, son, Jim have really been helpful to me in getting started as my initial location for retail display and sales. They gave some really good ideas about marketing. Our local outlets have grown to include Single Smile Café and Accent on Wine in downtown Summerville, Mr. K's Piggly Wiggly stores on Cedar Street and in Knightsville, and in Orangeburg at Five Rivers Farmers' & Gourmet Market, she added. Judy is also looking for additional retail locations in Charleston and in Berkeley County. "We don't want to be everywhere, but we desire to have our products on sale in stores that feature local, specialty foods," she added.
Today's Judy's food items number over 22 and they be can ordered on her website at www.jujusgourmet.com, on Facebook, or by calling her at 843-225-6549.
Being a small business she is especially thankful for the help she has received. She saluted her family, her spiritual brother Chris, her wonderful friends, SCORE counselor, and the ETV team at Making It Grow. "Of course, I have to thank my local customers for selecting JuJu's Gourmet," she said.
Thornton said she is proud to have her own business.
"I encourage anyone thinking of opening a business to give it serious thought and then work to make the idea become a reality. I appreciate each of my customers and work diligently to insure that all are pleased with our recipes and the final dish they bake at home," she said.
People sometimes ask me how I selected the name JuJu's Gourmet.
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The latest development in her success is the recent approval of her service mark – "tastes reminiscent of your grandmother's southern kitchen" which she proudly uses to give her products a more professional look.
JuJu's Gourmet is located at 700 Central Ave. in Summerville and can be found on line at www.jujusgourment.com. The company is celebrating its second anniversary in October.
The program 'Making It Grow,' is produced by South Carolina Educational Television in cooperation with Clemson University.
JuJu's Gourmet LLC is located at 700 Central Ave in Summerville.
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Discretion aside, I take our very personal experience in Home Hospice Care to the public eye as an important example.
Already in our 80s, we were teary when our two grown sons (and their wives) offered their homes to us due to my wife's declining health. We stuck it out alone for two more years but then decided to move in with our Colorado son with the additional attraction of three young grandchildren. We planned to drive there in June but my wife became more frail and our family doctor advised the service of CVHHH (Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice). An experienced team examined MariaLucia, assayed conditions in our home and gave valuable instructions on safety, care and stimulus. The heavy input of time and effort by the family caregivers continues – but it's professionalized and monitored regularly. The nurses and their aides check vital signs and post them using laptops for review at weekly staff meetings with treatments adjusted accordingly.
By the end of September MariaLucia had improved enough and was eager for the trip. CVHHH arranged for home hospice service to be provided by Gunnison Valley Health and lent us a portable oxygen concentrator for use until check-in. With this security and my wife's condition up to it, we headed northwest, to avoid congested traffic, through Ottawa and Cochrane, Ontario, over all the Great Lakes, returning to the U.S. at Grand Portage in the northeast corner of Minnesota. In this sparsely populated area, we were especially grateful for the Moms and Pops of the isolated gas stations and even a family pottery (pun not even noticed at the time) off the road between Mattawa and North Bay, enabling me to enter the ladies' rooms to help my wife.
Gunnison Valley Health took over where the Vermont team had left off. This Medicare-supported program is national, depends upon the family caregiver as a key collaborator and effectively reduces emergency room visits and in-patient stays – both often traumatic to patient and family alike, especially in the case of the elderly.
Our family is awed by the professional competence and human warmth of all the hospice individuals (both employees and volunteers) we have met – in Vermont and in Colorado. Some have graduated from regular four-year colleges or as post-graduate professionals, but many others learned their skills through junior colleges, specialized courses or on-the-job training. We even had the good fortune to find a physical therapist with a specialty in edema care. With our aging population, the need for such jobs will doubtless increase – a welcome contrast to the decline in American manufacturing employment which may never return.
The "important example" I cited at the outset is this: There are human services the United States could profitably provide through the systematic interaction of individuals, families, schools and small communities, using Hospice as a model. This is an area where the jobs cannot be exported to China. A case in point is the worldwide frenesi to learn English from native speakers. Among the emerging economies such as Brazil, China and India there are many wealthy families who want their children to spend a year or so in the United States in a safe and culturally broadening environment with total immersion in English. Variations on this are work-study programs for European college graduates who cannot find employment at home. Training programs for foreigners in sports, music or medicine can be developed in tourist areas to get better occupancy returns in offseason. Not only does this promote better worldwide understanding but it increases the human capital of our own employees who grow and develop in the process.
Aside from the sophisticated training these jobs require, there is the need for the U. S. government to modernize and facilitate the visa process so that the right foreign customers get to the U.S. smoothly, without jurisdictional hang-ups between agencies. Exaggerated fears for national security should not obstruct this. I believe the best national security is to have a healthy, well-educated and critical populace which recognizes that globalization is an irreversible fact – a human resource which will restructure our economy toward satisfying the worldwide demand for services, technology and innovation and playing down mindless, wasteful consumerism.
Rather than letting the bizarre amalgam of plutocrats with retrograde fundamentalists steer us into another Maginot Line, I suggest we halve military expenditures and vote for human values. I just did: for Obama, Independents and progressive Democrats, I trust them.
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