Super, Simple Salmon With Sourdough

You can find the salmon and sourdough at Sabatino’s Gran Feria Saturday July 7th from 9:30- 2:00 pm

Salmon and dorper lamb * Sourdough Bread * Smoked Salmon * French Baguettes * Smoked Trout * Rye Bread * Paiche Amazonian White Fish * Challah * Organic Shrimp * Cakes * Lamb Chops * Brownies * Organic Tilapia * Bialys * Lamb Sausage * Oats & Raisin * Rainbow Trout Ask about next day delivery to your home when you use our website

We Live In A Digital World

I am presently in McCall, Idaho (pop. 3,300) but because of the Internet I am connected to Cuenca and can operate Loaves And Fishes with the help of my friend and partner Kelbert Bortone. I am in McCall to have a long overdue family reunion with grandkids.

 

Two days ago I was in Notus, Idaho (pop. 560) to celebrate my mother-in-law’s 100th birthday.

Even in the car traveling in the mountains of Idaho I was connected to my business through a wifi hotspot.

I do have concerns about the constant connectivity. I am well aware the my already short attention span is growing shorter with my increased dependence on the smartphone. I noticed that my two older grandchildren were glued to their phones for hours at a time.

The following article about smartphones is worth a read. There are disturbing long term effects on constant smartphone use. What do you think?

 

How Smartphone Hijack Our Minds

 

 

 

 

 

Hogar Esperanza Lunch And Bingo

Change of date for Hogar de Esperanza Lunch and Bingo – We are moving the bingo event originally scheduled for Thursday to a Buffet Brunch and Bingo this Sunday, June 24th. We apologize to those who planned to attend Thursday and look forward to seeing you on Sunday instead.

The format will be a pancake brunch buffet, featuring a smoked salmon and cream cheese bialy from Lenny and Kelbert of Loaves and Fishes, bacon and sausage from King Smokehouse, and coconut cream tarts for dessert from Double D’s Delights. Brunch buffet is $10 and starts at 11:00. Bingo starts at 1:00 PM. Grecia Restaurant Gran Colombia 9-69 between Benigno Malo and Padre Aguirre. Cash bar.

This is a series of small events held by Hogar de Esperanza to help raise funds to support our programs and to discuss our plans for the future. Your participation and input is greatly appreciated.

Rachel Duncan: info@hogaresperanza.org 096 896 2015. Call after: 6 AM.

 

Bumba Bazaar June 16th

Saturday June 16th  from 10:00 – 2:00 pm

Take a stroll on the Tomebamba River this Saturday and stop at The Bumba Bazaar and Fair.

14 vendors selling:

Fish
Bakery Goods
Aged Cheese
Goat Cheese
Smoked Provolone

Tracy’s Treasures
Franco Organico Coffee and Peanuts

King Smokehouse Bacon
Leather Goods
Blueberries
Natural Honey

Mediterranean Products

Bird Houses

Bumba Restaurant is located on 3 de Noviembre next to the old Sofy’s location

lennycharnoff@gmail.com
099 122 1238

Which Cloud Service Stores Your Photos?

I use Flickr, Google Photos and Amazon Prime Photos. The first question that may come to your mind is the following: –  Why do you need all three? The short answer is – you don’t.  So here is the back story.

I joined Flickr in 2003. The cost is $24 a year for 1 TB (over 1/2 million photos) The main reason that I still use Flickr is the social connection to their worldwide photographers.  You can use Flickr for free with limited storage and advertisements.

Amazon Prime Photos comes free with your annual Prime Membership ($119 per year). Like Flickr each photo is automatically saved to The Cloud and you can conveniently check your photos using a smartphone app.

Google Photos is totally free and has unlimited storage. The free version does not keep you original resolution. So be careful if you erase the original. The cloud storage looses some resolution.

Which one is the best?

Each of the services has their pluses and minuses. If I had to choose one it would be Google Photos for the following reasons:

  • Free
  • Super simple to use
  • Best photo editor
  • Automatically puts tags based on the GPs
  • integrates with the Google platform of applications
  • Did I mention free unlimited storage.

Loaves And Fishes New Products

June is the month to treat yourself on the following new products:

Don’t forget.  Send your favorite fish, lamb, duck or bread recipe  (lennycharnoff@gmail.com) and win a prize from Loaves And Fishes

Skills You Had Before The Internet

Pop Quiz CTL Subscribers. Put on your thinking caps and name a couple of skills you needed before the Internet and having a smartphone in your purse or pocket.

  • Spelling – I can remember being a decent speller. Now I just ask Google or Alexa to spell a word.
  • Arithmetic – With a calculator on every phone you can just type in or better yet just say “Ok Google add these numbers”.
  • Maps- remember looking at a printed map for the directions . If you’re born before 1990 you may have never looked at a physical maps
  • Libraries – This one is very sad for me because libraries and physical book stores were always a wonderful trip for me. Now a student can wait to the very last minute to do their assignments
  • Writing printed (non email)  letters. The image of being a college freshman just flashed in my head. Coming down to the collection of dormitory mailboxes and getting that letter from home was a cherished experience.
  • Typewriters. Taking a typing course in High School was a big bonus in searching for material now.
  • Photo Albums:  The skill of filing has totally been replaced by digital photo albums and tags.

Summary: Although my life style and my ability to find information has greatly improved with the Internet. I think these are some of the down sides that have affected me.

  • My handwriting has deteriorated. I don’t even enjoy writing.
  • I am thoroughly addicted to my smartphone.
  • My patience for listening  is at an all time low.
  • I am too easily distracted.

What skills have you lost since the Internet is so much a part of our lives?

 

2018 Internet Trends Report

Mary Meeker’s report has just been released. Link at the bottom. Here are the highlights.

  • Half the world population, or about 3.6 billion people, will be on the internet.
  • U.S. adults are spending more time online thanks to mobile, clocking 5.9 hours per day in 2017 versus 5.6 hours in 2016.
  • Voice technology is at an inflection point due to speech recognition hitting 95% accuracy and the sales explosion for Amazon Echo which went from over 10 million to over 30 million sold in total by the end of 2017.
  •  Ecommerce growth quickens as now 13% of all retail purchases happen online and parcel shipments are rising swiftly, signaling big opportunities for new shopping apps.
  • Freelancing: Employees crave scheduling and work-from-home flexibility, and internet discovery of freelance work led it to grow 3X faster than total workforce growth. The on-demand workforce grew 23% in 2017 driven by Uber, Airbnb, Etsy, Upwork, and Doordash.

 

Here’s Mary Meeker’s essential 2018 Internet Trends report

 

Loaves And Fishes At Sabatatino’s Gran Feria

Never be disappointed again about running out of quality bread, cakes, seafood, lamb and duck again. It will be as simple as going to the Loaves and Fishes website and arranging next day delivery or pickup at convenient locations in Cuenca www.loavesandfishes.club

 

* Salmon and dorper lamb * Sourdough Bread * Smoked Salmon * French Baguettes * Smoked Trout * Rye Bread * Paiche Amazonian White Fish * Challah * Organic Shrimp * Cakes * Lamb Chops * Brownies * Organic Tilapia * Bialys * Lamb Sausage * Oats & Raisin * Rainbow Trout Ask about next day delivery to your home

Bumba Bazaar May 26th

Saturday May 26th  from 10:00 – 2:00 pm

Take a stroll on the Tomebamba River this Saturday and stop at The Bumba Bazaar and Fair.

14 vendors selling:

Fish
Bakery Goods
Aged Cheese
Goat Cheese
Smoked Provolone
Franco Organico Coffee and Peanuts
King Smokehouse Bacon
Leather Goods
Blueberries
Natural Honey

Mediterranean Products

Bumba Restaurant is located on 3 de Noviembre next to the old Sofy’s location

lennycharnoff@gmail.com
099 122 1238