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Turbulent, Emotional, Challenging, Chaotic, Surprising, Inspiring, Creative are just 7 words I would use to describe the year I have had.
It's been one full of pretty much anything you can imagine, not only has 2012 opened my eyes and my mind to new possibilities and capabilities I never knew I had in myself, it has really set in concrete and the people who are in my life are in it for a reason and all those others who you may have thought were – were simply temporarily there to teach you more about yourself.
It's been hard for me to get over certain events, stresses and struggle, from literally comparing my work life to the movie "The Devil Wear's Prada" and having to walk evil Miranda's dog, being forced to wear her lipstick, put on her shoes and accept that computer issues stemmed from the planet Mars floating overhead. Those events are just small in the scale of things, but somehow the planets aligned and I found what was always inside me explode and vomit its way out. (Not somehow, I think I know exactly how)
This time last year I was on a plane heading over to Berlin, where I spent one amazing Christmas, Budapest where I rebelled on New Years Eve, Estonia where I found inspiration in stone castles, Helsinki where I drank all the wine and felt the coldest winter of my life and Stockholm where words can't even describe the motivation and creativity I took from.
It's pretty safe to say, that trip changed my life. In a big way.
It's funny and something that sounds so simple but meeting people, talking to NEW creative people, sharing ideas and spaces can really help you find yourself and shape where you are headed next.
This time of year always makes me think and assess my life (like I am sure it does most people). I am pretty proud of what I have done and how I have gotten here and am more than excited about what 2013 has for me, though it can be daunting and a real challenge, life is worth every minute of it.
Here are my top 5 suggestions for anyone reading and maybe hitting the 27 / 28 year old bracket of life flipping up-side-down.
1: DO YOGA or SURF or SIT ON A REMOTE BEACH or BE ALONE – seriously, it is so hard to switch our brain off even for 10 minutes a day, I have always found this a struggle with technology and so much on my to-do-list. I'd lie in bed for an hour before I fall asleep just thinking random thoughts. Being alone, or going somewhere that can help you switch off for a minute really aids finding clarity in your mind and determining what you are doing!
2: SPEND TIME WITH PEOPLE WHO INSPIRE YOU – this might sound cliche' but it works, two minds are always better than one and some of my best and most creative friends are people I have met in my mid – late twenties and I wouldn't be doing what I am doing if it weren't for knowing them.
3: DO MORE OF WHAT YOU LOVE – I wish there were enough hours in the day to do everything I love to do all the time! But it's easy to make the time, and really important – keeps you happy.
4: SUBSCRIBE TO THIS AMERICAN LIFE PODCASTS – www.thisamericanlife.org i will let you trust me on this one
5: CRASH THROUGH HURDLES & DON'T CARE WHAT OTHERS THINK – If you have an idea or a dream or a goal, don't focus on the hurdles and the things that are stopping you but crash through them. There is always a way to make things happen, if you really want them to. And more importantly, put yourself first. If we all worried what other people thought then we would never take those leaps and bounds we need to.
And here are a couple things I HIGHLY recommend you take a look into in 2013:
Dumbo Feather Conversation Series - I listened to Mr Chad Dickerson (Etsy CEO) speak at the first of Dumbo's conversation series, that was also a special moment in my life, which I will write about shortly.
The School Of Life - has all of life's answers and is hitting Melbourne Town in Jan 2013!!!
Okay enough of my crazy philosophical rantings! This is the most personal I have ever gotten in a blog post but it's a pretty important one hey.
For now, here are some iphone pics I snapped whilst wandering around Melbourne City the other night. Town hall at the moment is pretty mind blowing, and ya'll know how much I love a good light projection fun!


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Cell phones and other mobile devices are being used to improve vaccine coverage and data collection by a growing number of immunization programs in the Region of the Americas, according to a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) expert on immunization.
Participants in the mHealth meeting noted that there are some important challenges to the use of mobile technologies in immunization. These include the relatively short life of mobile technologies, which can make it difficult to plan and fully implement projects before a given technology becomes obsolete. Others noted that some health care workers may resist adopting new, unfamiliar technologies. Danovaro said that, to address this issue, implementation strategies need to include hands-on, participatory training for those in the field.

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BROOKSVILLE - "In my early youth I was addicted to the use of tobacco and two of its mysteries, smoking and chewing."
On the second day of testimony of John Rizzuto's civil lawsuit against cigarette makers Philip Morris and Liggett Group, defense attorney William Geraghty read from an 1845 letter written by President John Quincy Adams. "I was warned by a medical friend of the pernicious operation of this habit upon the stomach and the nerves ... More than 30 years have passed away since I deliberately renounced the use of tobacco in all its forms ...'' read Geraghty, who represents Philip Morris.
Rizzuto, 66, filed a lawsuit in 2008 against the manufacturers of Marlboro Red and L&M cigarettes - two brands he smoked for about 40 years. Court documents show that even though Rizzuto stopped smoking in 2000, he continues to suffer from "severe" chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder and believes he is still addicted to smoking. His trial started last week.
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Afternoon testimony was devoted to Dr. Domenick Sorresso, a pulmonologist who has treated Rizzuto since 2000.
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Record date: Jan 28, 2011
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I have a question for all you leftists out there: are you stupid, or what?
Here's the reason I ask. Approximately 127 years ago, when I was a young man just starting to make my way in the world, I was approached by a con man with an "investment opportunity." He was plausible and I was, as I say, young, and I began to think of giving him some of my very hard-earned money. Finally, I said, "Okay, let me think it over, talk to my wife, and get back to you." To which the man replied, "Oh, well, sure, if you need your wife's permission…."
On the instant, the scales fell from my eyes and I knew I was being conned. Since my towering virility leaves me impervious to this sort of insinuation, it was immediately plain to me that the only purpose to the man's remark was to get me to stop thinking and give him what he wanted. Why else would he try to make me feel bad about seeking the advice of the crown jewel of my heart, the partner of my fortunes and, let's face it, the smarter half of my marriage?
And yet it seems to me that the twenty or so percent of the American population who see themselves as "liberal" or, in fact, leftist, fall for this sort of con man logic on a daily basis.
Take their hysteria over man-made global warming as a perfect example. After Al Gore's dishonest documentary An Inconvenient Truth started the drumbeat, a liberal friend asked me what I thought of the situation. I told him that I had only just begun to seek out the facts and didn't yet know the truth, inconvenient or otherwise — "But when a man tells me to turn over unprecedented amounts of power and money to him and his kind or the world will end… then tells me I'm like a Holocaust denier if I seek to confirm his facts… then assures me that 'the debate is over,' because there's a 'scientific consensus,' (a wholly meaningless phrase)… well, look, I get suspicious!" My subsequent research confirmed me in the belief that the emergency is a fraud.
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1. Shane
Its an interesting world we live in when we can tell someone (in public, mind you) that he needs to pull his pants up and he calls me a "racist" in response.
March 26, 2012 - 7:53 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
So, the young man in question has, himself, linked a behavior adopted from criminal culture…
…To his race? What does that say about him, or his opinion of his race? =0[.]o=
March 27, 2012 - 12:31 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Honestly, I thought it was just a pitiful excuse of a rebuttal to somehow seem more righteous while continuing to dress like he's supplying the world it's "crack" habit.
March 27, 2012 - 2:52 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Eddie "you can tell 'em I said so" Griffin claims that "saggin is faggin". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J36I0_D0rvE
Of course, he also calls Obama "a puppet on a string", which is decidedly untrue as well, right? [crude language alert] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiCYOr_rmHgMarch 27, 2012 - 8:03 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
2. Ellen
They say a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth has its boots on. These days, the lie leaves behind a substantial portion of the populace to kill the truth and the truthteller as soon as they come out the door to deal with the lie.
March 26, 2012 - 8:11 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
3. ari
well, yes you can stop a revolution by starting another revolution. When single, childless older career women pop up in femininist's own favorite books- as death's heads, and SS troop skulls- then, well, maybe that revolution knows, deep in its dark heart, that it's not the final reich of truth.
Mormon plural wives were being elected to run towns before Seneca Falls. The first female senator in the nation was a plural wife who beat her own husband in the election. The Mormons sent a contingent to Seneca Falls. The theoreticians had no clue about what to do with these poor, oppressed wives who actually, really did run businesses, get elected, vote, read, and play piano.
Not a fan of polygamy, here. But not a fan of clueless theoreticians trying to ignore real wives with interesting lives. The leading light of the feminisist era, then, ended up committing suicide, b/c she felt useless in her old age. The others couldn't even really seem to get married in the first place. or have kids. I'm not sure why people are set to venerate the 1% who cannot function in normal society.
1972 changed the banking laws. That did more about women working than any emotional appeal. More, even, than title 9 sports.
And second, the sexual revolution? I grew up with that- there are CDC researchers writing reports saying "remain chaste until a devoted marriage" based on cootie rates- nothing religious about it. My daughter and sons are being told to wait until marriage based on genital warts alone. Nothing so high-minded as blessings from God- simply avoiding Veruca, salt or otherwise.
March 26, 2012 - 8:32 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
First fight I had with my feminist English teacher was when I raised my hand while she was talking about how women before the 60s couldn't go to college and pointed out that both of my grandmothers had– one was halfway homeschooled (her parents ran a school for the local Indians so they kept their kids in the class, too) and went to college at 17. They also both had careers– that came second to their kids. "Just" newspaper reporter and court stenographer, but they weren't magically shackled at home.
I didn't take well to being called a liar….
March 27, 2012 - 9:41 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Edmund Burke
Dr. Susan Smith McKinney-Steward, New York's first Black Female medical doctor who graduated in 1870 (third in the nation) is buried across the street from me in Brooklyn's Green Wood Cemetery. Three female Black doctors in the five years after the 13th Amendment. Not too shabby. Women's Lib 19th Century Style.
March 27, 2012 - 11:06 am Link to this Comment | Reply
4. Wemedge
Interesting. This tactic, if one can call it that, of those who for the most part identify themselves with the Democratic party is nearly as old as the party itself. I'm reading the brilliant "A. Lincoln"(2010), by Ronald White , one chapter of which gives a quick analysis of the seven Lincoln-Douglas debates. Douglas often responded to lawyer Lincoln's logical ideas honed during his many years practicing his profession, with invective and anger. A quick quote from the book:
"Whenever cornered, Douglas resorted not to ideas, but to aggression… His favorite tactic was to characterize Lincoln as part of the "Black Republicans." He used the term "Black Republicans" thirteen times at Ottawa and eighteen times at Freeport. He also referred to Lincoln's ideas by using the terms "abolition" and "abolitionizing.""
In addition the author says this about Douglas's and Lincoln's respective "strategeries:"
"Whereas Douglas had been pretentious, often demeaning, and sometimes angry, Lincoln appeared comfortable, self-deprecating, and often humorous in his remarks."
All of which is to say that with your brilliant vids you're on to something time-tested and used to great effect by the best political genius we've produced- the most effective response to ad hominum attacks, name-calling, and a refusal to face facts and logic is…laugh at 'em.
I love it.March 26, 2012 - 10:07 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
I agree that is a good lesson. For instance, I always laugh at people who idolize tyrants like Lincoln. And as to why that might be, Thomas Sowell's quote page contains this from Douglass, "Everybody has asked the question… 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!"
March 27, 2012 - 8:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
A true Democrat who understood the ethos of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the USA proposed that black Americans be treated as Americans. To be provided the same advantages as all other Americans who were capable of managing their own affairs. He proposed "benign neglect" based on his reading of the effects of the Great Society specifically on black Americans. Effects that have escalated since the program was initiated. The effects that dare not speak their name.
Babies born to mothers without males anywhere in sight, except when the welfare check is due. Horrendous black unemployment. Fatherless teenage black males getting their male identities via criminal gangs. Fatherless teenage girls getting status by baby after baby with no means of livlihood except welfare. Lifelong and intergenerational dependency on momma/papa government. Loss of self-respect and self-esteem AND the respect and esteem of their progeny who they've failed as adequate and adult role models. These as only the beginning of the damage done to them for their "free lunch".
But even many of them now know nothing is for nothing, nothing is for free. Waking to the nightmare designed for them as dream by those who profess to be democrats and liberals, feel your pain compassionates. As you say, snake-oil salesmen. Many bought their poison. Many still do.
March 28, 2012 - 8:17 am Link to this Comment | Reply
5. slarrow
Very well observed. One of my oldest friends and I got into it last week over global warming. She opened the ball by saying that opponents were Bigfoot hunters and paid shills. Then when I asked her if she could outline the case against global warming that she thought was so wrong, she huffed about being the only person in the discussion with a science degree. Then she demanded that I mention one fact that I would accept that would prove me wrong about climate change, and when I refused to play that game, she took it as evidence that I wasn't open to evidence and that I wouldn't ever change my mind or position.
Here's the kicker, though: I'd never actually stated my position! She just assumed what it was, that it was wrong, and that I was impervious to reason. Classic case of projection. I was really probing to see if she could make a fair argument, and you know, she just couldn't. She couldn't see there might be two sides to the debate. As a result, she was neither persuasive nor persuadable, but she seems to still think she "won" the "fight" instead of failing the test. Clearly she thinks of herself as "liberal, intelligent", and thereby the converse is "conservative, dumb." It's like she's still 17 and wants to prove that she's better than those hicks in the small town she left behind.
So why do she and others like her fall for that garbage? Because they want to, Andrew. Because they want to.
March 26, 2012 - 11:39 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
John J
We must never lose sight of one simple fact:
Every group that makes up the Democrat coalition are, in one way or another, defined by a mental disorder. That's why all the components of today's Democrat party self-identify with some mental or emotional incapacity (as defined by the medical profession before the libs took over the psychiatric branch). They are obsessed with sex; onsessed with wealth; obsessed with power. In short, they are children, with immature, childish notions of what hese concepts actually mean.
By the way, the "appeal to authority", especially in the first person, is a standard Leftist rhetorical feature, debunked by some ancient greek or other, just like every other shibboleth the left uses to "prove" thier arguments! So, who's stupid and uneducated?
Andrew Klavan: hitting the nail on the head, once again. Don"t you ever get tired?March 27, 2012 - 5:16 am Link to this Comment | Reply
6. Marc Malone
"If you feel that the sexual revolution destroyed the American family by giving women power over their reproductive choices, and that power turned daughters and wives… into a bunch of wanton hussies, well, stew over your feelings all you want, but you might as well give up thinking that it is possible to herd us up and drive us back into the kitchen…"
I won!
The science is settled.
Discussion is merely theoretical, because it is already over.
We are Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be absorbed.
These are known in the sales business as "the assumed close". Skip them having to say 'Yes'. Just pretend they did and state that we are in agreement then. If the assumed close did not work, dig back in and make another pitch, then maybe try the assumed close again. It works on a lot of people.
It's not an argument, however; It is a sales pitch. One side is attempting to have a discussion to understand the issue in all its permutations and maybe discover what is the right thing. The other side is trying to win, right or wrong be damned. One has an open mind, and the other has a closed mind. There is no point in discussing things with someone with a closed mind. All you can do is discuss in such a way that you are actually discussing with the audience.
March 26, 2012 - 1:47 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
If a salesman starts assuming that you just said yes, you can just start assuming he promised to give you 80% off in his giant closeout sale. That will change the nature of the discussion mighty quick!
March 27, 2012 - 3:35 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
One side is attempting to have a discussion to understand the issue in all its permutations and maybe discover what is the right thing. The other side is trying to win, right or wrong be damned.
Herein lies the key to determining the "other side's" covert agenda. If all that matters to them is victory, then the goal is whatever victory will bring: in the case of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming, a degree of political power undreamed by all the emperors of old.
Michael Emerling's "Isolating the Issue" technique can be used to separate the deluded-but-sincere from the power-mongers:
FWP: If I could show you objective evidence that what you fear is not happening and not going to happen, would you be willing to alter your position?
OtherSider: No, I don't think so.
FWP:Then there must be something else that matters to you even more than global warming, that you haven't mentioned. Would you mind telling me what it is?A power-monger will often grow red-faced and stomp away. The deluded-but-sincere person will realize he's been caught in a contradiction, after which his true reasons for his stance will sometimes emerge.
March 27, 2012 - 3:50 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Edmund Burke
"Stew over your feelings all you want to . . . " Someone else mentioned the habit of the leftist, non-liberal mind (liberal in the 19th century sense) to project onto their opponents the defects noted first in their own skulls. Leftist trust feelings so they assume conservatives are arguing from feelings rather than something else foreign to them . . . logic. So, the best game is to expose the projection the leftist accuses you of. They pull out the race card — show how the destruction of the Black and minority family, and the destruction of the dollar on which welfare folks rely on a very fixed budget with no hope of advancement absent self-improvement (a conservative trope) is racist to its core, and solely a leftist plot to keep the minorities down, stupid and dependent so they keep voting for the leftists. They are the racists not you.
Anti-feminist? The leftists are responsible for the missing 151,000,000 female babies mostly missing from China and India, which has got to be a presecription for aggressive war in mobilizing the millions of unattached men who will never get married. (Study the plot of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" which is an allegory of the civilizing influence of women). Who are the clever anti-feminists and secret war mongers now?
Oppose the authority of Montesqui and the Founding Fathers with Alinsky and the lesser lights that followed him? Who is anti-authoritarian now?
You can keep this game up all day long with the "feel-good" projectors of the left who will always accuse you of what they most fear in their own heart, that is lurking there to be exposed. But warning. Don't expect to convince them or to persuade them that you are their friend. But its good for a belly laugh or two, or maybe an exploding skull or two ala "Scanners."
March 27, 2012 - 11:33 am Link to this Comment | Reply
7. Ansonia
I wish I could remember in which essay C. S. Lewis described going to a library for some very old (centuries old) book that had been read by anyone who could read in its day. By Lewis's day, the book was considered so lewd, special authorization from a professor was required in order for a student to be able to borrow it. Lewis's point, I think, was that we imagine societies only become more unrestrained about, say, sexuality because most of us don't really know very much about the history of our civilization.
If it is true (and I don't claim to know) that there were times in the past 2012 years of western history when marriage, family, chastity and true piety, were no more valued than they are today, and other times, in the same place, when the same 4 things were greatly respected, then Ms Patchett's use of the word "back" is, at best, silly.March 26, 2012 - 9:44 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
8. zeprin
50% Stupid.
50% Or What (evil/exploitative/conniving…)
You pretty well covered it. With the Libs, half don't want to think. And the other half wants to think for EVERYBODY.March 26, 2012 - 11:39 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
9. john lynch
I'm always skeptical of any problem that requires the same solution as the last problem.
Overpopulation? Reduce consumption and more government regulation.
Global cooling? Reduce consumption and more government regulation.
Peak oil? Reduce consumption and more government regulation.
Global Warming? Reduce consumption and more government regulation.
?????? Reduce…
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Even though they insist consumption drives the economy.
March 29, 2012 - 11:36 am Link to this Comment | Reply
10. alzaebo
They are to be addressed as 'your betters'.
It's posturing for an imagined audience.
Nothing to do with 'facts', intelligence, or integrity.Tony Soprano is neither an English professor nor a CPA,
but he can still demand anything he wants from you!When are conservatives going to address the real issue-
that liberals are, and must be, always on top.March 27, 2012 - 12:41 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
11. alzaebo
You're not listening, conservatives.
You're not addressing their needs.March 27, 2012 - 12:43 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
I can address their needs…
It looks like a 2 X 4 and is laid upside a liberal's skull…
Not to kill them mind you, but to beat some sense into them…
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You can not beat sense into a person. But, you can knock the ignorance right out of them.
March 29, 2012 - 11:39 am Link to this Comment | Reply
12. alex
Societies move in cycles, they always have and always will. It is a pendulum that swings from liberal to conservative over and over, intra – generational and for thousands of years in our past. We can read complaints about promiscuity in Sumerian texts thousands of years old, or read about puritan lifestyles a few hundred years ago, or the many swings in our own culture just the last hundred years.
If you don't like your society, just wait a few years.
March 27, 2012 - 1:03 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
A hint about one of the things that drives these cycles: STD's or venereal diseases — has widespread chastity made them relatively uncommon or medical science recently learned how to cure most of them? Or has widespread promiscuity made them relatively common instead and medical science have trouble dealing with the newest ones?
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No, societies do not move in cycles. The Victorian state sponsored moves against sexuality were part of women's emancipation and the destruction of marriage, predecessors of today's date rape and sexual harassment legislation.
In the victorian era, they said that they could smash patriarchy without smashing marriage and family because women are naturally chaste, and if they are not, we will mold them to be. Today, they say that smashing marriage and the family is a good thing.
The last time society moved rightwards was when Monck and Charles the second purged the leftists from government. Ever since then, it has been a an ever leftwards movement. Sometimes, as in the Victorian era, leftwards meant more puritan, sometimes less, whatever served its agenda.
Trees do not grow to the sky, but they grow till they fall. The most probable source of a rightwards move is foreign conquest, perhaps by Islam. The only internal source of a rightwards move would be a white nationalist coup, but this does not look very probable, or state collapse, followed by some mixture of warlordism, anarcho piratism, and anarcho capitalism.
March 27, 2012 - 1:19 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
13. still shrugging
brilliant Andrew – love the way you tell it like it is about these lefticons and their minions (millions?)of useful idiots. Now if we can just clean out the righticon pretenders, we might give our children and fighting chance for the future (return of a past, if you will)
March 27, 2012 - 3:59 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
I don't think they're really "useful idiots" anymore. They're either "reliable idiots" or, in the case of the media "go to idiots" (as in "who's my go to idiot on the economy").
March 27, 2012 - 5:49 am Link to this Comment | Reply
14. From MN
I love your video, Andrew. Thanks for not "shutting up."
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15. johnt
Why think, call names. The leftist will feel better and not have to examine the failure of Obama/Democrat policies, now in their fourth year. It has taken the place of religion to these poor boobs, it's impossible for them to admit error. And it's only going to get worse.
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17. Mark Plus
It must annoy progressives to no end that American culture has generated decentralized resistance to progressive social engineering, mainly through the conservative churches, but to a lesser extent through the folk libertarianism inspired by the pulp novels of Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein. This phenomenon shouldn't surprise anyone with a sense of how organic societies work; they have homeostatic mechanisms which act to counter deviations from long-term trends, especially the deviations imposed by central planners.
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Interesting you should mention Rand.
Especially considering Andrew's column here. He's talking about what Rand called "the argument from moral intimidation." That is, where one replaces an argument with a moral judgment, in an attempt to shut down argument. But, what is most interesting is, you will find her explanation of this in a book titled "The Virtue Of selfishness." A book about ethics. Which contains in its INTRODUCTION, a prime example of this phenomenon, or technique. You see, if one is intrigued by this title, and might honestly wonder why someone would claim selfishness as a virtue, you will read, just asking a question like that makes you a coward. And if after that, you go ahead and read this book anyway (because you thought that was funny, so did not apply to you), you might eventually discover the whole Objectivitist philosophy was founded by a moral fraud. Which you should have known.
Just like Andrew also said.
March 29, 2012 - 12:45 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
18. Laura Rose
Who is trying to take away their pills and send them back to the kitchen? These ladies are paranoid to the max. Some of us choose to be in the kitchen with a baby on our hip and are thankful to have the opportunity. Otherwise a majority of women work because they have to not because they want to (I would not think twice if I had to go back to work to make money to feed my family) and would be happy if they had the opportunity to spend their days taking care of their own children instead if shipping them off to strangers every day. Then coming home each day to another full time job of domestic resbonsibilities (which will always exist and need to be done no matter how it is divied up). woman who wrote that article and most of her fellow feminists are part of a very small elite minority who have fulfilling careers rather than necessity jobs. Also many of them do not have children, so do not understand the strong internal desire to nurture your children. It is that small minority who claims to speak for all women and dictate that we pursue a path outside the nurturing of our families.
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Laura Rose
We don't want to take away their pills and send them back to the kitchen, we want them to stop monopolizing the narrative. They can speak for themselves but don't claim to speak for all of womankind. Let us choose our own heroes instead of choosing them for us. I'll take Ann Romney over Hillary Clinton any day as a role model for my daughter.
March 27, 2012 - 8:58 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Mark v
Would you take Hilary Clinton as a role model for your son?
March 28, 2012 - 9:30 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Mark v
These ladies are paranoid to the max.
Why do you call them, "ladies"? I see no evidence of this. It cheapens that honorarium to throw it around willy-nilly at every adult female. It is a title that should be earned.
part of a very small elite minority who have fulfilling careers rather than necessity jobs
I suspect that very few of them, in the deepest secrets of their hearts, are feeling fulfilled. This is part of their anger.
many of them do not have children, so do not understand the strong internal desire to nurture your children.
No, they don't understand it as fully as a mother does, but they do feel it – it's hardwired in. They fight it, they pretend it doesn't matter, they pretend they don't feel it. This, too, is part of their anger.
March 28, 2012 - 9:40 am Link to this Comment | Reply
19. Jim Baker
The Communist mantra: Whoever makes the most noise, wins. Control the dialog with noise, if necessary. Nice discussion, Andrew, on a subject the opposition would love to see Republicans worrying about. We have taken the bait if we even acknowledge this leftist drivel about female reproductive rights. The actual issue is our freedom to control our own lives, and we had better make the most noise this time around. ABO2012
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No, it's not about who makes the most noise wins.
It's who counts the votes….
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20. Ansonia
Ann Patchett : "Here's the thing about revolutions– there is no taking them back."
That's also the thing about house fires, mob violence, years of active alcoholism. Afterwards, there may be repentance, reform and rebuilding, but people do have to deal with the wreckage.
Ann Patchett : "….you might as well give up thinking that it's possible to herd us up and drive us back into the kitchen—which, depending on how many revolutions have offended you, might be a kitchen with a washboard and a cake of soap or a smoke house featuring a picture of King George."
I don't imagine many colonial families could afford family portraits, let alone portraits of King George. But even if some indignant (and wealthy) patriots did put the King's portrait in the smoke house, how is our 50 years of drift toward an irresponsible, parasitic, tyrannical kind of sexuality comparable to the American Revolution? Next she'll be telling us Patrick Henery really meant : "If it feels good, do it. And make others pay for the equipment and consequences."
I don't care who is having wanton sex. I'm galled by the idea of being forced to subsidize killing human life with abortifactants. Patchett, for some reason, can't see the decency in not forcing people to be a part of what they believe is wrong.
I wonder what she would have told Henry David Thoreau to do regarding his quams of conscience about paying tax money used to hunt escaped slaves. Oh— I know : " Make a list of all the other troubling ways your tax dollars are spent."
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21. PacRim Jim
Why do you suppose that the Democrat-controlled teachers' unions have been dumbing down American children for decades? So that they will lack critical reasoning, and thus will be unable to detect the con.
It's going to take a major disaster to get the attention of most Americans, and even then, Democrats will blame Republicans and promote themselves as saviors.
The big lie. Many people believe what they want to believe.
Republicans not only must struggle against Democrats, but against human nature.March 28, 2012 - 2:16 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
22. Andrew
How is, "Are you stupid… or what?" not an ad hominem attack?
Why do you then go on to dismiss such attacks, when your article is bracketed by them?
Why is "Scientific consensus" a "meaningless phrase?" Based on your advice, just taking your word for it seems a little, well, stupid.
Your whole article is full of patronising, vague generalities, glib platitudes and a wholly spurious attitude of reasonableness. You in fact come across as as much of a con-man as the fellow you describe at the start of your little screed.March 28, 2012 - 5:46 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Andrew Klavan
Hi. Perhaps I should have explained this. "Scientific consensus" is a meaningless phrase because science isn't established by consensus. It's a remark of precisely the same order as "a consensus that the Patriots won the Super Bowl," regardless of whether or not the Giants scored more points. Scientists may reach a consensus for any number of reasons — methods of funding may make one conclusion more attractive than another, exclusion of those with outlying opinions may leave only those who agree, passion, political opinions, corruption… The odds that they would reach "scientific consensus," — i.e. universal agreement due to theories repeatedly confirmed by independent, controlled experiments — on a long-term computer projection of a highly complex system, are so small as to be negligible. What's more, if they did reach such a consensus, and if that consensus meant "the debate was over," – i.e. that science could no longer be done – it would no longer be scientific.
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Mark v
Once again, the left demonstrates their inability to comprehend humor.
It's really kind of stupid.
March 28, 2012 - 9:43 am Link to this Comment | Reply
No, they are not stupid at all.
Liberalism – and it's fellow ideologies (communism, nazism, anarchism, etc) – are all based on coercion, on force, in an attempt to compel others to behave and think as those who are engaging in the coercion.
Those that engage in this coercion are typically those who believe they are intellectually or socially superior to the ignorant "masses," (who they hold in contempt) or those who are basically unhappy and totally frustrated with their miserable existence and blame others for their miserable lives.
In either case, by forcing others to do as they wish, they can assuage their feelings of (self)contempt and frustration.
It is no different at all than a school yard bully beating the crap out of the other kids ; it simply makes him/her feel better. It alleviates the pain they have because they feel – for whatever reason – inferior or frustrated. So, take it out on someone else because it provides, for a brief period, a sense of accomplishment and success.
Of course, some "liberals" seek to coerce others also to enrich themselves – think Al Gore – a guy who was "invented," and placed in a powerful position by his rich and powerful father, Al Gore senior. So, Al Gore Jr. lives every day knowing he is a total fraud, a fake, a charlatan, a ZERO; because his father "made" Al Gore Jr.
Liberals are hateful, frustrated, very angry individuals; they are like 2 year olds denied a cookie. They are little children in adult bodies.March 28, 2012 - 2:18 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
24. P Jones
It is beginning to be obvious that normal people are spending too much time trying to understand liberals, and way too much time trying to have discussions with them. And, forget negotiating serious issues with them because the required compromise will allow them to have a lien on your property.
Now, I admit that we have to be aware that liberals exist, so that they don't slip something in the drinking water, but we must stop trying to take them serious as people–it is not clear yet if any of them will actually become people eventually. And, I will also admit that the conditions of the past few years has heightened my senses to stay aware of danger in other people–similar to the improved hearing you get knowing there may be a rattlesnake under the porch.
But, I would really, really like to see a gathering of normal people taking charge of the nation's affairs so that I can get back to trying to work and produce something, without the wacky ideas of the little people–liberals.
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25. Ceteris Paribus
Funny how criticism of the Progressive Republican con man Romney has drawn the exact same responses Klavan describes for the exact same reasons. People, do not assume that all hard-core leftism comes from Democrat con men.
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26. Ceteris Paribus
One of the main signs of a con is the need for speed. We are all being pushed into a con of a Republican primary by being told that we need to decide now!
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27. Debbies21
Liberals fall time and time for global warming, war on poverty etc because as rush has pointed out liberals want to be known for their good intentions, not the consequences or results of their intentions.
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28. Hardy
I think it worth mentioning, that our educational system today is dedicated to conditioning children to automatically categorize people based upon the use of certain phrases and/or words. By so doing, they compromise the messenger and thereby destroy the message before it is ever presented. A poor education combined with social conditioning result in an individual who is simply clueless.
So, in effect, the message is never hear. Pro-life, Conservative, Republican, etc, are all easy examples. To criticize the dress of gang bangers, question the result of affirmative action, marriage for gays, etc, all result in immediate categorization as not relevant. Consider yourself a racist, homophobe, or ignorant. Facts are irrelevant.
I just finished reading "Witness" by Whittaker Chambers. (Something I had been putting off for years) When I look at the players on the scene today who are tearing this country apart, it is amazing how little has really changed.
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Budimir, Djuradj and Goussetis, George (2003) Design of asymmetrical RF and microwave bandpass filters by computer optimization. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 51 (4, par). pp. 1174-1178. ISSN 0018-9480
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This paper presents an optimization-based approach to the design of asymmetrical filter structures having the maximum number of return- or insertion-loss ripples in the passband such as those based upon Chebyshev function prototypes. The proposed approach has the following advantages over the general purpose optimization techniques adopted previously such as: less frequency sampling is required, optimization is carried out with respect to the Chebyshev (or minimax) criterion, the problem of local minima does not arise, and optimization is usually only required for the passband. When implemented around an accurate circuit simulation, the method can be used to include all the effects of discontinuities, junctions, fringing, etc. to reduce the amount of tuning required in the final filter. The design of asymmetrical ridged-waveguide bandpass filters is considered as an example. Measurements on a fabricated filter confirm the accuracy of the design procedure.
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | CAD, Chebyshev filters, UHF filters, band-pass filters, electrical engineering computing, microwave filters, optimisation, passive filters, ridge waveguides, waveguide filters, Chebyshev criterion, Chebyshev function prototypes, asymmetrical RF bandpass filters, circuit simulation, computer optimization, design procedure, discontinuities, fringing, junctions, microwave bandpass filters, minimax criterion, rectangular waveguide, ridged waveguide filters |
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"I love this time of the year at the factory. Theres a real buzz surrounding the new car, every single department is working flat out in order to have everything ready on time. You can really feel peoples dedication and its nice to be a part of it.
Although hed briefly sat in a cockpit when he visited his new employer last, Raikkonens Thursday seat fitting was the first time hed properly got behind the wheel of a Formula One machine since bidding adieu to his Ferrari at 2009s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
The last time I was at Enstone I quickly jumped into a seat, but this is indeed the first time I have properly sat in an F1 car with a helmet on since the last race of 2009, he explained. It felt a bit odd at first because the cockpit seems a bit small, but thats normal.
"Its just like in the past when I have done seat fittings - it feels a bit strange when you first step into the car but you quickly adjust. You spend so much time sitting in the car so the position is really crucial, it needs to be 100 percent right.
"Id rather spend a lot of time getting it right at this time of the year because there are many races in the season and you sit behind the wheel a lot. Getting it right the first time is imperative. It will be nice to get back to racing.
Raikkonen, and new team mate Romain Grosjean, are expected to begin testing at the opening session of the winter schedule, which will take place at the Spanish circuit of Jerez from February 7-9.
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The project I'm working on is selling. Which is done through the notion of a vending machine.
There are two products being sold 1. The font/typeface 2. Product packaging
My first solution to approach this concept, is to have a vending machine that stores Discs, where fonts/typefaces were sold on "floppy disks" by such foundries as FontShop during the late 80s to early 90s. However with previous talks with my lecturer Discs have become very obsolete in this day of age.
The approach is finding another way of storing theses fonts, is to make a Font USB stick. Allowing you to store the font and still have future use by the consumer.
The vending machine which stores theses fonts will be sold in shops such as Magma bookstore where people with good income would buy fonts as Magma being a store to sell design books.
Fonts and Typefaces are sold today online by via payable methods.
Through some research on Typohile.com font foundries that are selling fonts are have new ways of giving customers fonts without files like OTF TTF due to illegal font sharing… This has put some designers off from buying fonts online. This is were the idea of selling fonts in shops can allow more designers purchase fonts over the counter by cash or card.
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The vending machine is more of an installation to create its awareness and done at a gallery on limited days of the year or at typography exhibitions.
1) Do you think more people would interested in buying a font in the shops? rather then online?
2) Who are your target audience? And the age group of people buying fonts on your website?
3) If there was a product that stored your fonts like 'Type USB stick' and can sold by your website and online - would you be interested in investing in that product?(example a fontfoundry USB)
4) What illegal ways do have on cracking down on font sharing? As I know most font foundries are programming fonts to certain amount of computers and some needing licensing.
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All attempts at copy protection or other digital rights management with fonts have met not only with customer resistance, but with technical hurdles sufficient to make the product unusable.
A market exists for font sales in stores on physical media, but those tend to be home and general office users, not designers.
I do believe there is a market for designer novelty USB memory units. Memory devices in the shape of cartoon characters are already widespread, so I see no reason why other designs wouldn't be accepted as well.
Demand for your product may not be sufficient for a dedicated single-product vending machine, but they may fit well along side other high-end devices in machines such as those in airports and hotels that sell iPods and such.
The above are all anecdotal assertions. The experience of others may vary and objective data may not bear them out.
I've always liked the idea of one-shot retail fonts. As a kid, I'd drool over the Letraset/DecaDry/Mecanorma dry transfer sheets. I'd occaisonally buy one even tho I had no real use for it. Rather than delivering the fonts on physical media, the font could be delivered thru a unique URL inside the package. Nothing fancy, just a folded card glued shut. The outside of the package could be a sort of album cover, like the square flags on MyFonts perhaps with a specimen on the flip side. That way the buyer isn't saddled with another undersized USB stick in the back of a desk drawer.
A great advantage of selling fonts this way is that it opens the doors to a whole new group of font users. Font enjoyers who lack the knowhow to pirate fonts othe web can simply shoplift them the old-fashioned way. Everybody wins!
Thank you Cuttlefish & Typodermic, for those great insights.
Cuttlefish: I know I couldn't store the physical font or typeface on the USB due to the 'EULA' - However I could have a code that allows the buyer to download the font or typeface from the type foundries.
Typodermic: I did come up the CD packaging for fonts, which the packging for CD covers would look like the food packets you get in a vending machine(see attached 'Mock-Up.jpg') That idea changed with one to one crits with my lecturer. The reason I went for USB sticks is, they can have this use of being re-used over and over again by the buyer. My idea of selling them could be done limited edition at a typography exhibition. That way its being sold to my market who are at that respectable age, of not going into the shop to five finger discount.
The download codes could be unique and a limited run. Even if it's on a USB stick, someone can backup the font and ditch the stick.
Check out the old Letraset, Deca-Dry packages or some of other 1/4 page dry transfer lettering. The kind that hangs on a display peg instead of lays flat in a drawer. The alphabet was always visible through the cellophane. I used to look at my collection of dry transfer lettering sheets and think, "what can I put these on?". Those weren't fonts that I bought, they were packages of letters.
Firstly, I think that this is an interesting idea in itself. I am not sure how it would work, or how weel. Most people just buy them and download them, also creating a backup. The one thing that I find annoying is using multiple fonts. I have enough trouble with USB ports. Somehow, putting multiple font sticks into my computer would not make things easier on me.
That stated, there is another here that you are overlooking, I think. What about selling USB sticks in the shape of fonts, like you have posted? Personally, I'm always looking for new sticks myself. I'm in the market right now, because I want something bigger than my old 8gb. But, my trouble has always been that they are not very exciting. Oh, I've found a few that aren't plain, but they cost an arm and a leg.
Just another way to work this, in my opinion. ;)


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Campaign Official Pleads Guilty to Charges For Activities Involving 2010 District of Columbia Mayoral Election
Admits Obstructing Justice by Destroying Documents,
Making False Statements to FBI
WASHINGTON - Thomas W. Gore, the former assistant treasurer for a District of Columbia mayoral campaign, pled guilty today to obstruction of justice and other charges stemming from his activities involving the 2010 election, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office.
Gore, 56, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count of obstructing justice by destroying records in a federal investigation and three counts of making a campaign contribution in the name of another person. He appeared before the Honorable Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.
No sentencing date was set. The obstruction of justice charge carries up to 20 years in prison, as well as potential fines. Each of the local campaign finance violations carries a maximum sentence of six months of incarceration and fines. Under federal sentencing guidelines, the parties have agreed that the applicable sentencing range would be 12 to 18 months in prison and a possible fine of $3,000 to $30,000.
Gore, who remains free pending sentencing, has agreed to cooperate in a continuing investigation into the activities surrounding the election campaign.
According to a statement of offense signed by the government as well as the defendant, Gore worked for one of the candidates who was challenging incumbent Mayor Adrian M. Fenty in the 2010 campaign. Today's guilty plea involves activities tied to his work on the campaign of that candidate, who is identified in the court documents as "Candidate A," and Gore's dealings with another of Mr. Fenty's rivals, who is identified in the documents as "Candidate B."
"In 2010, the voters of the District of Columbia were deceived," said U.S. Attorney Machen. "Envelopes stuffed with fraudulent money orders prevented the public from knowing that one mayoral campaign was secretly financing the campaign of an opposing candidate. This prosecution demonstrates how hard it is to bury the truth forever and reflects our commitment to ensuring that the people of the District of Columbia get the fair and transparent electoral system that they deserve."
"Citizens are entitled to a government free of fraud and corruption, and the FBI will investigate all allegations of illegal conduct that undermines fair and free elections," said Assistant Director in Charge McJunkin. "We remain vigilant in investigating such abuse to identify those involved and to hold them accountable for their unscrupulous actions."
Beginning in the spring of 2010, and continuing through the November 2010 general election, Gore was the assistant treasurer for the campaign of "Candidate A." He handled the day-to-day finances of the campaign and was a member of its treasury team.
In an effort to advance the candidacy of "Candidate A," Gore secretly diverted funds from the campaign of "Candidate A" to "Candidate B." He did so in order to keep "Candidate B" in the mayoral race, and so "Candidate B" would continue his verbal attacks on then-Mayor Fenty.
These activities began in or around June 2010, after Gore and a second person who worked on the campaign for "Candidate A" discussed the plan to secretly divert funds to "Candidate B."
Gore provided this second person with money orders, which had been purchased with excessive or unattributed cash contributions to the campaign of "Candidate A." The second person and others, in agreement with Gore, filled in the names of real persons who had not contributed these funds in the purchaser lines of these money orders.
The statement of offense details a total of five such money orders in June and July of 2010, totaling $660, that Gore provided to the second campaign worker for "Candidate A" to give to "Candidate B."
Gore kept a record of these funds, noting the amounts provided, in a spiral notebook.
"Candidate B" subsequently reported the receipt of the money orders, in the names of the purported purchasers, as individual contributions he received, listing them in reports to the District of Columbia's Office of Campaign Finance of the Board of Elections and Ethics.
The campaign finance charges stem from Gore's handling of the money orders.
The obstruction charge involves actions taken by Gore months after the election. On March 6, 2011, allegations by "Candidate B" about the campaign of "Candidate A" appeared in the news media. In these reports, "Candidate B" alleged that, during the 2010 campaign, he had been promised a job in a future "Candidate A" administration. In addition, "Candidate B" said that he received payments from two members of the campaign for "Candidate A" in return for staying in the mayoral race and continuing to attack Mr. Fenty.
On March 9, 2011, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia issued a public statement that the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI were assessing the allegations made by "Candidate B." Throughout the rest of 2011, agents from the FBI interviewed witnesses and collected documents related to the allegations.
Shortly after "Candidate B's" allegations became public, Gore shredded the spiral notebook in which he had kept a record of payments to "Candidate B." He did so because he knew that secretly diverting contributions from the campaign for "Candidate A" to the campaign for "Candidate B" was unlawful and he did not want law enforcement to discover the activity.
In addition, during an interview with the FBI on October 13, 2011, Gore made a number of false statements about the spiral notebook and the records that he kept.
In announcing the plea, U.S. Attorney Machen and Assistant Director in Charge McJunkin commended the work of those who investigated the case for the FBI.
They also expressed appreciation to Criminal Investigators Matthew Kutz, Mark Crawford, and Melissa Matthews; Paralegal Specialists Tasha Harris, Shanna Hays, Sylvester Brown, and Diane Hayes, and former Legal Assistant Jared Forney, all of the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Finally, they acknowledged the work of Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ellen Chubin Epstein and Mary Chris Dobbie, who are investigating and prosecuting this matter.


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Keeping customers happy is Lothian dairy farmer's main priority
THE portfolio of products at Bonaly Farm Dairy come with guaranteed provenance and pedigree quality, and a willingness by Donald Laird to go that extra Lothian mile - come rain, hail or shine. Erika Hay reports.
Cutting out the middle man has made dairying an enjoyable business for Donald Laird. Although now the Lothian farmer spends most of his time in the office, he is quick to admit he misses the day-to-day life of being a dairy farmer.
Donald milks 130 pedigree Holsteins at Murrays Farm in Pathhead, where all the milk is processed, bottled and sold through his dairy on the outskirts of Edinburgh, which handles up to 40,000 litres per day.
He is very modest about the successful business he runs today, but the story started 40 years ago when the Cauldcoats herd was kept on a farm of the same name just outside Edinburgh.
Some of the land was sold to build a new hospital and so he bought the 133-hectare (330-acre) unit he runs today on which he keeps all the cows and grows some grain. Joining this are another two farms within a 10-mile radius where he grows barley and wheat.
The combination of dairy and arable works well together with the cows kept in straw bedded courts instead of cubicles, some of the wheat is retained for their rations and the dung and slurry put back on the land saves Donald £50-£75 per hectare (£20-£30/acre) on fertiliser costs.
- 130 pedigree Holsteins milkers
- Herd averages 10,000 litres per cow
- 40,000 litres per day is processed
- 3,500 litres of milk comes from the herd, the rest is sourced from local farms
- 4.3 per cent butterfat and n 3.3 per cent protein
- £3 million investment
- £20-30/acre saved on fertiliser costs
- 20 lorries
- 50 staff
The herd averages more than 10,000 litres per cow at 4.3 per cent butterfat and 3.3 per cent protein, and has been selectively bred to produce high butterfat levels. This, says Donald, is crucial to the profitability of the business.
"When it comes to processing, the cream is where the money is made," he says.
Well-known on the show circuit, Cauldcoats Holsteins have won the Highland Show several times and have been showing there for more than 50 years. Initially this was under Donald's father, James, who won the championship three times in a row in the 1970s, and then under Donald and his herd manager Gavin Redpath.
Donald has invested heavily in the herd over the years, spending up to £20,000 on heifers with the right Canadian bloodlines, which complement his herd and keep the milk quality high without compromising yield.
Some of the best breeders have been Twilight Midnight Electrix and Boalcrest Councillor Camilla, bought from Canada. The most successful of the home-bred lines are Cauldcoats Colona and Cauldcoats Elizabeth, which go back to some of the original cows in the herd.
"Only about 50 per cent is down to genetics however, the rest is about feeding and caring for the cows," says Donald.
He takes three cuts of silage and keeps the highest dry matter crop for the milking cows, which he buffer feeds with a combination of silage, whole-crop and a dairy blend all year round, despite the herd being at grass during the summer.
When the herd moved to Pathhead, Donald started supplying local Fairfield Dairy with his milk. He, along with another farmer, provided 4,000 litres per day for Fairfield which sold bottled milk and cream, and in 1998 when the dairy came up for sale, Donald jumped at the chance to buy it.
"I thought as I produced milk I may as well take it from the cows right through to the consumer."
Three years later the chance came to buy Bonaly Farm Dairy, where he remains today. Built on the site of the old Bilston Glen Colliery, it is ideally situated to provide milk to shops, hotels and restaurants in Edinburgh and the local Lothians.
Although Bonaly was a concern when he bought it, he transferred some of the processing machinery from Fairfield and increased production to around 8,000 litres per day.
Over the last 10 years the business has continued to expand. With investment totalling aro-und £3 million including updating production lines from glass bottles and cartons to plastic, the dairy is now nearly at capacity, handling 40,000 litres of milk per day, six days per week.
Around 3,500 litres of milk comes from his own farm and the rest from local farms. Any shortage is made up by First Milk, but is still sourced locally.
"All the milk comes from a 10-mile radius and our customers like to know the provenance of their milk and dairy products and that they are supporting local farmers," he says.
Whole, skimmed and semi-skimmed milk, plus double, whipping and single cream are all produced at the factory while yogurt, butter and cheese are bought in to supply customers. There is a huge customer base in the surrounding area with most of the milk going to local shops, hotels and restaurants.
Along with a tanker to collect the milk there are a further 20 lorries, which are on the go more or less 24 hours each day delivering the product. In fact, Donald now employs around 50 staff from production workers, office staff, lorry drivers plus two salesmen.
"Next to buying the milk, my biggest outgoing is wages."
The price he pays his suppliers is in line with the big processors, but he pays a flat rate throughout the year. "The bonuses and penalties set by the big companies are made to look as though they are paying the farmer more money, but there is usually a catch and it is the processor who becomes more profitable. My customers are happy with a flat rate.
- The arable side of the business is based on growing winter wheat and malting barley
- This year Donald tried 16 hectares (40 acres) of a new low nitrogen variety of malting barley, Moonshine, which yielded 6.1t/ha (2.5t/acre) and sold at £205/t on the spot market
- 36ha (90 acres) of Makof, is also grown which is a high N variety that yielded 7.4/ha (3t/acre) and sold at £205 per tonne
- 36ha (90 acres) of spring malting barley Toucan is grown
- Another high N variety also yielded 7.4t/ha (3t/acre) but was sold on contract at £170/tonne
- 56ha (140 acres) of Alchemy winter wheat yielded 8.6t/ha (3.5t/acre). Most is used for the dairy herd and the remainder sold
Profit from cream
"The profit in processing milk is just one pence per litre, but cream is where money is to be made. This is why I want to keep the butterfat levels up on the herd - the more cream which can be skimmed off the milk, the more profitable the dairy becomes. While milk is around 50p per litre, cream is £2 per litre."
Industry guidelines say whole milk must contain at least 3.5 per cent butterfat and semi-skimmed 1.5-1.8 per cent.
"The big processors skim all the cream off and add back in the minimum. We sell our whole milk the way it comes into the dairy and only skim to the required level for the semi-skimmed. We get lots of feedback from our customers saying our milk tastes so much better than supermarket milk."
Customer feedback is one of the reasons Donald enjoys having the dairy so much. "We have built the business on providing good service and a quality product and that is how we have been able to expand, and because our customers are local, we save on costs such as diesel."
There have been many exa-mples when locality has worked in their favour and customers and suppliers appreciated the closeness of their working relationships. Last winter Donald was still able to both collect milk and deliver milk despite more than a foot of snow in Edinburgh and the surrounding area.
Bonaly is the only surviving small dairy in Edinburgh and that does not surprise Donald. "When I first came here there were about six small dairies round the city but the red tape and bureaucracy has killed them off."
He describes the record keeping and paperwork as excessive and expensive. The dairy is in a quality assurance scheme in order to provide milk to schools, but he has to pay £1,700 for this and someone comes and spends two days checking paperwork.
Another example of seemingly needless paperwork is for the Intervention Board. There has been no intervention for milk for years, but Donald still has to keep every tanker ticket for three years and two people come from the board once-a-year and randomly check the tanker tickets against the production on any one day.
"I have a number of data loggers which have to be used and records kept to prove the milk is never more than 5degC, yet the milk delivered to my doorstep customers can be in the sun all day while they are out at work."
It is this insight into the other side of the business which most farmers do not see and Donald enjoys. "I can see the industry from both perspectives, but from my point of view, keeping my suppliers and customers happy is what matters most."
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What in the world........ Sorry to see you're having such a bad day,thankfully you don't have many! Really wasteful,odd idea,really beneath you.
I have a few buttons but not this many. You can also add other related objects! Thanks for the idea!
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