IN THE CITY where I grew up, you could go mushroom hunting on a rainy Sunday afternoon, or you could take a trip to the library, or you could visit the dead babies. The babies are still there, and that was how I always thought of them when I was a child: "the babies." As in: "Mom, when we get to the museum, the first thing we have to do is see the babies." And we always did. The babies were kept at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, where my mother always took me in the hopes that I might learn something. I don't know how much I learned on those trips, but I know it had nothing to do with the finite lessons—the weight of an atom, the density of a diamond, the death of a star—that my science classes tried to teach me.
It took me a long time realize not that the babies really were dead, but that their death was the same kind I would someday experience. To me, it seemed as if they had never lived, but had always existed as they did now: in a kind of peaceful stasis, suspended in a darkness like space, eyes closed, not asleep, not dreaming, not in pain, not in pleasure; simply being. They were not grotesque or garish or tragic or ugly or beautiful to me. All I knew was that they were.
The babies were arranged in a semicircle, preserved by expert hands and placed in order of gestation. The first baby was a speck of white matter. The last looked stillborn. The rest were somewhere in the middle: between something that did not even look like life to me, and a face I recognized as another child's face, not so different from my own. For reasons I could never articulate, I always found it necessary to start with the smallest and move to the biggest, looking at each individual baby along the way, working my way toward my own age, my own face, my own form of being.
I don't know if you would call it a gesture of respect, this careful attention. I was a child, and children don't tend to pay much heed to the complex systems of etiquette that govern adult relations between the living and the dead—or at least, I didn't. But children also know what fascinates them—or at least, I did. For as long as I can remember, those babies have fascinated me.
Last winter, I called a Milwaukee real estate company to ask why they had bought a certain plot of land. The property in question had been home to an apartment building until 1992, when it was demolished by a neighborhood improvement group. The demolition cost fifty thousand dollars, and a local newspaper reported that, once the building was gone, the lot would be turned into a neighborhood park.
Instead, nothing happened. The property fell into a state as close to disrepair as a totally vacant space can manage. The lot was matted with overgrown grass and strewn with litter when it finally found a new owner, in 2011. Ogden & Company bought the land from the City of Milwaukee for $500, but with one catch: they had to promise not to build anything on it. The lot, vacant for twenty years, would have to stay vacant forever. The company agreed.
When I called Ogden, I wanted to know only one thing: why would they buy a property they could never profit from, and that would inspire only negative attention?
"Good question!" she said, in the Midwestern mix of aggression and politeness I was still getting used to after moving to Wisconsin that fall. Then she put me through to an answering machine. I never heard back.
More often than not, describing Jeffrey Dahmer comes down to describing his apartment. Both Dahmer and his home—which one true crime writer would later describe as "not just a one-bedroom flat, but a dungeon, a maw of death"—came to the world's attention on July 23, 1991, when Tracy Edwards, a young man Dahmer had handcuffed and attempted to murder, escaped from his apartment and flagged down the police. He was not the first person to escape from the building at 924 North 25th Street: a few weeks earlier, a fourteen-year-old Laotian-American boy named Konerak Sinsamphone had done the same. Dahmer had caught up with him, and managed to convince the police that they were in a consensual relationship. "Intoxicated Asian, naked male, was returned to his boyfriend," one policeman said into his radio after he had escorted the two back to Dahmer's apartment. He was laughing as he added, "My partner is going to get deloused at the station." After they left the apartment, Dahmer strangled Sinthasomphone, sodomized his corpse, and then went to work photographing and dismembering his body, deciding to preserve the skull.
At the time he was arrested, it seemed impossible to explain Jeffrey Dahmer himself: to say what would possess a seemingly normal man not just to murder seventeen young men, but to preserve and collect parts of their corpses. When the police searched his apartment, they found three headless torsos decomposing in a vat in the bedroom, and a human head and three bags of organs in the refrigerator, and three skulls. "He stated he kept the skulls of the good looking ones because he didn't want to lose them," a detective who had questioned Jeffrey Dahmer later testified.
He didn't, of course. But there was something comforting in this version of the story: Jeffrey Dahmer didn't resemble the specter of AIDS so much as take its place. AIDS wasn't a disease that could infect suburban homes; Dahmer was. Ignorance and hate and lack of government funds didn't kill gay men; Dahmer did. A segregated city where white police patrolled black neighborhoods didn't kill men of color; Dahmer did. A police force that paid no attention to the fact that young black men were disappearing from Milwaukee's "gay ghetto" wasn't to blame for Dahmer staying free long enough to murder seventeen people; Dahmer was evil, and evil could not be stopped. Society didn't have problems; Dahmer was the problem, and soon he would be gone.
To both Stone Phillips and his viewers, "Jeff" could not be his real name. "Jeff" is no name for evil in human form. But something strange happens when "Dahmer" drops away, and when we ask what happened not in the "maw of death," but inside Jeff's apartment.
When Jeff talked about his crimes, he was disarmingly straightforward, offering none of the sinister, well-rehearsed mission statements the media had come to expect from notorious criminals like Richard Ramírez and Charles Manson. "If I couldn't keep them there with me whole," he said of his victims, during an interview with Inside Edition, "at least I felt that I could keep their skeletons. And I even went so far as planning on setting up an altar, with the ten different skulls and skeletons… As a sort of memorial. A point where I could—I don't know," he said. Whatever he wanted could not be put into words, or at least into the words he knew.
A man and a woman meet in a donut shop. The man is a medical student. The woman works in a funeral home. When the man asks the woman why she chose that work, she answers: "Because I'm a necrophile." The man looks at her and does not laugh or change the subject or look away.
"Normally I don't like looking people in the eye," the woman tells us, "but I found myself staring back." She is the heroine of Barbara Gowdy's "We So Seldom Look on Love," a story in her 1992 collection of the same name. The book is filled with stories of women who find their lives guided by impossible longing and subversive bliss, but "We So Seldom Look on Love" is its crown jewel. Its heroine is unapologetic and straightforward, interested not in frightening the reader but in showing them how necrophilia satisfies a need that, like Jeff's, issues from a place where language ceases to function. She cannot explain the depth of this need, where it comes from or how it came to consume her, but she can tell us of the pleasure, the satisfaction, the relief necrophilia brings her.
There is something novel in the idea that necrophilia is not a performance: that it is not an act undertaken to scandalize the rule-abiding world, but something personal, private, even necessary. And so deep a need, so enduring a compulsion, cannot be explained away by the pursuit of pleasure alone. No pleasure is worth this much.
This is the kind of ambiguous statement that could belong to Dahmer as much as it could belong to Jeff. It could belong to the seething mastermind glorying in his bloodlust, or to the blurry figure who somehow frightens us more.
No matter how much media accounts of the murders insisted upon Dahmer's rage, Jeff's dependency on his victims loomed at the edges. You couldn't read about the apartment full of skulls without thinking about the man who had taken the time to boil, clean, and preserve them, and to wonder what purpose this preservation served.
Our heroine watches her lover die. Then she becomes the lover, and he the beloved.
As a boy, Jeff rode around his Ohio hometown on his bicycle, looking for roadkill to play with and dissect. "Was there some pleasure," Stone Phillips asked, during their interview, "in—in the cutting open of the animal?
The "gaze of meeting," the wordless communion between man and animal, desirer and desired, only lasts for a moment in the best of circumstances. For the trekker who falls behind the safari group's vanguard, there will be no gaze, no moment of recognition. Even for the lucky ones, the experience will only last a moment. Then the implications of the moment will subsume the moment itself, and man or animal will decide he must assert his dominance. Then these separate bodies must realize that they are indeed separate, cannot coexist peacefully, and perhaps cannot even acknowledge the moment of unguarded intimacy they have shared.
But in the American Museum of Natural History, Donna Haraway writes, "the sacrament will be enacted for each worshipper." This moment of intimacy is guaranteed to every visitor, and prolonged for as long as any visitor could want. We see what we want to see. Reality does not intrude. And perhaps, also, we can see that our deepest longings are always for the ungraspable: Let me control you completely, but still believe that you wish to be with me; let me experience intimacy without the terror intimacy brings; let me be the lover; let me be sure you will never leave.
When I visited the space where Jeff's apartment once stood, I was amazed at how well-kept a piece of nothing could be. The lot that was once weedy and trash-strewn is now a perfectly manicured lawn, and the grass is a green that is lusher than lush, the color not of nature but of Astroturf. The property itself is surrounded by a spike-tipped fence, and if you didn't know what once stood here, you would think it was erected to keep something dangerous from getting in, or something precious from getting out.
The lot is now its own kind of recreated reality. It is a diorama where we will not encounter an animal we might gaze at, and recognize. This empty space satisfies yet another of our longings: let me see where it happened without knowing why it happened; let me stand where he once stood without knowing him, and without having to admit that the terrible violence he committed came from a need I recognize, because I feel some version of it, too.
More than evil, more then fury, more than any dark force beyond the human, Jeffrey Dahmer's life seems to have been marked by an unbearable loneliness. Reading about his adolescence, his alcoholism, his factory work and his life in Milwaukee, I found myself looking at a man who knew no one, trusted no one, confided in no one, felt close to no one; a man who only seemed to interact with those who would soon become his victims, and who seemed unable to find any semblance of human connection unless he found it with a corpse. There is horror in what he did, but there is horror, too, in the vast and endless emptiness of the world as he knew it. I do not know if one horror eclipses the other. I do not believe that one must.
I cannot think about Jeff's apartment without thinking about my own childhood, and my own constant desire to go see the babies. I don't know where this urge came from, only that I felt it, and only that the visitation was, for me, the answer to a longing I could not put into words. And it's hard for me to see this longing as unhealthy, when I go to see the babies today and see the room still filled with children, staring up in wonder and curiosity, but never in fear. Their parents are patient, walking with them from embryo to infant, and helping them to search for the moment when their lives, as they know them, began.
When I visited the babies, there was never a moment of recognition of the kind that takes place in Akely Hall: the babies' eyes were closed, and would stay closed forever. But on a recent visit, I was astonished to realize that I recognized the babies not in a general way, but as individuals. I looked at a face I had returned to again and again as a child, and felt for a moment that I had spotted an old friend in a crowd. I knew this face. I knew this person, I thought. But I had grown up and they had not, and if they had a name, I would never learn it.
Yet still, there was this knowledge, across the distance of time and space and death. The baby was the same baby I had known for my entire life. I could always return to it, and it would never leave me behind.
SARAH MARSHALL is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her writing has most recently appeared in The Believer, The New Republic, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015.
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Next America
1Intro
2The New Us
3The Generational Divide
4The Showdown
The Next America
By Paul Taylor Published April 10, 2014
Two Dramas in Slow Motion
Demographic transformations are dramas in slow motion. America is in the midst of two right now. Our population is becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray. Each of these shifts would by itself be the defining demographic story of its era. The fact that both are unfolding simultaneously has generated big generation gaps that will put stress on our politics, families, pocketbooks, entitlement programs and social cohesion.
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The Pew Research Center tracks these transformations with public opinion surveys and demographic and economic analyses. Our new book, The Next America, draws on this research to paint a data-rich portrait of the many ways our nation is changing and the challenges we face in the decades ahead.
Let's start with what demographers call an "age pyramid." Each bar represents a five year age cohort; with those ages 0-4 on the bottom and those ages 85 and older on the top. In every society since the start of history, whenever you broke down any population this way, you'd always get a pyramid.
But from 1960 to 2060, our pyramid will turn into a rectangle. We'll have almost as many Americans over age 85 as under age 5. This is the result of longer life spans and lower birthrates. It's uncharted territory, not just for us, but for all of humanity. And while it's certainly good news over the long haul for the sustainability of the earth's resources, it will create political and economic stress in the shorter term, as smaller cohorts of working age adults will be hard-pressed to finance the retirements of larger cohorts of older ones.
America's Racial Tapestry Is Changing
At the same time our population is going gray, we're also becoming multi-colored. In 1960, the population of the United States was 85% white; by 2060, it will be only 43% white. We were once a black and white country. Now, we're a rainbow.
Our intricate new racial tapestry is being woven by the more than 40 million immigrants who have arrived since 1965, about half of them Hispanics and nearly three-in-ten Asians.
Because these tranformations happen tick by tock, without anyone announcing them with a drum roll or press conference, they are sometimes hard to perceive.
But every so often societies experience "aha" moments, when the change is right there in plain sight. We had several such moments in early 2014, as three iconic American brands, Coke, Chevy and Cheerios, rolled out ads during the Super Bowl and Olympics that were aimed at what one voice-over called "the new us."
Product advertisers aren't in the business of making political statements. They're certainly not in the business of making enemies. They must have known some of their images – interracial families, same-sex parents, "America the Beautiful" sung in several languages – would disturb some of their customers. But they also do their market research and look at their numbers. They know how fast the country is changing.
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"Intermarriage is playing a big role in changing some of our views of ethnicity."Mark Lopez – Director of Hispanic Research
Immigration Is Driving Our Demographic Makeover
Our modern immigrants are different from the big waves of newcomers who came in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Back then, about nine-in-ten immigrants were from Europe. Today only about 12% are from Europe.
But some things don't change. No matter where they come from, immigrants are strivers. They're optimists. And they tend to have a lot of kids. Our immigrant stock – that's immigrants and their children – is projected to make up about 37% of our population by mid-century, the highest share in our history.
But understand: this isn't new. We've always been a nation of settlers and immigrants. In this regard, the middle of the 20th century wasn't the norm, it was the outlier.
Intermarriage Blurs Labels
Here's an interesting question: By 2050, will our racial categories still make much sense? These days our old labels are having trouble keeping up with our new weddings. A half century ago racial intermarriage was illegal in a third of the states and a gasp-inducing taboo just about everywhere else. Today, nearly one-in-six newlyweds marry across racial or ethnic lines.
Changing Perception of 'Mixed Race'
More than a quarter of Hispanic and Asian newlyweds "marry out," as do one-in-six blacks and one-in-ten whites. Whites are still the largest race group, so even though they "marry out" at lower rates, they still account for 70% of all interracial marriages.
By mid-century, what will we call the children of interracial marriages? Today we aren't even sure what to call our president. We do know this: In many cultures and societies through history, being mixed race – being a "mutt" as Obama sometimes calls himself – has meant being an outcast. In today's America, judging by those Super Bowl ads or today's celebrities, the norms are changing and the stigma receding.
Today's Celebrities Reflect America's Demographic Shifts
You probably know the names of these celebrities. Do you know their racial and ethnic ancestry?
Irish, German
Spanish-Cuban
English, Scots-Irish, German
Apolo Ohno
Italian-American
Thai, Chinese, Dutch
The Generational Divide
Portraits of America
Generations tend to be about 20 years in length and are shaped by the historical events people experience at roughly the same stage in their life cycle. As a result, they share what might loosely be called a generational persona, one that's also influenced by (and often in reaction to) the persona of their parents' generation.
Xers: Born 1965-1980
Children of the Reagan revolution and the divorce revolution, they're distrustful of institutions, especially government.
On economic issues and the role of government, they tilt conservative. But they're social liberals.
More comfortable than their elders with America's growing racial diversity.
Boomers: Born 1946-1964
Born during the big spike in fertility that began after World War II and continued until the birth control pill came to market.
Famous for leading the counterculture protests of the 1960s, but about half or more have grown more conservative as they've aged.
10,000 Boomers are turning 65 every single day between now and 2030.
Silents: Born 1928-1945
The most financially secure generation.
The most uneasy with the pace of demographic, cultural, social, racial and technological change.
About eight-in-ten are white, making them a faithful portrait of America circa 1960.
The generation least supportive of an activist government. But hands off their Social Security and Medicare.
While obviously there are as many different personality types within a generation as across generations, there's value in understanding what defines a generation. Pew Research surveys have allowed for comparisons between today's young and today's old. Because we've been asking the same questions over many years, we can also compare today's young with yesterday's young. Let's start with the thumbnail sketches.
Who Are the Millennials?
Millennials: Born after 1981
They're less religiously affiliated, and they've been slow to marry and have children.
"Digital natives" who grew up with cellphones and social networking. Highly educated, but because of the economy, struggling financially.
On politics, half identify as independents, more than any generation.
The Millennials are our youngest adult generation. They're America's most racially and ethnically diverse generation ever. More than four-in-ten are non-white, many the U.S.-born children of the big wave of Hispanic and Asian immigrants who began arriving half a century ago.
They're political and social liberals, they're social media wizards, they're highly educated, they're not very religious, they're slow to marry and have kids, and many are saddled with college debt and lousy jobs. Because of their difficulties getting launched in a tough economy, 46% have at some point boomeranged back to their childhood homes, where the refrigerator is stocked, the washing machine isn't coin-operated, and all their dreams are on hold, but intact. Despite these economic woes, Millennials are the nation's most dogged optimists. They believe their own best days are ahead – and so are America's.
"10,000 Baby Boomers a day will turn 65 – every single day between now and the year 2030."Paul Taylor – Author, The Next America
The Age, Race Voting Gaps
Change demographic:
AgeRace
18-29 60% 37% 3%
65 and older 44% 56% N/A
White 39% 59% 2%
Black 93% 6% 1%
Hispanic 71% 27% 2%
Asian 73% 26% 1%
Based on exit polls from the National Election Pool.
In the past few elections, the young/old partisan voting gap has been the biggest since the voting age was lowered to 18 in 1972. As recently as the year 2000, there had been no difference in the way young and old in America voted. Now, there's a chasm.
Six-in-ten young voters supported Barack Obama in his re-election bid in 2012, compared with just 47% of those in the age ranges of their parents (45 to 64) and 44% of their grandparents (65 and older). By race, six-in-ten white voters supported Republican candidate Mitt Romney, whereas more than nine-in-ten black voters supported Obama. Obama also captured more than 70% of the Asian-American and Hispanic vote.
Liberal Youth, Conservative Elders
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Sources: Marijuana - 2010-2014 data from Pew Research Center; 1973-2008 data from General Social Survey; 1969 and 1972 data from Gallup. Same-sex marriage - 2001-2014 yearly totals from Pew Research Center.
Millennials have voted more Democratic than older voters in the past five national elections. They came of age in the Bush and Obama eras and hold liberal attitudes on most social and governmental issues, as well as America's approach to foreign policy.
Just as members of the Silent Generation are long-term backers of smaller government, Millennials, at least so far, are strong supporters of a more activist government.
On some social issues, such as legalizing marijuana and same-sex marriage, Millennials particularly stand out for their favorable views compared with other generations. Nearly seven-in-ten (68%) Millennials favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry, compared with just 48% of Baby Boomers and just 38% of the Silent Generation.
"Voter turnout among Millennials has been remarkably solid."Michael Dimock – Vice President, Research
The Young Are Less Religiously Affiliated
The generations are divided by more than race and politics. The young are the least religiously affiliated group in modern American history; the old are the most devout believers in the advanced, industrialized world.
A record one-in-five American adults today – and fully three-in-ten Millennials – do not have any religious affiliation. Of these so-called "nones," roughly three-in-ten describe themselves as atheists or agnostics; the remainder say they have no particular religion.
Millennials 29% 70%
Gen Xers 21% 78%
Boomers 16% 83%
Silents 9% 90%
Source: Aggregated data from Pew Research Center for the People and the Press surveys, Jan.-Feb. 2014
The Technology Gap
Then there's the technology revolution. Today's young are history's first generation of digital natives. The online world isn't something they've had to adapt to — it's all they've ever known, and it's their indispensable platform for social interactions and information acquisition.
Today's old have been playing catch-up online, some more enthusiastically than others, but they have a long way to go. The typical Millennial who uses social media has 250 Facebook friends — making them five times "friendlier" than the smaller number of Silents who use social media.
We Have a Big Challenge Ahead
At a time when young and old don't look alike, think alike or vote alike, how will America modernize its entitlement programs so they're in sync with its new demographics? How can we keep faith with the old without bankrupting the young and starving the future? It will be difficult.
Support for Retirement
We start with this reality: Social Security and Medicare are practically sacrosanct. Nearly nine-in-ten Americans say they're good for the country. That's an amazing number. But the popularity of these programs really isn't all that surprising. People love them because they do what they were created to do. They ease many of the frets and dreads of old age – a blessing not just for seniors but for everyone who loves, supports and depends on seniors. Which is to say, everyone.
Saving the Safety Net
Changing Worker-Beneficiary Ratio
The first monthly Social Security benefit check was issued in 1940. By 1945 there were 42 workers for every beneficiary. In 1950, sixteen-to-one. In 2010 there were only three workers for each person in retirement.
But the status quo is unsustainable. Some 10,000 Baby Boomers will be going on Social Security and Medicare every single day between now and 2030. By the time everyone in this big pig-in-the-python generation is drawing benefits, we'll have just two workers per beneficiary – down from three-to-one now, five-to-one in 1960 and more than forty-to-one in 1945, shortly after Social Security first started supporting beneficiaries.
The math of the 20th century simply won't work in the 21st. Today's young are paying taxes to support a level of benefits for today's old that they have no realistic chance of receiving when they become old. And they know it – just 6% of Millennials say they expect to receive full benefits from Social Security when they retire. Fully half believe they'll get nothing.
"I think the Boomers are feeling in better shape than the generation that's right behind them."Kim Parker – Director of Social Trends Research
Over the Horizon
Percent of Americans saying there is a strong conflict between...
Young/Old 29%
Black/white 39%
Immigrants/U.S.-born people 55%
Poor/Rich 58%
Democrat/Republican 81%
Meantime, the cost of our programs for seniors will soon exceed half of the federal budget. This spending continues to crowd out budgeting for education, research and infrastructure – investments that would help build a better future for Millennials and their children.
At its core, this is a problem of generational equity. But it need not lead to a generation war. A war needs combatants. We find very little evidence from our Pew Research surveys that old and young are spoiling for a fight over these issues. To the contrary, they like each other too much. And nowadays more than 50 million, a record, are living in multi-generational family households, their fortunes braided together, because that turns out to be a good way to make ends meet in hard times.
If Americans can bring to the public square the same genius for generational interdependence they bring to their family lives, the politics of these issues will become less toxic and the policy choices less forbidding.
That's a big 'if.' But it's a start.
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Izvestia (May 5, 1987 – October 21, 1991) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Canadian Triple Crown in 1990.

A grandson of Nearctic, who sired the legendary Northern Dancer, his damsire Personality was the 1970 Co-American Horse of the Year. Owned and bred by Kinghaven Farms, Izvestia began racing in the United States, winning two Graded stakes races at the Keeneland Race Course in Kentucky. He was shipped north in the spring of 1990 to his home base at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto from which he won the Triple Crown. Having won it a year earlier on With Approval, jockey Don Seymour became the only jockey in history to ride two Canadian Triple Crown winners.

Izvestia's career ended  on October 21, 1991, when he had to be humanely euthanized after breaking a left hind leg in three places while competing in the Rothmans International. In 1999, he was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

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Demands for accountability are pushing states toward performance based funding models. Scorecards used for evaluating impact, efficacy and ROI do not capture the records of all students participating in the accredited opportunities afforded by American colleges and universities. This white paper explores the reemergence of performance based funding and looks ahead to opportunities where learner analytics may provide insight and nuance to address the needs of all students.


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The Buddha's Middle Way
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Saturday Jun 27 - Saturday Jun 27, 2020
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Location: St Lukes, London, UK
with Robert Ellis
Following the publication of his book The Buddha's Middle Way, Robert M. Ellis will be leading an exploration of its key themes. Its central focus is an understanding of the Middle Way as a principle of judgment, navigating between opposed absolutes – one that can be discovered and applied in any context. The criteria for the Middle Way need to be practical – not historical or traditional – but that doesn't stop us from turning to the Buddha as a rich source of inspiration for following it.
In this course, we'll be asking: what does the Middle Way look like when stripped down to a universal practical form? How can it help us to reach a practical and integrative interpretation of the Buddha's life and teachings? Robert offers his vision based on some of the Buddha's key metaphors – which he groups into five principles in his analysis of the Middle Way: scepticism, provisionality, incrementality, agnosticism and integration.
The retreat will include time for discussion of the issues and implications, alongside practice and reflection.
This retreat is offered on a dana basis – you will be asked to make an additional monetary donation at the end of the course to support the livelihood of the teacher.
Non-residential course
Suitable for new and experienced Dharma practitioners
Accommodation must be booked independently by participants
A vegetarian lunch, and daytime tea and coffee, are included
Full Payment required on booking (Deposits cannot be taken for weekend courses)
A limited number of Bursary places are available for this course.
ROBERT M. ELLIS is the founder of the Middle Way Society and the author of a number of books on Middle Way Philosophy – including the introductory Migglism and the more detailed Middle Way Philosophy series. His most recent book, The Buddha's Middle Way: Experiential Judgement in his Life and Teaching was published by Equinox in 2019, with a foreword by Stephen Batchelor. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy, is an experienced teacher, and was formerly a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order. He now regularly leads retreats for the Middle Way Society.
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Environmental Health Australia , in conjunction with Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia and the Department of Health will be presenting a series of FREE workshops on 'Allergy & Anaphylaxis in Food Premises : What EHOs need to know'.
The second metropolitan workshop will be held at the City of Cockburn on Friday 26th July 2013. Regional workshops are also proposed for Geraldton, Busselton and Kalgoorlie.
The Workshop will consist of presentations from Sandra Vale, State Vice-President, Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia and a representative from the Food Unit, DOH and then be followed by practical scenarios to help EHOs clearly understand their role and obligations with regard to this rather 'grey' area of legislation.
Time: 9:15am registration for a 9.30am start - Finish 12.45pm. Morning tea will be provided.
Australian Drug Foundation, Drug & Alcohol Office, Department of Racing Gaming & Liquor, McCusker Centre for Action on Alcohol & Youth, Centre for Health Promotion Research & Local Government, and is supported by WA Branch of the Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA).
This full day workshop is for Local Government Environmental Health Officers, Planning Officers, Health Promotion Officers and other officers involved in managing related to alcohol at the local government level. This workshop brings together experts to address and discuss alcohol-related harm in Australian communities, the impacts on local governments, how local governments act to reduce alcohol related harm, planning and regulatory issues, emerging issues for local governments, examples and case studies of successful initiatives to reduce harm and improve management of alcohol.
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–By Sam Hendrian–
It's you I like/It's not the things you wear/It's not the way you do your hair/But it's you I like.
These simple yet profound song lyrics help summarize the heroic mission of Fred Rogers, the legendary children's television host who is profiled in the acclaimed 2018 documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? A quiet man with a loud message about human dignity, Mr. Rogers was a veteran of what is perhaps the world's longest-running armed conflict: The War Against Worrying.
We worry about so many soul-troubling questions throughout our lives. Do I amount to anything, or am I ultimately worthless? Can I be loved just the way that I am? Fred Rogers knew that no matter what our age, we can all be weighed down by these questions from time to time, and he made it his life's mission to tell each of us that we have infinite worth and can indeed be loved just the way that we are. Won't You Be My Neighbor? gives insight into the various battles he had to bravely fight along the way to fulfilling this mission, as well as the biting doubts that he himself sometimes faced about his own worth and place in the world.
The documentary opens with Mr. Rogers sitting at the piano. He muses to the cameraman:
"It seems to me that there are different themes in life, and one of my main jobs, it seems to me, is to help, through the mass media for children, to help children through some of the difficult modulations of life."
It was this musing that ultimately led to the creation of the highly-successful Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, a public television show in which Fred would use puppets, human characters, and his own amicable personality to walk children through both the joys and sorrows of life. Having received a Bachelor's degree in music composition, he often wrote simple but catchy songs for the show that had social/emotional messages playfully weaved into them.
During one of the documentary's most poignant scenes, we see a clip from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood in which Daniel Tiger, Fred's puppet alter ego, sings a song entitled "Am I a Mistake?" The opening lyrics are as follows:
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a mistake/I'm not like anyone else I know/When I'm asleep or even awake/Sometimes I get to dreaming that I'm just a fake/I'm not like anyone else.
Daniel Tiger's heart-wrenching doubt over his self-worth mirrored the insecurities of Mr. Rogers himself. The documentary reveals that he sometimes seriously questioned his skills as a writer and feared that he may not be any good. But he knew deep down that it is in consoling that we are consoled, so he used his own self-doubt to help others who were struggling with the same demon. As the character of Lady Aberlin melodically responds to Daniel Tiger:
I think you are just fine as you are/I really must tell you/I do like the person that you are becoming/When you are sleeping/When you are waking/You are my friend/It's really true/I like you.
Mr. Rogers desperately wanted people of all ages to know that they are not mistakes but rather can be loved just the way that they are. He heroically took his own inner worries and converted them into weapons of encouragement, successfully winning a crucial battle in The War Against Worrying.
Another compelling character trait of Mr. Rogers that the documentary addresses is how he was able to gently educate children about troubling topics like divorce and assassination. He knew that we perhaps worry the most about things we do not understand, and he strived to guide children away from the forests of confusion and into the fields of clarity. Of course, he could not change the ugliness of difficult subjects, but he could at least help children not feel so alone and confused by explaining these subjects in a not-so-frightening manner.
Sometimes, war heroes or bold people of any kind seem impossible to live up to. How can we ever be as brave as them? The terrific thing about Won't You Be My Neighbor? is that while it undeniably frames Mr. Rogers as a hero, it does not depict his heroism as unattainable. We each have unlimited potential to be kind, gentle, and loving to every person we encounter. The War Against Worrying may continue to rage within our souls, but if we use our worries as a catalyst to empathize with others, we can ultimately be triumphant. And finally, we can convey to every person in our lives the essential truth of these timeless song lyrics:
It's you I like/Every part of you/Your skin/Your eyes/Your feelings/Whether old or new/I hope that you remember even when you're feeling blue/That it's you I like/It's you yourself/It's you/It's you I like.
Sam Hendrian is a student at John Paul the Great Catholic University (Class of 2019) pursuing a double emphasis in Screenwriting and Directing.


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All Quiet on the Western Front Blu-ray – One of the first great movies with sound, the 1930 classic tells the sad, brutal saga of German teens who enlist to fight in World War I at the behest of a saber-rattling professor. The film unblinkingly shows the horrors of one of the more brutal wars mankind has ever fought. Excellent transfers of movies from this era are tough to come by, but the film looks sharper and more vivid than you'd expect. The packed-to-the-gills set includes a digital copy, introduction from a film historian, a look at the restoration process and a silent version of the movie.
Beavis & Butt-Head: Volume 4 – Following a 14-year absence, Mike Judge's numskull animated teens returned to MTV, not having missed a beat. Now the obliviously satirical doofuses comment on MTV's reality programming as well as music videos, delivering hilarious commentary about the likes of 16 and Pregnant and Jersey Shore. The 12 new episodes are every bit as funny as the classics. Hopefully they'll stick around for years to come. Included is footage of the 2011 Comic Con panel and a short in which the duo encourage you to silence your cell phones.
The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence – Doing its revolting predecessor proud by doing its best to gross you out whenever possible, this film takes the meta-route by making its new villain (Laurence R. Harvey) a mute shut-in who is obsessed with copying the mad-science surgery of the first film. The egg-shaped, mute man, who bristles under the control of his brow-beating mom — think Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho — is a terrifying creation. He stalks and captures victims in an effort to attach them to recreate the experiment from the first movie. I found the film engaging and fast-moving, but unless you have a high tolerance for disturbing imagery, stay away. Deleted scenes, as well as commentary by Harvey and director Tom Six, make up the tail segments of the package.
The Lorax Blu-ray – The pro-environmentalism 1972 Dr. Seuss adaptation has always been a cruddy-looking piece of nostalgia, and is barely recognizable in remastered form. Typical 1970s graininess gives way to sharp images and striking colors, making it impossible to go back to watching the film the old way. While the short film, about a greedy business-monster who guts the land of trees in order to turn a profit, is second-tier Seuss, but still captures the artist/author's absurd spirit and biting cleverness. The Blu-ray/DVD/digital copy combo includes a pair of other little-known Seuss adaptations.
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The Rum Diary – Johnny Depp shines in this adaptation of an early Hunter S. Thompson book, which wasn't released until late in his career. Depp plays a young, idealistic journalist who takes a job at a newspaper in Puerto Rico and must decide whether to try to expose corruption or go with the flow. Director Bruce Robinson helps translate Thompson's cynical style to the screen, and Depp melds with a supporting cast led by Amber Heard and Aaron Eckhart to keep the tale captivating. Extras delve inside the making of the film, as well as the book's roundabout path to shelves.
Take Shelter – Michael Shannon builds off his excellent work in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire to play a troubled rural construction foreman troubled by visions of disaster. Jessica Chastain stars as his wife, whom he keeps in the dark as he attempts to prepare for the apocalypse as he questions his own sanity while risking everything to protect his family from what he thinks is certain death. The psychological mindbender is exquisitely shot and acted. Shannon and director Jeff Nichols provide commentary. There are also deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes featurette and cast interviews.
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A car park, which was discovered to be unsafe forcing a multi-million pound shopping centre to close last Christmas, could be rebuilt in 2007.
It is one year since Bournemouth's Castlepoint closed because of fears the car park's concrete was unsafe.
Temporary remedial work means most of the car park is in use and the £200m centre will remain open this Christmas.
Castlepoint management told the BBC: "We very much hope work can be started on rebuilding the car-park in 2007."
The issue over who will pay for the rebuild has not yet been resolved.
A Castlepoint management spokesperson said they had been "working extremely hard to resolve the issue and progress is being made".
A spokesperson for Bournemouth Borough Council added: "We are continuing to liaise with Castlepoint Partnership and Castlepoint management on various issues concerning the site and look forward to the matter being resolved."
Castlepoint shut without warning on 1 December, 2005, following reports from engineers highlighting health and safety concerns.
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Facebook | Does the goldrush mentality on Wall Street have implications for law firm marketing?
I don't know about you, but, I love the service Facebook provides and I'm glad they are doing well. It is probably the most powerful media holding on the Net – much to the surprise of many – and it may eventually become the NET – well, it is sure to be headed somewhere big with this new round of capital. The communities on Facebook are strong. There's a lot to like about that for advertisers. And, obviously that's not being missed by the gold-rush investors. So I'm wondering, how are law firm marketers seeing it? Are they ready to invest boldly? Here's how I see it.
What makes Facebook extremely valuable is not that 500 million (or whatever the new number is) people gather there, but that those people share their information freely allowing Facebook to give advertisers the data they want and need to target their audiences. Never before has it been so easy (and so profitable) for a media company to do this.
Advertising has always paid for media —the whole kit and kaboodle; content, production, distribution, overhead and profit, for TV, magazines, newspapers, radio, etc.. But, Facebook doesn't have content production costs; users do it for them, leaving only hard costs in making sure the "press," so to speak, keeps running smoothly. It's very attractive and it must be awfully lucrative for investors. What to do with all this profit –or am I missing something?
For advertisers it's both a blessing and a curse. Sure they have access to amazing user data, sliced and diced digitally, but they now have to create the ad AND the content. That's time intensive and expensive to do it right. (see chart below) It takes bodies to produce and maintain quality content (reference old media) and bodies cost money. The new media, such as Facebook, is now passing along content creation costs to the advertiser leaving more profit for them. Hmmm. Very attractive for investors and advertisers don't seem to mind as the data from Altimeter Group shows in this chart of projected corporate spend on new media in 2011. Staff and ad spend take the two top spots. Are law firms prepared to jump in?
More law firms are setting up Facebook pages – it's tough going, right? A lot goes into creating the content and few lawyers are willing to pitch in. The burden right now is squarely on the shoulders of the marketers – many find it to be just another underfunded challenge. Worse, law firm management gives it little or no strategic value.
So, they assign the task to a marketing coordinator (Thinking….they're Net natives, right, they know all about cool Facebook content. Hmmm… jump below***), throw up some press releases, and get employees, partners and families to "like" the firm page. Ho hum. Is that what it's really all about? I say no. Legal marketers need to be preparing their next steps now.
I want to hear from lawyers, law firms and marketers who are taking Facebook seriously. How are you leveraging the demographic data available from FB? Would you share with us how it is going? And, what about content creation? I've heard a few very large firms have added staff. What are your plans for 2011? Do you have any secret plan of attack – not asking you to share what that is, just curious to know if we're getting closer to a truly strategic mentality about Facebook in the legal marketing profession.
Thanks in advance for your contributions to this stream of thought.
Content production and the staffing conundrum.
***I'm not implying here that entry level marketers of the Net generation aren't entirely capable of producing good content, however, this will only happen when the law firm and the CMO empower the content builders. That takes an awful lot of trust, not to mention training so that the content builders understand and apply professional ethics and confidentiality where it is needed. The content builders must also understand the law firm's market (whoa – big job) and what is at stake for the entity, as well as what measurements will float the boat. This, in my opinion, needs leadership. Senior leadership. Trouble is, leadership doesn't have time to devote to something that is not directly tied to business results – generating real revenue. So, it gets pushed down. This, I think, may be where we need to rethink what we're doing. I think the benefit of early adoption in leveraging new media, specifically Facebook, is potentially huge. What do you think?
I know, right, buyers are beyond draconian Rules of the Bar. We can only hope that the ABA's recent exploration ends up in more enlightened territory than further restriction on attorney speech. And yes, keeping the presses running is no small or cheap task. Good point, so yeah, at the end of the day FB may not be paying for content creation but they're burning up the dollars on engineering.
RE: data mining, it's always been a part of modern advertising, and thus doesn't daunt me conceptually, right. What is scary is how much information people share (kids and uninformed adults) on FB (and everywhere on the Net) and how third-party data brokers like spokeo.com and 123people.com take it and sell it. This deep web data can be damaging and even dangerous to unsuspecting netizens. I see in the crystal ball some new protections coming, and perhaps the ability to remove data, i.e.erroneous or accidental data, from the web which should give us more peace of mind.
While I am good and ready to go on Facebook for my firm, I think there are still people who are weary of how to implement it for law firm marketing. I plan to tread lightly into it now that there are several firms out there successfully using it.
With more and more partners and attorneys in our firm having personal Facebook profiles, I think the resistance is not as strong as it was a year ago, and the adoption of it will be easier.
It also doesn't hurt that many of our top clients now have Facebook pages.
I think Facebook is an incredible platform to share what you are doing at work without promoting what you do. It exposes your personal circle of friends to your professional life, and vice versa. I'm all about uncovering commonalities, and I have found Facebook does that better than any other social media platform.
After almost 18 months with a Facebook Business page I am sold on the value it brings to the table for search engine optimization. By posting content that is timely and relevant to my client base, I have been able to see a direct increase in my SEO. I think firms (big and small) have to embrace social networking… because our clients, our colleagues and our referral sources are already there.
Thanks for joining the conversation and sharing your experience. Indeed, search and social can be pretty powerful. Kudos to you for taking a proactive role in creating your firm's online footprint using all the tools at hand. Keep us posted and come back often.
Jane, I love you and your work, but I have to play the curmudgeon (big surprise, I know). My plan is to ignore Facebook and focus on LinkedIn instead. Law firms that set up Facebook pages are primarily solos, plaintiff PI firms and GPs who are looking for consumer clients; also AmLaw 100 firms use Facebook to reach students for recruiting. Facebook is a social site, not a business site.
Facebook claims 500 million users, but istrategylabs (http://bit.ly/efw2eS) says that as of Jan. 04, 2011, 146.8 million are in the US. The largest age group that uses Facebook is 18-24, i.e., not decision makers. This is the fastest-growing demographic on Facebook.
When it comes to business development, social media are at the bottom of the list. Forrester Research asked in a survey (http://bit.ly/hfdMtl) "Which sources of information affect your purchase decision-making process?" The answers were (1) peers and word of mouth (2) consultants (3) salespeople (4) trade association web sites (5) industry analysts (6) discussion forums and support sites (7) trade shows (8) email newsletter (9) virtual trade show and at the very last, (10) online communities and social networking site.
Sure, Facebook is valued at $500 million. Remember the Dot-Com Bubble of the 1990s? Technology stocks were worth a fortune, until March 10, 2000 that is.
(1) According checkfacebook.com stats indeed, the 18-24 group is largest (31%) but very, very close behind is the 25-34 (22.6%) crowd and 35-44 crowd is at 16.4% of the US audience. The US audience is 25.63% of the global FB user population. Those are not small numbers and they are growing. I might also add that not all law firms, especially larger ones, are focused on a U.S. audience. I manage a global law firm's multi-lingual Facebook Page and we attract fans from China, South America, Dubai and India.
(2) If the number one source of information that affects purchases is peers and word of mouth…well, I would argue that primary activities on social media ( at least for the older crowd) is keeping in touch with peers and reading reviews. I for one, oddly, often trust the comments I read from people I do not know about products and services I want to buy. I get those from review sites, social networks (i.e. Book Fanatics on Linkedin) and corporate sites that offer forums like Apple.com, Amazon.com and Zappos.com. Now, you may argue that those are "retail" purchases, and they are, but I can tell you that I've heard directly from prospective law firm clients that they like to read and often trust anecdotal comments made by others, even from people they don't know except by reputation. I believe more corporate counsel rely on Chambers' Guides because they do have real comments – what's the difference except that Chambers comments are edited and published in a printed book-on it's way to extinction in the next generation I might add. Though the bar may be set right now at low involvement purchases, it is a growing phenomenon that I think will stick. I hope we're both around to see the finish line. Winner buys the beer!
When I read that #10 is influence by online communities and networking sites, I think ads. But the people that make up the community of those sites are not without influence, IMHO. However, with all things there is a balance and trust must be earned. For example, I have purchased books based on influential bloggers recommendations, bloggers that I've grown to know, like and trust through reading their content and comments. In some cases I have been disappointed with their recommendations. Does that make me never again trust their recommendations? No, I just weigh them more carefully. This is no different to me than when I speak with someone face to face at a conference or call them on the phone for an opinion.
I'm glad we could share out conversation with others via blog comments and hope that it continues to stimulate thought and progress as we all learn and grow. Oops, is that social media? You bet!
I am the Director of Professional Recruiting at my firm and Facebook has become the primary tool I use to get the word out about our new recruiting model, Schola2Juris. We decided to go where the students are as opposed to having them come to us. I am able to view the demographics of the visitors, see what articles/postings are receiving the most hits, where people are coming from, what kinds of media they are consuming on the page, etc. As we get closer to launching the job postings, we will use a targeted Facebook ad to reach the correct audience. While this obviously has more to do with student recruiting, I believe we are planting business development seeds that will (in the very long term) put our firm's name in the minds of those that may have never heard of us before. Also, by using recruiting as an incubator, the firm is seeing the benefits of this platform and how it may be used for more traditional biz dev in the future.
Great to hear from you and thanks for sharing your story. I checked out your page and I have to say I'm super excited by the creativity I see there. Excellent work. You go girl. I too hope the firm will soon recognize that with a little creativity and sweat equity digital publishing tools and online communities can be viable additions to face-to-face meetings, events, email blasts and all the other great things law firm marketers do to get the word out on their firms.


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Disability 'rights' or 'wrongs'? The claims of the international paralympic committee, the London 2012 paralympics and disability rights in the UK
Stuart Braye, Tom Gibbons, Kevin Dixon
A central aspect of the vision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is that the Paralympic Movement is a vehicle for achieving 'a more equitable society' (IPC 2012a). Building upon the findings of an online survey conducted with disabled activists prior to the London 2012 Paralympic Games (Braye, Dixon and Gibbons 2012), in this short essay we argue that whilst this vision is commendable, the Paralympics has limited impact on the everyday lives of disabled people in the UK. Whilst there was evidence of support for the IPC's view that the 2012 Games would be a positive vehicle for improving equality, there were also protests by disabled activists suggesting some disabled people saw the Games in more critical terms. Despite claims that the Paralympic Games has raised awareness of disabled athletes and wider equality issues for disabled people, such a view is not shared by many disability activists some of whom have controversially used the Games as a vehicle to highlight inequalities. It is concluded that the IPC are distinctively positioned to address disability issues as they relate to a unique and elite sports enclave and perhaps ought to restrain from seeing themselves as anything more until they have opened a dialogue with disability activists.
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Braye, S., Gibbons, T., & Dixon, K. (2013). Disability 'rights' or 'wrongs'? The claims of the international paralympic committee, the London 2012 paralympics and disability rights in the UK. Sociological Research Online, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.3118
Braye, Stuart ; Gibbons, Tom ; Dixon, Kevin. / Disability 'rights' or 'wrongs'? The claims of the international paralympic committee, the London 2012 paralympics and disability rights in the UK. In: Sociological Research Online. 2013 ; Vol. 18, No. 3.
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On June 6th, I made a live appearance on the Gun Owners of America "Lock-N-Load Show" with host Bill Frady. Among the topics we discussed was the recent LEFT event sponsored by the St. Charles, Illinois Police Department and their controversial decision to sell twenty firearms.
We also discussed the three best firearms for new gun owners to buy and talked about how new gun owners should approach buying their first defensive firearm.
If you follow me on social media, you already know how I feel about these dog-and-pony events. They are ineffective, misleading, wasteful, criminal, and exploit the poor.
I truly enjoy appearing on the GOA's "Lock-N-Load Show." Check out the podcast replay and hear the enthusiasm in my voice.


The American Precious Metals Exchange (APMEX) is the leading purveyor of precious metals, serving millions of customers worldwide. Established in 2003, the online retailer is ranked as the #1 specialty commerce site. When it comes to marketing, APMEX relies primarily on digital channels. With a large social media following and an active email subscriber base, the company uses email and social cadences, remarketing, search engine optimization, paid search, and other digital media strategies to reach potential and existing customers.
Improving ROI Means Understanding the Customer Journey.
APMEX wanted more return on its digital marketing investments. It began using Google Analytics Premium to gain the insights it needed to improve marketing initiatives by better understanding the customer journey. Knowing that existing customers are extremely valuable, APMEX hoped to find ways to improve customer retention and boost revenue from repeat customers. While APMEX had a wealth of customer data, its email contacts, call logs, demographics, and behavior tables were located in isolated regions of the company's databases. The company faced the challenge of integrating disparate data sources to effectively analyze its data.Partnering with E-Nor, a Google Analytics Premium authorized reseller, to upgrade to Google Analytics Premium with BigQuery was the solution.
E-Nor worked with APMEX to stitch together a variety of the company's standalone data assets with Google Analytics Premium and Google BigQuery. In this advanced implementation, adding a Client ID and UserID from the company's CRM system made it possible to connect data from outside Google Analytics Premium to enhance internal customer profiles. With Google Analytics Premium's BigQuery export feature, APMEX uses CRM and online behavioral data for predictive modeling and retargeting. BigQuery also makes it easy for APMEX to integrate Google Analytics Premium data into other sources, such as feeding it back into the CRM system.
As a result, APMEX can analyze individual journeys as well as specifically target customers or customer types. It can also empower teams to make data-informed decisions on a daily basis. Now, for example, when customers call, site usage information is available to the customer representative.
Since implementing Google Analytics Premium with BigQuery in October 2014, APMEX, Inc. has maintained new customer orders while dropping the average cost per acquisition (CPA) by more than 20%. Data insights have also helped APMEX confidently make data-informed investments to improve customer retention and increase repeat customer revenue. Understanding exact paths to purchase allowed APMEX to cut spending on low-performing media. This insight alone offered a dramatic reduction in CPA. With granular data from BigQuery, APMEX could also make more informed headcount decisions. Allocating a leaner, more efficient team to run marketing efforts reduced costs still further without sacrificing performance.
Beyond customer acquisition, APMEX used Google Analytics Premium data to build a statistical model to target premium customers earlier in their life cycle. For customers identified in the model, the company has increased email open rates by 58%, email conversion rates by 62%, and revenue per email by 163% as compared to the overall business.
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Enjoy some swing, 50's and 60's Rock-N-Roll from Chuck Berry to the Beatles and sweet ballads by Burt Bacharach and Rodgers & Hart. These are a few of the songwriters who are musical inspirations to Michael K. Myers and Doug Gravelle. Michael has been a professional musician and songwriter for over 40 years. Doug is a drummer and vocalist, formerly of the 60's and 70's recording group "The Bells". Their hit songs included Moody Manitoba Morning, Fly Little White Dove Fly, and the multi-million selling gold record Stay Awhile.


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Q: Loan - Early Repayment I have been having some difficulties with figuring out how to calculate for early repayment.
The question goes:
You take a 6 year loan of $25,000 with 7% annual interest rate and quarterly payments starting end of year 1.
I have solved for the quarterly loan payments = $1,284.64
Now comes the part that I am really confused about! If I decide to pay off the loan at time 3, how much would I have to pay including the time 3 payment, assuming no penalty for early repayment?
I have drawn up sections:
Q1:
Payment = 0 , Interest = 0, Principal = 0, Balance = 25,000
Q2:
PMT = 1,284.64, Interest = 437.50, Principal = 847.14, Balance = 24,152.86
Q3:
PMT = 1,284.64, Interest = 422.675, Principal = 861.964, Balance = 23,290.895
Y2Q1:
PMT = 1,284.64, Interest = 407.59, Principal = 877.049, Balance = 22,413.845
The answer is $15,081.10 but I can't seem to get to that. Is my method not it? Is there a formula  which does not require drawing up the sections? I do need some clarifications regarding what "time 3" means too, please.
Thank you all so much!

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*Struggling Student


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on September 06, 1996 by Susan Lambert
This impotent, ill-fated effort to capture the psyche of a killeris saved from total disaster only by its good intentions, the powerful truth behind the film and some eager performances. Sweet-faced Robert Sean Leonard ("Much Ado About Nothing") has the difficult task of revealing the inner conflicts of Henry Lesser, an idealistic Jewish prison guard in the 1920s who befriends a killer, Carl Panzram. James Woods, who must watch himself before becoming an art-house Eric Roberts, effectively captures the eyes and brutal soul Panzram, who responds to a bit of human kindness.
The movie lacks depth, literally and figuratively. Despite inspiration by real people and true events, these characters exist only to walk through the scenes, say their lines and drift away nto darkness, animated at the whim of a writer/director who fails to communicate the subtle, conflicting drama of an intelligent man of ideals facing an equally intelligent man of terror. It muddles through territory somewhere between "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Dead Man Walking," though "Killer" never comes close to the power of either. Starring James Woods and Robert Sean Leonard. Directed and written by Tim Metcalfe. A Legacy release. Drama. Rated R for strong language and strong, brutal violence, including a rape. Running time: 91 min.
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With the Jurassic Park franchise making a comeback thanks to 2015's Jurassic World, more and more rare and previously unseen behind the scenes material is beginning to show up among fans. Derrick Davis of Jurassic Time recently won an auction that provided him with a rare glimpse at some early storyboards from the production of Jurassic Park.
The storyboards were from Dinosaur Supervisor Phil Tippett's personal collection, and along with a number of other items, went up for auction on the Prop Store last October. Some lucky fans were able to snag some incredibly rare props and documents from the movie, and Derrick has been kind enough to share his haul online!
You can view the rest of the sequence here, along with the header sheet and script page which details the alternate ending for Nedry.
Huge thanks to Derrick for sharing these – with a wealth of reveals among the community recently, it's getting more and more exciting to think what other unknown treasures are waiting for fans to discover. Phil Tippett sold a huge number of his personal items in the auction showcasing his time working on the movie, along with many others.
We recently revealed the complete story arc for the unreleased Jurassic Park cartoon television series which you can check out here! The story follows on immediately from the ending of the first movie – literally in the helicopter as the survivors leave the island – and details Hammond's plans to ensure the safety of the island and the dinosaurs on it, protecting them from poachers and a certain malicious company.
Thanks again to Derrick for sharing these! Take to the comments section below to let us know which ending you prefer!
Glad you guys enjoy it! Much more where that came from. Stay tuned!
The part with the umbrella was the most fascinating part due to a specific sequence in the climax of Jurassic World drawing in parallels.
Very interesting. They sorta do this in JPTG. Always fun to see storyboards like these when they couldve gone into some private dicks collection, never to be seen to us fans.


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Jérémy Cadot (* 7. November 1986 in Lens) ist ein französischer Florettfechter.

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Jérémy Cadot wurde mit der Mannschaft 2015 in Montreux und 2017 in Tiflis Europameister. 2017 sicherte er sich mit Bronze zudem seine einzige internationale Einzelmedaille. Hinzu kommen zwei Bronzemedaillen im Mannschaftswettbewerb von den Weltmeisterschaften 2013 in Budapest und 2017 in Leipzig. Bei den Olympischen Spielen 2016 in Rio de Janeiro belegte er im Einzel den 18. Rang, während er in der Mannschaftskonkurrenz das Finale gegen Russland erreichte. Die russische Equipe setzte sich in diesem mit 45:41 gegen Frankreich durch, sodass Cadot gemeinsam mit Enzo Lefort, Jean-Paul Tony Helissey und Erwann Le Péchoux die Silbermedaille erhielt. Nach dem Olympiasilber erhielt er im Dezember 2016 das Ritterkreuz des Ordre national du Mérite.

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 Jérémy Cadot – Rankings and Results in der Datenbank der Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (englisch/französisch)

Fechter (Frankreich)
Europameister (Fechten)
Olympiateilnehmer (Frankreich)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2016
Träger des französischen Nationalverdienstordens (Ritter)
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Geboren 1986
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Located near Caorle in Italy, the luxury camping site of Laguna Village will offer a tranquil and serene camping holiday that is just as ideal for a couple as it is for the entire family. If you desire to learn more or should you wish to book an excursion to this luxury camping destination, please contact Lux-Camp for more details.
As is already hinted by the name, the holiday camping site of Laguna Village is located quite close to the popular Caorle Lagoon.
This ideal for those who enjoy aquatic activities, such as swimming, fishing and diving. Boat hire services are also possibilities which are offered.
Why should I consider choosing a camping holiday at Laguna Village near the town of Caorle?
Another benefit that needs to be mentioned is that all on-site luxury tents and mobile homes are located within only a short distance away from the historic village itself. While we cannot overstate the natural attraction of this region, anyone who appreciates a bit of history will find this town very appealing.
From quaint cobblestone streets to the nearby church of Madonnina dell'Angelo, countless hours can be spent immersed within this rich culture while returning to one's luxury tent will take only a matter of minutes.
There are a number of local bars which will offer only the freshest of regional foods. Families can expect to enjoy sumptuous dishes of fresh fish, meats and other healthy Mediterranean cuisine. Other locales will offer handmade ice cream; a delicacy particularly known in this region of Italy. While there are bars located in the village itself, there are also pubs to be found along the picturesque beaches here as well as upon the shores of the nearby Caorle Lagoon. So, camping in luxury has been taken to a whole new level. Feel free to enquire at Lux-Camp and learn what other benefits await.
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I was diagnosed with type 1, juvenile, diabetes at the age of 9. With no trace of diabetes within my family history it came as a shock. Even more shocking is an article I found concerns the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the rate of diabetes diagnosis on the rise among young people.
If you have a child or know a child living with or showing signs of diabetes, please, read the article below.
Researchers are trying to determine the cause of the significant increases in the number of newly diagnosed cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in U.S. youth.
The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, and the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, found that from 2002 to 2012, the rate of newly diagnosed cases of type 1 diabetes in youth increased about 1.8 percent per year, and the rate of newly diagnosed cases of type 2 diabetes increased by 4.8 percent.
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, included 11,244 children and teenagers from birth to age 19 with type 1 diabetes, and 2,846 children and teens age 10 to 19 with type 2 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the beta cells of the pancreas are attacked by the immune system destroying their ability to make insulin. A genetic predisposition increases risk for the condition, specific causes of its development are not known.
In type 2 diabetes, the body develops insulin resistance due to long-term excess glucose in the diet, sending insulin-producing cells first into overdrive and then failure because they can't produce the proper level of insulin. Type 2 diabetes also has a genetic predisposition, but is often caused by obesity and lifestyle.
The study is the first to estimate trends in newly diagnosed cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in youth from five major racial/ethnic groups in the United States including non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders and Native Americans.
Researchers found the rate of newly diagnosed cases of type 1 diabetes increased most sharply in Hispanic youth resulting in a 4.2 percent increase annually. In non-Hispanic blacks, the rate increased by 2.2 percent and in non-Hispanic whites the rate increased by 1.2 percent per year.
The study also showed the rate of new diagnosed cases of type 2 diabetes, which is rare in children, increased 8.9 percent in Native Americans, 8.5 percent in Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, 6.3 percent in non-Hispanic blacks, 3.1 percent in Hispanics and 0.6 percent in whites.
"The increase we are seeing in type 2 diabetes in children is parallel to the increase in the incidence of obesity," Dr. Giuseppina Imperatore, an epidemologist in the CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation, told UPI.
The increase in cases of type 1 diabetes, however, is the subject of increasing scientific study, with many researchers exploring the accelerator or overload hypothesis, which suggests being overweight or obese is triggering type 1 diabetes in children who are predisposed to it -- which may explain the increase in diagnoses during the last decade.
But there is no clear link between obesity and type 1 diabetes, or other explanation for increased incidence of the condition, which researchers say is most likely influenced by environment, rather than sudden widespread changes to genetics.
"These findings lead to many more questions," Dr. Barbara Linder, senior advisor for childhood diabetes research at NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, said in a press release.
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