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A recent story on public radio talked about the logistics of pursuing smugglers of coveted black rhino horns. The officer interviewed made the point that the discoveries made in this case also helped uncover smugglers of guns, drugs, and even human traffickers. His point was that the skills needed to bring in the banned aphrodisiac were applicable to smuggling all sorts of things.
In 2014, Uber, the logistics app that facilitates a new type of taxi and limo service, moved into different areas too. The company introduced UberRush, a courier service designed to move stuff instead of people. According to The Washington Post, "The same back-end technology that Uber has built to track drivers and connect them to riders can easily be used to order and follow deliveries. All that changes is the cargo on board and the mode of transportation, a detail around which the company is becoming increasingly agnostic."
Back in 2004 when IBM made their momentous shift from equipment sales to software and systems consulting, it capitalized on the protocols and practices it had constructed to run its previous business model. These proprietary programs became the foundation of what has since become a global business with over $22 billion in revenue. What's more, the new model provides IBM with both higher-margin recurring revenue and reduced volatility.
So what do black rhino horns, Uber's logistics, IBM, and your business have in common? Quite simply, you're sitting on a gold mine of proven protocols that are both marketable and monetizable. The programs and procedures that you have created over the years are exactly what other businesses are looking for.
37 Signals, the creator of Basecamp, was a web design company founded in 1999. But in mid-2004 the company's focus shifted from web design to web application development when they found a significant market for the management software they created to run their own business. The transition was so successful that 37 Signals changed their company name to Basecamp (their first product) to focus entirely on their flagship.
Many successful speakers in the National Speakers Association, from Mikki Williams to Lou Heckler to Patricia Fripp to Doug Stevenson, have taken the things they've learned over their years on the platform and turned them into valuable programs for all the people who want to succeed in the speaking business. Some of their programs teach stage skills, some teach business logistics, and still others are about marketing and promotion. But while all of them are simply a reutilization of proven programs that the practitioners have already used to build their own businesses, each has produced new business opportunities and new revenue streams for their creators – sometimes rivaling or even surpassing the success of the original business they're cribbed from.
The Washington Post says, "Uber foresees – as Amazon and eBay do, too – that the next growth opportunity in a shifting economy isn't facilitating digital marketplaces: it's moving physical stuff. It's figuring out urban logistics in a world where crowded cities will only become more so, where e-commerce is actually making congestion worse, where the rise of 'sharing' has created a need for coordinating the mass joint use of cars, tools, tasks, and dinner." Most importantly, these companies have figured out that what they already know how to do creates valuable practices and unlimited opportunities.
You can take advantage of what you already know, too.
"As the Holiday Season is upon us, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and on those who have helped to shape our business in a most significant way. We truly value our relationship with you and look forward to working with you in the year to come. We wish you a very happy Holiday Season and a New Year filled with peace, love and prosperity."
I haven't actually done business with the company that sent me this sentimental bit of falderal but if I had I don't imagine I'd feel truly valued regardless of their promise that I am.
Don't get me wrong. It's not like a card picked out of a catalog and imprinted with a company name and a mailing label offers much more heartfelt sentiment, especially when the postage comes from a machine and not a stamp. But still.
While I'm busy bashing the holiday spirit with my bah-humbugging, let's not forget gift cards. Believe it or not, gift cards were the most requested holiday gifts again this year, specifically, cards from Visa, Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Wal-Mart, Target, and Starbucks. Besides echoing the "I did as little as possible" sentiment of generic e-mail holiday greetings, gift cards both telegraph a complete lack of interest in the recipient's interests, taste, etc. as well as confirming the giver's complete lack of imagination, enterprise, and thoughtfulness.
Sure the cards allow the receiver to buy whatever they want and certainly eliminate the concern about what to do with the ugly sweater, foolish gadget or inappropriate gag gift, but they also negate the carefully chosen book, the delicious hand baked cookies, and the breathless "how did you know I wanted that?" or "I LOVE it!!" response that a little thought and enterprise generates.
Of course asking for gift cards is even more bah humbug loathsome than giving them. For some odd reason, people who would never think twice about begging for money on a street corner have no shame about asking for spare change as long as it's digitally transferred on a little plastic sheet. Why not just have friends and family members send money towards your car loan or mortgage payment? Or better yet, just give them your bank's routing number and have them make a direct deposit directly into your account. That would be easier for everyone.
From a branding point of view, gift giving is not only a great way to show your clients, customers, coworkers, and cohorts how much they mean to you but also the perfect way to express a little bit of your authentic self in your gifts and greetings. Regardless of the amount of money you spend, the effort you make and the thought you contribute is what tells your recipients exactly what you think — or don't think — of them.
When I was in college, moving into the dorms was an arduous ritual.
First we'd set up our stereos. Of course they were enormous – mine was comprised of big JBL speakers, a separate Marantz amp and McIntosh pre-amp, a Pioneer turntable and Aiwa cassette deck. The system cost me an entire summer job's pay and if I was paying by the pound it's no wonder why it was so expensive.
I also had a couple of apple crates full of records (remember those?) and boxes of tapes.
Along with the stereo, I had a typewriter, an alarm clock, an SLR camera with lenses and a shoebox full of photos. I didn't have a TV but my roommate did, and that took up even more room. My clothes — a few pair of jeans, some tee shirts, and a down jacket — probably took up the least amount of space.
Today's college student has all those functions and data (music, photos, etc.) stuffed into their four-pound laptop. In fact, with a couple of duffel bags stuffed full of clothes and a laptop and cell phone tossed in a backpack, they're ready for school.
Today I needed a storyboard drawn up for a commercial we just wrote. All the art directors in my office were busy so I went online, uploaded the rough sketches we'd drawn, and posted the assignment along with my budget, deadline, and specific requirements. Within hours I had estimates from artists in Georgia, Indonesia, Mumbai, and more places around the world.
The other day I wanted something changed on my blog site. I sent an email to Werner, my blog master in Germany, and showed him the change. It was 5 PM EST here at home so I figured I'd hear from Werner the next day, after all it was 11 PM there. Instead Werner responded right away and said he'd have the programmer make the change immediately. "Where's the programmer?" I typed. I assumed he was somewhere in Eastern Europe or Asia. "Ohio," Werner responded. "It's only the afternoon there," "he'll do it right away."
When I leave the office in the evening, sometimes I take my laptop, sometimes I take my iPad, and sometimes I don't take anything at all. Of course we've got a computer at home and all of my company's files are stored on the cloud so they're accessible wherever I am. No more running back to the office in the middle of the night or on weekends to retrieve a document I need to work on. And even though I work most weekends, I can't remember the last time I went into the office on a Saturday or Sunday even though that used to be a weekly occurrence. In fact, my wife and I just got back from a wonderful overseas vacation and you might have noticed that this blog went out on time just the same. Besides pre-scheduling the postings online, a Wi-Fi hookup was all I needed to keep everything running smoothly.
I just moved my enormous music collection from the hard drive in my office to ITunes Match, Apple's cloud-based program. This way, no matter where I am, I have all my songs available. This comes in handy not just when I have a hankering to hear something specific but when we're at band practice and someone wants to hear a particular version of a particular song. Of course, with most songs available on YouTube anyway, I can access them anywhere I can get a Wi-Fi or cellular signal. Needless to say, the stacks and stacks and stacks of CDs in my office and at home are just taking up space and collecting dust. If I knew someone who actually wanted a couple thousand rock, blues, and classical CDs, I'd burn them all and happily ship them off.
The more we interact with the mobile world, the less we need bricks and mortar. These days, BestBuy has become a showroom for Amazon and it's not unusual to see customers in the aisle scanning SKU numbers into their smart phones to check for lower prices online. Online bill pay keeps us out of banks and post offices. Digital downloads to our iPads and Kindles keep us out of bookstores. NetFlix, iTunes, and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Demonoid keep us out of movie theaters.
As I've asked here so many times before, WTF??!! (Where's The Future?). Clearly, legions of old-school face-to-face (F2F) businesses are going to go the way of Borders, Circuit City, and more. But there's another, less intuitive opportunity. The analog activities that can't be replaced by digital experiences — gardening, sewing, participatory sports, acoustic music making, cooking, travel, and more — are going to see a startling resurgence. Sure, those activities will be enhanced by the online world — downloadable patterns for knitting or Web-enabled music lessons, for example. But as the world continues to move to a ubiquitous high-tech environment, high-touch will become all the more important and profitable.Published on June 24th, 2012
Someone sent me an article that asked successful CEOs what they would rather do if they weren't in their current positions. Doctor? Lawyer? Indian Chief? No, everyone wants to be a rock star.
Guitar Center has built an enormous business selling guitars and amps to musicians and wannabes who were raised on 60's & 70's rock and roll and want to live the dream for themselves. Some of these folks find satisfaction in learning to play their new instruments and some give up after a lesson or two. But I'll bet odds are that the overwhelming majority of them never reach rock star status.
For years and years my musician friends and I have been playing in garage bands and getting gigs at bars and festivals. But regardless of how much fun we've had, none of us have become rock stars either.
About six years ago, Phil, Andy, and I, all members of different bands, were at a local Irish pub when Andy suggested we start a new band together. After all, he reasoned, we all play instruments and we all write music. Why not start a new band to play our original songs?
"Who else will we get to play in the band?" I asked.
"The usual suspects," Phil answered.
For the next three years, The Usual Suspects played gigs around South Florida and developed a small but dedicated following. We built a set list of about 50 original songs and worked out the harmonies and arrangements. The band was truly a labor of love and we loved playing together.
The next natural step in our growth was to record a CD, so we spent the next two years recording, mixing, and producing 16 of our original compositions. Thanks to digital technology and the talent of my bandmates we did almost everything ourselves and finally created a very professional product that we're real proud of.
Along the way we had to change the name of our group. Needless to say, the trademark wasn't available for "The Usual Suspects" and being in a band with three attorneys and a paralegal (and a distribution manager, by the way) meant we had to have all our legal ducks in a row. After hundreds of name suggestions, someone came up with "The Southbound Suspects," and thanks to my decades-long love of The Allman Brothers, that worked just fine for me.
Next it was time to name our CD. We also went through scores of titles and couldn't come up with a solution everyone could agree upon. It got so frustrating that I finally suggested we make the album eponymous. "Eponymous?" one of our members asked. "Eponymous is a stupid name. Why don't we just use the band name instead?"
I couldn't argue with that logic. "The Southbound Suspects" it was.
Besides our songs, our CD offers something unique that I think is perfect for today's fans. We've recorded an album of music created by baby boomers for baby boomers. Our songs tell the stories of our lives, from memories of cross-country trips we made in our twenties to staying in love after the kids are gone to the dream of buying a mid-life crises Harley Davidson.
While the music industry hasn't yet woken up to the burgeoning baby boomer demographic (80 million Americans who control 70% of wealth in the U.S.), today's distribution technology makes it very easy for us to put our songs directly into our consumers' hands. And even though our website isn't quite finished, you can already click on the following links and sample and buy our album on iTunes, Amazon, and CD Baby.
Truth be told, none of us believe we're really going to become rock stars (okay, I think one guy actually does). I'm not even sure that everyone in the band would be willing to give up their day jobs to go on tour to support the album if we got the shot. But there's an enormous opportunity to sell our songs to other performers and generate income, notoriety, and the chance to present the other songs that aren't on our CD.
Will any of this happen? Who knows. The point is not whether the dream will become a reality but how ubiquitous technology has completely democratized the opportunity for self-expression. From consumer-generated videos on YouTube to home-recorded CDs to this blog, the barriers to entry have been eliminated. There's now no excuse not to tell your story or sing your song.
Old world institutions such as publishing houses, movie studios, and music labels that used to control the distribution of art and ideas have seen their competitive positions erode with the onslaught of technology. The creative world has only begun to wake up and take its rightful place creating content. After all, everyone wants to be a rock star.
And us? We just want to sell a few CDs.Published on June 4th, 2012
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If you want a set, click HERE.Published on January 24th, 2012
When I started my business my father called my action "the confidence of ignorance." I didn't really know what I didn't know so I held my nose and jumped right in. And with some long hours, perseverance, the hard work of lots of great people, and some good luck it turned out pretty well. Yet almost thirty years later it's finally dawned on me that my dad was right – I often have no idea what I'm doing.
Do you?
Social media has become a critical part of our agency's branding and marketing. I'm promoting my ad agency, my speaking, and my books on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, and whatever new technology has emerged since I wrote this post. But I have no idea what I'm doing.
I blog about branding and marketing and my own personal opinion about what's going on in those worlds. I post it all online and send it out to my mailing list and try to promote it on all the social media sites that'll have me. But I have no idea what I'm doing.
I travel around the world speaking at conferences and corporate meetings and attend acting classes and speaking workshops to try to make my platform skills better. Even with all the time spent and experienced gained, I still have no idea what I'm doing.
I'm starting to shoot videos and produce podcasts about branding and marketing and post them on YouTube. I'm taking videos of speeches I've given and learning how to edit them in Apple's Final Cut and sending them out online and on CDs. But I have no idea what I'm doing.
I wrote a couple books on branding and produced them with traditional publishers. Then I self-published the latest book and we distributed it ourselves. Finally, I wrote a novel called The Mouth of the South and didn't even self-publish it, just uploaded it to Amazon as a Kindle book. But I have no idea what I'm doing.
We're creating a new website, trying to make it as interactive, mobile-friendly and user-friendly as possible and all at the same time. But I have no idea what I'm doing.
When people ask me if they should promote themselves or their companies on Facebook, Google+ or LinkedIn; if they should blog, tweet, email or send handwritten letters; if they should shoot videos, record podcasts, write books, or speak at conferences; if they should offer discounts on couponing sites, or run ads on TV, radio, newspapers or billboards, my answer is a resounding "yes." When they tell me they don't know how to do it, I say, "don't worry, I have no idea what I'm doing either."
I'm not smart enough to figure out SEO and SEM. I don't have enough time to respond to all the tweets I receive. I don't like Facebook enough to really want to dive into it. I think I only use about 11% of the capabilities of Final Cut. And not one of my books has become a bestseller regardless of how much time, effort, and money I've spent on them.
Why not? Could it be because I have no idea what I'm doing?
My marathon times aren't dropping, my harmonica playing's not getting much better, and the TV show I'm trying to create isn't rushing itself into production. You already know the reasons why. It's because I have no idea what I'm doing.
Are you starting to see a pattern here? Have you gotten the message? As much as I'd love to use this page to brag about all the brilliant things I'm trying to accomplish I have no idea what I'm doing.
Do you?
I think that my feeling is the true zeitgeist of what's going on today in the world of online marketing, new entrepreneurship, and personal development. Of course we can listen to the experts pontificate about whatever it is they know about, but just like the tip of the metaphorical iceberg, what they know and talk about is just a small portion of what's really out there.
What I have in common with those experts is that they don't have any idea what they're doing anymore than I do.
They just do it anyway. And so do I. And, truth be told, so should you.
The key, as Nike taught us, is to "Just Do It." Microsoft has built an enormous company around the notion of implementing first and perfecting later. Or as my dad also used to say, "There's never time to do it right but there's always time to do it over."
So blog, post, tweet, self-publish, promote, and sell, to your heart's content. And don't worry if you don't quite know what you're doing. Why not? Because I have no idea what I'm doing, either.Published on September 6th, 2011
I was a kid back in the dark ages of transistor radios. If a friend told me about a cool new song, I'd tune in to WQAM and wait until they played what I was waiting for. Usually it would take an hour or more if the song was hot. While I waited I'd get my cassette recorder plugged in and loaded so I could tape the song. Invariably, I'd miss the beginning and inadvertently record my mom calling me for dinner over one of the verses.
Sometimes I had a little allowance money burning a hole in my pocket and wanted to order something from the ads on the back of my comic books – sea monkeys, say, or X-ray specs. I'd get my mom to write a check, put it in an envelope and root around for a stamp. Then I'd drop it in the mailbox and wait the four to six weeks the small print warned me about. I'd religiously check the mailbox every day after school but that didn't make the package arrive any sooner.
Things are different today. When my daughter gets a text message about a great new band she has to hear, an MP4 file of the actual song usually accompanies the SMS. If not, she can go to YouTube or the iTunes store, download the song to her phone and listen to it right away.
If my son wants to buy something, he can simply order it online and have it Fed-Ex'd to him in a day or two. And while he waits he can track his package as it wings its way across the country. No one over 45 actually cares where the package is until it arrives in their hot little hands but younger consumers need to know when it's in Tulsa, when it's in Memphis, and when it's on the delivery truck.
Of course if it's a book he wants, he can just one-click order it on Amazon and have it transmitted to a Kindle, iPad, or laptop in less than 60 seconds.
These buyers are labeled by a lot of names these days, – Generation X, Generation Y, Echo Boomers, Millennials – demographic titles based on when they were born. But I think it would be more accurate to name them psychographically, based on the trait they all share: their instant gratification addiction. My genius friend David calls them The Instant On Generation – the hordes of people who have grown up with the "what have you done for me next" demands of digital technology and don't know how to function in an analog environment.
Unfortunately for them, world events are conspiring to make things very difficult for Instant-ons. Thanks to the combined effects of a burgeoning world population, expanded financial opportunity in the under-developed world and the democratization of technology, there are more people on airplanes, more people in restaurants, more people consuming natural and man made resources, and more people traveling around the world than ever before. And while Instant-ons are perfectly happy to zoom along in their digital environments, finding their friends on FourSquare, making reservations on OpenTable, and communicating with each other 24/7 across Facebook and Twitter, the sheer number of people expecting immediate service in the carbon universe is an unscalable mess that slows everything down.
Before you start pining for the good old days, remember that things weren't that fast before. It's just that there were far fewer people clamoring for service and those people were way more willing to wait their turn. But older consumers didn't grow up with the instant reward and response of videos games. They didn't grow up with the instant gratification of flash frozen prepared foods heated in a microwave. And they didn't grow up with a 24/7 communication device glowing greedily in their pocket.
Tomorrow's consumer did, and tomorrow's marketer is going to have to figure out how to successfully service people who live the lyrics to the Queen song: "I want it all and I want it now."
Talking about today's sped up world, Steven Wright said, "If you put instant coffee in a microwave you almost go back in time." Funny thing is I don't smell coffee. I smell opportunity. Specifically, how to make Instant-ons happy? An improved customer experience is one way: think Disney World's line management techniques or the TSA security experience at Las Vegas' McCarran Airport. Here in Miami, wealthy wannabe American Instant-ons can even hire people to stand in line for them at immigration.
But all of these solutions are just Band-Aids. The true moneymakers will be the ones who figure out how to reconcile Instant-ons' digital expectations with analog reality.
Published on June 13th, 2011
We've all heard the lies:
"The Mercedes is paid for."
"I'll call you in the morning."
"I'm from the IRS and I'm here to help."
"You may already be a winner."
But lately, thanks to the brave new world of online marketing, I've heard five new ones that are worth considering before we fall for them.
1. The fundamentals don't matter anymore.
2. The best pricing strategy is free.
3. To be successful, pursue your passion.
4. If you build it, they will come.
5. Content is king.
1. The fundamentals don't matter anymore.
It seems like each time there's a new boom, whether it's real estate, IPOs or online businesses, this old trope gets rolled out. People think the fundamentals don't matter because they're looking at something revolutionary and how could something so new be predicted and controlled by something as old (and boring) as fundamentals?
Of course, while technology and opportunities are changing at lighting speed, what doesn't change is how people react to these new phenomena. And so the same issues and problems resurface time and time again.
Bottom line? The fundamentals DO matter; that's why they're called fundamentals.
2. The best pricing strategy is free.
This lie is so counterintuitive that books have been written about it. And the strategy is so seductively simple: give things away to attract attention, build relationships and sell products. Unfortunately, what the authors of the "Free" books forget is that the people who take their advice actually need to earn revenue to survive. Like the World War I flying aces whose planes were shot at and spiraled gracefully down towards the ground where they inevitably crashed, the race to win the low price war finally ends with prices being so low that the sellers go out of business.
The ironic proof that this concept is hogwash? One of the first evangelists for this axiom, Chris Anderson, wrote the book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. It lists for $26.99.
3. To be successful, pursue your passion.
This lie is not only untrue; it's also cruel. But thanks to its siren call, lots of college students study subjects they have no chance of turning into careers and lots of professionals abandon their careers in order to pursue activities from which they have no chance of earning a living.
Don't get me wrong, I have a design degree and I think it's great to study the history of comparative religion or the modal chants of the Renaissance. I just don't think it's a particularly profitable endeavor. The ugly truth of many "passion" industries – music, art, filmmaking, etc. – is that you may make a fortune but you can't make a living. Mike Rowe, the host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs presented a wonderful speech at TED on this very subject. You can watch it HERE.
The simple truth? If you want to be successful, don't pursue your passion; pursue your customers' passion.
4 . If you build it, they will come.
Way back when, in the nascent years of the Internet, posting a site was about all you needed to do to generate viewership. Every site was new and every concept was exciting. And the developers who incorporated viral recruiting, like the guys who built the site HOTorNOT.com, were able to attract millions of users and enormous valuations.
But today the web is crawling with websites. According to the Netcraft Web Server Survey, there were 266,848,493 sites as of December 2010. Over the last few months there has been an increase of 47 million host names and 7 million active websites, and we're quickly closing in on over 300 million sites.
It's not much better in the publishing world. Amazon alone offers almost 810,000 ebook titles to browse through. And as you know if you read my blog post last week, I added my own ebook to the list (as of Monday, March 28th, Mouth of the South has sold a whopping 21 copies, by the way), which will really put the count over the top.
Woody Allen might have said that "70% of success in life is showing up" but it'll take a whole lot more effort than that to be successful these days.
5. Content is king.
Nicholas Negroponte, the founding director of the MIT Media Lab, wrote a wonderfully prescient book titled Being Digital. Although it was published almost 20 years ago, it's still a go-to guide for people who want to understand the online world.
One of Negroponte's key points is that content is worth considerably more than distribution. As Negroponte points out, "the valuation of a bit is determined in large part by its ability to be used over and over again." So Mickey Mouse is valuable because it can be produced in movies, printed on comic books, screened onto tee shirts, stamped onto lunch boxes and even formed into lollipops. Accordingly, way back in 1994 when Being Digital was written, "the market value of Disney was $2 billion greater than that of Bell Atlantic, in spite of Bell Atlantic's sales being 50 percent greater and (its) profits being double."
What Negroponte may not have thought about —back then in the dark ages of the Internet — is the incredible volume of content that's been created, posted and repurposed across the 'Net. And so his apocryphal line "Content is king," is only true if it's qualified that that content better be good, unique or compelling.
These lies are popular because they are grammatically symmetrical, comfortably instructive and because they appeal to our personal self interests. And thanks to today's 24/7 news cycle hungry for endless bits information to report on, the lies are continuously repeated until they enter our collective consciousness.
Oh, and by the way, you know that money I owe you? Don't worry, the check's in the mail.Published on March 28th, 2011


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Pacific Northwest Ballet performed "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Principal dancer Ariana Lallone suffered an injury mid-performance; reviewed by Moira Macdonald.
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In a ballet as magical as George Balanchine's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," currently on fine display at Pacific Northwest Ballet, it's easy to forget that dancers are mortal. Ballerinas clothed in fairy wings delicately whirl on the tips of their toes; impish sprites seem to fly as they race across the forest floor; and Mendelssohn's delicious score (led off with those four haunting chords that seem to cast a spell over the production) wraps itself around the dancers, helping them soar.
And so when a little backstage magic (and quick thinking) was called for on Thursday's opening night, it was a stark reminder that, yes, sometimes reality invades. Principal dancer Ariana Lallone, dancing the role of Hippolyta with her usual soaring majesty, suffered an injury mid-performance. Audience members might have noticed a brief gap in the action (though not the music) in Act 1 or that Hippolyta, upon her return just minutes later, was performed by a different dancer; the misfortune was handled with remarkable seamlessness.
Kudos to corps de ballet member Brittany Reid, for stepping into the unexpected role with grace and calm, to PNB student Jamie Schultz for jumping into Reid's courtier role and to everyone else involved onstage and off. (Lallone injured her left calf and will not dance the remainder of the "Dream" run. Surely an entire audience's good wishes go to her for a speedy recovery.)
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Staged by former PNB artistic director Francia Russell and featuring numerous beautifully trained young students from the PNB school, this "Dream" was meticulously cast and lovingly performed. Carrie Imler, as the fairy queen Titania, displayed both delicate precision and impish warmth. When she fell in love with Bottom, a commoner transformed into a donkey (played, with a fine flair for comedy, by Kiyon Gaines), her calf-eyed ardor was enchanting as she enticed him with a bouquet of grass. Jonathan Porretta, who's rapidly displaying that there's no role he can't dance the daylights out of, was a strong and regal Oberon. Josh Spell, rangy and exuberant, set the plot in motion as the mischievous sprite Puck.
The four mismatched young lovers (Maria Chapman, Kaori Nakamura, Jordan Pacitti and Casey Herd) acted out Shakespeare's tangled plot with the proper silliness and grace; Nakamura, in particular, shone in Hermia's wistful solo. And Louise Nadeau and Olivier Wevers danced the beautiful Act 2 divertissement — one of Balanchine's loveliest pas de deux — as if lit by enchanted moonlight. Nadeau, leaning into a breathlessly extended arabesque, falls gently into Wevers' arms in a movement as delicate as a sigh. Mere mortals, yes — but seemingly touched by magic.
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Sunday, Oct. 31
Borrego Days ---- The Borrego Springs Chamber of Commerce's 45th annual Borrego Days Desert Festival, this year themed "Art & Soul," celebrates the community's arts and culture. The festival program includes breakfasts, a car show, music competition/stages, concerts, speakers and vendors; 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Palm Canyon Drive, Borrego Springs; free; 800-559-5524 or borregospringschamber.com/BorregoDays/index.html.
"Celebrate the Craft" at Torrey Pines ---- Local food, produce and winemakers and gourmet chefs return to The Lodge at Torrey Pines for this dining and drinking showcase of regionally grown ingredients. Seventeen top local chefs dedicated to sustainable practices will prepare dishes with items provided by local food providers, including Brandt Beef, Venissimo Cheese, Bread & Cie, Crows Pass Farms, Catalina Offshore Products, Jack Fisher Confections and Stone Brewery; 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; 11480 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla; $75; 858-453-4420 or lodgetorreypines.com.
Monday, Nov. 1
"Shop Under the Stars" ---- A fundraiser featuring prizes, refreshments, silent auction and shopping discounts, with proceeds benefitting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Carlsbad-based Pacific South Coast Chapter; 5 to 9 p.m.; Carlsbad Premium Outlets, 5620 Paseo del Norte in Carlsbad; $30 (hors d'oeuvres and wine from Bellefleur Restaurant, Starbucks coffee and a souvenir tote bag filled with exclusive store savings and gifts); 760-448-8446 or email@example.com.
Tuesday, Nov. 2
Library to hold tribute to veterans ---- The Friends of the Escondido Library will pay tribute to a family member or friend who is a veteran or serving in the military with a "Wall of Stars." Drop by any information desk or the children's room and make a star with the name and branch of service for your loved one to place on the wall; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (also Wednesday and Thursday); East Valley Branch, 2245 E. Valley Parkway, Escondido; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday to Friday and 10 to 5 p.m. Saturday; main branch, 239 S. Kalmia St., Escondido; 760-839-4684 or escondido.org/library.
Wednesday, Nov. 3
Taste of Little Italy ---- The Little Italy Association hosts its third annual fall food safari in this downtown San Diego neighborhood. Diners get to try 3-ounce tastings of food at 22 Little Italy restaurants, bars, cafes, shops and markets; 5 to 9 p.m.; $35 ($40 at the gate); check in at India and Date streets; 619-615-1092 or tasteoflittleitalysd.com.
Friday, Nov. 5
San Diego Beer Week ---- Beer Week is returning to San Diego with more than 250 events planned throughout town. The first day features events at North County establishments such as Stone Brewing Co. in Escondido, Encinitas Ale House and Green Flash Brewing in Vista. Highlights include the San Diego Brewers Guild Festival on Saturday and the Beer Garden (a beer-and-food pairing event; tickets are $65) on Nov. 14; www.sdbw.org.
Saturday, Nov. 6
Faith Lutheran Church & Schools' annual holiday bazaar ---- Features shopping, homemade baked goods, a turkey luncheon, a visit from Santa and a kids fun zone that includes games, face painting and prizes; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; 700 E. Bobier Drive, Vista; 760-724-7700, ext. 255, or www.faithvista.org.
"Christmas on the Farm" at Bates Nut Farm ---- Event begins with a Lions Club pancake breakfast. More than 80 artisans will display handmade items and fine art. There will be face painting and crafts for children, as well as the Bates farm zoo. Tri-tip sandwiches and cheeseburgers available for purchase. More than 200 cars will be on display for a car show on Saturday, with '50s music playing all day. Bring a toy for East County Cruisers Car Show & Toy Drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Ash Street Ramblers lay down some bluegrass from noon to 3 p.m. Nov. 7; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (also Nov. 7); free (pancake breakfast is $6 for adults and $5 for children); 760-749-3333 or batesnutfarm.biz.


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Getting here by car
Key info
- Postcode for satnavs: PL24 2SG*
- Well signposted from A30 and A391/390
- Free parking/electric vehicle charging points
Just outside St Austell on the south coast of mid Cornwall, Eden is well signposted from the A30 from Exeter and the A391/390 from Plymouth.
If you're coming from outside Cornwall, take the M5 southbound to Exeter, where the motorway splits. Take the A30 and exit at the Innis Downs junction (A391), then take the signs for Eden.
*Note for sat nav users
Please note that some sat navs direct westbound traffic from the A390 from St Blazey via Cornhill Road to the Eden Project. We do not recommend taking this narrow route. It is better to continue to the A391 and follow the signs to Eden from there.
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There is ample parking at Eden. From the car parks, you can either walk down to the visitor entrance and ticket desks or take a free park and ride bus. Unfortunately, no overnight parking is permitted.
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If you fancy some company, want to save money on fuel or reduce your carbon footprint, you might find someone to share your journey through the national Liftshare network.
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We have two electric vehicle charging points in our Banana car park; a standard and a fast charger, which are free of charge for our visitors to use and operate on a first come, first served basis.
Superfast charging points
You can also access a rapid 50kW point in Melon car park, which is available for public use during Eden's opening hours, and which customers pay to use. It is operated through ChargePoint Genie, with whom car owners must register to make use of the charging point. You can see online when this and other local charging points are in use/available.
It's part of a new network of fast and superfast electric vehicle charging points across Cornwall, Plymouth and West Devon. Find out more on the Cornwall Council website.
For more information about the payment mechanism or to report a charger fault, please call ChargePoint Genie on 020 3598 4087. Phones are operated 24/7.


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U-T San Diego Fishing Report for Jan. 15, 2013
San Vicente: Closed. For construction schedules and information on the Emergency Storage Project, go to the San Diego County Water Authority's web site at www.sdcwa.org and click on San Vicente Dam Raise.
Santa Ana River Lakes: Very good fishing for giant rainbow trout here as the lake is planted with the lunker rainbows every week. Lunkers up to 20 pounds being landed. Check out the fish being planted on a video every week at www.fishinglakes.com . In addition to the larger fish, there are thousands of pounds of pan-sized rainbows averaging about a pound or better planted every week. Most five-trout stringers weigh 5- to 10 pounds. Best baits continue to be floating jar bait rolled in the new Hatchery Dust, now available at the tackle shop. Santa Ana River Lakes is open every day. Fishing is allowed from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on day passes or from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on an evening pass. Each of these passes is $25. Seniors pay $23 with a $20 special on Wednesdays. All of these passes have a five-fish limit. For kids 4 to 13, a three-fish pass is just $12. There are 24-hour passes offered on Friday and Saturday night on weekends nearest the full moon each month. The 24-hour passes cost $75 and have a 15 fish limit. An angler can bring his wife and up to three kids and all can help fill the 15-fish limit on one of these passes. Camping is free at SARL with a 24-hour pass. For Santa Ana River Lakes fishing information, call (714) 632-7830 or log on at www.fishinglakes.com.
Sutherland: Closed for the season.
Sweetwater: Carpfest still going on here. The 41 anglers reported 38 carp. Open Saturday, Sunday and Monday to limited shoreline fishing only.
Wohlford: With another stocking of 1,500 pounds of Nebraska Tailwalkers set for this week, trout fishing should remain solid here. George Hartfiel, San Marcos, 7.90-pound trout, mousetail lure. Jess Tran, 6.5-pound trout, also on a mousetail. Jim Hopson, 6.45-pound trout, mousetail. There's a $20 special for all-day rentals on motorboats for seniors every Tuesday and for active military every first and third Saturday of the month. Whopper of the Month leaders The Lake Wohlford Café has the DFG's Automated License Data System. All types of fishing and hunting licenses may be purchased at the Café, noted for its great breakfast, lunch and dinner items. To-go orders may be made for picnic lunches while fishing. Very good hiking trails, with paths through an oak grove on the southeast side. Ban on private boats remains in place due to the threat of quagga mussels. Other banned equipment include canoes, kayaks, float tubes, trolling motors, fish finders, anchors, etc. Rental boats available. For more information, check www.lakewohlford.com.
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Skip to comments.Hilary Mantel: Catholic Church Is Not For Respectable People [Appeals To Secular Elites!]
Posted on 05/13/2012 10:36:40 PM PDT by Steelfish
Hilary Mantel: Catholic Church Is Not For Respectable People The Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people, according to Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author.
Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author Photo: Martin Pope By Anita Singh 13 May 2012
Mantel was raised a Roman Catholic and educated at convent school. However, the 59-year-old writer said child abuse scandals involving Roman Catholic priests demonstrated the cruelty and hypocrisy of the church.
Asked if she would call for a priest on her deathbed, Mantel replied: No. I might very well call for a Church of England vicar, but I would not call for a Catholic priest.
Im one of natures Protestants. I should never have been brought up as a Catholic. I think that nowadays the Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people.
She said of the paedophilia scandals: The fact that it could happen, the extent of the denial, the cover-up, the hypocrisy, the cruelty... When I was a child I wondered why priests and nuns were not nicer people. I thought that they were amongst the worst people I knew.
But in a cold-blooded way, as a writer Ive had full value from Catholicism - I can say that.
Its a great training in doubleness - this looks like bread but it is actually a mans body, this looks like wine but its actually blood. And thats very much a writers way of thinking - she comes in and says good morning, but she means damn you to hell.
Mantels latest historical novel, Bring Up The Bodies, is published this month. It is a sequel to Wolf Hall, an account of the early life of Thomas Cromwell which won the Man Booker Prize in 2009.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Never heard of Hilary Mantel or the Booker Prize.
Maybe it's not really meant for respectable people or Pharisees. But sinners are welcome.
Oscar Wilde
She lost her religious faith at age 12 and says that this left a permanent mark on her: the "real cliche, the sense of guilt. You grow up believing that you're wrong and bad. And for me, because I took what I was told really seriously, it bred a very intense habit of introspection and self-examination and a terrible severity with myself. So that nothing was ever good enough. It's like installing a policeman, and one moreover who keeps changing the law
During her twenties, she suffered from a debilitating and painful illness. This was initially diagnosed as a psychiatric illness, for which she was hospitalised and treated with anti-psychotic drugs. These paradoxically produced psychotic symptoms; as a consequence, for some years she refrained from seeking help from doctors.
Hilary Mental
In a way she is correct.
The Catholic Church is for sinners, the poor, the lost, the downtrodden and all those who are not "respectable."
English teeth. Ouch.
There are about 400,000 current Catholic priests and there have been 4,000 molestation cases in the past 50 years. That works out to less than 1% when you consider that we are dealing with a population over time, one that probably includes over 800,000 priests. You know liberals are dishonest when you compare their shock over this scandal with their indifference to the universal abuses from socialist governments, from Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany through today. Liberals disgust me. As for priests, more than 99% of them deserve our respect, which makes them a whole lot better than leftists.
"The Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone. For respectable people, the Anglican Church will do."
Still true 120 years later.
The Booker prize is the top literary prize in Great Britain. They broadcast it as if it was the Oscars! She wrote a book called "Wolf Hall" about Cromwell. Personally, I couldn't get through it.
I looked her up. She writes wacky books against faith. What do we expect.
"I think that nowadays the Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people.
No, just saints.
Yep: Braces might have helped a little.
I am very grateful to finally be entering a stage in my life in which idiots amuse me. Ms. Mantel certainly qualifies. It is much better than being bothered by it all. Also, I have read that abuse in public schools is much higher than in the religious community, but they, like liberal pols, rely on media as protecters.
Shouldn't Christians be praying for this woman?
What IS it about us that elicits contempt, derision and scorn as automatic responses? (I am including ME in this question.)
Does God love her any less than he loves me?
What am I doing when I vilify an object of his love?
There is a line between refuting ideas that distort the truth and attacks and judgements upon persons. I believe the former is God pleasing; the latter pleases the evil one.
Color me "unrespectable".
Personally, I periodically pray for all the people in the world. So I have this crazy woman covered with my prayers - repeatedly and for many years.
I will point out to you that FR is a forum for comments not prayer. No one will stop you from posting a prayer but if your primary concern is prayer from others then you would do better by visiting a church.
This woman's statement is crazy and she seems to have a long history in that regard. I don't think it is wrong to post an observation of her mental state, especially since she is putting herself out there. Unless you hate all crazy people then I don't see the big deal, but even if so then that would be your problem not mine.
Finally, if you care to take your hypersensitivity full circle, shouldn't you be praying here for us rather than the comment that you made?
OK, I'll defend don-o here, even though he IS my husband (!!)
Don-o was asking us (together with himself) why we respond with "contempt, derision and scorn" when reacting to an emotionally troubled woman who has chosen an erroneous path away from the Church.
His own comments did not express "contempt, derision and scorn," but only a tone of correction and an appeal to call us back to love.
You may want to keep in mind that "correcting the sinner, instructing the ignorant, counseling the doubtful, comforting the afflicted" are all Works of Mercy, and as such they are compatible with prayer, and are a form of prayer in themselves, since they implicitly call upon Him who is the source of all Mercy.
I myself have a a little of the itch and more than a little of the bitch in me. I benefit from being reminded to respond instead in a way more worthy of my Christian calling.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that a Piscataway Princess had trouble with this book. OK it was kinda psychotic in that you never really know who is talking or narrating about what or whom.
Try it again, but use firewater bought from an unscrupulous Indian Agent before each chapter. Her anti-Catholic diatribe notwithstanding, she was really nice to Cardinal Wolsey in the book.
OK, I loved this book, OK?
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Unlike Pocahantas Warren, I thoroughly checked my ancestry and have found out that I'm pure Lanipe - my family was dredged out of the mud in nearby Manalapan, New Jersey. So please stop refering to me as one of those tacky Piscataways!
Now, on to our literary history with "Wolf Hall." The fact that there are only pronouns used to define characters defeated me by the 3rd chapter. Why I ever consented to buy this book is beyond me. But then I fell for Pat Barker's prize-winning trilogy on WWI, too. But they look very nice on my bookshelves - it gives the impression I'm intelligent.
Now about the book. It does require a modicum of ethanol energy to get with the weird use of indefinitely connected pronouns. But that's very hip nowadays, such as reading a news story of a shooting in which one is hard pressed to discover who got shot, who shot, where, when, why, or how.
Never heard of Hilary Mantel before this. I will say, (as a swag-seeking Passamaquoddy Sachem) she ain't no Phillipa Gregory (nor Scarlett Johansen, neither)
We Lanipes spell our names in different ways - and it's not for outsiders to correct our grammar, thank you. Several bloody wars were fought in the 16th century to settle the spelling of my tribe's name. 7 out of 11 came to the conclusion that it should be "Lanipe." Those brave 7/11s went on to build the first grocery store in New Jersey. The whining Lenapes went on to found the first "Wa-Wa."
Are you suggesting the orthodontally-challenged Ms. Mantel is a Native-American? Fie!
Well nuts! I just down loaded her latest book on my iPad after getting the first as a gift...
I hate helping these lib jerks...
Excellent post. Thanks.
The Catholic Church is for sinners, the poor, the lost, the downtrodden and all those who are not respectable.
But you have to be smart to be a Catholic. Even some Catholic FReepers say so.
It is the English who invented the TOOTHbrush. Had it been invented anywhere else it would be a TEETHbrush.
Wobbly chompers aside, I did not mean to imply that young Hilary the Writer was one of us. It's just that after reading her book, my pronouns don't exactly seem to want to go with anyone, anything, or anytime in particular.
And, Lanipe it is. I am withdrawing all my milk and egg business from those WaWa savages immediately.
The Catholic Church is blessed by it's enemies. Exposing the hidden sexual abuse has lessened it's power to operate within the church. Evil flourishes in secret and fortunately for children of the church, it is no longer flourishing in the church.
The secularists who expose and condemn the church, hide the sexual molestation in their own institutions in order to stand on that high moral ground over the church. And so their own abuse is flourishing in secret and will eventually bring down their own institutions.
I agree to some extent. Exposing sexual abuse, removing the predators, and changing policies to make it clear that perverts will not be protected are all good things. The down side is pretending that it's pervasive in the Church.
If it makes the church stand up stronger against evil in all it's suggestions and actions, that can only be good from God's point of view. People who say the church is purely evil, would say that even if the church was perfection. This has always been the case. They named Jesus evil when he was perfection.
While secularists led by homo activists needle and condemn the church, sexual grooming and molestation is flouring in their atheist temples of public education. At some point, Christians will go after that hidden evil.
Her fictionalized books about Cromwell had positive reviews, and if that's your thing, you oughta read them (not mine.) However, her accidental arrival at the hard truth about the Catholic Church (because, yes indeed, it is not for the respectable!) only illustrates what one writer said recently in an interview I've read: "As a rule, the artist is stupider than his work."
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I see this as confusing the end user and just plagued with delays, plus what are/is demonisos?
I see this as confusing the end user and just plagued with delays, plus what are/is demonisos?
Yeah that's what he said, here was his full comment:
So Deank has respect for JaiCrab but not for DemonHades. Only time will tell if this thing is legit.
I don't know why I was sad when it said 3.56 below... I knew when I clocked on this what it was for. >.>. Well this ought to clear up some things for some people.
Well i just want to say! Release the DAMN thing.
I call BS on this JFW! If it does turn out to legit, I bet we have to pay for the JFW. Add to that the demonisos service for games & we have a shotty CFW. All this hype for nothing. I'm betting on it!
I can't understand! Finally we can play multiplayer online or not??
You can using XBS link or Xlink Kai, but not PSN if you're on CFW.
^ seems like if you haven't read the faq
What does the "FAQ" say about online play? It says we won't have access to PSN, so we will still have to use LAN based applications to play online with games that support it.
i can't figure out what this translation means but what i'm taking away from it is that, they have developed their own "DRM" which will force everyone to change from the current file format to their own proprietary format otherwise you won't be able to play games that you may or may not have purchased legally? uh... yea that's not happening.
and asking people to upload some sort of access key to them to "prove" you own the product? yea, the server will crash within the hour of them setting up and everyone will be up in arms over not being able to play their games.
if this ever gets released, i see epic fail written all over it.
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Propaganda is the spreading of information in support of a cause. It's not so important whether the information is true or false or if the cause is just or not — it's all propaganda.
The word propaganda is often used in a negative sense, especially for politicians who make false claims to get elected or spread rumors to get their way. In fact, any campaign that is used to persuade can be called propaganda.
Definitions of propaganda
n information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause
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political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema
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Dairy Farmer
Kaiahuwhenua Miraka Kau
This job is sometimes referred to by alternative titles
Dairy farmers feed, care for, and milk herds of cows on farms. They aim to get the cows to produce as much high quality milk as possible, cost-effectively.
Dairy farmers in charge of herds or running a farm usually earn
$45K-$51K per year
Experienced dairy farm managers and dairy farm owners usually earn between
$63K-$71K per year
Source: Federated Farmers/Rabobank, 'Farm Employee Remuneration Survey', 2014.
Job opportunities
Current job prospects
How many people are doing this job?
Source: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, '2006-2014 Occupation Data' (prepared for Careers New Zealand), 2015
Pay for dairy farmers or managers varies depending on experience and responsibilities, and the profitability of their farms.
- Assistant herd managers earn an average of $44,800 a year.
- Average pay for herd managers is $51,000.
- Dairy farm managers earn an average of $63,000.
- Operations managers in charge of large or multiple dairy farms earn an average of $71,000.
Sharemilkers' and farm owners' pay
The earning potential of sharemilkers (who are considered herd owners and supply a proportion of the herd or equipment in exchange for an agreed percentage of milk company payouts), and managers (who enjoy profit-sharing arrangements with farm owners) can be high, but may fluctuate from year to year.
The amount they earn depends on how much milk their cows produce, and milk company payouts, which vary depending on global market conditions.
Other benefits
Dairy farm managers are often supplied with free or subsidised accommodation, power and telephone, some or all meals, and sometimes farm-killed meat. The monetary value of these extra benefits can be significant, with the average about $4,000 a year, according to Federated Farmers.
Source: Federated Farmers/Rabobank, 'Farm Employee Remuneration Survey', 2014.
(This information is a guide only. Find out more about the figures and diagrams in our job information)
What you will do
Most dairy farmers milk cows twice a day – once in the morning and again in the afternoon. Some dairy farmers milk seasonally and others milk all year round. Dairy farmers may do some or all of the following:
- milk the cows using milking machinery
- wash out pipes with water and detergent and clean the yard after milking
- plan and manage the amount and type of food the cows eat, which can include purchasing feed supplements
- manage the health, breeding and mating of the herd
- manage calving and raise calves
- carry out general maintenance such as fencing and spraying weeds around the farm
- keep financial and farming records, and organise the farm business plan
- maintain equipment and farm vehicles, such as farm bikes and tractors
- employ and train people to work on the farm and/or manage staff who look after administrative duties on the farm such as organising training and rosters
- interact with vets, farm advisors and other contractors to ensure efficient running of the farm
- develop working practices to support a sustainable dairy farm
- keep up to date with, and use new farm technology to help grow the business.
Skills and knowledge
Dairy farmers need to have:
- good animal-handling skills to ensure cows, calves and bulls are healthy and productive
- an understanding of animal welfare, including knowing how to treat common animal health issues
- an understanding of pasture management practices to ensure production is maximised
- knowledge of the milk harvesting process
- an awareness of milk company standards and safe practices on the farm
- ability to drive vehicles and operate farm machinery
- mechanical knowledge to fix machinery and complete regular maintenance
- knowledge of accounting and how to run a business
- an understanding of sustainable environmental management practices such as safe effluent disposal
Working conditions
Dairy farmers:
- usually start milking early in the morning, but get time off in the day; may work long hours during peak seasons, and often work six days a week
- work on farms and inside milking sheds
- work outside in all weather conditions, and may work in dusty, dirty, wet, and noisy locations
- may visit other farms or attend agricultural field days, and sometimes travel overseas to learn about other farming methods.
What's the job really like?
Adam Waite - Dairy Farmer
Variety and working outdoors make the job enjoyable
Southlander Adam Waite says the outdoor lifestyle is what attracted him to dairy farming.
That, and the variety of the work. "We're doing a lot of farm maintenance at the moment, fixing fences and gates, and trying to catch up on weed spraying. There are calves to feed, and we start weaning them in a few weeks. Artificial insemination of the cows starts soon and in summer there will be grass to cut for baleage. Then there are the everyday jobs such as milking and shifting the cows to fresh paddocks.
"But we don't get too stressed about jobs. If we get sick of doing one thing, we'll just go and find something else to do, or if we don't get something finished one day, there's always tomorrow."
Knowing how to handle stock is key
Of all the skills dairy farmers need to do their work, Adam says the most important is stock-handling - knowing how to move and work with the cows without getting them too stressed. "You need to have a passion for animals, too. There is a lot to keep an eye on, but if you have good stock skills, then you learn to read the animals, and know when something is wrong."
What's hot
- Working with animals, especially watching them grow from calves to cows.
- Working outdoors
- Driving motorbikes, tractors and machinery
- Interaction with vets and contractors.
What's not
- Bad weather such as foods, snow and drought
- Machinery breakdowns
- Being flicked by cows' tails when milking
- Long hours during calving, and weekend work.
Livia finds out what it's like milking cows for a living - 6.21 mins. (Video courtesy of AgITO)
Clinton: We flew Livia from Auckland to Christchurch. From the airport it's a 50-minute drive south to Rakaia Island, home to one of New Zealand's largest family-owned dairy farms. Here, 5,000 cows are milked daily. Of the 23 staff, 14 are working for their National Certificate in Agriculture. Assistant operations manager, Johan Geertz will be mentoring Livia. So what qualities does he look for in his trainees?
Johan: Passion towards the outdoor life, animals in general, it doesn't have to specifically be cows, but obviously if you get to like cows over time.
Livia: Well it's 5.30 in the morning at the moment, it's freezing. Had a pretty good night's sleep. It seems like it's going to be a very long day at the moment. But I'm ready to milk some cows so off we go.
Clinton: Trainee Steve Jesen – known to his workmates as Hooley, is one of the first in the shed and begins the milking process.
Livia: Hi I'm Livia.
Hooley: Morning Livia, I'm Hooley. You want to come and milk with us this morning?
Livia: Yeah sure.
Hooley: Brilliant. OK, roll up your sleeves, grab an apron, and let's get dirty eh?
Hooley: Right, first things first, we've got to check the cow, we've got to check for mastitis. Pull the teat from the top, work your way down. Check the left side and do the same on both front teats, both left-side teats, and then we cup them on.
Johan: What you'd learn in the apprenticeship would really be the basics of dairy farming, how to milk cows, looking after animals in general.
Livia: How hard are you finding this apprenticeship?
Hooley: It's good. It has its ups and downs.We have really dodgy weather, cold morning starts but the whole idea of being outside every day, working with the cows, and just communicating with other people, it's really good.
Clinton: There's more to the job than most people realise.
Johan: OK, so what we're doing here just after the cows have finished milking, we're just spraying them with the sanitiser, just spraying the teats with the sanitiser. And this just ensures to stop any bugs entering the cow's udder and causing infection.
Clinton: Dairy farming is one of New Zealand's' largest industries. Technology and equipment is constantly advancing with the aim to assist farmers in providing a top quality product. This makes it a dynamic and exciting industry as it's always changing and progressing.
Livia: I thought milking would be quite hard, but it's actually quite easy. You get the hang of it after a while. It takes a bit of time to get used to it but after you get it, it's really easy.
Clinton: The rest of the day is spent working on jobs to be done around the farm. For the trainees, this practical work experience goes towards acquiring units for their National Certificate in Agriculture. Andrew Shepherd is an Agriculture Industry Training Organisation adviser. He visits the farm regularly to assist with training, and provides guidance and support.
Andrew: So for someone like Livia coming into the industry brand new, then I come out on the farm and visit the trainee and the farmer and we encourage Livia to do some education, some training with us, so she's getting a qualification while she's working on the job.
Clinton: Practical skills are assessed by a workplace assessor, normally the employer and in this case, Johan.
Andrew: Because part of the training is practical, then it's very relevant to the farmer – the employer – and what they're doing on the farm.
Clinton: Livia's practical skills are now put to the test with a loader wagon.
Johan: There's absolutely no reason why females can't do the same job as males in this industry. There is a huge misconception that it is a male-only industry, which is definitely wrong in every aspect.
Johan: And then go back. And that's it.
Livia: This is the first time I've ever driven a tractor. I'm finding it really fun.
Clinton: The Modern Apprenticeship is set up for students aged between 16 and 21 and who are committed to completing their studies to Level 4 of the apprenticeship. This usually takes three to four years.
Andrew: At Level 2 though, it's more focused on the nuts and bolts, the basics of getting the job done, milking the cows, making sure the milk is a good quality, cleanliness around the shed, safety on the farm, bike safety, tractor safety, fencing safety, so it's all very relevant to the level that you're at. Once you get up to Level 3 and 4, then you're starting to talk more management skills, feed budgeting, animal health, identifying diseases, that sort of thing.
Clinton: As well as the practical on-job training there is theory off-job training. Rakaia Farm facilitate classes every fortnight. Depending on what level you are studying determines how much study is required. The farm also provides meals for their trainees throughout the week.
Johan: Generally with dairy farming, you don't have to pay for accommodation, that's all supplied. You have no travel costs, and from there, you can start off around the $25,000 to $30,000 mark, and go as high as you want really.
Livia: Well it's the end of the day now, as you can see, it's night, it's been a very long day but I've enjoyed every bit of it. Some parts were quite hard, challenging, but in the end it was really worth it. Next year, I'm seriously going to go home and think about how I can make this happen.
Clinton: National Certificate in Agriculture courses are offered at several levels. The work you train for will dictate which level of the certificate you need to achieve. Level 2 is an introduction to the industry, takes one year to complete and requires 18 hours of off-farm theory-based training.
The outlook for farming is good and the numbers employed are expected to rise. Farming is becoming more specialised to cater for niche market demands, and all farmers now have to adjust farming styles to maximise returns.
Entry requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for dairy farmers, but training will help you with your career. A relevant training course in agriculture, dairy farming, agribusiness, or farm management is recommended. Most dairy farmers offer their employees training through the Primary Industry Training Organisation (Primary ITO), which offer apprenticeships.
It is useful to have a motorcycle and heavy vehicle driver's licence.
- Primary ITO website - information on dairy industry training
- Dairy NZ website - information about scholarships
Secondary education
At least three years of secondary school education is recommended, and useful subjects include agriculture, maths, accounting, biology or science, and computers.
Personal requirements
Dairy farmers need to be:
- patient, adaptable and practical
- motivated and able to follow a routine
- able to show initiative and make decisions
- well organised, goal focussed and forward thinking
- able to work well independently, and as part of a team
- good at communicating with, and managing people.
Useful experience
Useful experience for dairy farmers includes:
- any farm work
- working with animals
- working in mechanical, maintenance and building industries
- experience in rural professional roles such as fertiliser representative, banker or stock agent selling cattle or sheep
- joining a young farmers club.
Physical requirements
Dairy farmers need to be fit, with good stamina, as the job can be physically demanding.
Find out more about training
- Primary Industry Training Organisation
- 0800 208020 - firstname.lastname@example.com - www.primaryito.ac.nz
What are the chances of getting a job?
Because of high demand for people with dairy farming skills, dairy farm manager, herd manager, and dairy farm assistant roles appear on Immigration New Zealand's immediate skill shortage list. This means the Government is actively encouraging people skilled in these roles to come and work in New Zealand.
Managing farms is often a stepping stone to dairy farm ownership, and vacancies for managers arise frequently as people progress, move between farms, or retire.
New farming opportunities
Nationally, New Zealand is experiencing a trend of increasing herd numbers with an average herd size of 413 cows, compared to 285 cows 10 years ago. This reflects a trend towards corporatisation of dairy farms, which is creating new hands-off farm management roles; including, operation managers, business managers, and farm supervisors. These roles are often responsible for a number of farms. The increasing specialisation of roles will require an up-skilled workforce and greater demand for people with management skills.
Increasing opportunities to get on the dairy farm ladder
The increasing size of dairy farms is creating more opportunities for dairy farm assistants, and most dairy farmers are willing to train people with little prior experience as long as they have a can-do attitude and willingness to learn.
A variety of working arrangements for dairy farmers
Dairy farmers may work for themselves, as permanent staff members, or on a range of profit-sharing contracts, which includes part-ownership. Farms range in size from small units supporting one or two workers, to large units with 10 staff or more.
A growing number of large farming property-companies own many dairy farms, and employ managers and other staff to run them.
- Camilleri, C, product manager, Dairy NZ, Careers New Zealand interview, February 2015.
- Federated Farmers/Rabobank Farm Employee Remuneration Survey', June 2014, (www.fedfarm.org.nz).
- Immigration New Zealand, 'Immediate Skill Shortage List', accessed February 2015, (www.immigration.govt.nz).
- Ministry for Primary Industries, 'People Powered', June 2014 (www.mpi.govt.nz).
- Statistics New Zealand, 'Census of Population and Dwellings', 2014 (www.stats.govt.nz).
Progression and specialisations
Most dairy farmers start as farm workers or assistants, and progress into other roles such as herd manager or sharemilker. Some eventually buy and run their own farms.
During their career, dairy farmers may choose from a variety of profit-sharing and management roles, such as:
- Contract Milker
- Contract milkers pay for a percentage of the farm costs (without owning the cows) and receive a set reward per kilogram of milk solids.
- Dairy Farm Manager
- Dairy farm managers are responsible for the financial and physical performance of the farm in consultation with a farm's owner.
- Dairy Herd Manager
- Herd managers are paid a wage to look after a herd.
- Operations Manager
- Operations managers are responsible for meeting farm owners business goals, and other farm management functions such as ensuring the farm/s meet resource requirements.
- Sharemilker
- Sharemilkers either milk a dairy farmer's cows for a profit share, or own a herd of cows and milk them on an owner's land for a profit share.
Other employment and profit-sharing arrangements are available in the dairy farming industry. The Go Dairy website has details about all options.
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Biographical details
Julie Leask is an Associate Professor at The University of Sydney, School of Public Health. She holds a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship and is Sub-Dean (Early Career Researchers) in the Sydney Medical School. She is a visiting Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance (NCIRS) where she established the Social Science Unit. She is also a Chief Investigator on the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Immunisation in Under-Studied and Special-Risk Populations.
Julie is a social scientist specialising in immunisation and health risk communication. Her research focuses on communication about immunisation in clinical and public settings. She works with a team of postdoctoral researchers, PhD and MPhil candidates with a shared focus on improving immunisation policy, programs and practice.
Julie has a background in public health, nursing and midwifery with a Master of Public Health (1998) and PhD (2003) from the University of Sydney on "Understanding Immunisation Controversies" where she was also Associate Lecturer in Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (1997).
Julie has advised numerous international governments and agencies on immunisation uptake, communication and social research priorities. This includes the Global Vaccine Action Plan, WHO Europe, the European Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the New Zealand government. She has also advised governments and professional organisations in Australia.
In 2011, she was invited by the journal Nature to write an overview of vaccination acceptance in industrialised nations.In 2013 Julie gave the keynote address Communication Strategies During an Infectious Disease event for the Sheela Basrur Symposium in Toronto Canada.
Julie was a member of the Australian Academy of Science Working Group that wrote theScience of Immunisation, Questions and Answers. She co-wrote the Immunisation Policy for the Royal Australian College of Physicians and has advised the Council of the NHMRC on public acceptance of vaccination. In 2002 she convened the first national workshop on the Perception and Communication of Vaccine Riskin Melbourne. This was followed by a 2012 national workshop on Ethical Issues in Immunisation and in 2015, a workshop on Immunisation Advocacy.
Research interests
Julie's research interests include immunisation controversies, psychological and sociological aspects of infectious diseases, risk communication, and the mass media. She blogs at http://julieleask.wordpress.com
Teaching and supervision
Health and Risk Communication (School of Public Health) - assistant coordinator and co-developer;
Vaccines in Public Health (School of Public Health) - lecturing and assessment;
Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Health Promotion - session on focus groups;
Public Health - Ethics and Law - workshop on vaccine policy
Health Policy - workshop on vaccine policy
She has an interest in supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to undertake research.
Current research students
|Project title
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|Gaining insight into the refusal of childhood vaccinations - from birth to five years old-in the Byron Shire Community.
|Catherine Anne HELPS
Current projects
- Strategies and Resources to Assist Hesitant parents with vaccination (SARAH project)
- Developing a measure of Vaccination Attitudes, Beliefs and Concerns (V-ABC)
- Under-vaccination in Australia - addressing a lack of acceptance and of opportunity.
- Gaba Binggi: Good Needles: developing an understanding of how Two Aboriginal communities see and experience immunisation during pregnancy
- An investigation of how Aboriginal Medical Services in NSW contribute to childhood immunisation
- Gaining insight into the refusal of childhood vaccinations from- birth to five years old in the community
- Vaccination decision journeys - from pregnancy through the first six months
- Tracking online sentiment regarding vaccination
- When parents won't vaccinate - qualitative study of provider experiences and responses to non-vaccination
- Midwives attitudes to vaccination: a narrative literature review
- PASiDEM (Parent Adolescent Shared Interactive Decision Making) Pilot Study
Awards and honours
- Sax Institute Research Action Award, 2015 (inaugural)
- NHMRC Career Development Fellowship, 2013-2017
- University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-2014
- Teaching Award: Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision. Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney.
- University Postgraduate Award, University of Sydney 2000-2001.
In the media
Television: ABC television, 7 news, Nine news, The Project, SBS Insight, Al Jazeera television
Radio: ABC radio national, ABC local radio, ABC Counterpoint, SBS radio, BBC radio 4, numerous commercial
Print: The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, The Australian, Reuters Health, Canberra Times, numerous magazines.
Online: Mamamia, The Conversation, The Drum, The Wire, Discover Magazine
Infection and Immunological Conditions; Lifespan; Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health
Health policy; Communication; Public health; Social science; Vaccines and vaccinology
Clinical Specialty
International links
(Cardiff University (Paul Kinnersley) and University of East Anglia (Francine Cheater))
SARAH - Strategies and Resources to Assist Hesitant parents with vaccination: a collaboration to develop communication pathways in primary care that support parents and providers
(London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine; Imperial College London, Harvard School of Public Health)
Member MOTIV Think Tank: Motors of Trust in Vaccination
(Emory University, National Vaccine Program Office, Seattle University and LSHTM)
International Collaboration on Vaccine Acceptance
Selected grants
- Parents' Immunisation Needs and Attitudes (PINA-A Survey); Danchin M, Attwell K, Leask J, Wiley K, Giles M, Willaby H; Murdoch Childrens Research Institute/Research Support.
- A multi-disciplinary international collaboration to improve communication about vaccination.; Leask J, Trevena L, Sevdalis N, Cath J, Larson H, Kinnersley P, Cheater F; DVC International/IPDF Grant.
- Improving communication about immunisation through social sciences research; Leask J; National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Career Development Fellowships.
- Improving communication about immunisation through social sciences research; Leask J, Leask J, Leask J, Trevena L; DVC Research/Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme.
- CRE - Immunisation in under studied and special risk populations:closing the gap in knowledge through a multidisciplinary approach; MacIntyre C, McIntyre P, Booy R, Leask J, Wood N, Jones C, Dwyer D, Menzies R; National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Centres of Research Excellence.
- Research Fund; Leask J, Howard K, Negin J, Wiley K; Australian International Health Institute/Research Support.
- Social, Economic and Health benefits of vacciniating Children in day care centres against influenza; Leask J, Lambert S, Booy R, Sloots T, Lambert S, Leask J, Sloots T, Lambert S; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
- A randomised trial of a web-based toolkit for applying evidence in the general practice cervical cancer prevention visit; Trevena L, McCaffery K, Barratt A, Leask J, Brotherton J, Dobbins T; Cancer Council New South Wales/Research Project Grants.
- Economic and Social Benefits of treating and preventing influenza in Aged Care Facilities; Booy R, MacIntyre C, Dwyer D, Lindley R, Leask J, Beutels P; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
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Vegan Salad Nicoise
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 15 mins
Nicoise salad traditionally contains anchovies, but in this one they are replaced by capers.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 455 g French beans
- 2 large potatoes
- 6 large tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar or 2 tablespoons wine vinegar
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1⁄4 teaspoon mustard powder
- sea salt
- black pepper
- 1 tablespoon capers
- 55 g olives
- Cook the beans and potatoes seperately in boiling water. Leave to cool and slice them.
- Quarter the tomatoes and arrange them with the beans and potatoes on individual salad plates.
- Combine the oil, vinegar, mustard and seasoning then pour over the salad.
- Chop the olives finely, combine them with the capers and sprinkle this over the salad.
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Very nice salad. The market didn't have French beans so I used a mixture of green and yellow beans. I also used only 3 tomatoes.I mixed all the ingredients together in one bowl rather than individual plates since not everyone made it to dinner. I would have like the dressing to have a bit more bite, but that's just a personal preference. Made for Please Review My Recipe Tag.
This made a very nice salad along with some soup. I used leftover green beans, fingerling potatoes and cherry tomatoes. I added a little homemade french dressing that was leftover and it was great! Thanks!