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Brookford Farm CSA Newsletter (2/20/17)
Hello again Brookford Farm customers! In case we're not yet acquainted, my name is Matt, and I was the farm's Harvest Manager for the 2015 season and the beginning of the 2016 season. I had then initiated and did my best to regularly keep up with a CSA newsletter to pass on our current and upcoming events, choice photos, and occasional recipe suggestions for challenging and less familiar crops. My wife and I bought a house here in Canterbury in late 2015, and as my to-do list quickly filled up with home maintenance projects (apparently everything breaks right after you move in?), our ambitious homesteading goals, and the beginning of a business venture of my own, it quickly became apparent that I was going to need more flexibility in my schedule than would befit my role at the farm. So I reluctantly left the farm, returning to my older, less preferred, but much more flexible trades of carpentry and painting.
I had a great first year as a homeowner and homesteader, but even our large garden couldn't keep me from missing the farm. Brookford's tremendous diversity of crops, critters, and products make for an exceptionally engaging work environment, and attract incredibly hard-working and passionate people from a myriad of backgrounds; there was a lot to miss. Happily, some of you fine folks expressed to the farm that my newsletter was also missed, and as a result Luke and Catarina reached out to me about starting it up again. I gleefully accepted, and here we are.
Now on to the news! I had a lot to catch up on, so this will likely be longer than the typical newsletter moving forward...
I first caught up with Nick, the newest member of the animal crew, who was all smiles and already looked comfy operating the array of equipment necessary to work the silo. In the background you might have noticed a greenhouse due for a recovering, a spring task that will be a first for some of the Veggie crew's newer members--a great, challenging experience. Let's all hope the weather treats them to at least one wind-free day, unlike the covering of the greenhouse we put up shortly after I first started on the farm--yikes.
Next I dropped into the packhouse/shop, to find it cleaner, more organized, and more functional than I'd ever seen it before. With an incredible variety of work taking place in this space, requiring a huge array of equipment and machines, it's tough to convey just how much of an achievement it is to keep the place in tidy order--huge kudos to the Veggie and Maintenance crews!
Before ascending several tons of sweet potatoes to snap this photo, Jen and Greg were catching me up on some of the successes and failures of this extremely dry and challenging 2016 season, as well as what they were looking forward to in the coming season. They were happily anticipating a reduction in the overall production acreage, a welcome adjustment of the balance of quality and quantity. Their tales of the overwhelming weed pressure in the potatoes and elsewhere gave me a quick pang of something akin to a PTSD flashback. Additionally, they were excited to begin the planning stages of their response to your customer survey feedback--eager to determine how much they would be able to expand the farm's fruit and herb production in particular, and possibly even cut flowers in addition! Greg and his dad will be setting up bee hives on the farm this season, so the more nectar and pollen the better.
On my way to catch up with the Livestock crew I briefly stopped for a chat with Magic, who must be one of the prettiest nurse cows in all the land. What a face!
While the Livestock crew wrapped up a meeting, I dropped into the creamery to happily find Marie right where I left her, and her accent thinner than ever--she must be getting lots of linguistic practice training the new hands I found with her. Jana was in her first week in the creamery, and Nolan (who happens to be a neighbor I hadn't yet met) was feeling like he was now really getting the hang of things after two and a half months aboard. He admitted to being a smoked cheese fiend, so it's a good thing Brookford's smoked cheddar, our mutual favorite cheese style, is easily the best we've had anywhere. Nolan didn't sound like he missed his previous career as a professional driver one iota.
When the Livestock crew meeting ended I was able to catch up with Nicole about the herd. With two calves born so far this year, and a relatively light load of 43 cows milking, the dairy crew is preparing for things to get much more busy soon.
Additionally, they are pushing to get the herd certified organic this year, a lengthy process that first requires the certification of the pasture, and then requires all of the cattle to have been born on the farm. Since Brookford moved to Canterbury with a large productive herd in tow, this process has taken several years so as to avoid necessitating a very large cull of the original herd. It also seems that last year and this year brought an atypically large influx of new cattle in anticipation of the certification process, which provided an opportunity to retool the breed makeup of the herd as well. The Jerseys are now taking a back seat to the Normande breed, which, as Nicole explained to me, offers superior feed efficiency, as well as being a meatier, more balanced dual-purpose breed.
The Livestock crew's meeting was focused on beginning to reimagine their chicken setup for this coming season, to reduce the stress on both the birds and their caretakers. While their ranging chicken trailers are relatively idyllic as far as poultry living conditions go, they are not without some pitfalls. Difficult fencing, regular visits from loud scary tractors, as well as predator pressure (there is a beautiful pair of bald eagles nesting about a mile downriver from the farm) were some of the areas of concern shared with me. I'm looking forward to hearing what they come up with and passing it along to you.
On my way to bend Luke and Catarina's ears for a few minutes I bumped into Tim Meeh of North Family Farm, the remarkable operation behind the syrup share that Brookford offers. He shared that their operation is by no means exempt from the wild ride that this winter has made for. It warmed up enough for them to get all of their trees tapped, but then promptly snapped cold enough to freeze their lines solid. This past weekend they will have enjoyed weather warm enough to thaw the lines so that they can find and patch any leaks, and fully begin their sugaring season. In addition to their syrup being certified organic, and produced with the most sustainable methods I can imagine, it is the finest tasting maple syrup I've yet encountered. If you like syrup and aren't already subscribed, I strongly suggest you acquire a bottle to try. And if you don't think you consume enough syrup to justify a subscription, I suggest you take a look at the maple syrup health benefits detailed on the North Family Farm website and consider substituting maple syrup for your regular sweeteners.
When I reached Luke and Catarina, they confirmed that their eldest son, Oliver, had been regularly on the schedule for some of the dairy work including milking and letting the cows out at night. As far as I'm concerned, this marks the beginning of Brookford's status as a multi-generation family farm, which I find to be an exciting semantic distinction! Luke explained that the farm has been enjoying the Somerville Winter Farmers Market on Saturdays, and that it has also enabled CSA distribution to the Boston Area. If you know folks in the Boston area that might be interested, the farm would greatly appreciate you spreading the good word. Looking forward to this coming season, Luke and Catarina also reminded me that the asparagus we planted towards the beginning of my time on the farm was going to be in its third year now, the first year viable for harvest. The large asparagus crop is a wonderful example of the kind of long term investment that your subscriptions allow the farm to undertake, as they provide far more predictable and less seasonally volatile revenue, which makes for more accurate accounting and thus much less risky reinvestment.
Finally, a quick note on some upcoming staff changes. Two very familiar faces on the farm will be leaving their positions soon. Brady, who was the Vegetable Field Manager during my time on the farm and subsequently shifted his focus to Livestock and Farmers Markets, has accepted a job at a relatively small vegetable farm in the Hudson River Valley. Hillary, who has been primarily responsible for the farm store's improved layout and stocking procedures, as well as maintaining the farm's wholesale accounts and delivery routes and attending farmers markets, is also moving on --though she will remain with the farm on a part-time basis for events and promotional activities. Both will be missed, and if you have the opportunity to see them at the farm, your local pickup location, or farmers market, feel free to give a hug goodbye and a fare thee well, they're both sweeties!
I look forward to continuing this newsletter on a weekly basis, it's such a treat being back on the farm to soak up and share notable happenings. Looking forward I plan to include more recipe suggestions and share some insight into my household's successes and challenges as avid cooks and locavores. Please feel free to reach out if there are any particular subjects you would like to see me focus on.
On behalf of the whole farm, thank you so much for your business, and the values that brought it to us.
Peas and lub,


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My new book Revolutionaries is so much more than history.
It contains personal application sections at the end of each of the 53 lives mentioned throughout the book labeled "Start a Revolution."
The goal is to enable us to practically apply life lessons from many of the world's greatest influencers to our own life, dreams, business, ministry and especially to help us spread the Good News of Jesus with our world.
We live in the largest and most un-reached generation in American history. Many nations before us have faced bleaker odds, so we know that God can and will help us change the tide. We need help, and the Revolutionaries lives are here to do just that. They too faced dark generations. Here is an example of one of these sections.
Start a Revolution: It Only Takes a Few
Margaret Mead shares an inspirational quote asserting, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." The Apostles embody this quote and give it legs. Consider these first believers in Christ, how the odds were stacked against them. The Apostles lived in a time when only several hundred people in the world had even heard the name of Jesus, let alone adhered to faith in him.
Next, consider that the Apostles had little money or resources. Nor did they have many people to help start the movement. Most church plants start with dozens more members than the Apostles had at their initiation. One of the most dramatic points about Christianity is the fact that such a miniscule number—twelve revolutionaries—spurred the movement that is now the largest religion in the world. Talk about a revolution of divine proportions!
The secret of the few is that the Apostles had decided what they would do with Jesus. One by one, each individual gave their life rather than deny the claims of Jesus. They had walked with Christ, they had experienced what it was to be near to Him, and they were forever changed. They refused to give up, let up, or change their minds.
Their Christ experience so transformed their hearts that they set out to change the world, carrying His message of grace and sacrifice. Far from being inclusive to other religions, a hot button item in our generation in the United States today, they were as exclusive as they come. If it's hard enough to be exclusive in a generation where one in three people around the world claim adherence to the Christian faith, can you imagine what exclusivity meant in their time, where only one person in three million had ever heard the Name of Jesus?
The essential problem lies in the fact that if we believe—truly believe—the revolutionary message of Christ's love, we will share it with others. Do we believe? In His coming, living as God in flesh, His death on the cross for our sins, His resurrection on the third day, and then rising to sit at the right hand of the Father to await the coming of his believers soon? If we believe, we will share it with others.
This is not the type of extreme exclusivity or fundamentalism that kills people who don't convert. No, it continues to this day, this fundamentalism that sacrifices personal reputation to share with others a deep, other-worldly, revolutionary type of love, laying all on the line that other men and women may know Christ and His claims. This sacrificial fundamentalism has been and continues to be found in people who would choose to die rather than deny Christ's power to start the most important revolution in the history of the world. It doesn't take many revolutionaries: just a few who really get it.

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The Wire, the complete series, on Blu-Ray
On Dec 9, the complete run of The Wire, all five seasons, comes out on Blu-Ray. Those of you who watched The Wire don't need my endorsement. Those who haven't and own a Blu-Ray player? Treat yourself to a holiday gift of the best television series, or telenovel, ever.


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I recently had a need to create linked autocomplete fields for one of my clients. The use case was pretty common; there was a list of companies and then a list of contacts, each one associated with a company. The goal was to have the customer service rep select the company, then have the list of contacts filtered by the company.
Each contact was a user in the system. We used the Content Profile module to collect additional contact information and added a nodereference field to link the contact to the company. We also decided to use the Realname and Realname Userreference modules to make it easier to find contacts.
Autocomplete Adventure
Drupal has autocomplete functionality built in, and it is fairly simple to create an autocomplete field. It becomes a little more challenging when you need to modify an existing autocomplete field.
I started by trying to use hook_form_alter to change the autocomplete path, but that property was not available to me in the form elements. My only option was to use javascript to modify the autocomplete path after the page loaded. Thanks to this article at Digital Illusion and a slightly older tutorial from d.o I was able to piece together my final solution.
First, I needed to replace the built in autocomplete url with my own:
//globals var $clientField; var $contactField; $(document).ready(function(){ $clientField = $("#edit-field-ticket-client-0-nid-nid"); $contactField = $('#edit-field-ticket-contact-0-uid-uid'); $contactAcField = $("#edit-field-ticket-contact-0-uid-uid-autocomplete"); var url = $contactAcField.val(); url = url.replace('realname_userreference/autocomplete/field_ticket_contact','native_support_ticket/username/autocomplete/field_ticket_contact/'); var input = $contactField.attr('autocomplete', 'OFF')[0]; recreateAutoComplete(input, url); }); function recreateAutoComplete(input, url) { $(input).unbind(); var acdb = new Drupal.ACDB(url); $(input.form).submit(Drupal.autocompleteSubmit); new Drupal.jsAC(input, acdb); //focus is used on the child field because contact field can be //entered while changing a node and never toucing the parent field. $("#edit-field-ticket-contact-0-uid-uid").focus(function() { clientSelected($clientField); }); }
And the javascript to update the contact field's autocomplete url when the company field changes:
function clientSelected(parent) { // Get the url from the child autocomplete hidden form element var url = $contactAcField.val(); // Alter it according to parent value parsing the node id from the nodereference field var regex = /\[nid:(.*)\]/; var regex_results = regex.exec(parent.val()); url = url.replace('realname_userreference/autocomplete/field_ticket_contact','native_support_ticket/username/autocomplete/field_ticket_contact/'); url += regex_results[1]; var input = $contactField.attr('autocomplete', 'OFF')[0]; // Recreate autocomplete behaviour for the child textfield var input = $('#edit-field-ticket-contact-0-uid-uid').attr('autocomplete', 'OFF')[0]; recreateAutoComplete(input, url); }
In my module, I created a new menu item in hook_menu:
$items['native_support_ticket/username/autocomplete'] = array( 'title' => 'Native Support Userreference autocomplete', 'page callback' => 'native_support_userreference_auto', 'access arguments' => array('access content'), 'type' => MENU_CALLBACK );


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If I told you Base iOS client takes around 3.5 minutes for a clean build on a decent MacBook Pro (Mid 2015) you would probably say it's not that bad, considering around 2000 classes and 30+ cocoapods. However, since we haven't ever worked specifically on build time optimization, we surely could do something to cut it down a bit.
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Ruffit Lodge
Enjoy the tranquility of farm life in a private valley just 2.4 kms from SH2. Large ponds for kayaking or viewing the birds. Close to trout fishing in Manawatu River. A secret heaven.
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Three bedroom farm cottage, nestled in private valley. Ideal retreat or peaceful holiday destination. On 180ha farm, 5 minutes from Woodville.
Kayak on private pond, enjoy the bird life. Sleeps 10 - queen bedroom, twin room and bunk room. Lounge and kitchen. Microwave, hot plate, barbeque, fridge. 5 minutes to trout fishing, 10 or 15 minutes to 18 hole golf courses, 10 minutes to Tui Brewery at Mangatainoka, 15 minutes to tramping in Ruahine or Tararua Ranges.
Clay target shooting by arrangement.
Table tennis and darts available in woolshed. Air dried linen supplied. Owners are keen wetland enthusiasts and members of Ducks Unlimited NZ. Fishing Guide available. Just 2.4 kms off SH2, and 30 minutes from Palmerston North.
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Apple, Apple TV, Automobile, Carburetors, Cars, EFI, Electronic Fuel Injection, Global Positioning System, Google, GPS, iOS, Microsoft, Palm Pilot, Samsung, Self-Driving, Simpkins, Tizen
As a lover of tech from back in Palm Pilot days, like you, new tech excites. The endless possibilities, research and development these companies are doing to make our lives better, safer and convenient is surely welcomed. But, is there a line of demarcation, not to be crossed? Cars…Let's take a moment to reflect, with a bit of humor tossed in.


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So the other day I had to pick up some new make-up, I mean it is winter and I am pretty pale. While I was out I found a new lip gloss thing that proclaimed to be 24-hour. Like a fearless follower I shelled out nearly 8 dollars for a nice plumy-pink shade. But it doesn't stop there, when I went to apply said lip color for work yesterday I decided it was a great idea to document the day and the results of this lip color. So I give to you a day in the life of my lips with their new 24-hour color.
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Ellie Murphy
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MFA 1992 Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut.
BFA 1987 Washington University School of Fine Art, St. Louis, Missouri.
2017 Perpetual Award, Azarian-McCullough Art Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY.
2017 Post-Romance: Artists Valentines, Curated by Larry Walczak, The Renaissance Centre, Erie, PA.
2017 Nasty Women Exhibition, The Knockdown Center, Maspeth Queens, NY.
2016 Connections, Curated by Peter Gynd, Foundation Center, New York, NY.
2016 Bringing Brooklyn To Norfolk, Gallery 21, Norfolk, VA.
2016 Twentieth Anniversary Alumni Show, Franconia Sculpture Park at Casket Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
2015 The BIGsmall Show, Drawing Rooms Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ.
2015 Checkered History: The Grid in Art and Life, Outpost Artist Resources, Queens, NY. (Curated by David Weinstein and Ruth Kahn)
2015 Color Rules, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, 180 Grand Street, Jersey City, New Jersey
2015 Pleasures of the Flesh, Outpost Artists Resources, 1665 Norman Street, Ridgewood Queens, New York, co-curated with Kelly Parr.
2015 KEEP OUT, Lesley Heller Workspace, 54 Orchard Street, New York, New York, curated by Natalie Moore.
2015 PAPER JAM: Exploring Visual Strategies for Social Concern, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, curated by Larry Walczak @eyewash.
2014 The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, New Jersey, curated by Anne Trauben
2014 hair-DO, No Globe Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York.
2014 Drawing Off The Wall, Drawing Rooms,, Jersey City, New Jersey, curated by Anne Trauben
2014 Communal Table, curated by Björn Meyer-Ebrecht, Brooklyn Open Studios, Brooklyn.
2014 Curated by Peter Gynd Projects, Contemporary Art Fair,The Tunnel, New York City.
2014 Best Case Scenario, Long Hall Exhibition Space, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, New York.
2014 99Cent Plus Art Shop Inaugural Exhibition, Selected by Rico Gatson, Brooklyn, New York.
2013 United/Divided, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, California.
2013 Color Line, Curated by Rico Gatson, The Outpost, Ridgewood, New York.
2013 Rock Street, Curated by Deborah Brown and Leslie Heller, Brooklyn, New York.
2012 To be a Lady: forty-five women in the arts, Curated by Jason Andrew, Organized by Norte Maar, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York City.
2012 Grounded, Airplane Gallery, 70 Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, New York.
2012 Linear Perspective, Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space, Philadelphia.
2012 Of Mind, Body & Soul: An Exploration of the Personal, Fowler Arts Collective, Brooklyn.
2011 Site-Specific Commission, Norte Maar, Brooklyn.
2011 "Per-son-age" Curated by Rico Gatson, Famous Accountants, Queens, New York.
2011 In Between the Sheets, Workspace Harlem, New York, New York.
2011 Williamsburg2000, Art 101, Brooklyn.
2010 String Theory: Selected Works in Fabric, Storefront, Brooklyn.
2010 Collective Show New York, Participant, Inc., New York.
2010 TRIM: A Work in Progress, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont.
2009 Pac Man, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, California.
2009 SQUASHblossom, Privateer Gallery, Brooklyn.
2007 Strand, NYCAMS/New York Center for Art & Media Studies, New York.
2007 The Library Project, Grassmacks Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota.
2007 Intelligent Design, Momenta Art, Brooklyn.
2007 Shared Women, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles.
2005 BIOgraphy, (Site-Specific Project) Brooklyn Public Library Exhibitions Program, Brooklyn.
2005 The Next Generation, Museum of Biblical Art, 1865 Broadway, New York.
2004 Chasing Rainbows, Outdoor Sculpture, Fulton Ferry/Brooklyn Bridge State Park.
2003 Percent for Art in Public Places, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul.
2002 Jerome Fellowship Artist, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota.
2002 The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum, Works on Paper Gallery, Los Angeles.
2001 Window Shopping, sponsored by Eyewash Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
2000 Summer Reading, Eyewash Gallery.
1999 Concurrent Solo Exhibitions, Eyewash Gallery.
1997 Killing Time, White Columns, Christopher Street, New York.
1997 The Art Exchange Show, 67 Broad Street, New York.
1995 Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Mercer Street, New York.
1994 Essential Fluids: Wet and Dry, Sauce Gallery, Brooklyn.
1991 Yale Summer School of Art and Music Sculpture Projects, Norfolk, Connecticut.
2016 Open Studio Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota.
2005 Greenwall Foundation Grant
2003 Percent for Art Award, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, Minnesota.
2002 Jerome Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park.
1992 Susan Weadon Award, Yale University School of Art.
1991 Norfolk School of Art and Music, Outdoor Sculpture Grant, Norfolk, Connecticut


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One of the strangest things about contemporary views of love is the way they seem to obscure, or even erase, one of the most pressing modern questions about love: what is fairness in the context of loving, long-term, intimate relationships?
On the one hand, we often talk about love in ways that associate it with high ideals: of merging with another person, of giving yourself over to them, of coming to take their well-being as your primary goal. But on the other hand, we all know of the dangers of utterly subsuming your interests under those of another. Our mental picture of the person who is always self-sacrificing is not that of the lover, it is that of the doormat: someone who allows others to walk all over them.
It is striking that even some common philosophical theories, trying to be more precise about the nature of love, replicate and reinforce this difficulty. In everyday life and in philosophy, talk of love is often associated with two ideas: unity and other-regardingness. But in each of these, the concept of fairness seems to virtually disappear.
In addition to having a powerful grip on our culture, the possibility that love creates a unity among previously distinct persons is part of some philosophical theories. In popular culture, it represents an idea of loving togetherness: instead of talking about my interests and yours, instead of talking about how those interests might conflict or compete, we would talk simply of "our interests." There would no longer be "good for me" and "good for you," there would just be "good for us."
In philosophy, the unity view is associated with the work of several philosophers, including Robert Nozick, whose 1989 essay "Love's Bond" proposes that lovers form a "we": a new entity with its own needs and interests. Among other things, Nozick argues that seeing love as a unity allows us to explain why a readiness to "trade up" -- exchanging the current love interest for one who is a bit more appealing -- does not fit with an attitude of love. This is because to "trade up" would be self-destructive: you are destroying the "we" that you are a part of.
But once we move beyond metaphors, difficulties with the unity view become apparent. How literally, and to what extreme, are we to take the merging of identities and interests? Surely it is possible for two people to love one another, and yet want incompatible things. One might want a large family, while the other dreams of a child-free, uninterrupted life of creativity or scholarship. One might be adventurous while the other craves peace and calm.
If we interpret the "unity" view so that the "we" replaces the two individuals, then we can no longer say that the interests in these cases diverge. There would no longer be two people each with their own interests. Instead we'd have to say there is a "we" that is ambivalent: it wants children but also wants not to have them; it wants adventure but also calm.
But this is this an intuitively inaccurate description. Even for the most committed and bonded couples it seems wrong to say that it's just impossible for interests to be had by particular persons. Furthermore, as Noël Merino has pointed out, this interpretation makes generosity in love impossible. If one person gives up a desirable career opportunity so the other can pursue their own projects, out of loving kindness, the unity view erases the sense of acting "for" another: instead, the "we" had various interests, and jointly chose one over the others.
But we can take this point even further. Because the interests are not tied to individuals, there is no way to even say what it would mean for the decisions and compromises people make in love to be fair or unfair. What if it turns out that the person who gives up the desirable career opportunity is always the one who loses out? What if it's always that person who cooks dinner, or settles for the worse job, so the other can pursue their dreams? Because the interests are shared, that person wouldn't even have grounds for complaint. Since there is no "good for me" or "good for you," it's impossible to even frame what has gone wrong in such cases.
A possible response to this is to say that the unity view need not be interpreted so that the individuals disappear altogether. A unity theorist might try to say instead that the individuals persist alongside the new entity, the "we." As Alan Soble has argued, though, to say this is just to push the problem one step back. Which interests remain tied to individuals? Which interests are shared by the "we"?
The difficulty is particularly salient with respect to the fairness problem. Without some principled way of distinguishing shared and unshared interests, the person whose interests always win out can simply insist that the relevant interests are part of the "we," so that no unfairness has arisen.
A different view of love, rejecting the idea of "unity," focuses on other-regarding attitudes. In these views, love has to do with wanting to increase the well-being of the love object. Again, this is an idea rooted in everyday cultural conceptions of love -- that love essentially involves a caring attitude toward a person.
For a philosophical example, in Harry Frankfurt's "volitional" theory of love, love shapes a person's preferences and conduct; the person who truly loves will be motivated to act in ways that foster the well-being of the loved person.
Here we face the question of whether, and how, these reasons can come to an end. If love has to do with acting for the other's benefit, how is it ever acceptable to act selfishly? How is it possible to put a limit on self-sacrifice? Perhaps the loved one desires a great deal of care and attention. Must the lover ignore their own wants altogether? Must each person sacrifice their individual projects altogether, for the sake of the other person? Must one person agree to have as many children as the other person wants, out of concern for their well-being?
It would seem that other-regardingness in love should not be not something without end, but rather something that must have appropriate bounds, so that retaining a robust sense of individuality and individual deservingness is essential -- essential, even, to love itself.
But the other-regardingness views of love make this point obscure. Even the idea of two people equally but unlimitedly committed to the well-being of the other is puzzling. If each person cares most about the others' well-being, it is difficult to know what one might do "for" another person, since satisfying each person's strongest preferences means doing what will please oneself. This leads, at best, to an theoretical infinite regress, and at worst to a kind of practical paralysis.
And as we saw with the union view, if each person is to act with a mix of selfish motives and selfless ones, a fair relationship requires that the selfish domain take up an appropriately similar part of each person's life. The other-regardingness view of love, because it makes unintelligible how any selfish motives are acceptable, makes this appropriateness impossible to see.
Though I've only considered two theories here, these examples illustrate some of the ways our associations with love are hard to square with the idea of a fair balance between shared interests and individuality, and between acting for the other and acting for oneself.
These problems may arise partly from the Western history of marriage. In much of that history marriage has been embedded in patriarchical social structures. The historical common-law conception of love codified the idea that marriage was meant to merge man and woman together into one legal person -- where the woman's rights were subsumed under those of the man and the man took on the obligation of protection.
The problem of fairness thus barely arose: marriage was heterosexual only, and unity in marriage was achieved by simply sacrificing the woman's interest to the man's.
What we need is a theory of love that will not only accommodate, but also help us understand, the delicate interplay between individualistic self-oriented interests and shared collective interests.
In fact, such a theory of love would be useful far beyond the intimate domain. Associating love with unity and unlimited care virtually ensures that one can only love a small number of people. But allowing that love always represents an interplay among selfless and individualist forces might allow us finally to embrace the idea that love should extend beyond one's intimates and children.
We would then be able to love and care about all manner of people, whether we're bound up closely with them or not.


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Great piece in today's FT by Patti Waldmeir on what she calls "the death of self-rule on the internet." Waldmeir is referring to the decision by Ebay to rewrite its constitution so that buyers and sellers will no longer be democratic equals on the site. Because of widespread corruption, Ebay is ending its policy of allowing sellers to rate buyers on the auction site. As Waldmeir says:
Now the company has basically admitted that the cybersouk model doesnot work: buyers did not tell the truth about sellers, and sellers did not tell the truth about buyers. And in a market where traders lie, the trust that is so central to online commerce cannot flourish.
It's a simple message. The Ebay experiment has failed. Pure self-government doesn't work. Self-policing is great in theory, but problematic in practice. The system intimidated both buyers and sellers and actually created an atmosphere of dishonesty and denial. So a radically democratic Ebay made us less rather than more knowledgeable about each other. But, as Waldmeir suggests, the latest Ebay reform is actually making the problem even worse. The auction site is doing away with the right of the seller to rate the buyer, but not the right of the buyer to rate the seller -- thus creating what she calls "a dictatorship of the consumer":
From now on, Ebayers will not be democratic equals and they will lose a lot of their autonomy: buyers will still be able to rate sellers, raising a red flag to warn others away from merchants who are fraudsters or just plain bad at their business. But sellers will no longer be able to leave negative feedback on buyers - including those who do not pay. Instead, Ebay will step in to help protect honest sellers from dishonest buyers. But most sellers see this as a dramatic shift in the balance of power within Ebay society, and they are right. In future, the Ebay consumer will be king: buyers will easily be able to threaten sellers with negative feedback and sellers will find it much harder to strike back. Many sellers fear the new dictatorship of the consumer.
Unfortunately, Waldmeir's dictatorship of the consumer extends way beyond Ebay. This is the populist, libertarian tsunami that is sweeping over the Web 2.0 economy. The consumer is king, we are told, and is always right. The consumer has the right to vilify merchants, the right to free music, the right to pick political candidates as if they were toothpaste, the right to express themselves on whatever catches their fancy.
But what happens when the Internet consumer has driven the Internet merchant out of existence? What happens when the dictatorship of the consumer is turned upon itself?


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BOSTON — The stage, washed in white light, looks enormous when the curtain goes up on William Forsythe's "Second Detail," the opening piece on the Boston Ballet triple bill at the opera house here. Twelve dancers, dressed in the palest gray leotards and tights — some facing the audience, some with their backs to us — are arrayed in lines and diagonals, their bodies etched against the space with cut-glass clarity. Thom Willem's electronic score offers a hesitant, knocking rhythm, and then a 13th dancer, a woman, walks on quietly and takes her place in a line.
The reference might be to Balanchine's "Serenade." Although the jazzy, percussive "Second Detail" is worlds away from the elegiac sweep of that ballet, Mr. Forsythe's Balanchine heritage is utterly clear in this work, created for the National Ballet of Canada in 1991.
As "The Second Detail" bursts into multifaceted life — groups splintering into contrapuntal lines, couples coalescing in pas de deux, then regrouping with new partners, or individuals erupting into dazzling solos — references from various Balanchine ballets bloom and dissolve. Here are the knock-kneed chorus-girl lines of "Stravinsky Violin Concerto"; the acerbic, experimental partnering of the opening pas de deux in "Four Temperaments"; the acrobatic, pushed-to-the-limit flexibility of "Agon"; the high-spirited jogging groups of "Rubies."
Of course, anyone can quote. In "The Second Detail" Mr. Forsythe offers a rigorous and playful exploration of ballet's precepts: verticality, equilibrium, effort, control and classical line. Those explorations are infused with his own distinctive kinetic sensibility, including the through-the-body impulses that can begin from any point; the highly articulated use of the arms, hands and back; the rhythmic complexity that demands stillness woven into speed; the disruption of conventional balletic logic.
The atmosphere of "The Second Detail" is collegial, experimental, like a ballet studio inhabited by intensely curious collaborators. When they aren't dancing, the performers sometimes sit on a line of chairs at the back, watching. Occasionally that line too morphs into a dreamlike, seated backup dance.
As Mr. Forsythe's many imitators keep proving, it's easy to go for the big-kick, contemporary attitude of his style and ignore the nuances. All credit to Jill Johnson, a member of the original Canadian cast and a longtime Forsythe dancer, for adapting the work to the Boston dancers with impeccable attention to stylistic detail. The first cast, in particular, on Saturday night found a fine balance of joyous spontaneity and rigor, with standout performances from Kathleen Breen Combes, Erica Cornejo, Isaac Akiba and John Lam; Robert Kretz was notable in the matinee. Only the final wild-woman solo, danced by Lorna Feijóo at both performances, failed to dominate the stage as it should.Continue reading the main story
There's an unusual artistic coherence to this bill. The second work, "Part I, II, III," is by Helen Pickett, who danced with Mr. Forsythe's Ballet Frankfurt for over a decade. The third, "Bella Figura" (the name of the overall program as well), is by Jiri Kylian, the Czech-born choreographer, who, like Mr. Forsythe, danced with the Stuttgart Ballet before building a substantial oeuvre as director of the Nederlands Dans Theater.
Sandwiched between two major figures, Ms. Pickett holds her own with notable poise, made all the more remarkable by her choice of music by one of the ballet world's most overused composers, Arvo Pärt. "Tsukiyo," the second segment of her piece, deploys the drop-by-drop piano of Mr. Pärt's "Spiegel im Spiegel." But Ms. Pickett creates her own magic here in an exquisite duet that blends a limpid fluidity with a tactile warmth, danced with emotional intensity by both Ms. Breen Combes and Lorin Mathis at the matinee, and by Lia Cirio and Sabi Varga in the evening.
The first section, "Layli O Manjun," to "Orient and Occident," is also a pas de deux (Larissa Ponomarenko and Yury Yanowsky were particularly touching in the evening), inspired by a Persian folk tale, with themes of love and loss woven into more dramatic, larger-scale movement.
Part III, "Tabula Rasa," offers eight dancers moving under a glowing set of light tubes, and it shows Mr. Forsythe's influence in its juxtapositions of groups and solos, its extreme articulations and speed. It feels disconnected from the first sections, but the ballet displays Ms. Pickett's skill, ambition and individuality.
Mr. Kylian's "Bella Figura," created in 1995 and set to music by Lukas Foss and several Baroque composers, has a painterly beauty. Its nine dancers are increasingly confined and framed by curtains that drop from above. At one point men and women alike are topless in long, panniered red skirts, as two fires burn brightly at the back of the stage.
The movement, pliant and gestural with classical lines and earthy contemporary overtones, is smoothly appealing and beautifully danced, but it's Mr. Kylian's intensely visual sensibility, the way he moves the eye from the individual to the larger composition and back, that is most noticeable here. In this program, you see that influence, as well as Mr. Forsythe's, on Ms. Pickett's work — a highly pleasurable lesson in how dance morphs, evolves and lives on.Continue reading the main story


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It caused a storm of outrage when it was first published in the 1980s for its expletive-ridden lines, but controversial poem V will now be broadcast on Radio 4 for the first time.
The poem contains frequent use of the most extreme swear words in the English language, as well as racial slurs.
Written by Tony Harrison and published in 1985, it tells the story of a Leeds graveyard desecrated by x-rated graffiti and caused outrage at its first airing.
Radio 4 Controller Gwyneth Williams, who announced the programme today along with plans for 2013, said she wanted to throw "fireworks" into the station's output, with "colourful, original and unpredictable works".
The poem will now be broadcast in full on Radio 4, after the watershed but with no traditional "bleeping" to cover expletives.
It will be part of an hour-long programme to put the poem in context, bringing the themes of intolerance, extremism and class warfare up to the modern day.
One verse of the long poem reads: "But why inscribe these graves with C--- and S---? / Why choose neglected tombstones to disfigure?
"This pitman's of last century daubed P--- GIT / this grocer Broadbent's aerosolled with N-----?"
Another verse said: "'Listen, c---!' I said, 'before you start your jeering / the reason why I want this in a book,
"'s to give ungrateful c---- like you a hearing!' A book, yer stupid c---, 's not worth a f---!"
Tony Phillips, arts commissioning editor at Radio 4, said: "This focus on culture in 2013 will give us the opportunity to revisit seminal works that have had an impact on society such as Tony Harrison's V."
He added the station would be "signposting" the unusual content of the poem in case of sensitive ears, as broadcasting after the watershed between 11pm and midnight.
"It's very important that, as much as we can, we air the poem as Harrison wrote it," he said. "There will be many, many warnings and explanations and it will be late at night.
"V did cause a little bit of a flurry of activity in the 1980s when it first went out.
"We'll find a way to put it on air without compromising Harrison's poem at all. We'll have lots of signposting. Yes, it will present us with some challenges but I'm sure we'll be able to overcome them.
"One of the interesting and most powerful things about the poem for me... is that the area where the graveyard was, where his parents are buried, is the Beeston area of Leeds.
"That area was also the area... where one of the 7/7 bombers is from. So it just strikes me as a really poignant and potentially really interesting revisit of this poem, knowing that one of the 7/7 bombers at that stage would have been a very young child."
He added: "It's a very interesting time to take Harrison back... Ultimately we will allow the poem itself to speak 25 years or so on."
Other famous lines from the poem include: "ow people 'fell asleep in the Good Lord'/ brief, chisellable bits from the good book / and rhymes whatever length they could afford,/ to C---, P---, S--- and (mostly) F---!"
Channel 4 received criticism for broadcasting a film version of the poem in 1987, including an Early Day Motion introduced by a group of Conservative MPs entitled "Television Obscenity".
The Radio 4 show is scheduled to go out in February.
It heralds a distinct and deliberate change for the station this year, as the BBC seeks to incorporate more arts and culture into Radio 4 programming.
The coming year will see a new £1m collaborative project entitled "Open", where artists across Britain will be invited to share their work.
A "cultural exchange" will also be taking place, with 75 short pieces commemorating great poems, photographs, painting, music, architecture and writing chosen by notable figures in the art world.
The station will also launch a "So You Want to be a Writer?" talent search, along with appointing their first ever "writer in residence".
Speaking of recent criticism of the Today programme for not having enough female presenters, Willams added: "My feeling is I would love to see more women presenting on the Today programme, but we do have a fantastic, smart team at the top of their game at the moment.
"It would be nice to have another woman presenter which in due course I think we will have."


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The Bonsai Society of Greater New Haven, established in 1973, is a non-profit educational organization. Its Japanese name is Kaigan Mori Bonsai Kyokai (Kaigan = seashore, Mori = grove), reflecting a proximity to the waters of New Haven Harbor and Long Island Sound. The objectives of the Society are to exchange knowledge of bonsai within the organization and share bonsai culture with the community through meetings, workshops, demonstrations, and exhibits
The Society is a member of the American Bonsai Society, the North American Bonsai Federation, and Bonsai Clubs International and contributes support to The National Bonsai Foundation in Washington, D.C.
The regular meetings are held at Edgerton Park in New Haven on the second Tuesday of each month from January through June and September through November and begin at 7:00 p.m. The usual format consists of a brief business session followed by a demonstration of bonsai techniques or a presentation on a bonsai-related subject. In December there is a pot-luck holiday party, and in July or August the members get together for a picnic. Additional meetings are occasionally held to accommodate special guests and demonstrators. The Society has an annual exhibition of members' trees and other bonsai related materials, with a dinner and auction held on the evening of the opening of the exhibition.
Throughout the year there are opportunities for people of all skill levels to learn about bonsai. The Society has been fortunate to have some of the finest bonsai artists in the world come to New Haven to give demonstrations, lectures, and workshops. Guests have included Kenji Miyata, Jack Billet, Jim Barrett, James Doyle, Pauline Muth, Doris Froning, Marion Gyllenswan, John Romano, Mike Pollock, Nick Lenz, Mary Madison, Hal Mahoney, Boon Manakitivipart, Roy Nagatoshi, John Naka, Guy Guidry, Chase Rosade, Arthur Skolnik, Andy Smith, Suthin Sukosolvisit and Yuji Yoshimura. There are also many knowledgeable and talented members who are eager to share their love of the ancient and beautiful art of bonsai with experienced practitioners or those taking their first steps.
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March Madness Flash Fiction: SCAVENGERS by Christi Frey
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This is it! The last day of March and the last story of our flash fiction challenge! And this one is a whopper. I grinned like an idiot when I read it. It's by the mastermind Christi Frey, who never ceases to amaze me with how much and what she can do. Check Christi out on Twitter http://t.co/778R9jx0LX and http://t.co/778R9jx0LX.
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Scavengers, I thought scathingly.
"Go away," I told them. "I don't have anything what you're looking for."
Bits of string. A couple of metal rings about an inch in diameter. Some ocular glass for an old telescope whose casing had long since rotted away. A dozen odd sized screws from the heaps. And the one thing I hid from everyone. Those were the things I carried.
The first of the scavengers showed up yesterday. Then another. Then a few more over night, until I figured there were a few dozen all told. Flitting through the heaps. Watching. Waiting.
I thought I was safe enough, at the time. Didn't think scavengers would jump unless they saw you were crippled. I was wrong. And I'd never been that deep in the heaps before. It was too late to get out.
They gathered round, eyes unblinking, persistent as a herd of pigeons. As a flock of rats. One from behind jumped and pecked at my old leather satchel. I whirled and kicked at it, missed. The next one bit my ankle – I caught it with a boot and it flew out of the circle, scrabbled to its feet and came again with all the others.
I hit at them with the bag, battered three at a swing but they were leaping, pecking, little claws gouging, the bony weight of all of them pulling me down.
I panicked. I mean, some part of me panicked. The other part just watched. It knew what was coming next. That other part – the part where all the feelings died – it takes care of you, in times like these. It steps in. It says, Go home. Don't watch. I'll take over now.
I saw it happen as though from a great height. The skittering herd. The blasted wasteland. The slag heaps. The small, lonely figure lashing out as it disappeared beneath a furry grey boil. The mad search for something.
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When I came to I was flat on my back, with that puke-it-up feeling you get when it seems the earth might actually be up, the sky down, and somehow you're pressed against the ceiling. White light searing on cement-baked ground. The world's worst hangover. You press your palms into the gravel and wait for it to stop spinning. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't. You roll over and slowly put your head up anyway.
Little roast carcasses littered the ground. There was a blast circle of scorched earth, and I was at the center of it. Scattered bits of fur and feathers. A bloody beak here, an unblinking eye there. My bag was gone.
I groped at my neck. The string – still there. The little pouch I'd dropped beneath my shirt, a single bit of rolled paper inside. I pulled it out.
Not a map. Not even a picture. But the only thing I'd ever found in this godforsaken heap that contained a real, living memory. The only thing that ever pulled me back from the madness. The thing that no one else could have: a childish scrawl of red crayon on a piece of faded paper.
All it said was "HOME".


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Choosing the correct door or window
The aim of the Windoor site is to make your life simpler and to take the guesswork out of product choice.
placing orders - the shopping process
It is good practice to match products per manufacturer when ordering i.e. a Swartland door frame should be matched with a Swartland door. This speeds up the delivery process as products will be dispatched from one point, but is not entirely necessary. If in doubt, send an email or give us a call to confirm.
All of our products are available countrywide and in Africa through our export channels.
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It's the first day of my 10 day vacation and I'm LOVING it!
This week Jackie is the hostess of the Viva La Verve November Week 2 Sketch.
I had really wanted to use some new stamps but darn customs seems to be holding them hostage again :(
Since they didn't arrive I decided to pull out the fabulous You and I stamp set along with the I Heart U die set.
I love those dies!! So much fun!
I hope you'll play along with the sketches!
I know as soon as my package arrives....I'm going to be busy stamping again!
Have a wonderful day!


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Facebook gets a bad rap from small business owners.
The metrics change so often that, even writing this, I know the tutorial aspects of this post may not be relevant next year. Long term users of Facebook's business pages are quick to grumble about the old days when every fan saw every post you made without pay-for-exposure...or even the early advert days when $5 would buy you more reach than you could ever need.
Although Facebook has changed drastically in the last decade, the current version isn't impossible to conquer. The platform has a bright side: with over 1 billion active users every month, Facebook is still the best platform to reach most markets.
Facebook as a Foundation to Your SMM
Each social media platform has its unique strengths when to comes to connecting you with your market. Facebook is a great jack-of-all trades for connecting to all markets, however, it is a powerhouse for entrepreneurs and business owners looking to:
reach a geographically localized market
reach an economically affluent market between the ages of 25-55
Reach a primarily female market
I recommend businesses choose 2-3 social media platforms that best reach their market, concentrate their focus on those platforms, and ignore the rest. Even with the popularity of other platforms rising, Facebook's influence is still too big to ignore. I have never created or consulted on a social media strategy that did not use Facebook as a cornerstone platform.
Remember that, as a entrepreneur, you're using this platform as part of a social media marketing strategy- not a sales strategy. Solid marketing and sales are crib mates but they are not the same.
Marketing is about communicating your business and brand to your audience, building relationships, and creating revenue through these relationships. The stronger your brand is, the more focus you have on your best market, and the more success you'll have on any social media platform.
A word of caution: Knowing how to use analytics and Facebook Adverts won't help you at all if you aren't producing consistent, good content that reaches out and connects to your market. These tools deliver the message, but whether they work or not largely depend on the quality and focus of your content.
Here are some great ideas on how to start creating responsive content for your fans.
Facebook Insights: The Data Doesn't Lie
Facebook has a decent data section for business pages under the "Insights" tab. If you're not a "numbers" person- don't let that deter you. The tab is packed with information. But, if you're looking to create a SMM (social media marketing) strategy for your business, there are only three things you need to look at right now.
The first is under the "Posts" section on the left hand tab under insights.
1. Know WHEN to talk to people
You might not know what your fans like, but you can know when they are available.
This screenshot from Maeva's Coffee's Facebook insights shows that our 4.7k followers are most online from noon-2pm and from 7pm-9pm CST. As far as days, our traffic is steady through the week with a slight uptick in activity Sunday-Wednesday.
How is this helpful?
We could dive into the in the metrics, algorithms, and black magic of how Facebook determines if your post is shown to a fan. However, this is the most basic explanation of how knowing when to post helps your business:
1. The more (often/recently) a fan interacts with your page, the more likely your update/post will appear organically in their feed
2. By posting when they are most likely to be browsing, they are more likely to see it/interact with it
3. The faster/greater number of people who interact with new material on Facebook, the more likely it is to "go viral" on Facebook. Facebook will begin to show your post to people that only occasionally interact with your page...and then spread to fans who never interact with your page...and finally people that might want to be fans of your page.
So, posting great, responsive content when people are online is the first step in not having to pay for exposure on this platform.
2. Know WHAT people want to see
I'm embarrassed to admit this but when it comes to managing my business' SMM...I'm the laziest business Facebook-er in the world. A quick glance at this recently published post list (also under the "Posts" tab of Facebook Insights) will show these weaknesses: my posts are infrequent, haphazardly strategized, and predictably result in around 20%+/- reach.
Instagram is my preferred SMM platform for Mavea's Coffee. But, back to Facebook.
This view shows which of your previous posts have caused the best response from your fans.
Don't hit that "Boost Post" button! Before we move on to paying for anything- take a look at these two posts. We're going to come back to them when I show you how to make Facebook Boost/Adverts actually work to reach your market.
3. Know HOW you stack up
One final piece of Facebook insights you should be using: The Pages to Watch. It's located on the "Overview" tab, all of the way down at the bottom of the page.
Here's what we have set up for Maeva's Coffee:
Facebook allows you to "Watch" other pages to see how your page is preforming comparatively.
It's good to know what's normal!
If you can't think of any direct competitors (Maeva's Coffee doesn't have direct local competition), this is still an incredibly useful section. We've added both Old Bakery Beer and Shiver's Custard. Neither of these businesses are coffee shops, but we share a lot of the same customers. Plus, both of these awesome local businesses have very responsive Facebook SMM going on in our local market. Use this section to motivate yourself. Add businesses you want to model your SMM after- don't just creep.
We also have Rise Coffee on our "Watch" section because they have what I consider to be the most responsive SMM for any single location, non-franchise coffee house in the STL area.
Under "Pages to Watch", add direct competitors, but also businesses that:
have similar a similar market
serve your same location
do this Facebook thing better than you do
are the exact same thing as you are- or want to be- but in a different location
If you're looking for a secondary analytical tool for Facebook, my favorite free service is Komfu. Check out this is a screenshot from the Maeva's Coffee Facebook analysis:
This first box, "Fan Penetration" is roughly the same as "Reach" on Insights. Our reach down 9.56% because we haven't posted much recently. However, our overall penetration is 23.26%. Average penetration is 16%. You're off to a good start if your numbers are higher.
The second highlighted box is "CTR" or Click Through Rate. Of the people who saw your post while scrolling through your feed, this is the percentage that interacted in some way (this includes "likes", comments, click through to page, etc). Anything over 10% is rated "very engaging".
The third highlighted box we're going to use in this upcoming section....
Are Facebook Adverts and Boosts Worth a Damn?
Again, nothing will work if you aren't creating the right content. Most people who say that "paying for Facebook doesn't work" have whittled away their budget with with content created around the wrong outcome.
Social Media Marketing is not the same as traditional advertising. Traditional advertising seeks to covert on short term occurrences and one-off placement. Good SMM seeks connection that builds life-time customers. "Likes" do not equal sales and SMM strategies that use this as a measure will not succeed.
Social media is a tool for your business to create relationships with admirers, find the dedicated people who will ultimately be the core of your business, and create organic market growth.
To that end, paying for Facebook reach can be worth it if it's done correctly.
Under the "Published Posts" in Facebook Insights, you will see that Maeva's Coffee has boosted posts and ran adverts three times in the last six weeks. Why so few? I don't boost posts often because they are marked as "sponsored" in the feed...and that feels inauthentic to me. Secondly, Maeva's brick-and-mortar traffic is nearing full capacity without any additional advertising (!).
What $10 in Post-Boosting Gets you on Facebook
Let's take a look at Boost.
Presumably, boosting a post will allow you to reach a larger audience more quickly, with the end goal of launching it into that "viral" level of engagement on Facebook's platform.
Here is the post I boosted two weeks ago- as it appears to on our page.
This post is GREAT content- according to the data we have accrued over the last couple of years on our fan base. It is:
- A rare occurrence. We don't do new flavored lattes every week at Maeva's. This was a spontaneous act, inspired by a customer, that was relevant to a widely-celebrated current holiday (Mardi Gras).
- A real product shot. We've been on Facebook long enough to know that the people of Maeva's like two things most: Tasty drinks and our resident shop cat, Buford. Posts focusing on either of these things are going to perform in the top 20% when they don't occur more often than once per week.
- An Environmental shot. Our data has shown that our base prefers photos taken in shop over photos taken anywhere else.
- Posted at the RIGHT time. 11:38am on a weekday is prime-time for people who have mentally checked-out at work and are browsing Facebook while they're waiting for lunch break.
Also note- this isn't professional photography! This photo was taken with an iPhone 6s near nice, natural light and uploaded direct to Instagram. Great content doesn't have to be professional but it must be authentic.
This post has all of the right characteristics to make it responsive content without paying to boost.
However, we spent $10 to boost this post and here's the result:
This post reached 6,210 people (a number that extends beyond our current "like" base), received 230+ likes, and had 15+ comments. According to our Komfu, it was ranked both "viral" and having a high penetration (65%!).
Facebook shows us via the orange bar how much of that reach was organic (not a result of our paid boost) and inorganic (a direct result of our paid boost). The reach was 50/50. This post would have worked about half as well had we not boosted it.
Was the boost ultimately worth $10? Yes.
What Facebook doesn't show you was that Thursday afternoon's after work rush vs. previous weeks. Over a dozen frozen Bananas Foster lattes walk out the door in the hours following this boosted post- with many more people coming in for their regular order because they had seen the post and started thinking about the reward of an afternoon coffee stop.
In short, if you have something really awesome that you're proud of or excited for- your fans are going to love it, too. In those cases, use some of your anticipated revenue to get that cool thing in the hands of the people who are going to want it.
Before we move on to Adverts, take a look at this other boosted post from February.
The $5 we spent on this post didn't go so far. Most of reach was organic- meaning that we would've reached those fans is we hadn't have spent the money. This is because a smaller portion of our market is interested in local politics than those who are interested in treats.
As a entrepreneur, if you begin to collect data on your SMM and respond to what it says, you'll find that data doesn't lie.
You might spend some money on Boosts or Adverts that, in spite of your keenest hunch, don't produce the results you expected. That's okay! Poor performing posts and bad returns tell us just as much about what to post as our best posts do. Fortunately, Facebook boost is a great platform for a budget-minded business to micro test before launching large scale advertising.
Using Facebook Adverts the RIGHT way
If you want an amazing Step-By-Step guide on using Facebook Adverts, check out Neil Patel's blog here.
If you're tried to create a Facebook advert and it hasn't done anything for your business, you're probably missing a couple of key pieces of information.
Here are the two important things you can easily fix to get started the right way:
1. Change your Presets!
Facebook's presets are automatically set to make sure they max out whatever budget you've set. They want your money.
Under "Create Ad", you'll find a range of presets you can change that will focus the goal of your advertisement so you are paying only for what response you choose.
First, make sure you choose the right objective. Most of my Adverts for Maeva's fall under "Engagement"- and then "Page Likes". I don't want to spam people who already follow us but I don't mind spending money to introduce ourselves to new people.
Changing your objective will change the options available to you from the onset of Ad creation. Be clear about what you want to achieve with this ad.
Follow Neil's lead when it comes to selecting and audience, but there's a critical piece under "Budget & Schedule" that you MUST change that Facebook doesn't really want you to find. Look for the title "When You Get Charged" and make sure it's set for your action not per impression.
Don't pay for impressions! Pay only for the action you want.
Changing these presets when creating an Advert will make the most of the dollars you budget for each ad.
2. Me Language vs. Them Language
Moments ago, I was listening to a client tell me, "I want them to know it's high quality. I want them to know it's legacy. I want..."
Why does everyone miss this?
'Me, me, me' doesn't sell! If your advertising story starts with "I want..." "We are..." "We have..."...people will scroll right past it. It's boring. It's needy. No one wants to hear it.
This isn't about you- it's about them.
We are being asked to do things for companies, people, customers, clients, etc. all day, every day. Your Advert is going to be nestled in between their college friend's status asking for help moving furniture this Saturday and their ex's dog's GoFundMe.
How many times have your heard "Like our page?" A ton. How many of those pages have you actually liked?
To find a good strategy, begin by asking: What are you advertising that is going to fix a problem, give your fans a little happiness, or let them escape for just a moment?
If you approach a stranger, which question is most likely going to illicit a positive response?
a) "Can you spare me a dollar?"
b) "Can I help you carry that?"
Make your message them centered through your choice of visuals and copy.
Ask not what your fans can do for you- but what you can do for your fans. (Apologies, JFK)
Take a moment to look through your own business' Facebook data and make a few changes- let me know what you find!
Now that you have a few basics on using Facebook to connect your business to your market, we'll be adding Instagram to the mix. The next piece in this series will focus on my favorite platform for visually-rich businesses...and tactics for hash tagging your way into the hearts of the most social media savvy market on the planet.


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text: Morning Briefing: G20 meeting boosts sentiment, oil continues higher G20 meeting boosts sentiment, oil continues higher Officials from the G20 nations are meeting in China and there are calls for more to be done to help boost the global economy. Meanwhile oil prices have continued higher overnight on expectation of talks between OPEC and Russia aimed at freezing output at January levels. Oil prices could be back around $50 later this year according to current OPEC president Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada, the Qatar oil minister. That would come at a price though with smaller producers being put out of business in the process. Asian markets have closed mostly higher, led by gains of more than 2 per cent on Hong Kong's Hang Seng. Sydney's ASX was the loser of the session, dipping slightly on weak corporate earnings. European indexes are trading higher so far with Germany and France leading the pack. London's FTSE is also positive but weakened by shares in banking giant RBS which reported losses. Wall Street and Toronto are expected to open higher. GDP figures will be in focus. Latest 1 month ago 1 year ago North America (previous session) US Dow Jones 16,697.29 (+1.29 per cent) +3.28 per cent -8.33 per cent TSX Composite 12,753.60 (+0.10 per cent) +3.42 per cent -16.32 per cent Europe (at 5.30am ET) UK FTSE 6,083.80 (+1.18 per cent) +2.92 per cent -12.46 per cent German DAX 9,531.34 (+2.14 per cent) -2.97 per cent -15.85 per cent Asia (at close) China CSI 300 2,948.03 (+1.00 per cent) +0.26 per cent -17.34 per cent Japan Nikkei 16,188.41 (+0.30 per cent) -3.12 per cent -13.83 per cent Other Data (at 6.30am ET) Oil (Brent) Oil (WTI) Gold Can. Dollar 36.00 (+2.01 per cent) 33.70 (+1.91 per cent) 1234.90 (-0.33 per cent) U$0.7389 Aus. Dollar U$0.7205 Buy gold says Deutsche Gold should be bought by investors as insurance against volatile equity markets according to analysts at Deutsche Bank. Although gold is expensive, prices have fallen to $1,200 an ounce from $1,900 in 2011 and Deutsche is advising its clients buy amid uncertainty in global economies. The bank also says that it expects just one interest rate rise from the Fed this year, compared to the three it had called for previously. More market talk: Daily Wrap-up: TSX closes higher despite slip for oil SHARE


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Across the country 6% of people with learning disabilities have employment.
We have many young people with learning disabilities who want work and have useful skills and assets that could be beneficial to employers. Many of these young people have the types of qualities that employers are seeking - they are reliable, loyal and hard-working. In a tight labour market, such as we have in Surrey, employers increasingly need to seek out the "hidden" pools of talent (a phrase that I have learnt from Louise Punter at Surrey Chambers of Commerce). Some young people with autism, for example, are highly talented in logic and numeracy and can bring huge value to IT and financial functions in an organisation.
This is why we are initiating a cross-sector collaboration in conjunction with Surrey Chambers of Commerce, Surrey County Council, Halow and a range of other charities and employers to address this issue. At the first meeting, one of the major issues identified was purely that employers do not know about the possibilities or, if they do, they have put it on the "too hard" pile. The collaborative group will be seeking to address these issues and others.
If you are an employer interested in finding out more about employing a young person with a learning disability, please do get in touch.
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Monday, 25 April 2016
Core-porate Social Responsibility
There is a growing thirst in the private sector to do more Corporate Social Responsibility or "Giving Back". Companies are realising that CSR makes good business sense – by helping key objectives such as recruitment and retention, it directly serves their bottom line. In these cash strapped times, where the "rolling back" of public services is affecting the most vulnerable in society, this is good news. Indeed, we believe that the contribution that businesses could be making as they go about their daily business is huge.
Take Timpsons - the key cutting and shoe repairing business – 10% of their 3400 staff are ex-offenders. These staff are employed on day release, whilst still in prison, thus easing their transition to a different life on the outside. The reoffending rate of these Timpson employees is 3% versus around 45% for ex-offenders in general. Whilst some of this difference may be down to careful recruitment on Timpson's part, surely not all? This has helped Timpsons to get a highly motivated, loyal workforce and done a huge service to society and the public purse: how much would it have cost councils and/or charities to turn that many people's lives around?
If you haven't heard it, I highly recommend listening to the John Timpson interview that was broadcast on Radio 4's Desert Island Disks a few weeks ago - you can download the Podcast from the BBC.
The key to really making a difference is ensuring that the CSR activities are part of CORE business, serving business objectives, and not just a bit on the side.
If you are a company or youth charity in Surrey and are interested in exploring this more, do drop me a line.
Friday, 26 February 2016
Who would you turn to if you had a mental health problem?
Well, looks like my resolution to write more often was broken pretty quickly? Still, I am pleased to say that I stuck to my dry January.
We have collaborated with our members on two different projects about young people's mental health funded by Healthwatch. I was struck by a discussion with a colleague this week that I thought worth mentioning in the blog.
We have collaborated with our members on two different projects about young people's mental health funded by Healthwatch. I was struck by a discussion with a colleague this week that I thought worth mentioning in the blog.
Where would you turn to if you had a mental health problem? Online? Family? Friends? GP?
Our sample of young people would look online first and maybe go to a friend. Only a subset would go to a professional such as teacher or GP. Few would go to parents.
I will say that again. Only a subset would go to a professional and few would go to parents.
This leaves us with a real challenge as to how to support young people with mental health. We can have all the services in the world but if they don't make use of them, what's the point? This needs to be the starting point for all service designs.
Any comments? Ideas? Feel free to respond or email me.
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Edinburgh and the Lothians is home to the second-highest concentration of people living with HIV and people living with Hepatitis C in Scotland.
From our Edinburgh base, our Community Projects Team offers a large number of services across the city and out into West, Mid and East Lothian.
In addition, our residential support centre, Waverley Care Milestone, is located to the south of the city.
Choose from the options below to find out more about the services we offer in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
All services are available to people who are co-infected with HIV and Hepatitis C.
Every Tuesday we host M-test, a sexual health testing service delivered by the ROAM Outreach Team. M-test is open to all gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM). Find out more information.