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Firm to study if High Point convention center is feasible
Updated: 9:58 AM EST Mar 1, 2013
BY PAT KIMBROUGH, HIGH POINT ENTERPRISEA group of High Point business and tourism leaders announced Thursday that it has hired a firm to study the feasibility of developing a convention center in the city.The boards of the High Point Partners and the High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau have enlisted Strategic Advisory Group of Atlanta to assess the potential for establishing a meeting or event facility. Both organizations are looking for ways to increase consumer traffic and provide a general economic boost to the city outside of the High Point Market twice a year.Representatives of both groups say the need for a large, multipurpose meeting space is critical to help High Point compete as a year-round business destination for meetings, trade shows and conventions."Clearly, there's a need for event space in High Point. The questions are, 'What kind? How big? and Where at?'" said CVB President and CEO Tim Mabe. "What we want to do is take a real smart approach to determine what it is that would make the most sense for us in High Point."The boards of both organizations are hiring Strategic Advisory Group for "less than $60,000," with the CVB picking up the bulk of the cost, Mabe said. The firm is expected to complete its study by July 2014.The group last year interviewed several companies interested in doing the study before settling on Strategic Advisory Group, which has done similar projects for communities around the country and "has a history of delivering high-quality analysis and being relentlessly objective about what the cities need and don't need," Mabe said. "We want to know not only what it is we need to do, but we want a plan of action on how to get it done."The loss of Showplace as a site for conventions, conferences and trade shows has underscored the need for new alternatives, he said. The city has lost events that Showplace previously hosted, including the International Custom Rod Building Exposition, the Southern Building Material Association's annual trade show and North Carolina Aerospace Association and North Carolina Emergency Medical Services Association events, Mabe said."These are just some of the ones we've lost the last several months. This results in over a $1 million loss to our economy," Mabe said.Civic events at Showplace, like the annual Hospice of the Piedmont's Taste of the Town fundraiser, also are at risk of being displaced, he added.The group wants the study to look at all options for event space, including whether there may already be sites available in the city that would fit the bill."I don't want to leave any stone unturned. That's why we've got a consultant," Mabe said. "First of all, you have to find out what you can support."He cited a hypothetical scenario involving a professional association of about 2,000 people holding a convention. It would require banquet space for that many people, as well as room for smaller "break-out sessions" and exhibit space. It's typically the fees that exhibitors pay for space at conventions that finance the events, he added.Such a scenario would require a 40,000- to 50,000-square-foot facility, he estimated.Strategic Advisory Group will do extensive research into the question of what it would take to bring these types of events to High Point. Mabe said the partners and CVB are concerned about High Point's ability to compete with other cities in landing conventions, particularly state association conferences."We are leaving some money on the table, in our opinion," he said.
BY PAT KIMBROUGH, HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE
A group of High Point business and tourism leaders announced Thursday that it has hired a firm to study the feasibility of developing a convention center in the city.
The boards of the High Point Partners and the High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau have enlisted Strategic Advisory Group of Atlanta to assess the potential for establishing a meeting or event facility. Both organizations are looking for ways to increase consumer traffic and provide a general economic boost to the city outside of the High Point Market twice a year.
Representatives of both groups say the need for a large, multipurpose meeting space is critical to help High Point compete as a year-round business destination for meetings, trade shows and conventions.
"Clearly, there's a need for event space in High Point. The questions are, 'What kind? How big? and Where at?'" said CVB President and CEO Tim Mabe. "What we want to do is take a real smart approach to determine what it is that would make the most sense for us in High Point."
The boards of both organizations are hiring Strategic Advisory Group for "less than $60,000," with the CVB picking up the bulk of the cost, Mabe said. The firm is expected to complete its study by July 2014.
The group last year interviewed several companies interested in doing the study before settling on Strategic Advisory Group, which has done similar projects for communities around the country and "has a history of delivering high-quality analysis and being relentlessly objective about what the cities need and don't need," Mabe said. "We want to know not only what it is we need to do, but we want a plan of action on how to get it done."
The loss of Showplace as a site for conventions, conferences and trade shows has underscored the need for new alternatives, he said. The city has lost events that Showplace previously hosted, including the International Custom Rod Building Exposition, the Southern Building Material Association's annual trade show and North Carolina Aerospace Association and North Carolina Emergency Medical Services Association events, Mabe said.
"These are just some of the ones we've lost the last several months. This results in over a $1 million loss to our economy," Mabe said.
Civic events at Showplace, like the annual Hospice of the Piedmont's Taste of the Town fundraiser, also are at risk of being displaced, he added.
The group wants the study to look at all options for event space, including whether there may already be sites available in the city that would fit the bill.
"I don't want to leave any stone unturned. That's why we've got a consultant," Mabe said. "First of all, you have to find out what you can support."
He cited a hypothetical scenario involving a professional association of about 2,000 people holding a convention. It would require banquet space for that many people, as well as room for smaller "break-out sessions" and exhibit space. It's typically the fees that exhibitors pay for space at conventions that finance the events, he added.
Such a scenario would require a 40,000- to 50,000-square-foot facility, he estimated.
Strategic Advisory Group will do extensive research into the question of what it would take to bring these types of events to High Point. Mabe said the partners and CVB are concerned about High Point's ability to compete with other cities in landing conventions, particularly state association conferences.
"We are leaving some money on the table, in our opinion," he said.


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This season hasn't been very kind to the Oakland Raiders. With a 3–10 record, the franchise is mired in last place in the AFC West. Jon Gruden, in the first season of a 10-year, $100-million coaching contract, has seen the team regress while under his watch. The team's best player, linebacker Khalil Mack, was shockingly traded for mere draft picks. General manager Reggie McKenzie was fired.
This series of unfortunate events has gone on and on and, now, on once again: The city of Oakland has sued the Raiders, along with the 31 other franchises and the NFL itself, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The city argues that Raiders owner Mark Davis, along with other NFL owners and league officials, have formed an illegal "cartel." This so-called cartel is accused of violating federal antitrust law and California civil laws by attempting to facilitate the Raiders' planned relocation to Las Vegas in 2020. The cartel's members are allegedly motivated not by a desire to promote genuine competition for NFL franchises, but instead by the selfish prospect of receiving a cut of a massive relocation fee.
The city seeks unspecified damages that could amount to many millions of dollars. The possibility of a massive penalty is heightened by the fact that damages under antitrust law are automatically multiplied by three. To be clear, even if Oakland's lawsuit is successful it would not block the Raiders' planned move. However, it could make the move a lot more expensive for Davis and the NFL.
Oakland's complaint centers on the contention that the league and its teams unlawfully conspired to harm the city in order to secure illegitimate profits. The 49-page complaint was written by 14 attorneys, including James Quinn of Berg & Androphy, Clifford Pearson of Pearson, Simon & Warshaw and Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker. Quinn is highly-regarded in the sports law community and, of particular relevance to Oakland's lawsuit, he has defeated the NFL in court. In 1992, Quinn served as lead counsel for a group of players in McNeil v. NFL, where Quinn proved that NFL-imposed restrictions on free agency were unreasonable and in violation of antitrust law.
Oakland's complaint attempts to shine light on what the city depicts as inside dealing among NFL owners on matters of franchise relocation. For instance, the complaint stresses that the Raiders have paid $378 million to the 31 other franchises as part of a relocation fee. The complaint insists that this fee "served no legitimate process" and was in reality designed to bribe owners into voting yes on relocation.
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\section{Introduction}

Jets and jet-like correlations are good probes to study the medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions because their properties in vacuum can be calculated by perturbative quantum chromodynamics. Modifications to their properties in nuclear medium can be used to study the nature of the medium~\cite{Eloss}. While exclusive jet reconstruction is difficult in central heavy-ion collisions at RHIC, jet-like azimuthal correlations with a high transverse momentum ($p_{\perp}$) trigger particle have proven to be a powerful alternative~\cite{wp}.

The past a few years have seen much progress in the study of jet-like correlations at RHIC. In this talk, experimental results on jet-like azimuthal correlations from RHIC are reviewed. The review is concentrated on results at mid-rapidity where the highest energy density is achieved, on the away side of trigger particles where partons have to traverse the longest distance leading to the strongest modification, and on charged hadrons which have the largest statistics and thus offer the most detailed information. Three major results are discussed: (i) ``punch-through" at high $p_{\perp}$, (ii) away-side broadening at low and modest $p_{\perp}$, and (iii) collective medium response to parton energy loss.

\section{``Punch-through" at high $p_{\perp}$}

When the jet energy is sufficiently large, one expects that it would punch through the medium on the away side of the trigger particle. Both STAR~\cite{Magestro_paper} and PHENIX~\cite{Jia_proceedings} have analyzed jet-correlations with large trigger and associated $p_{\perp}$, and observed clear away-side correlation peaks charateristic of back-to-back di-jets. Little modification is observed on the near side and the away-side correlation strength is increasingly suppressed with centrality. The shape of the away-side correlation, however, is little changed. Figure~\ref{fig:gaus_shape} shows the away-side correlation peaks together with Gaussian fits from STAR for trigger $8<p_{\perp}^{\rm trig}<15$~GeV/$c$ and three associated $p_{\perp}$ ranges~\cite{Magestro_paper}. The away-side widths are all similar, for different centralities and $p_{\perp}$'s.
Two possible physics scenarios come to mind:
(i) There exists a finite probability for the away-side parton not to interact with the medium and fragment in vacuum. The away-side correlation shapes remain the same from peripheral to central collisions; the correlation strength, normalized per near-side jet, is reduced because only a fraction of the away-side partons made out without interaction. This scenario includes the case of tangential di-jets.
(ii) Medium interactions lead to energy loss, either partonic, or both partonic and hadronic~\cite{hadronic_dedx}. After energy loss, the fragmenting parton, now with smaller energy, resemble those triggered by lower $p_{\perp}^{\rm trig}$ in peripheral collisions. Indeed, the away-side correlation shape in central collisions is similar to that at lower $p_{\perp}^{\rm trig}$ in peripheral collisions~\cite{Magestro_paper}. The underlying physics may be more complex, for example, fragmentation in medium may differ from that in vacuum. The hadron fragments may also lose energy in medium, without significant broadening at large $p_{\perp}$. The hadrons, from fragmentation of similar energy partons, may distribute similarly in peripheral and central collisions, but appear at lower $p_{\perp}$ in central collisions.

\begin{figure}[hbt]
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
\hspace*{0.3in}\includegraphics[width=1.2\textwidth]{gaus_shape.eps}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.6\textwidth}
\caption{(color online) Away-side $\Delta\phi$ correlation peaks in peripheral 40-80\% (left column) and central 0-5\% (right column) Au+Au collisions~\cite{Magestro_paper}. The curves are Gaussion fits to the data. The trigger $p_{\perp}$ range is $8<p_{\perp}^{\rm trig}<15$~GeV/$c$ and three associated $p_{\perp}$ ranges are shown: $3<p_{\perp}<4$~GeV/$c$ (upper row), $4<p_{\perp}<6$~GeV/$c$ (middle row), and $p_{\perp}>6$~GeV/$c$ (lower row).}
\label{fig:gaus_shape}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

In order to discriminate these scenarios, one needs additional information. One idea is to trigger on high $p_{\perp}$ di-hadrons, and study the correlation of a third, lower $p_{\perp}$ hadron. Scenario (i) would yield the same correlation structure for peripheral and central collisions, while scenario (ii) would result in different correlations because the lost energy should appear in soft particles.

\section{Broadening at Low and Modest $p_{\perp}$}

Azimuthal di-hadron correlation studies by STAR~\cite{b2b,jetspectra} have shown that the away-side correlation at modest $p_{\perp}$ is strongly suppressed, while the near-side correlation is unchanged. The results demonstrate that the measured high $p_{\perp}$ particles stem predominantly from the surface of the collision zone; those jets that are initially produced but have to traverse the medium strongly interact with the medium, and few of their remnants survive at high $p_{\perp}$. Preliminary data from PHENIX~\cite{PHENIXb2b} indicate that the away-side correlation in Cu+Cu collisions is less suppressed than in Au+Au, consistent with the smaller medium size in Cu+Cu collisions.

STAR has further studied the pathlength dependence of away-side suppression via di-hadron correlations with respect to reaction plane~\cite{b2bRP}. The result shows a hint of difference: the away-side correlation out-of-plane is more suppressed than that in-plane, while the near-side correlations are identical, consistent with surface bias and the longer pathlength the away-side parton has to traverse out-of-plane.
PHENIX has performed a more detailed analysis of di-hadron correlations in top 5\% Au+Au collisions in six bins of the trigger particle orientation from reaction plane~\cite{Jia_proceedings}. The data, depicted in Fig.~\ref{fig:PHENIXb2bRP}, appear to show a systematic trend of increasing away-side suppression from in-plane towards out-of-plane, again consistent with the pathlength dependence of energy loss.

\begin{figure}[hbt]
\hspace*{1.3in}
\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{rpzyamcf2_c_9_0_14.eps}
\vspace{-0.1in}
\caption{(color online) Jet-like azimuthal correlations from PHENIX in top 5\% Au+Au collisions for six orientations of trigger particles relative to the reaction plane~\cite{Jia_proceedings}. The associated and trigger $p_{\perp}$ ranges are $1<p_{\perp}<2.5<p_{\perp}^{\rm trig}<4$~GeV/$c$}
\label{fig:PHENIXb2bRP}
\end{figure}

Moving to low $p_{\perp}$, STAR has shown~\cite{jetspectra} that the away-side correlated hadrons are broadly distributed and their energy distribution is not much different from that of the bulk medium, indicating partial equilibration.
It has further been shown~\cite{WangQM04,STARmeanpt} that the associated $\langle\pt\rangle$ is the lowest at $\Delta\phi=\pi$, contrary to what is expected from jet fragmentation in vacuum as observed in $pp$ and d+Au. Qualitatively similar results are found by PHENIX~\cite{Jia_proceedings} where the away-side $p_{\perp}$ spectrum is softer for the more collimated particles at $\Delta\phi\sim\pi$ in central collisions, and the opposite for peripheral collisions.

The $\langle\pt\rangle$ result implies that the broad away-side distribution becomes broader with increasing associated $p_{\perp}$.
Indeed, this is observed by PHENIX~\cite{dipPHENIX} and STAR~\cite{STARmeanpt,UleryQM05}, depicted in Fig.~\ref{fig:doublepeak} for central Au+Au collisions, in the fixed associated and trigger $p_{\perp}$ ranges of $1<p_{\perp}<2.5<p_{\perp}^{\rm trig}<4$~GeV/$c$; the away-side correlation is even double-humped. The centrality evolution of the double-hump structure is shown in the right panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:doublepeak}, where the correlation amplitudes in the central ($|\Delta\phi-\pi|<\pi/9$) and the hump ($\pi/3<|\Delta\phi-\pi|<4\pi/9$) region are plotted against $(N_{\rm part}/2)^{1/3}$. The STAR data are scaled by the acceptance factor of 0.35. The quantitative discrepancy between the PHENIX and STAR data may come from systematics in flow subtraction. However, the qualitative features are similar: the away-side central amplitude does not drop -- it stays approximately constant -- while the hump amplitude increases with centrality.

\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth,height=0.25\textwidth,bbllx=130,bblly=160,bburx=455,bbury=375]{2pc_phenix.eps}
\includegraphics[width=0.31\textwidth,height=0.238\textwidth,bbllx=20,bblly=0,bburx=565,bbury=400]{qmPhi_2.5Pt4.0_1.0pt2.5_1Cent.eps}
\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth,height=0.24\textwidth,bbllx=0,bblly=5,bburx=510,bbury=395]{hump_phenix_star_2.eps}
\caption{(color online) $\Delta\phi$ correlations in top 5\% Au+Au collisions from PHENIX~\cite{dipPHENIX} (left) and STAR~\cite{UleryQM05} (middle). The histograms indicate systematic uncertainties due to flow subtraction. Right: The away-side correlation amplitudes in the central (red) and hump (blue) regions as a function of $(N_{\rm part}/2)^{1/3}$ (where $N_{\rm part}$ is the number of participants). The systematic uncertainties due to flow subtraction are shown in shaded areas for STAR and caps for PHENIX.}
\label{fig:doublepeak}
\end{figure}

\section{Collective Medium Response and 3-Particle Correlations}

The away-side jet-like correlations are broad. For particular selection of kinematics, the away-side correlation is even double-humped; more associated particles are found in the $\Delta\phi$ regions away from $\pi$ in more central collisions, and those particles are harder.
These results have stimulated many theoretical investigations.
In particular, Mach-cone shock waves have been suggested as a possible physics mechanism~\cite{machcone1,machcone,machcone2} -- particles are emitted on a cone due to collective excitation; the additional emission of particles results in an increased multiplicity in the hump region, and the shock wave push along the cone direction results in a larger $\langle\pt\rangle$. The generation of Mach-cone shock waves seems inevitable given that jets are supersonic, the medium is hydrodynamic~\cite{wp}, and jets and medium are strongly interacting~\cite{wp}. The Mach-cone angle is determined by the speed of sound in the medium and is independent of the associated $p_{\perp}$. Recently, $\check{\rm C}$erenkov gluon radiation is suggested as an alternative mechanism for conical emission~\cite{Cerenkov}; the cone angle in this case is dependent on $p_{\perp}$.

The away-side double-hump structure is consistent not only with conical emission, but also with other physics mechanisms such as large angle gluon radiation \cite{gluonrad} and jet ``deflection'' due to radial flow or preferential selection of particles by the pathlength dependent energy loss mechanism~\cite{Hwa}. In order to discriminate conical emission from other mechanisms, 3-particle azimuthal correlation is needed.

Both PHENIX and STAR have performed 3-particle correlation analysis. The analyses treat the event as composed of two parts: one directly correlated with the trigger particle (``di-jet"), and the other not directly correlated (background). The background is {\em indirectly} correlated with the trigger via the reaction plane. The background is normalized to the 2-particle correlation signal by the common practice of ZYA1 or ZYAM (Zero Yield At 1 radian or Minimum). Two combinatorial backgrounds are present in 3-particle correlation with a trigger particle: pairs of background particles and pairs of a jet-like correlated particle and a background particle~\cite{method}. Careful construction of the backgrounds is critical in 3-particle correlation analysis.

\begin{figure}[hbt]
\hspace{1in}
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{phenix_3particle_2.eps}
\vspace{-0.1in}
\caption{(color online) Background subtracted 3-particle correlation in polar coordinate system (left) and its projected $\Delta\phi^*$ distribution (right) from PHENIX for $1<p_{\perp}<2.5<p_{\perp}^{\rm trig}<4$~GeV/$c$ in 10-20\% Au+Au collisions~\cite{PHENIX3particle}.
}
\label{fig:phenix_3-particle}
\end{figure}

PHENIX~\cite{PHENIX3particle} uses a polar coordinate system where the trigger particle defines the $z$-axis. Signals are sought on the cone at a fixed polar angle $\Delta\theta^*$ via the azimuth difference, $\Delta\phi^*$, between two particles. If the away-side jet is aligned with the trigger particle, then Mach-cone signals generated by the away-side jet would appear as a ring of excess particles and result in a constant distribution in $\Delta\phi^*$ with full acceptance. Figure~\ref{fig:phenix_3-particle} shows the background subtracted 3-particle correlation from PHENIX for $1<p_{\perp}<2.5<p_{\perp}^{\rm trig}<4$~GeV/$c$ in 10-20\% Au+Au collisions. The result is consistent with a Monte Carlo (MC) simulation of conical flow in the PHENIX acceptance, suggesting that the preliminary data are consistent with conical flow~\cite{PHENIX3particle}.

STAR~\cite{STAR3particle} analyzes 3-particle jet-like correlations in the azimuthal angles of two associated particles relative to the trigger particle, $\Delta\phi_{aT}$ and $\Delta\phi_{bT}$. Figure~\ref{fig:3-particle} shows the background subtracted 3-particle correlations between a trigger particle with $3<p_{\perp}^{\rm trig}<4$ GeV/$c$ and two associated charged particles of $1<p_{\perp}<2$ GeV/$c$~\cite{STAR3particle}. The {\it pp}, d+Au and peripheral 50-80\% Au+Au results are similar. Peaks are visible for the near-side, the away-side and the two cases of one particle on the near-side and the other on the away-side.  The peak at ($\pi$,$\pi$) displays a diagonal elongation, consistent with $k_T$ broadening.  The additional broadening in Au+Au may be due to deflected jets.  The more central Au+Au collisions display off-diagonal structure that is consistent with conical emission.  The structure increases in magnitude with centrality and is prominent in the high statistics 12\% central data~\cite{STAR3particle}.

\begin{figure}[hbt]
\hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth,bbllx=0,bblly=15,bburx=565,bbury=320]{QM2006Proc3.eps}
\caption{(color online) Background subtracted 3-particle jet-like azimuthal correlations from STAR~\cite{STAR3particle} for {\it pp} (top left), d+Au (top middle), and Au+Au 50-80{\%} (top right), 30-50{\%} (bottom left), 10-30{\%} (bottom center), and ZDC triggered 0-12{\%} (bottom right) collisions.}
\label{fig:3-particle}
\end{figure}

Figure~\ref{fig:projections} shows the projections of the away-side ($|\Delta\phi_{aT}|>1, |\Delta\phi_{bT}|>1$) 3-particle correlation signal along the on-diagonal ($\Delta\phi_{aT}-\Delta\phi_{bT}=0$) and off-diagonal ($\Delta\phi_{aT}+\Delta\phi_{bT}=2\pi$) axes. Prominent peaks away from $\pi$ are observed in both projections in Au+Au collisions (right panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:projections}). The on-diagonal peaks (open circles) are stronger than the off-diagonal ones (solid circles).
The off-diagonal peaks are consistent with conical emission. A double Gaussian fit to the projection yields a peak location of 1.45 radians from $\pi$. The on-diagonal peaks may result from the net effect of conical emission and deflected jets.

\begin{figure}[hbt]
\hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.85\textwidth,bbllx=0,bblly=0,bburx=560,bbury=180]{QM2006Proc6-2.eps}
\vspace{-0.1in}
\caption{(color online) Away-side projections of a strip of width 0.7 radians for d+Au (left) and 0-12\% ZDC triggered Au+Au data (right) from STAR~\cite{STAR3particle}. The off-diagonal projection in $[(\Delta\phi_{aT}-\pi)-(\Delta\phi_{bT}-\pi)]/2$ is shown in solid data points with systematic uncertainties in shaded area, and the on-diagonal projection in $[(\Delta\phi_{aT}-\pi)+(\Delta\phi_{bT}-\pi)]/2$ is shown in open data points.}
\label{fig:projections}
\end{figure}

Conical emission can be generated by Mach-cone shock waves or $\check{\rm C}$erenkov gluon radiation. To distinguish between the two, the $p_{\perp}$ dependence of the conical emission angle is studied by STAR, as shown in Figure~\ref{fig:angle_vs_pt}. The observed $p_{\perp}$-independent conical emission angle disfavors the simple $\check{\rm C}$erenkov radiation picture.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\begin{minipage}{0.38\textwidth}
\hspace*{0.4in}
\includegraphics[width=1.2\textwidth,bbllx=0,bblly=20,bburx=520,bbury=375]{QMAnglePt2.eps}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.6\textwidth}
\caption{(color online) Fitted conical emission angle as a function of the associated particle $p_{\perp}$ for 0-12\% ZDC triggered Au+Au (filled) and 0-50\% Au+Au from minimum bias data sample (open) from STAR~\cite{STAR3particle}. Solid error bars are statistical and shaded are systematic. The dashed line is at $\pi/2$. The average cone angles for the two different centralities are indicated in the legend.}
\label{fig:angle_vs_pt}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

If the measured 3-particle correlation structure is indeed due to Mach-cone shock waves, then the conical emission angle gives a direct access to the speed of sound of the medium. Since the system likely evolves through different stages -- the partonic stage quark-gluon plasma, the mixed phase, and the hadronic stage -- to which the initially produced di-jet is sensitive, the measured conical emission is a net effect of the entire evolution history. The extracted speed of sound is, therefore, an ``average" over the evolution of the medium.

\section{CONCLUSION}

The experimental results on jet-like 2- and 3-particle correlations at RHIC are reviewed. At high transverse momentum, clear away-side correlation peaks are observed that have similar Gaussian widths independent of centrality or $p_{\perp}$. Future analysis incorporating a third, soft particle may provide new insights into the underlying physics mechanisms. At low and modest $p_{\perp}$, broad, and in some kinematic regions even double-humped, structures are observed on the away side of 2-particle jet-like correlations. The average transverse momentum of the away-side correlated hadrons is larger in the double-hump region than the central region. Mach-cone shock waves have been proposed to explain the observations, however, other physics mechanisms cannot be ruled out without the knowledge of 3-particle jet-like correlation. The 3-particle jet-like correlation results show evidence of conical emission; they also indicate the presence of deflected jets. The $p_{\perp}$ independence of the conical emission angle favors conical flow as the underlying physics mechanism. If Mach-cone shock waves are confirmed, further studies can be performed to extract the speed of sound (and the equation of state) of the medium, thereby providing crucial evidence for the creation of quark-gluon plasma at RHIC.

\section*{Acknowledgments}
The author acknowledges discussions with N.~Ajitanand, O.~Barannikova, C.~Gagliardi, J.~Dunlop, J.~Jia, M.~van Leeuwen, B.~Mohanty, C.~Pruneau, S.~Voloshin, J.G.~Ulery.
This work is supported by U.S. DOE under Grants DE-FG02-02ER41219 and DE-FG02-88ER40412.

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February 11, 2014 · by Sarah Irving · in A Bird is not a Stone, Palestine, Poetry, Scotland, Translation. ·
Ellen McAteer, one of the Scottish poets involved in A Bird is not a Stone, recently reflected on her experience of the project so far in this blog post:
A Bird is not a Stone is a project I have been very much enjoying being part of, a collection of poems by contemporary Palestinian writers, selected by the House of Poetry in al-Bireh, Palestine, and translated into Scots, Gaelic and English via a bridge translation by a selection of poets in Scotland. Other poets collaborating include Liz Lochhead, John Glenday, Kathleen Jamie, Billy Letford, Jim Ferguson, Magi Gibson, and Ryan van Winkle, among others. The Arabic poems I have been working on have included works by Zuhair Abu Shaib, Majid Abu Ghosh, Taher Riyadh, Abd al-Nasser Saleh, Rania Irshaid, Samih Faraj and Bisan Abu Khaled. The title is from a sculpture by George Wyllie.
I have always enjoyed hearing Arabic poetry read by friends from the Middle East, the rhythm and music of it was clear to me even while my understanding of the language faltered. This project has showed me just how intricate the wordplay in Arabic can be, with one word having many meanings. Wonderful titles and lines appeared in the bridge translation, challenging to improve upon, such as "Woman in a Garden/Thing That is Stared At" and "this insanity is full of olives" (Abd al-Nasser Saleh and Bisan Abu Khaled respectively). I envied some of the other Scottish poets, who could use all varieties of Scots, Glaswegian or Gaelic language to take ownership of the poems. It raised interesting questions for me, as to what my own voice is, poetically and personally. Born in London, and raised in Glasgow from the age of seven, with an Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh heritage, I am a true confused child of the British Isles. But so many of the poems I was working on covered, as good poems should, the universal themes of love, loneliness, identity, and altered consciousness, that there was always something I could find to identify with, in a voice that grew more confident with each poem. The narrators in these poems get drunk, angry, fall in love, and challenge their own sense of homelessness, like poets and people everywhere. It was not just in the political, but in the personal, that I found a common language, and through translation of other poets' work, a confidence in my own writing.
I am very grateful to Henry Bell and Lorna MacBean for involving me in this wonderful opportunity. As my friend, the poet Gerry Loose says, "Translation, of anything, expands universes and verses of one's own alike."
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El Hospital Uyapar  es el nombre que recibe un centro de salud público localizado en la ciudad de Puerto Ordaz, ciudad que forma parte de la conurbación de Ciudad Guayana, al norte del Estado Bolívar, en la región de Guayana y al sur de Venezuela.

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Q: How to call the average difference between successive values In statistics when you have dataset of values say: $\{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10\},$ the mean of differences between every two consecutive observations is $1$. For the dataset $\{1,2,6\}$, it is $2.5$.
For $\{1,2,3\}$ it is $1$. For $\{1,2,4\},$ it is $1.5$.
Is there a name for this? Some people suggest "moving average," but I'm not sure.

A: I'm not sure there is a special name for this. But @RoddyMcPhee has suggested
something reasonable. (And I have another suggestion later.)
You may be
interested to know that there are related functions in R statistical
software. The function diff finds the differences between adjacent
observations. The function mean finds the sample mean.
x = c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
d.x = diff(x); d.x
## 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
mean(d.x)
## 1

Notice that this method makes sense only if the values are sorted in increasing
order.
Using the Comment by @G.Sassatelli, sorting is not necessary, but we do need
to know the maximum and the minimum.
(max(x) - min(x))/(length(x)-1)
## 1

Here is a simulation of an application of your idea. We put 1000 observations
at random into the interval $(0,1).$ Then sort them, and view the result as
sequential arrival times of a process. The 'interarrival times' (times
between successive arrivals) are very nearly distributed according to
an exponential distribution with rate $\lambda = 1/1000.$ Accordingly,
the mean of the interarrival times should be about $\mu = 1/\lambda = 0.001.$
y = runif(1000)        # generate 1000 obs from UNIF(0,1)
d.y = diff(sort(y))    # 999 interarrival times
mean(d.y)
## 0.0009988142        # aprx mean interarrival time, exact = 0.001

Here is a histogram of the inter-arrival times along with the
density function of the exponential distribution with rate 1/1000.

Therefore, in a situation like this where the sorted data values are
viewed as interarrival times of a process, the terminology
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(However, a Kolmogorv-Smirnov goodness-of-fit test fails to detect the
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Would we need to have a way to USE the Norton account to remove an install from a chosen computer?
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Sign in to manage.norton.com, click the trash icon for the product&device combination... and then does this perform the product removal FROM THE WEBSITE?
Forward from today, I have N.S. Deluxe, and I made ONE installation. I may use all three allowable installations in the next few weeks. Soon after that, I may buy one more computer to replace another computer. I will need to remove the installation of N.S. from the computer to be replaced before installing N.S. onto the new computer. This is so that I maintain the three allowable installs of Norton Security. So I am supposed to sign into "manage...", click the trash icon, but then what happens?
Earlier, I only knew: Control Panel, Uninstall Norton product, restart computer, run NRT, restart computer, maybe run NRT again, restart computer again, run the Norton product installer and follow instructions. My Norton Account would then have records of all my installed products and computers.
From the website, you do not actually cause an uninstall of the product on the device, it just disables the activation on that device. So the next time the device checks with the Norton Subscription server, it will see that the license is no longer valid for that device and it will disable the Norton product.
I think your confusion here is coming from a distinction between a physical installation, and a subscription activation. When you have reached your limit for activations, and you want to add another device, that is when you need to remove an activation from the Services tab at Manage.norton.com. Then you can use a direct download link to install on the new device. Or if you use the Download button from your account you get a pre activated copy of your product.
"Services tab at Manage.norton.com" ----- I am still studying this. Next would be to use that web page to remove the service.
There are two places to remove something. One is under Devices, and the other is under Services. I do not understand why they are separate. The seem to be the same thing to me. To then make the NORTON know that I uninstalled a product, I tell the website that I am REMOVING THE SERVICE to the product? I do not understand the two different tabs: Devices and Services.
Why both of those. They are the same. I can't understand any differently. If I click to remove an installation of one device on the page, then this means that the device is not to have the product installed. The two different tabs make no sense. What choices to make for which to remove where make no sense to me. I want to be able to understand this stuff.
If you trash can a Service...then the Service is de-activated on all Devices the Service is installed on.
If you trash can a Device...then the Device is de-activated from the Service.
Note: Norton management is supposed to be a convenience. If not a convenience. You may always Chat with Official Norton Support. Norton Support will help you manage your Norton security solutions.
You may also have multiple active Norton products protecting different devices. Using the Devices tab lets you see the information for the individual devices. While the Services tab lets you list devices according to the product that is installed.
I hope to avoid using CHAT. Doing a CHAT is very tedious. Being more self-reliant is better, but then the community forums allows for a discussion. Still tedious, at least for this topic.
bjm, your posting of 20-Jul-2016 | 7:34PM • Edited: 20-Jul-2016 | 7:44PM about the Device versus Service may help me to avoid a very bad mistake. I will try to keep the services for some upcoming new installs. I plan on filling all my allowable installs for Norton Security, but then I also plan to replace one computer with another newer one. I would want to tell my account to remove from the outgoing device so I could make an install onto the new device. I would believe, the DEVICE tab is what I should use for removing the record for the outgoing device. I should continue to make NO changes on the Services side.
The way you explained, if I remove any service, that removes my subscriptions ALL OF THEM for Norton Security. I do not want that to happen.
Again, someone needs to tell me if I am thinking correctly about this. I really want to avoid going through CHAT.
The SERVICES tab, pick the product, find the listing of the specific device, and click on the trashcan icon next to that device. This removes the license for that product on that device.
The community forums has a couple of links on the right side: One is for CHAT, and another is for Twitter published information. One of the twitter messages gives a link to that YouTube video for how to "free-up a license" using the manage.norton.com account.
Happy to read > Norton Support helped you manage your Norton security solutions.
bjm, that is a very nice list (through the hyperlink). I am also slowly but surely learning some skill with my account on manage.norton.com.


Stuxnet update – I recently came across this visually stunning infographical piece on Stuxnet entitled Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus produced for Australian television. I had mentioned in a previous blog that Deputy Undersecretary of Defense William Lynn III had escalated cyberspace to the level of a frontier equal in defense worthiness as land, sea, and air in his plea to recruit from the ranks of civilian black, grey and white hatters at the RSA conference in San Francisco. Symantec's CEO Enrique Salem characterized Stuxnet as the most destructive piece of malware ever aimed at destruction of physical assets, not just information. "Stuxnet was a weapon, the first to be made entirely out of code", cites the piece broadcast on Australia's ABC1.
The modern equivalent of the pen is the QWERTY keyboard. No wonder Bill Lynn was so fervent with his entreatment.
A smoke alarm is not a "disaster audit system" that would notify you if evidence of a fire was detected, say, last week in , say, your broom closet. It is designed to mitigate immediate risk of fire to yourself, your family, and your possessions with a piercing tone far more alarming than the microwave oven or the clothes dryer telling you that the cooking or laundry cycle is finished. For more information on CM, take a look at Sean Sherman's video briefs, or view the entire on-demand webcast, all of which can be found here.
You can't fix stupid – Working in the security and compliance software industry causes you to look at the world in unconventional ways. While pulling some cash from an ATM today, I noticed that there were no surfaces that were parallel to the ground. This was of particular interest to me in that I was multitasking (read "I was carrying my lunch, texting, and transacting') and needed somewhere to put my parcels while punching in the PIN. Upon further reflection, I concluded that this was a design feature, perhaps to keep out the elements, but also to inhibit users from leaving items behind. Which reminded me of one of the most embarrassing moments of my professional life: Years ago I had actually left $40 in the drive through ATM slot in my haste move through the queue and fill out my check register (remember those?) to reflect the withdrawal. The moral to the story is that despite PCI DSS 2.0 compliance policy, there is no mandate (quasi or otherwise) to solve foolishness.
And BTW, if you are the person who honked and brought me the cash I had left, ping me via Twitter @Blenmark…I have a gift for you.


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ROK, ASEAN to boost peace, prosperity
Writes Moon Jae-in
The ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit and the 1st Mekong-Republic of Korea Summit was held in the ROK recently. In particular, since my hometown Busan will play host to the events, I am very much looking forward to them?as if I have invited valued guests to my home. I send early greetings in a warm welcome to the heads of state and government as well as to the secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The Republic of Korea was ASEAN's first dialogue partner to establish an ASEAN Culture House. People in the ROK love ASEAN so much that the National ASEAN Recreation Forest was created complete with cabins modeled after the various traditional housing styles of the 10 ASEAN member states. After I took office, I sent a special envoy to ASEAN out of profound interest in and affection for the region. I have also visited all the 10 ASEAN member states in a little over two years of my inauguration, becoming the first ROK president to do so. ASEAN's dynamism and the smiles of its people are still fresh in my memory. The people of ASEAN live in harmony with a diversity of ethnicities, religions and cultures knitted into their everyday lives. The ROK people feel very close to ASEAN because ASEAN and the ROK bear a resemblance to each other in prizing decorum and communities. We share the values of Asia. ASEAN is special to the ROK people because the region ensures equal participation and opportunities through the "ASEAN Way" despite the different economic statuses and political systems of its 10 member states. ASEAN's growth through an inclusiveness that does not exclude nature, any person or nation will indeed be the future of the global community. The year 1989 when ASEAN and the ROK established dialogue relations was a tumultuous period. The ideological confrontation that had persisted over decades since the start of the Cold War began to dissipate. Rapid technological developments helped draw countries around the world even closer than before, leaving them easily affected by one another. In that era of transition, ASEAN and the ROK became friends. Over the three decades since then, we've steadily built our friendship while jointly responding to the new times and corresponding changes. In 2018, the number of visitors traveling between the ROK and ASEAN surpassed 11 million, and bilateral trade reached an all-time high of $160 billion. The world now faces new challenges such as protectionism and the fourth industrial revolution. Nonconventional security threats, including natural disasters, transnational crimes and cybercrime, rise with each passing day. Building on 30 years of cooperation, we need to jointly respond to these challenges and put forth a new future vision. The ASEAN-ROK Commemorative Summit will serve as a platform for both sides to put our heads together to seek ways for a more prosperous and peaceful future under the banner of "Partnership for Peace, Prosperity for People". ASEAN is the world's youngest and most dynamic economic community. To transform its infinite potential into sustainable prosperity, it is crucial to increase connectivity in the region and cooperate in high-tech industries. If we enhance cooperation in transport infrastructure, smart cities and advanced science and technology?the ROK's strengths?we could jointly nurture innovative capabilities to respond to the fourth industrial revolution. Using free trade to expand commerce, fostering small and medium-sized enterprises for an inclusive economy, and promoting green growth, such as an eco-friendly bio-industry?these are also areas where the ROK and ASEAN can work together. I ask you to pay special attention to the inaugural Mekong-ROK Summit. The Mekong countries are achieving high annual growth of more than 6 percent while pursuing sustainable development, through which people can live in harmony with nature. They are also ushering in a new future for the global community through the Asian spirit defined by sharing and mutual respect. In the belief that the Mekong countries' development will translate into the ROK's as well, I have unveiled the Republic of Korea-Mekong Vision. The ROK will help promote connectivity among Mekong countries by supporting infrastructure construction, including roads, bridges, railroads and ports, and will join forces to promote regional progress. Mekong countries' pride and potential are embodied in Angkor Wat, Bagan and Vat Phou. The spirit of the ROK's Saemaul Undong?expressed in the phrase "We can do it, too"?will inspire confidence in the region's farming villages and help usher in a "future of common prosperity". Considering the growth potential and geopolitical importance of ASEAN, many countries are announcing regional cooperation initiatives to strengthen partnerships with ASEAN. The ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific, which ASEAN member states agreed to in June, is a great vision that can contribute to regional peace and prosperity. The principles of cooperation proposed by ASEAN, including ASEAN centrality, openness, transparency, inclusivity and respect for international law, are in line with the ROK's New Southern Policy. As a responsible nation in the region, the ROK will further expand regional cooperation with ASEAN, holding up mutual benefit as the most important value. People are the starting point for the development of all relations. To strengthen cooperation, we need to understand each other better. To make mutual visits less constrained, the rules related to people-to-people exchanges will be improved, for instance, by streamlining visa issuance procedures and introducing a policy of open skies. Drawing on the ROK's experience of achieving growth through the nurturing of talented individuals, we will provide support to help ASEAN's future generations grow in all sectors in order to reduce development gaps within ASEAN. ASEAN's basic principle?consensus through dialogue and consultation?provides many lessons for the ROK in particular. The two summits between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United States held in ASEAN states helped restart dialogue to restore peace on the Korean Peninsula. The ASEAN Regional Forum, in which the DPRK participates, also contributes to peace on the peninsula. There still remain critical junctures for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Since peace on the peninsula is closely related to stability throughout East Asia, I believe ASEAN member states that have actively helped advance peace through dialogue and mutual understanding over the past decades will also join in the journey toward establishing permanent peace on the peninsula as reliable friends and advisers. I am looking forward to in-depth discussions on peace on the peninsula and in East Asia taking place at the upcoming summits as well. Busan, which will host the ASEAN-ROK Commemorative Summit and the 1st Mekong-ROK Summit, and is the ROK's largest port city, is the gateway from which sea routes to ASEAN start. I look forward to wisdom of the ROK and ASEAN to achieve common prosperity and peace coming together in Busan, a city that connects the continent and ocean. I hope that the interest and support of ASEAN citizens will also stretch across the sea to reach Busan.
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Gmail app blocked in China
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What's in the bag?
"Lucky Bag" sale at Apple Stores in Japan on January 2nd
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Ho Ho Ho
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Instagram adding verified accounts, cracking down on spam
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Step better
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Dash API Docs is the reference every iOS app developer needs
Developers need to know APIs, and Dash API Docs aims to bring them all into one place. Without knowing the APIs, it's incredibly hard to accomplish anything. But figuring out which API is going to do the thing you need it to do can be difficult task. So that's where the new app Dash API docs comes into play, bundling together the documentation for not one, not two, but 150 API...
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This is a very young one . I took this about 5 min. ago, one of the great things about lj... one of the greatest things about lj is your looking at it right now and sitting behind your computer on the other side of the world.
OH I get it now, I'm slow sometimes, as in European bestiaries and legends.
Beautiful! Haw large this animal?
10 to 12 inches but tail is longer.


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Mindfulness in Behavioral Health
Handbook of Mindfulness
Culture, Context, and Social Engagement
Editors: Purser, Ronald E., Forbes, David, Burke, Adam (Eds.)
Examines mindfulness theory and practice in broad historical and cultural contexts
Explores manifestations of mindfulness across health care, education, neuroscience, and business
Addresses influences of cultural assumptions, institutional structures, economic systems, and political forces
Presents a transdisciplinary perspective across such fields as educational counseling, social psychology, management and business
eBook $109.00
This handbook explores mindfulness philosophy and practice as it functions in today's socioeconomic, cultural, and political landscape. Chapters discuss the many ways in which classic concepts and practices of mindfulness clash, converge, and influence modern theories and methods, and vice versa. Experts across many disciplines address the secularization and commercialization of Buddhist concepts, the medicalizing of mindfulness in therapies, and progressive uses of mindfulness in education. The book addresses the rise of the, "mindfulness movement", and the core concerns behind the critiques of the growing popularity of mindfulness. It covers a range of dichotomies, such as traditional versus modern, religious versus secular, and commodification versus critical thought and probes beyond the East/West binary to larger questions of economics, philosophy, ethics, and, ultimately, meaning.
Featured topics include:
A compilation of Buddhist meditative practices.
Selling mindfulness and the marketing of mindful products.
A meta-critique of mindfulness critiques - from McMindfulness to critical mindfulness
Mindfulness-based interventions in clinical psychology and neuroscience.
Corporate mindfulness and usage in the workplace.
Community-engaged mindfulness and its role in social justice.
The Handbook of Mindfulness is a must-have resource for clinical psychologists, complementary and alternative medicine professionals/practitioners, neuroscientists, and educational and business/management leaders and policymakers as well as related mental health, medical, and educational professionals/practitioners.
Ronald E. Purser, Ph.D., is a Professor of Management at San Francisco State University where he has taught the in the MBA and undergraduate business programs, as well in the doctoral program in the College of Education. Prior to his current appointment, he was an Associate Professor of Organization Development at Loyola University of Chicago. His recent research has been exploring the challenges and issues of introducing mindfulness into secular contexts, particularly critical perspectives of mindfulness in corporate settings. Author and co-editor of five books, including 24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society (Stanford University Press, 2007). He sits on the editorial board of the Mindfulness journal, as well as the executive board of the Consciousness, Mindfulness and Compassion (CMC) International Association. A student and Buddhist practitioner since 1981, he was recently ordained as a Dharma instructor in the Korean Zen Buddhist Taego order. His article "Beyond McMindfulness" (with David Loy) in the Huffington Post went viral in 2013.
David Forbes, Ph.D., (U.C. Berkeley), LMHC, is Associate Professor in the School Counseling program in the School of Education at Brooklyn College/CUNY and affiliate faculty in the Urban Education doctoral program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He was a co-recipient of a program grant from the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and wrote Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School Male Athletes in the Zone (Peter Lang, 2004) about counseling and teaching mindfulness meditation to a Brooklyn high school football team. Forbes teaches critical and integral approaches to mindfulness. He writes on the social and cultural context of mindfulness in education and wrote "Occupy Mindfulness" and "Search Outside Yourself: Google Misses a Lesson in Wisdom 101" with Ron Purser. He consults with schools in New York on developing integral mindfulness programs and practices meditation with a group from the New York Insight Meditation Center.
Adam Burke, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a Professor in Health Education and Director of the Institute for Holistic Health Studies at San Francisco State University. He holds advanced degrees in the social/behavioral sciences from UCLA and UC Santa Cruz, and is a licensed acupuncturist, trained in San Francisco and Sichuan, China. Meditation training and practice commenced in the 1970's and continues across diverse traditions. Research and publication interests focus on student achievement and education equity, meditation and imagery, and cross-cultural studies of traditional health practices. Recent published works include Learning Life (Rainor Media, 2016). He has served on the American Public Health Association's Governing Council, as chair of the California Acupuncture Board, editor-in-chief of the American Acupuncturist, and as an Advisory Council member of the NIH's National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH).
The Transformations of Mindfulness
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi,
The Challenge of Mindful Engagement
Loy, David R.
'Paying Attention' in a Digital Economy: Reflections on the Role of Analysis and Judgement Within Contemporary Discourses of Mindfulness and Comparisons with Classical Buddhist Accounts of Sati
Mindfulness Within the Full Range of Buddhist and Asian Meditative Practices
Samuel, Geoffrey
Mindfulness: Traditional and Utilitarian
Brazier, David
Can "Secular" Mindfulness Be Separated from Religion?
Brown, Candy Gunther
The Mindful Self in Space and Time
Petranker, Jack
Selling Mindfulness: Commodity Lineages and the Marketing of Mindful Products
Wilson, Jeff
Mindfulness and the Moral Imperative for the Self to Improve the Self
Payne, Richard K.
The Critique of Mindfulness and the Mindfulness of Critique: Paying Attention to the Politics of Our Selves with Foucault's Analytic of Governmentality
Ng, Edwin
A Meta-Critique of Mindfulness Critiques: From McMindfulness to Critical Mindfulness
Walsh, Zack
Notes Toward a Coming Backlash
Drougge, Per
Is There a Corporate Takeover of the Mindfulness Industry? An Exploration of Western Mindfulness in the Public and Private Sector
Titmuss, Christopher
Corporate Mindfulness and the Pathologization of Workplace Stress
Caring-Lobel, Alex
Mindfulness in the Working Life. Beyond the "Corporate" View, in Search for New Spaces of Awareness and Equanimity
Tomassini, Massimo
Against One Method: Contemplation in Context
Lavelle, Brooke D.
Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Clinical Psychology, Buddhadharma, or Both? A Wisdom Perspective
Lewis, David J. (et al.)
Mindfulness: The Bottled Water of the Therapy Industry
Moloney, Paul
The Fourth Treasure: Psychotherapy's Contribution to the Dharma
Bazzano, Manu
Constructing the Mindful Subject: Reformulating Experience Through Affective–Discursive Practice in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Stanley, Steven (et al.)
Saving the World: Personalized Communication of Mindfulness Neuroscience
Eklöf, Jenny
The Ultimate Rx: Cutting Through the Delusion of Self-cherishing
Miller, Lisa Dale
Critical Integral Contemplative Education
Forbes, David
What Is the Sound of One Invisible Hand Clapping? Neoliberalism, the Invisibility of Asian and Asian American Buddhists, and Secular Mindfulness in Education
Hsu, Funie
Through a Glass Darkly: The Neglect of Ethical and Educational Elements in Mindfulness-Based Interventions
Hyland, Terry
Education as the Practice of Freedom: A Social Justice Proposal for Mindfulness Educators
Cannon, Jennifer
The Curriculum of Right Mindfulness: The Relational Self and the Capacity for Compassion
Mitra, Joy L. (et al.)
Community-Engaged Mindfulness and Social Justice: An Inquiry and Call to Action
Magee, Rhonda V.
A Critical and Comprehensive Review of Mindfulness in the Early Years
Flores, Natalie
A "Mechanism of Hope": Mindfulness, Education, and the Developing Brain
Moses, Joshua (et al.)
Using a Mindfulness-Oriented Academic Success Course to Reduce Self-limiting Social Stereotypes in a Higher Education Context
Burke, Adam
Meditation Matters: Replies to the Anti-McMindfulness Bandwagon!
Repetti, Rick
Criticism Matters: A Response to Rick Repetti
Wallis, Glenn
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