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Receptos Insider Sale Defies Logic if Takeout Is Imminent
Lilly Ventures, the venture capital arm of the pharmaceutical giant with a seat on Receptos' board, just sold a good chunk of the company's stock.
Jun 17, 2015 11:05 AM EDT
Updated from 11:05 am EDT with Receptos comment.
SAN DIEGO (TheStreet) -- The stock price of Receptos (RCPT) has been surging for more than a week on rumors and speculation of an imminent takeout. But if Receptos is in active sale negotiations, it makes no sense for Lilly Ventures, the venture capital arm of the pharmaceutical giant with a seat on Receptos' board, to sell a good chunk of the company's stock.
But that's exactly what Lilly Ventures just did. In an SEC filing posted Tuesday night, Lilly Ventures managing partner Ed Torres reported the sale in the past week of 25% of the fund's holdings in Receptos.
Torres is a director on Receptos' board, which means he would have direct knowledge of any takeover offer or sale negotiations under way. The insider sale of Receptos stock by Torres/Lilly Ventures was voluntary, meaning no 10b5-1 trading plan was involved, according to the SEC filing.
Lilly Ventures sold 220,000 shares of Receptos in three tranches on June 12, 15, and 16. The sale prices ranged from $175 to $182 per share, according to the SEC filing.
That means Lilly Ventures profited from the recent Receptos takeover speculation. On June 9, an investor blog published an unsourced story claiming that Receptos had rebuffed a takeover offer from AstraZeneca (AZN) - Get Astrazeneca PLC Sponsored ADR Report. Teva (TEVA) - Get Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Report and Gilead Sciences (GILD) - Get Gilead Sciences, Inc. Report were also reportedly interested in buying Receptos, the blog post said.
Receptos was trading below $150 per share when the takeover speculation ramped up on June 9. On Wednesday, the stock was trading at nearly $192 per share.
Investors have long eyed Receptos as a potential takeover target -- and justifiably so -- because of the company's very promising lead drug under development for multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.
The insider stock sale by a director of Receptos doesn't prove definitively that the recent takeout rumors are false, or that the company won't be sold eventually. But the Lilly Ventures sale does defy logic if such a sale is imminent.
"As I'm sure you understand, we cannot comment on M&A speculation," said Receptos Chief Financial Officer Graham Cooper, in an email response to questions about the Lilly Ventures sale.
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Angélica Freitas (Pelotas, 8 de abril de 1973) é uma poeta e tradutora brasileira.

Biografia
Freitas nasceu em Pelotas, no Rio Grande do Sul, em 8 de abril de 1973. Formou-se em jornalismo pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), residindo alguns anos em Porto Alegre. Mudou-se mais tarde para São Paulo, onde trabalhou como repórter para o jornal O Estado de S. Paulo e a revista Informática Hoje. Deixou a capital paulista em 2006, iniciando uma série de passagens e residências temporárias em países como a Holanda, a Bolívia e a Argentina. Atualmente, a poeta vive em Berlim, Alemanha.

Literatura
Angélica Freitas teve poemas reunidos em livro, pela primeira vez, em uma antologia de poesia brasileira contemporânea publicada na Argentina, intitulada Cuatro poetas recientes del Brasil (Buenos Aires: Black & Vermelho, 2006), organizada e traduzida pelo poeta e crítico argentino Cristian De Nápoli. Nesse mesmo ano, participaria de leituras públicas de seus poemas em São Paulo, na Casa das Rosas, e no Festival de Poesia Latino-americana de Buenos Aires. Sua primeira coletânea de poemas viria com o volume Rilke Shake (São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2007), que integra a coleção de poesia contemporânea "Ás de colete", dirigida pelo poeta carioca Carlito Azevedo.

Desde então, seus poemas foram traduzidos e publicados na Espanha, México, Estados Unidos, Alemanha e França. Angélica Freitas estava também entre os autores brasileiros convidados para o Festival de Poesia de Berlim (Poesiefestival Berlin), que dedicou sua edição de 2008 à língua portuguesa. Em 2009, leu ainda na Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (FLIP) e em festivais de Santiago (Chile) e Cidade do México. Seus poemas vêm sendo também publicados em várias revistas impressas e eletrônicas, como Inimigo Rumor (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), Diário de Poesía (Buenos Aires/Rosário, Argentina), águas furtadas (Lisboa, Portugal), Hilda (Berlim, Alemanha) e Aufgabe (Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos).

Em 2012 seu livro um útero é do tamanho de um punho (também grafado por alguns periódicos com a primeira letra em maiúsculo) alcançou grande sucesso de crítica, sendo finalista em 2013 no Prêmio Portugal Telecom.

Angélica Freitas é coeditora, com os poetas Fabiano Calixto, Marília Garcia e Ricardo Domeneck, da revista de poesia Modo de Usar & Co., para a qual traduziu poetisas hispano-americanas como Blanca Varela, Susana Thénon e Lucía Bianco. Seu trabalho já foi ligado, por críticos como Ricardo Domeneck, a poéticas medievais como a das fatrasies, o que a liga também a poetas satíricos e do nonsense, como o brasileiro Sapateiro Silva, o inglês Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) e o alemão Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914), além de dadaístas como Hans Arp  (1886 - 1966). A crítica e tradutora americana Hilary Kaplan menciona também, em sua introdução às traduções de poemas da autora gaúcha, o paralelo entre certas práticas de Angélica Freitas, como o que esta chamaria de googlagem, e o trabalho de poetas contemporâneos dos Estados Unidos ligados ao movimento FLARF.

Publicações

Poesia

 Rilke Shake (São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2007)
 um útero é do tamanho de um punho (São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2013)
 Canções de atormentar (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2020)

Editoria

 revista Modo de Usar & Co. (Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Berinjela, 2007)
 revista Modo de Usar & Co. 2 (Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Berinjela, 2009)

Antologias

 Cuatro Poetas Recientes del Brasil (Buenos Aires: Black & Vermelho, 2006) - Argentina -  ISBN 9872222320
 Otra línea de fuego: quince poetas brasileñas ultracontemporaneas. Org. Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda. (Diputación Provincial de Málaga, 2009) - Espanha
 VERSSchmuggel / Contrabando de Versos (Berlin: Das Wunderhorn / São Paulo: Editora 34, 2009) - Alemanha
 El libro de los gatos (Buenos Aires: Bajo la Luna, 2009) - Argentina
 A Poesia Andando. 13 poetas do Brasil (Lisboa: Cotovia, 2008) - Portugal
 Skräp-poesi: antología bilingüe en español y sueco (Malmö: ed. POESIA con C, 2008) - Suécia
 Natiunea Poetilor (Suceava: ed. Musatini, 2008) - Romênia
 Poesía-añicos y sonares híbridos. Doce poetas latinoamericanos (Berlin: SuKulTur, 2007) - Alemanha
 Caos Portátil (Ciudad de México: ed. El Billar de Lucrecia, 2007) - México
 Poemas no ônibus (Porto Alegre: Secretaria Municipal da Cultura, 2002) - Brasil - ISBN 393773774X

Banda desenhada

 Guadalupe com o ilustrador Odyr Bernardi (Madrid: Distinta Tinta Ediciones, 2019) - España

Web
Artigo sobre a poeta no jornal Folha de S. Paulo
Ensaio da crítica norte-americana Hilary Kaplan sobre Rilke Shake

Ligações externas

Poetas do Rio Grande do Sul
Tradutores do Brasil
Escritores do Rio Grande do Sul
Naturais de Pelotas
Freitas, Angelica
Escritoras do Brasil

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This article by Paul Street is re-posted from ZNet.
It's a hell of a thing to go through life with a felony record in the United States. The consequences are different depending on who and/or what you are, however.
Take a 20-something black American who has just finished serving three years in a state correctional facility after pleading guilty to a minor drug offense – possessing a modest amount of marijuana and/or cocaine. He was born into a deeply disadvantaged single-parent family stuck in a jobless ghetto where drugs, gangs, guns and crime were ubiquitous, where economic opportunity was absent, and where schools were dilapidated, underfunded, unsafe and obsessed with standardized tests scores.
He grew up in what researchers call "deep poverty," at less than half the federal government's notoriously inadequate poverty level (more than 1 million live in that condition). Food pantries, food stamps, public family cash assistance and the underground economy kept him alive in his youth.
His childhood unfolded against a backdrop of vacant lots, broken glass, boarded-up homes, gunfire, used hypodermic needles and constant police harassment. His teachers expected him to end up in prison from the early grades on. Incarceration was a normal experience for young men in his neighborhood. A large number of the folks he went to (and dropped out of) school with have already been killed or maimed in street violence.
His arms are marked with gang tattoos a prison release counselor told him to get removed – a painful process – if he wants to find a job on the outside. He also has a four-inch gash over his left eye, courtesy of an abusive cellmate.
He's back on the streets after three years on the wrong side of one of the many hundreds of prisons that dot the rural landscape of the world's leading mass incarceration nation. (The supposed land of liberty, the United States is home to more than 2 million prisoners, nearly half of them black. The number of black Americans currently under criminal supervision in the United States is greater than the total number of slaves in the country on the eve of the Civil War). Now he is one of the one in three black adult males marked with the lifelong stigma of a felony record.
Along with his race, dismal education, and an awkward three-year gap in his school and work history, his felony record would be a nearly fatal hurdle to decent employment. Nobody told him about that. Or that he would lose his rights to sit on a jury and (in many states) to vote – two of the most basic rights in a democratic nation. Or that he would become ineligible for numerous federally funded health and welfare benefits, including food stamps, public housing and educational assistance. Or that he would no longer qualify for numerous employment and professional licenses (a law degree, for example) or be able to obtain a federal security clearance or be permitted to enlist in the military and that he might have his drivers' license automatically suspended. Or that he would be shackled upon release with various debts (a "new debtors' prison") resulting from fines and other payments he would be required to make to probation departments, child support officers, parole officers, fees to work-release authorities and public defenders among other "post-conviction fees," according to Alexander.
Given their common debt burden and the remarkable difficulty "ex-offenders" have getting work and public benefits in a society that requires people to exchange money or food stamps for basic necessities, it is unsurprising that released prisoners commonly return to the black market drug economy that made them targets for arrest and imprisonment. It's a vicious circle whereby the criminal (in)justice system uses "the war on drugs" to turn millions of black and Latino and poor white Americans into a permanent criminal underclass that cycles in and out of jail, court, prison, parole, probation, the nation's poorest and most opportunity-starved communities and the most marginal sections of the labor market. This mostly nonwhite criminal caste is the critical human raw material for an industry that provides jobs for predominantly white rural workers who no longer find employment in agriculture or industry: racially disparate mass incarceration. Along the way, the nation's colossal human warehousing and branding system serves the predominantly white economic elite by further cheapening the price of black and lower-class labor and suppressing the official unemployment rate, which would be much higher if it included prisoners.
A felony record is a social and political death sentence for many.
Things are different for the artificial person called BP PLC – the giant England-based petroleum corporation British Petroleum (BP). Two weeks ago, BP agreed to become a convicted felon by accepting a deal with the US Justice Department. It will plead guilty to 11 felony counts of "seaman's manslaughter" and one felony count of obstructing Congress related to the offshore Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers and riveted the world by causing an epic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in early 2010. In what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calls "the largest environmental disaster in history," the spill lasted for months and was captured on live underwater camera even as BP officials lied about the volume of toxic oil (60,000 barrels) it spewed each day into the ocean.
In addition, the company has agreed to pay a record US fine of $4.5 billion and faces up to $31 billion in additional pollution penalties under the Clear War Act and the Oil Pollution Act. (It had already paid out $36 billion related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.) The Justice Department is charging BP engineers Don Vidrine and Robert Kaluza, 63, with manslaughter in the Deepwater incident. Vidrine and Kaluza face the possibility of going to prison for a decade or more. And last week, the Obama administration ordered a temporary stop to new federal contracts with BP, citing the company's "lack of business integrity." The action by the EPA bans BP and its affiliates from new government contracts for an indefinite period. At the same time, the administration has disqualified BP from winning new leases to drill for oil or gas on taxpayer-owned land until the suspension is lifted.
CNN Money reported that BP shares fell early in the day the suspension was announced but "recouped most of their losses by noon." Nobody in the EPA or the Justice Department or elsewhere in the oil-friendly Obama administration is talking about permanent debarment – the disqualification of the mendacious, man-slaughtering multinational from ever again receiving federal contracts and leases. Looking forward to the increased shareholder price, improved reputation, and enhanced investor stability it expects to result from a resolution of the claims against it, BP remains at liberty to rake in untold billions of dollars in super-profits while working to push humanity's doomsday clock ever and more rapidly closer to midnight as more and more surplus carbon emissions collect in the atmosphere and as more American water supplies are exhausted and poisoned by the hydraulic fracturing practices BP and other leading oil corporations exploit.
While millions of living, felony-marked Americans can never vote in another election even after they serve their time for a minor felony drug offense, the felony-marked artificial person called BP will remain free under Citizen United-era US campaign finance law to pour unlimited resources from its corporate treasury into the money-soaked US elections system. Along with the billions of dollars BP and other global corporate fossil fuel giants like Exxon-Mobil and Chevron pour into lobbying, public relations and propaganda, its political investments will continue the psychopathic work of discrediting the urgent and overwhelming scientific consensus on the ever-deepening existential threat posed by anthropogenic global warming and preventing serious public action to save the species from the specter of climate change. It will continue along with its corporate brethren and their criminal front the American Petroleum Institute to bet against the fading prospects for a decent future, destroying a livable Earth with recklessly excessive carbon emissions that are warming the planet beyond the "tipping point" of sustainable habitation.
Thanks to that deadly influence, the WSJ can report that "the oil industry rebounded quickly from the [Deepwater Horizon] accident in spite of a six-month deepwater drilling moratorium and a spate of new regulations. Thirty months after the spill, offshore gas and oil operations in the Gulf have all but returned to their pre-accident levels. The latest rig count shows 47 offshore rigs in the gulf, just shy of the level right before the accident." Remarkably enough, one of those rigs (the Black Elk platform, 25 miles southeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana,) blew up on the day after the announcement of BP's settlement with the Justice Department.
Also thanks to the extraordinary influence of BP and other giant oil companies, climate change was almost completely missing from the 2012 election. In their second televised debate, the two presidential contenders went back and forth trying to outdo each other in touting their commitment to making America "energy independent" through fracking, expanded domestic and offshore drilling, and accelerated coal extraction. Neither of them seemed to care much about what the world is going to look like after a few more decades of such practices. It was futile to hope that Hurricane Sandy – its remarkable fury driven by greenhouse emission-warmed ocean waters – would do much to penetrate the petro-corporate, plutocracy-imposed silence. The record-setting heat, droughts, and forest and grass fires of 2012 didn't do it, so how was yet another example of Nature's revenge going to break through the eco-cidal consensus with less than a week to go?
Such is the dark, slimy nature of what passes for justice in the United States, where money talks and eco-cide walks. It's a nation where droves of young black males are multiply disenfranchised for life for dealing modest amounts of weed while giant corporations who fill the planet with lethal carbon emissions and who dedicate huge resources to undermining public regulation of mass-murderous greenhouse gases remain free to pursue lucrative federal contracts and purchase decisive political influence even after they commit spectacular and egregious crimes against human beings and the Earth we all share.


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Florida Georgia Line's Tyler Hubbard and his wife, Hayley, are on a lavish vacation in Italy and the photos will make you itch for a getaway of your own.
Hayley took to Instagram to show off the dreamlike trip that has taken them to Venice and surrounding islands. The couple — who have been married since July 2015 — made a stop to see the vibrant fishing houses scattered along the island of Burano and snapped a few photos in front of the purple, pink, yellow and blue buildings before taking to the crystal blue waters for a scenic gondola ride down the famous Grand Canal.
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The Art and Science of Connecting Mind, Body, and Emotion for Student Success Conference
1440 Mind-Body Education Conference
Tish Jennings, MEd, PhD
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Dr. Jennings led the team that developed CARE for Teachers, a mindfulness-based professional development program shown to significantly improve teacher well-being, emotional supportiveness and sensitivity, and classroom productivity in the largest randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention designed specifically to address teacher occupational stress.
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Dan Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and is an internationally acclaimed author, award-winning educator, and renowned child psychiatrist. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he is also on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. Also at UCLA, he is a founding codirector of the Mindful Awareness Research Center.
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Linda Graham has been an ardent practitioner and facilitator of personal growth and self-transformation for more than 20 years. She integrates the paradigms and practices of modern neuroscience, Western relational psychology, and Eastern contemplative practices in order to help people shift out of old response patterns into flexible, adaptive patterns that lead to authentic resilience and well-being.
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Pediatrician and early childhood health advocate
A pioneer in the field of medicine, Nadine Burke Harris has earned international attention for her innovative approach to addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs, as a risk factor for adult disease such as heart disease and cancer. Her work has demonstrated that it's time to reassess the relationship between early childhood adversity, child development, and health, and how the practical applications of the ACE study can improve health outcomes.
A pediatrician, mom, and founder/CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness, Dr. Burke Harris has brought these scientific discoveries and her new approach to audiences at the Mayo Clinic, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Google Zeitgeist.
Dr. Burke Harris' TED talk, "How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime," has been viewed more than one million times. Her work has been profiled in the New Yorker, in Paul Tough's best-selling book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, and in Jamie Redford's soon to be released feature film, Resilience.
Dr. Burke Harris serves as an expert advisor on the Too Small to Fail initiative, championed by the Clinton Foundation in association with Next Generation, to improve the lives of children ages birth to five.
She also serves as an advisor on Governor Brown's Let's Get Healthy California Task Force, and as a committee member for the Medical Home for Children Exposed to Violence Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Burke Harris' work has also earned her the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award presented by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
With partners and allies, Dr. Burke Harris and the Center for Youth Wellness are spearheading a national public education campaign to get the message out on early adversity to parents and pediatricians across the country, just as previous campaigns did for seat belts and secondhand smoke.
Neurologist and author
Dr. Judy Willis combined her 15 years as a practicing board-certified neurologist with 10 subsequent years as a classroom teacher to become a leading authority in the neuroscience of learning. With her unique background in both neuroscience and education, she has written seven books about applying neuroscience research to classroom teaching strategies.
After graduating Phi Beta Kappa as the first woman graduate from Williams College, Dr. Willis attended UCLA School of Medicine where she was awarded her medical degree. She remained at UCLA and completed a medical residency and neurology residency, including chief residency. She practiced neurology for 15 years before returning to university to obtain her teaching credential and Master's of Education degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She then taught in elementary and middle school for 10 years.
Dr. Willis has served on the adjunct faculty of the University of California Santa Barbara Graduate School of Education and travels nationally and internationally giving presentations, workshops, and consulting about learning and the brain. She has been interviewed by USA Today, Euronews, The Wall Street Journal, NBC News Education Nation, ABC Australia Radio, Lateline Australia, Popular Mechanics, Neurology Today, Education Week, and Parenting magazine among others, and writes staff expert blogs for NBC News Education Nation, Edutopia, Psychology Today, and The Guardian. In 2011 she was selected by Edutopia as a "Big Thinker on Education."
Education advocate and teacher mentor
Ellen Moir is founder and chief executive officer of New Teacher Center (NTC), a national organization dedicated to improving student learning by accelerating the effectiveness of new teachers and school leaders. She is recognized as a passionate advocate for new teachers and for the students they teach.
She founded NTC in 1998 to scale high quality teacher induction services to a national audience. Today she oversees a staff of more than 150 who work closely with educators and policy makers nationwide. NTC seeks to work in high-poverty schools in underserved communities to ensure that low-income, minority, and English language learners—those students most often taught by inexperienced teachers—have the opportunity to receive an excellent education.
Ellen is widely recognized for her work in beginning teacher development and school reform. She has extensive experience in public education, having previously served as director of teacher education at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and worked as a bilingual teacher.
She has received a number of awards, including the 2015 Mary Utne O'Brien Award for Excellence in Expanding the Evidence-Based Practice of Social and Emotional Learning, the 2015 California Association of Supervision of Curriculum and Development (CASCD) Outstanding Instructional Leader award, and the 2014 Brock International Prize in Education.
Ellen is coauthor of many publications, including Keys to the Elementary Classroom, Keys to the Secondary Classroom, New Teacher Mentoring: Hopes and Promise for Improving Teacher Effectiveness, and Blended Coaching: Skills and Strategies to Support Principal Development.
Author and expert in instructional movement
Mike Kuczala is the coauthor of the Corwin bestseller and Association of Educational Publishers' Distinguished Achievement Award nominated, The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning Through Movement, a book and philosophy that has changed the view of teaching and learning around the world. Mike's second book, Training in Motion: How to Use Movement to Create Engaging and Effective Learning, was released in 2015.
President of Kuczala Consulting and Academic Director for the Regional Training Center, an educational consulting firm based in Randolph, New Jersey, Mike has become an in-demand keynote speaker and consultant at international conferences, school districts, and corporations.
His presentations have been experienced in such diverse settings as The East Asia Regional Council of Schools, The American Society for Training and Development, The Forum for Innovative Leadership, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the American Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, and the Lawyer Brain OD Roundtable.
An expert in training, training design, and effective presentation, he has designed or co-designed, three of the most successful graduate courses in the history of the Regional Training Center. Motivation: The Art and Science of Inspiring Classroom Success, Wellness: Creating Health and Balance in the Classroom and The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning Through Movement are facilitated by a cadre of more than 70 trained instructors who have taught thousands of teachers the key principles of instructional movement, motivation, and wellness.
As a graduate instructor, keynote speaker, and workshop presenter, Mike regularly facilitates professional development programs in both corporate and educational settings in the areas of motivation, presentation skill, using movement to enhance the learning process, brain-based teaching and training, differentiated instruction and training, enhancing student thinking, and topics related to wellness and stress management.
His engaging and practical professional development programs have been enjoyed by tens of thousands of corporate executives, teachers, administrators, and parents around the world over the last decade.
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Co-Founder of Inner Explorer
Dr. Bakosh is a researcher, program developer, and co-founder of Inner Explorer—a nonprofit organization helping children unlock academic potential and foster lifelong well-being. For 20 years Laura worked in large multinational companies, and began practicing mindfulness as a way to mitigate the stress of work and travel. The daily practice was so impactful in her life that she invited an MBSR teacher to facilitate training and provide practice tools for her team at GE Healthcare, over a 3-year period, from 2001-2003. Record sales volume, reduced turnover, and improved morale were all linked to the mindfulness training.
During the same time, GE fMRI equipment was being used in early studies that showed consistent mindfulness practice causes brain changes that support improved cognitive function. Understanding that these habits of mind would be useful for children, she attended the MBSR Teacher Practicum at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness in 2007, and began investigated adapted MBSR approaches for children. For several years she taught in classrooms and after school centers when it became clear that a daily practice tool was a missing link, and would be useful for children to develop the habit of being mindful. This led to the development of an MBSR adapted 10-minute, daily, audio-guided program, and the launching of Inner Explorer in 2011. Now more than 10,000 classrooms are running the program. Inner Explorer has become a simple and cost effective tool for educators to use to help students (and themselves) practice being mindful every day.
Laura graduated with a PhD from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology at Sofia University, after conducting multiple research studies on the effects of the daily practice on academic outcomes. Published research, Maximizing Mindful Learning proves the brief, automated practices reduce stress, leading to improved grades, test scores, and behavior. Laura and the Inner Explorer team's vision is to break the cycle of poverty, violence, and despair through daily mindfulness programs in schools. They believe that it will be the most impactful social justice initiative of our time.
Keynote speaker and executive coach
Michael Clark is the only speaker teaching leaders and teams how to transform intellectual, emotional, and physical engagement and productivity. Michael delivers keynotes, training, and executive coaching to people working in large, medium, and small companies, and K-20 educational communities.
Michael has deep experience in taking a client's vision and desired outcomes and crafting them into relevant content and engaging presentations. His programs deliver super-practical insights, tools, and strategies for overcoming challenges, seizing opportunities, and realizing goals.
Michael is passionate about the most current science and research on leadership, engagement, productivity, learning, teaching, psychology, instructional design, change management, neuroscience, technology, social media, content marketing, and social business.
Michael lives in Mission Beach, San Diego, California, and can be found running on the beach, body surfing in the Pacific Ocean, and camping in the mountains and desert.
Step to the forefront of research-based conversations that are fueling and empowering the integration of whole-person wellness into the educational system for the benefit of students, their classrooms, and our communities.
Get inspired by mind-body wellness practices that enhance childhood development and support learning and success in the classroom and beyond.
Connect with like-minded colleagues, peers, and thought leaders in an inspiring and fun educational setting that allows you time and opportunities for self-care through yoga, meditation, hiking, farm-to-table meals, and more.
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SETTING INTENTIONS
With Wendy Baron, M. Ed., Chief Officer, Social and Emotional Learning,
New Teacher Center
Creating an Emotion Revolution in Our Nation's Schools
With Marc Brackett, Ph.D., Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
FACILITATED DIALOGUE
MINDFUL MEDITATION (Supplementary Class)
How Emotion Impacts the Brain's Successful Learning and What to Do About it
With Judy Willis, M.D., M.Ed.
Adversity and Impact on Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health and Wellbeing
With Nadine Burke Harris, M.D., CEO Center for Youth Wellness
OVERVIEW OF AFTERNOON
Choose one of the following experiential workshops for the afternoon session:
Fostering 'Readiness to Learn' – A School and District-wide Approach to Mindfulness-Based Social Emotional Learning (MBSEL)
Laura Bakosh., Ph.D, Inner Explorer Co-Founder
'Readiness to Learn' is the ability to regulate emotions and behaviors and to inhibit impulsivity, and is foundational to academic success and positive social interactions. Fostering 'readiness' is an allusive task due to the extensive stress, anxiety and trauma students and teachers regularly experience. Find out how daily mindfulness-based social emotional learning (MBSEL) programs promote readiness and resilience, and provide a solid base for STEM. Learn how technology can support both simplified implementation and sustainable outcomes.
UnMasking Successful Student-Teacher Relationships
Ashanti Branch, M.Ed., Founder and Executive Director, Ever Forward Club
Taking Off The Mask is a highly experiential workshop that creates a safe space for individuals and teams to engage in an uncommonly open, honest dialogue. EFC recognizes that each person has a set of shared human needs – for support, expression, recognition, meaning, and connection. By closing the gap between who we are on the inside and who we show up as at work, we create more meaningful connections, healthier communication, deeper engagement – and ultimately more powerful results.
Resilience and the Brain
Resilience – capacities to cope with stress and adversity – can be strengthened safely, efficiently, effectively, when we know how.
This break-out session will guide educators to the very practical tools, validated by the decades-long dovetailing of neuroscience and behavioral science research, that create a culture in the classroom of safety, empathic relationships, positive pro-social emotions, novelty, and mindful awareness, all powerful agents of brain change that prime neuroplasticity and foster learning and growth.
These tools will be applied to four intelligences – somatic, emotional, relational, and reflective – that help students more easily bounce back from disappointments, difficulties, even disasters, and recover a reliable thriving and flourishing.
CARE for Teachers: Reducing Stress and Improving Classroom Environments
Tish Jennings, M.Ed, Ph.D
Teachers face growing demands that are increasing stress and reducing job satisfaction. Students are less prepared and accountability measures add pressure to teachers' workload. Stress affects the brain in ways that interfere with teaching and learning. Mindfulness can help teachers manage the stress of teaching by helping them become more aware of their emotional reactivity when it first arises so they can calm down and respond to situations thoughtfully, rather than reacting unconsciously. You will learn valuable skills that will help you manage the stressful demands of the classroom and cultivate an exceptional learning environment.
The Kinesthetic Classroom, Going Deeper
Mike Kuczala, Author, The Kinesthetic Classroom, Teaching and Learning Through Movement
The brain and body are inextricably connected. If we want students to be more engaged, attentive, motivated and improve academically, we can do so by creating Kinesthetic Classrooms. Participants will experience – in greater depth – the 6-part framework for using movement including (1) Preparing the Brain, (2) Providing Brain Breaks, (3) Supporting Exercise and Fitness, (4) Creating Class Cohesion, (5) Reviewing Content and (6) Teaching Content. You will leave with dozens of immediately usable classroom applications! But the importance of movement doesn't end with k-12 students. It is just as critical in adult learning and presentation. We'll also examine the 6-part framework in adult learning, presentation facilitation with adults, and the cognitive underpinnings of why movement and physical activity are relevant to all learners.
Constructing Durable, Transferable Memory in Learning Climates where Mistakes are Integral to Learning
Judy Willis, M.D, M.Ed.,
The application of the neuroscience research to teaching offers keys to access the brain's most powerful information processing networks to and increase memory construction, accuracy, durability, and retrieval while promoting a learning environment where mistakes are integral to learning.
You'll learn what this research reveals about how the brain constructs physical links between new information and prior knowledge to successfully capture and retain learning. Topics including the latest research on neuroplasticity, dopamine-reward memory, and the power of patterning will be linked to ready-to-use relevant classroom strategies.
Through neuroplasticity, the application of these developing networks to active and interactive learning, strengthens their highest cognitive potentials. Students who construct their understanding and are guided to extend learning into concept neural networks will have wisdom that can be applied in school and transferred to new applications long after the school years. They will be prepared for the demands of vocations or higher education to adapt their understanding as facts change and be creative innovators in response to the new problems and opportunities of the 21st century.
BOOK SIGNING (with Friday and Saturday Keynote Speakers and Session Presenters)
YOGA (Supplementary Class)
COMMUNICATE, COLLABORATE, AND CELEBRATE THROUGH DRUMMING with Jim Greiner
FIRESIDE CHAT with DANIEL SIEGEL
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 201
The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Resilience, Curiosity, and Vitality in Youth
With Daniel Siegel
FACILITATED GROUP DIALOGUE
Intellectual, Emotional & Physical Learning for School, College & Career Success
Michael Clark, CEO ReCenter Consulting
Technology, social media, global connectivity and inclusive diversity are transforming learning, teaching, collaborating, and working. College and career paths are undergoing unprecedented change. Preparing students with the skills necessary for success has never been more challenging for educators.
Intellectual, emotional and physical learning includes and engages all students in a dynamic process of growth, development and positive change. During this presentation, you will experience super-practical tools and strategies that you can model and teach to your students, colleagues and parents. Relevant for
every grade level and subject area, intellectual, emotional and physical learning empowers students with the mindsets and skillsets to be successful in school, college and career.
The Power of Play to Enhance Learning, Build Social Connections and Encourage Curiosity
Martha Kaufeldt, M.A.
Could it be that the need to "play" is hardwired into our brains? What happens to children's brains when more time is spent sitting indoors in front of a screen? Are our students "play-deprived?" Discover how play and physical activity can help promote problem-solving, creativity and develop social skills necessary for the 21st Century. Learn ways that educators can promote curiosity and engagement by using novelty, humor, challenge and movement. Play is fun, natural and necessary for developing brains.
Social and Emotional Learning: A Systems Approach
Sherrie Raven, Implementation Coordinator, CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning)
Heather Schwartz, Practice Specialist, CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning)
Are you wondering what social and emotional learning could look like in your school or classroom? This session draws on lessons learned as a principal, district SEL lead and in the CASEL Collaborating Districts Initiative. We will explore ways to select and implement social and emotional learning programs and build teacher capacity to integrate SEL into daily instruction. Through interactive learning and discussion, participants will plan for implementation in their own settings while learning from the successes and challenges of districts that have been working on systemic SEL for 6 or more years
Leveraging Neuroscience to Help Our Children Thrive
Sheila Walker, CFA, Ph.D., Faculty Associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education, Faculty Affiliate, University of California, Irvine, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University
This session will draw on research from the fields of neurobiology, behavioral genetics, epigenetics, endocrinology and social science to elucidate how nature operates via nurture to influence individual differences in development, learning and behavior. Included will be the context of adversity, and how unremitting and unbuffered stress can become "toxic", impairing educational outcomes and mental as well as physical health. The session will also cover the science of epigenetics, the neurobiology of resilience, and the profound significance of relational trust for a wide range of key school and life outcomes. Finally, the material will reinforce the bio-social importance of positive lifestyle choices – such as nutrition, exercise, sleep, and healthy friendships – as foundational for helping each child reach their full potential.
Introduction to Engaged Teaching and Learning:
Integrating Mindfulness, Cultural Responsiveness, and Social and Emotional Learning
Mark Wilding, M.A. Executive Director, and Vivian Elliott,. Ph.D, Senior Associate and Faculty,
PassageWorks Institute
"A child's background should not determine what they're able to do in life…"
— Dr. Pedro Noguera
It is essential that we create relationship-based learning environments and experiences that engage students with different identities and cultural backgrounds. This highly experiential session will explore how SEL, cultural responsiveness, and mindfulness can weave together to help us develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions which unleash the power of learner centered education. The interactive sessions will include powerful principles and practices that employ collaborative approaches to teaching, learning, and transforming school culture.
The Kinesthetic Classroom
With Mike Kuczala
SMALL GROUP DIALOGUE
BOOK SIGNING (with Sunday Keynote Speakers and Session Presenters)
QIGONG (Supplementary Class)
VIDEO AND CONVERSATION
The Mask We Live In
With Ashanti Branch
TAI CHI AND QIGONG FULL BODY FLOW (Supplementary Class)
Voices from the Field and Q&A
With Ellen Moir, CEO, New Teacher Center and Eastside Union High School District Students, Teachers, and Leaders, including Greg Louie, Principal, Santa Teresa High School; Teresa Marquez, Director of Instruction ESUHSD; and Melissa Wheeler, SEL and Mindfulness Coordinator, ESUHSD
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Jennifer Ward, David Onek
The one constant in our lives is change. Yet we often find ourselves ill-equipped to manage it skillfully. How well we navigate change has a direct impact on the degree of well-being, purpose, and satisfaction we experience on a day-to-day basis. If you are considering a big change, are in one currently, or still feel...

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Phil Sullivan April 17, 2014
Chris Johnson answered some questions today and the full transcript appears below. We normally filter these down but this is worth reading in its entirety.
On what was explained to him about his role this season…
Basically, it's just a situation [where I'll be] coming in and competing and just doing whatever [I can] to help the team win. Really, at the end of the day, I'm not coming in with too much of a concern about how the carries are going to be [distributed] or whatever like that. It's a situation, from talking to Rex [Ryan], from talking to Marty [Mornhinweg], that they will put everybody in the best position to help the Jets win. That is what really matters at the end of the day to me, is going to a team, a winning program, that has a chance of being a contender.
On the biggest factor in signing with the Jets…
Basically just coming in and meeting with the coaches, and [seeing] the type of coaches [here]. Rex is an aggressive type of coach and I feel like I am an aggressive type of player. I like the type of style that Rex has. Coming in, (they made) me feel comfortable, I felt like I was at home. From the offensive coordinator to the offensive line to the quarterbacks, it just made me feel comfortable.
On what contributed to his decline in production last season…
There were a couple of different situations. I hurt my knee the third week of the season. There (are) just a lot of different things that went into it. I'm not the type of player that likes to make excuses. So right now, with this whole process, I'm just [moving] on from that whole situation and trying to get better and better every day and just trying to be a player this year for the Jets. I really don't want to go back and talk about some of the situations that happened inside of the Tennessee organization. I feel like I have moved on and closed that chapter in my career and I'm just looking to keep things [moving] forward and being able to get to work with the Jets.
On wanting to show people he is still a good player…
Yes, of course, I know there (are) a lot of people out there that still believe in me, including the Jets, that's why they wanted to bring me in. But there are still a lot of people out there who say what they're going to say and feel how they want to feel, but I don't see how people can say some of things that they say when you have a guy that rushed for almost 1,100 yards with a torn meniscus. But a player like myself, that's accomplished so much in my career, it's always great to have things to put a chip on your shoulder, to have things to motivate you. I think I can turn a bad thing, [with] what people are saying, into a good thing. For me, that gives me motivation, keeps me hungry and keeps a chip on my shoulder to prove those naysayers wrong, because no matter how good you are, no matter what things you do, I could have rushed for 1,500-1,600 yards last year for the Titans and if we didn't make it to the playoffs, or we didn't win games, there would still be things that would be said. There's always going to be, no matter how well you do it, there's always going to be that person that has something negative to say about you. So, it helps you keep a chip on your shoulder.
On the health of his knee…
I think my knee is getting better and better every day, I'm just continuing to rehab. I know I'm pretty close to just being able to just participate in football activities, so once the offseason workouts start and I really get in there with the Jets trainers, then we'll see where I'm at and we'll go from there.
On whether he spoke with other teams…
We had talked to a couple of teams, but once I got down to when I was ready to decide, I was choosing between two teams and it just came out to be the Jets were the team that felt was the best for me and more comfortable for me.
On this being a team on the rise…
They haven't been to the playoffs in three years, but last year they were one game out from the playoffs and the year before those three years they were a playoff team that was close to the Super Bowl and all those types of things. So they know how to win over there. The type of team that they had last year, they had a great defense and any time you have a great defense, that automatically gives you a good chance at winning. So looking at the team, me going there means some more playmakers on offense. We know as an organization that if we are able to put up some points then that would give us a good chance of winning, so I felt like I would benefit the most to come over there and try to help the offense.
On whether he is experiencing arthritis in his knee…
No, that's not accurate.
On there not being a sign of arthritis in his knee…
No, I came there (New Jersey), had a physical and nothing was said to me about it. I'm pretty sure if they had major concerns [about] my knee, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have passed the physical. Something would have been said to me, but there's some (INAUDIBLE) how we handled that.
On whether the running backs catching passes in Mornhinweg's offense appeals to him…
Of course that appeals to me. I feel like that's a good part of my game. A lot of people, when they talk about me, they always love to talk about the 2,000 yards, but what they forget is I had 500 receiving yards also that year, so that's going to be a part of my game and whatever the Jets want to do with me, and whatever Marty has planned for me, I'm willing to go out there and do it if it's helping the team win.
On why he is confident that he can still play at a high level…
Because I know the type of player I am. I know it is a situation [where] once you run for 2,000 yards you are setting an expectation for yourself. Anytime you do not get the 2,000 yards, then it is a situation where people are going to say, "Oh is he the same guy?" But the reason I can say I am the same guy is because, once you run for 2,000 yards the whole focus is to stop you. If you look at the rushing leaders from last year I think [LeSean] McCoy had [1,607] yards and after that it goes down to [1,339], and there are a [five] guys with 1,200 and then 1,100. You have to think, I almost had 1,100 yards. I am not saying I am a middle of the pack guy but I tore my meniscus last year. I am pretty sure if I didn't have to deal with that injury I would have rushed for well over 1,200 yards. I just know how I feel when I am out there on the field. Some Sundays I may have felt great and some Sundays I didn't feel as good with the knee. I just know I am a hard worker and I don't feel like I have [fallen] off.
On past comments where he said he would want to share carries…
That was last year. This year, it is about winning and I wanted to come into a program where I think we can win. If that [sharing carries] is what the coach feels will help us win, then that is what we will have to do.
On what number he will wear this season…
I have not thought about it. I guess that is something I will get to when I figure out what is available for me to wear.
On if he has any concern that he will be hampered in training camp…
No, there is no concern.
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Q: Double Potential Well (Hubbard Model) The Hamiltonian from the Hubbard model for the double well potential $V(x) = V_0 \frac{x^2 - q^2}{q^2}$ is given by
\begin{equation}
H = -J(a_L^\dagger a_R +  a_R^\dagger a_L) + \frac{U}{2} (a_L^\dagger a_L^\dagger a_L a_L + a_R^\dagger a_R^\dagger a_R a_R)
\end{equation}
corresponding to the left side and right side respectively.
I am very new to second quantisation and some basic concepts arn't making sense to me. In this example, how would I find the ground state energy of a particle in either side of the wells?

A: Double well potential
I think the double well potential should read
$$
V(x) = V_0\left(\frac{x^2 - q^2}{q^2}\right)^2 =
V_0\frac{(x - q)^2(x+q)^2}{q^4},
$$
i.e., it must be a polynomial of power $4$, that is approximately a parabolic potential near points $x = \pm q$:
$$
V(x)|_{x\approx \pm q} = V_\pm(x) = V_0\frac{4(x \mp q)^2}{q^2}.
$$
Second quantization
The second quantization is formally done by expanding the field operator in terms of the preferred system of eigenstates
$$
\hat{\psi}(x) = \sum_k \hat{a}_k\phi_k(x), \hat{\psi}^\dagger(x) = \sum_k \hat{a}_k^\dagger\phi_k^*(x),
$$
and the evaluating the second quantized Hamiltonian as
$$
\hat{\mathcal{H}} = \int dx \hat{\psi}^\dagger(x)H\hat{\psi}(x) = \sum_{k,q}H_{kq}\hat{a}_k^\dagger\hat{a}_q.
$$
Transfer Hamiltonian
In this case however the expansion done in an approximate basis, taking as the basis the ground states in the two wells, i.e. in the approximate potentials $V_\pm(x)$, neglecting overlap of these states and all the other states:
$$
\hat{\psi}(x) = \hat{a}_L\phi_-(x) + \hat{a}_R\phi_+(x),
$$
and defining $H_{--} = H_{++} = 0$, and $H_{+-} = H_{++} = -J,$ which results in
$$
\hat{\mathcal{H}} = -J\left(\hat{a}_L^\dagger\hat{a}_R + \hat{a}_R^\dagger\hat{a}_L\right).
$$
In fact, since we use a defective basis, the value of exchange integral $J$ estimated as simply the matrix element between $\phi_\pm$ is incorrect. Although there exist techniques to correct it, taking account for overlap, most of the time its value would be inferred empirically (if one actually needs to get down to the numbers, which is often not the case when using the Hubbard model).
Coulomb term
The Coulomb term is actually the sum of the one-site Coulomb terms, neglecting the interaction between the two wells. It is obtained using the prescription cited above adopted for two-particle operators:
$$
\hat{\mathcal{H_C}} = \frac{1}{2}\int dx dx' \hat{\psi}^\dagger(x)\hat{\psi}^\dagger(x')H\hat{\psi}(x')\hat{\psi}(x),
$$
and using the fact that $\hat{a}_{L,R}^2=0$ and, as mentioned above, neglecting the cross terms. Special attention has to be paid to the order of the operators (see the order of $x$ and $x'$).
I think in terms of second quantization this is pretty much a homework problem, but the transfer part is somewhat non-trivial.


The US and EU closed the free market; they found that if no one stops China's procurement of Western developments, everything will end up in China. Now all sales decisions must be approved by the state. The free market closed as soon as it became unprofitable for the national elite!
Spirituality cannot be experienced in a selfish desire, Malchut, but only in Tzimzum Aleph, the screen, Ohr Hozer. The sole purpose of its desire to enjoy is to build a desire to bestow (Ohr Hozer, Faith, Bina) over it, which is where we attain the Creator, in Faith Above Reason.
Attainment of the Creator arises from Malchut merging with Bina: Malchut ascends to Bina, and Bina transmits its properties to Malchut. If I have risen to the next degree, the previous one turns into knowledge for me, where I discover the Creator. And then I must keep ascending.
Evolving in faith above reason, a person constantly senses the difference between what is desired, Faith, and the reality, Reason, while simultaneously existing in these two states. And this is not a war, but а convergence of Malchut and Bina, which is a way of life.
Rising above sensations, one thinks as if he is in the bestowal properties of the spiritual world and perceives the group in spiritual attainment, knowing that he is still in the ego, within reason and calculations. He lives on two floors, Faith and Reason, Bina and Malchut.
A person tries to imagine the next step, the stage of bestowal; it's vital for him to begin experiencing this spiritual state as life. And at the same time, it's built above reason, Malchut, as if he already is above the material world, in the properties of bestowal, faith, Bina.
The situation in #Israel will become dangerous. #Trump won't improve it but will aggravate it, for his ideology is to break the financial and international trade systems. The whole world and half of America will resist Trump. It's a dangerous conflict and we're surrounded by hatred.
Allowing this speaks to our inner weakness, the lack of a spiritual basis to our nationhood, our country, and our land. We don't know our purpose. Hence we are weak in the face of our enemies who proclaim that our existence is futile.
It's paramount to rise to the degree of Lishma. The spiritual ladder is built on it. Acquiring the force of bestowal, faith, above the force of reception, which the Creator awakens. He advances us by awakening darkness, and we stay above it with the light of Hassadim—bestowal.
Advancing by faith above reason: the acquired knowledge becomes the step we build faith on. And faith acquired above reason becomes a new knowledge over which one must rise to a greater faith. So the new stage of bestowal, faith, turns into a new stage of reception, knowledge.
We must work on two levels, so that one does not cancel the other. I know in my common sense that I live in selfishness and do not want to give anything to anyone. I am not attracted by the conditions offered by Kabbalah. This is how I feel in my ego and am fully aware of it.
Faith becomes a new stage that does not cancel the first. I exist simultaneously at two levels that do not cancel each other, but exist each in itself. Thus I build the stage of faith above reason: there is knowledge, Malchut, and faith, Bina, above it.
The way to live: if I manage to hold on to faith above reason, by putting in a full measure of effort, then I feel how the state I am in is changing. The previous stage of faith gradually turns into knowledge, and I need new faith, new bestowal, at a higher degree.
I climb the steps of the spiritual ladder: that which was faith turns into knowledge. Bina transmits its power to Malchut. Malchut grows. And I rise above it to a new stage of Bina: higher and higher!
It is difficult to remain at two levels at the same time, Malchut and Bina, so that one doesn't cancel the other. Don't keep yourself in one state like children do. An adult stands on his feet firmly in this world and keeps his head high up in the future world.
The ascent on the spiritual ladder to the end of correction occurs solely by faith above reason. The group's support is vital. The fate lies in mastering the principle of rising from the rung of Reason to the rung of Faith—the basis of the spiritual ascent and acquisition of soul.
"Nuclear weapons are deterrent weapons." The truth is out, which boundary we can and cannot cross. With weapons, the Creator brought mankind to disillusionment so that mankind began to put itself to use. When you are facing an equally powerful opponent, you start #peace talks.
All states come from the Upper, who lives in me and controls me. Faith above reason is perceiving the Upper as good who does good. The Upper acts in the best way that leads to correction. Therefore, I must accept the heaviest feeling as the most advantageous.
Learning nature makes clear that all is built on connection, the Creator's force of bestowal. Separation is the creation's force made by the Creator to reveal His power of connection and love. Creatures have the opportunity to gain this power and connect to the Creator accordingly.
Is It Possible To Enter Spirituality Too Soon?


The Backyard was developed in a residency with Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson at their studio on Mad Brook Farm in Vermont in summer 2017 and 2018. Performed by Megan Bridge and Beau Hancock, this 45 minute improvised dance proposes a hyper-conscious inhabiting of time, space, and relationship; a radical invitation for intimacy and embodiment. Placing Paxton/Nelson's work PA RT (1978-2002) at the center of our research, The Backyard exists in a landscape of deep listening and rigorous attention. With music by Robert Ashley, this new work is also a palimpsest of PA RT—an effaced manuscript, written over, but still bearing traces of its original form.
Music: Private Parts (1978), by Robert Ashley. Used by permission from Lovely Music and Visibility Music Publishers.
The Backyard is a project of <fidget>, an experimental performance company in Philadelphia, PA, and was partially developed in residence during "Camp Fringe" at FringeArts, Philadelphia, and with support from the Net/TEN Foundation's Travel Grant.


It may just be a personal quirk, or maybe it's native to American culture, but I always feel a bit ambivalent about our public holidays. We are the oldest existing democracy, yet have no deep common history. Waves of immigrants have shown us to be as welcoming a society as any in history. And we have touted openness as a great virtue – though sometimes turning it into the vice of denigrating the principles that make openness possible. The result, however, is that our commemorations of Independence or our war dead or the Founders are genuine, but in my mind, which retains the family habits of immigrants in all directions, somehow also a little forced.
The problem, I think, is that our politics have become a substitute for a common faith. There's a reason why latter-day Greek temples to Jefferson and Lincoln, great though both men were, exist in Washington. They are at least secular patron saints, and maybe more. There's no little ambivalence in this dimension of our culture. And perhaps that's why Labor Day is a bit less off-putting than other holidays. It's much closer to earth.
Politicians, of course, instinctively try to exploit "the American people" and "workers." Think what Volk and Arbeit meant in Nazism, or in Communism's attempted justifications of its crimes. We're not there by a long shot, but the price of freedom is vigilance.
Workers here have generally not been co-opted into such ideological struggles and, therefore, offer a different model to the world. Significantly, the Church in America did not lose the workers as she did in other historically Christian countries. The reasons are complex, also having to do with social stratification and history. But I've begun to wonder whether the Church, especially in Europe, bears some blame as well, even among its best representatives.
This summer, I read some of Joseph Pieper's essays about leisure, work, and contemplation with professors drawn from Catholic colleges and universities at seminars sponsored by the Faith & Reason Institute (the parent organization of The Catholic Thing). Pieper is one of the great modern Catholic philosophers and repays reading and re-reading. Right after World War II, he warned Europe about overvaluing labor and undervaluing the contemplative virtues of the Christian tradition, which tell us what our labors are for.
Pieper was renewing a deep tradition, but this year, something moved me to partial dissent. In a non-Christian perspective, work done to serve others may be associated with slaves, not free people. But is that true in a Christian perspective? When we serve others, even in ordinary ways, are we descending to servitude or ascending to the service of true freedom?
Given the way that the Sabbath rest has disappeared, we can't deny the need for greater contemplation. But is that the whole story? It just may be that in the European relegation of honest work to inferior status – something clericalists have unsuccessfully tried here – some in the Church have contributed to the alienation of Catholics whose vocations lie in the world and not in contemplation as traditionally understood.
This is an absurdity not only from an orthodox theological perspective – as if we don't need God – but it's sheer nonsense even in human terms. It is work carried out as part of God's order, the command to tend the Garden even before the Fall made labor harsh, that gets the grace to achieve true success.
At the moment, lots of people are out of work because of foolish economic practices, some bordering on the criminal. As you may have noticed, attempts to remedy this situation by the self-confident graduates of our most prestigious universities have had little or no effect – and perhaps even inhibited recovery. In several ways, this is good because it reminds us we are not masters of human history.
But as we celebrate today all the labor that made this country great, let us put away the small-minded egoism masquerading as patriotism that tries to convince us that we're a great nation because we're great individuals. America is a great nation because God has shed his grace on us, individually and as a society, through no merit of our own, enabling us to enjoy the fruits of our labor and the blessings of freedom. These two great goods are in peril just now for many reasons, but not least because some of us have foolishly come to believe, contrary to our own best American tradition, that we can secure them without acknowledging their true source and purpose.