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'Expect to Win' theme of special Elevations, Inclusion event on May 29
Expect to Win:
A Conversation with Carla Harris
11:30 a.m.- 1:15 p.m.
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences
Carla Harris, managing director and senior client advisor at Morgan Stanley, and author of "Expect to Win," will be the featured speaker of a special luncheon sponsored by Morgan Stanley and presented in partnership with the Charleston Area Alliance Elevations Professional Women's Network and the Alliance's "inclusion=innovation" program.
"Expect to Win: A Conversation with Carla Harris," will be held on Wednesday, May 29, 11:30 a.m-1: 15 p.m., at the Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences West Virginia.
Harris, one of the most powerful and respected women in business, will share advice, tips and strategies for surviving and thriving in any workplace environment.
Harris has been named to the "Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance" by U.S. Banker; "The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America," by Fortune Magazine; "15 Corporate Women at the Top," by Ebony; and "The 50 Women Who are Shaping the World," by Essence magazine.
She received the Women of Power Award from the National Urban League and the Bill and Camille Cosby Award from the Associated Black Charities. Harris earned both her A.B. in economics (magna cum laude) and MBA from Harvard University. She holds numerous honorary degrees and serves on multiple nonprofit and foundation boards.
In her other life, Harris is a singer and has released her third gospel CD, "Unceasing Praise." Her second CD, "Joy is Waiting," was featured on "BET Nightly News," while her first CD was a bestseller on Amazon.com and was highlighted on the "CBS Evening News" with Dan Rather.
Registration for this special event is free for Alliance members courtesy of Morgan Stanley. Reservations are very limited and must be made by May 22. There is a maximum of four registrations per company.
The mission of the 1800-member Elevations Professional Women's Network, presented by the Alliance and title sponsor DOW, is to "enrich, empower and elevate women to achieve success for themselves, their businesses and their community."
The "inclusion=innovation" initiative was created by the Alliance and title sponsor Ernst & Young to help businesses benefit from the contributions of all segments of our community and build a world-class diverse professional workforce in the Kanawha Valley.
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Next inclusion luncheon to address WV image, impact on workforce development
"inclusion=innovation":
MAGNET Project
Noon-1:15 p.m.
1116 Smith Street
Image and inertia are creating barriers to building a world-class, diverse professional workforce in the Kanawha Valley.
That's among the key findings of a first-of-its-kind research project released by the Charleston Area Alliance.
The study, called MAGNET: Managing, Attracting and Growing New and Existing Talent, was undertaken to identify issues that impact recruitment and retentions of minority professionals in our region.
Research findings and recommendations for the future will be the focus of the Alliance's next "inclusion=innovation" luncheon program on Dec. 19.
Jeff James, Mythology Marketing CEO and lead researcher on the project
Crystal Good, director of brand experience at Mythology
John Gianola, Ernst & Young
Ned Rugeley, Spilman, Thomas & Battle, a lead partner on the research initiative
Register to attend the event HERE.
Registration is $15 per person.
"Business today is driven by innovation, which depends on attracting and retaining top talent," said Alliance Senior Vice President JoEllen Zacks.
"Companies and our communities lose out if real or perceived barriers prevent them from recruiting the best and the brightest to the Kanawha Valley. Our region competes globally for jobs, capital and people, and the welcome mat must be out to all if we are to be successful."
The MAGNET study also found that:
The image of the Kanawha Valley presents challenges in recruiting. Perceptions of West Virginia among those outside the state are negative or neutral. "We heard directly from corporate recruiters that it is more difficult to 'sell' the Valley within the context of West Virginia's image," said Zacks.
A significant lack of minority professional and business "infrastructure" (social activities, personal care items and services, etc.) creates a chicken-and-egg problem.
The same issues that negatively impact retention of young professionals, such as a lack of quality housing and limited cultural, social and entertainment amenities, impact minority talent.
The Kanawha Valley has solid historical and current assets to build upon that could attract minority professionals (including the legacy of Leon Sullivan, West Virginia State University and a strong network of diverse houses of worship).
The MAGNET project is part of the Alliance's 'inclusion=innovation' initiative sponsored by Ernst & Young LLP, a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services that is dedicated to leveraging diverse and inclusive ways of thinking to continue delivering high quality work for clients around the world.
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Today's 'inclusion=innovation' event has been rescheduled for Dec. 19
(New Date)
Location TBD
Tomorrow's "inclusion=innovation" event has been rescheduled.
The luncheon program will now take place Wednesday, Dec. 19 from noon-1:15 p.m. The location is not yet determined.
That's among the key findings of a first-of-its-kind research project released the Charleston Area Alliance.
Representatives from Spilman, Thomas & Battle, a lead partner on the research initiative
Rabbi Victor Urecki
Registration is $15 per person through this Friday, Dec. 14. Prices increase to $25 per person after that date.
"Top talent comes in different packages," said John Gianola, the managing partner of Ernst & Young LLP's Charleston office.
"Diverse teams help create the best ideas and solutions — but only if we've established an inclusive culture that supports each person in contributing fully to our success. This means valuing the differences and contributions of people from all backgrounds and perspectives. By collaborating with other organizations, we seek to be at the forefront in reflecting and advancing the diversity and inclusiveness of the communities where we operate. That is why we are excited to be a part of this initiative."
Spilman, Thomas & Battle, long committed to diversity, provided lead sponsorship support for the MAGNET project.
"We compete in an ever-expanding marketplace for talent. No enterprise or law firm, Spilman or other, exists in a vacuum. If we are to continue to thrive, it is imperative that we are able to recruit the best and brightest of every race, age, gender, faith and lifestyle to a community that is diverse, vibrant and open. That's what today's young professionals expect and demand. Those are the stakes," explained Spilman Member Ned Rugeley, Chair of Recruiting.
"We will immediately begin to look at ways to incorporate the key insights from this research into our recruiting and overall management at Spilman. We are pleased to be involved in this important research, and I'm excited about what it will mean to the future of our region."
"The MAGNET project will take the Alliance's 'inclusion=innovation' initiative to the next level by providing solid data upon which we can direct future efforts to attract and retain diverse young professionals and ensure our businesses and our region stay competitive in a global marketplace," said Zacks.
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Building world-class diverse professional workforce focus of next inclusion event
B'nai Jacob Synagogue
1599 Virginia Street East
Research findings and recommendations for the future will be the focus of the Alliance's next "inclusion=innovation" luncheon program, to be held at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at B'nai Jacob Synagogue, 1599 Virginia Street East.
Registration is $15 per person through Friday, Nov. 23. Prices increase to $25 per person after that date.
MAGNET research to be released tomorrow
Friday, Oct. 26
Ramada Charleston Downtown
Cobb Room
600 Kanawha Boulevard East
Preliminary results from a first-of-its-kind research project to identify opportunities and obstacles to building a world-class, diverse professional workforce in the Kanawha Valley will be released by the Charleston Area Alliance at 1:30 p.m. on Friday during the state-wide Create West Virginia conference at the Ramada Charleston Downtown on 600 Kanawha Boulevard East.
The project, called MAGNET: Managing, Attracting and Growing New and Existing Talent, is part of the Alliance's "inclusion=innovation" initiative, which helps area businesses and our region benefit from and maximize the diverse professional talents of all segments of our community.
The inclusion initiative is presented by title sponsor Ernst & Young, a global leader in leveraging diversity and inclusive ways of thinking to deliver bottom line benefits for clients around the world. Spilman, Thomas & Battle, long committed to diversity, provided lead sponsorship support for the MAGNET project.
The press briefing is open to Alliance members. There is no fee to attend, but a RSVP is required.
To make a reservation, please click HERE.
Separate registration is required to attend other Create WV sessions.
For more information on the Create WV conference, click HERE.
The project, which included qualitative and quantitative research, was conducted earlier this month by Mythology Marketing. It measured perceptions of business leaders and young professionals in the Kanawha Valley on issues relating to diversity and how those relate to attracting and retaining top talent.
Professionals in cities in surrounding states that "compete" with West Virginia for young professional talent were also surveyed to assess their perceptions of the Mountain State. Minority professionals who have left the region were also interviewed.
"The MAGNET project will take theAlliance's 'inclusion=innovation' initiative to the next level by providing solid data upon which we can direct future efforts to attract and retain young professionals, particularly those from minority backgrounds, in the Kanawha Valley," said Alliance Senior Vice President JoEllen Zacks.
For more information, contact: jzacks@charlestonarealliance.org
Incubator Tour
This Friday, a ribbon cutting ceremony will be held at the Charleston Area Alliance in honor of renovations to the Alliance's business incubator at 1116 Smith Street.
The event will be the official unveiling of this exciting new resource, which was made possible through the generous support of Alliance members. Alliance staff will be on hand to lead tours of the new space and answer questions regarding entrepreneur support programs.
This event is being held in conjunction with the 2012 Create WV Conference and is the first stop on the Create WV Kanawha Valley Incubator Tour.
Following the ribbon cutting event, participants will have the option of traveling by trolley to tour the Chemical Alliance Zone Incubator at the Tech Park, and then to the DigiSo incubator on the West Side.
The event will be held this Friday at 5 p.m. Light snacks and drinks will be served. This event is free, but please RSVP by e-mailing Andrew Dunlap atADunlap@charlestonareaalliance.org if you plan to attend.
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What you do says who you are. Learn more this Wednesday.
Brand Conversations:
An inclusion=innovation event
Noon – 1:15 p.m.
Sugar Maple Cafe inside Cabela's
200 Cross Terrace Blvd
Social media and changing demographics have upended traditional one-way communication for business. Engaging with today's customers and employees today demands authenticity and transparency. And nowhere are the stakes higher than in relationships with young professionals and those from diverse backgrounds.
"We are not seats or eyeballs or end users or customers. We are human beings – and our reach exceeds your grasp. Deal with it," says "The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual."
"Brand Conversations," to be presented by the Charleston Area Alliance and Ernst & Young, will showcase ways local businesses are communicating their core values and ensuring that they not only talk the talk, but walk the walk with clients and employees.
The program, part of the Alliance's "inclusion=innovation" series, will be held at noon, Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the Sugar Maple Café located at Cabela's.
Crystal Good, Director of Brand Experience, Mythology Marketing
Skip Lineberg, Chief Innovation Officer, Spilman, Thomas & Battle
Dr. Donna Panucci, Panucci & Jackfert DDS
Randy Stout, Ernst & Young
The goal mission of the Alliance "inclusion=innovation" initiative, presented by title sponsor Ernst & Young, is to promote innovation and collaboration by helping businesses and our region benefit from the diverse contributions of all segments of our community.
Registration, which includes lunch, is $15 for Alliance members, $25 for future members through Sept. 28. Prices go up $10 after that.
The Alliance will be able to invoice only for groups of 10 or more. Contact Deb Coffman at DCoffman@CharlestonAreaAlliance.org for more information.
The Alliance cannot issue cancelation refunds within 48 hours of the event. Thank you.
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inclusion=innovation to focus on WV's aging and shrinking population on Dec. 20
inclusion=innovation: WV's aging population and what it means for your business
1116 Smith St.
Advance registration ends Friday for the next inclusion=innovation session.
West Virginia's shrinking and aging population present some of the biggest impediments to its long-term economic growth.
The state already has one of the oldest populations and lowest workforce participation rates in the country, problems which will soon grow more acute as Baby Boomers enter retirement age. This translates to fewer employees, consumers and taxpayers in West Virginia.
Demographic and industry experts will address these issues and what they mean to the state's businesses at an "inclusion=innovation" program to be held at noon, Tuesday, Dec. 20 at the Charleston Area Alliance offices.
They'll discuss what steps businesses can take today to benefit from older employees while attracting and retaining the next generation workers, managers and leaders.
• Dr. Christiadi, WVU College of Business and Economics' Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER), the state's leading demographer
• Helen Matheny, Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute
• Gaylene Miller, State Director, AARP of West Virginia
• Karen Price, West Virginia Manufacturers Association
"inclusion=innovation," presented by Title Sponsor Ernst & Young is an initiative to help businesses and our region benefit from the contributions of all segments of the community.
This session is co-sponsored by the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute.
Registration, which includes lunch, is $15 for Alliance members, $25 for future members through this Friday, Dec. 16. Prices increase to $25 Alliance members, $35 future members after that date.
The Alliance cannot issue cancellation refunds within 48 hours of the event. Thank you.
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Social Media: Friend or Foe? Join the discussion tomorrow at the Charleston Area Alliance.
Mentor, Boss or Babysitter:
Managing Generational Diversity
Oct, 20, Noon – 1:15 p.m.
There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's exciting inclusion=innovation event.
Managing generational diversity to maximize organizational and individual success is the focus of this next program, to be held tomorrow, Thursday, Oct. 20, noon-1:15 p.m. at the Charleston Area Alliance offices.
Yesterday's trophy kids are today's employees. So it can come as a culture shock all around when millennials, who were raised in an era of helicopter parents and a trophy for every kid on the team, get their first real job and meet the Gen X'ers and baby boomers who are their co-workers and bosses.
This program will highlight successful strategies for both young professionals and managers to work across generational boundaries and harness the potential and creativity of workers of all ages.
The agenda will include discussions on:
• Why should I change for them?
• Is loyalty dead?
• Mentor, boss or babysitter?
• Are you ever "off the clock"?
• Social media: friend or foe?
Speakers include: Emily Bennington, a college-to-career expert and founder of Studio 365; Skip Lineberg, chief innovation officer, Spilman, Thomas & Battle; and Pat Kelly, executive director, West Virginia Health Care Association.
Bennington and Lineberg are the co-authors of "Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out and Move Up at Your First Real Job." Kelly is the author of "Rainmaking 101: How to Grow Your Client Base and Maximize Your Income."
Before the event, please share your views on today's workplace via a short survey (See link below).
Click here for the survey.
"Managing Today's Workforce" is presented as part of inclusion=innovation, an initiative of Alliance and Title Sponsor Ernst & Young. Studies show that diverse teams boost an organization's innovation and earnings potential.
"Inclusion=innovation" aims to help businesses and our region benefit from the contributions of all segments of our community.
Registration, which includes lunch, is $25 for Alliance members and $35 for future members.
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Why is my boss nuts and why should I change for him?
Members of Generation Charleston are encouraged to share their views on today's workplace via a short survey (See link below).
Your feedback will provide the foundation of a special "inclusion=innovation" program on generational diversity, to be presented noon-1:15 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 20 at the Charleston Area Alliance offices.
A small number of complimentary tickets are available to members of Generation Charleston under the age of 35.
To reserve a free ticket, contact jzacks@charlestonareaalliance.org by Tuesday, Oct. 18.
The program will highlight successful strategies for both young professionals and managers to work across generational boundaries and harness the potential and creativity of workers of all ages.
Speakers include: Emily Bennington, a college-to-career expert and founder of Studio 365; Skip Lineberg, chief innovation officer, Spilman, Thomas & Battle; and Pat Kelly,CEO, West Virginia Health Care Association.
Registration, which includes lunch, is $15 for Alliance members/$25 for future members through Oct. 18. Prices increase to $25 for Alliance members/$35 for future members after that date.
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Register Now for Wednesday's Inclusion=Innovation Luncheon
With summer around the corner, businesses throughout the region will soon be bringing on interns and new hires. How to successfully integrate new and potential employees into an organization and maximize investment in their training and development is the focus of the next "inclusion=innovation" educational program.
"Right From the Start: Effective Mentoring, Intern and Onboarding Programs," will be presented noon-1:15 p.m., Wednesday, April 27, at the Charleston Area Alliance, 1116 Smith Street.
"Recruiting and developing new and potential team members is essential to increasing your company's capacity for innovation and growth and diversifying its intellectual capital," said Alliance President/CEO Matt Ballard. "But it doesn't just happen. This program will showcase effective local programs that are helping businesses identify and train the next generation of leaders and managers."
Jessica Wintz, Education Alliance
Charles Woody, Spilman, Thomas & Battle
University of Charleston School of Business representative TBA
"Right from the Start: Effective Mentoring, Intern and Onboarding Programs" is a program of "inclusion=innovation," an initiative of Alliance and Title Sponsor Ernst & Young. Studies show that diverse teams boost an organization's innovation and earnings potential.
"Inclusion=innovation" aims to help businesses and our region benefit from the contributions of all segments of the community.
Registration, which includes lunch, is $15 Alliance members/$25 future members. Register here.
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LOS ANGELES-November 17 is Rachel McAdams' birthday.
Rachel McAdams is a Canadian actress born in Ontario. She was originally a competitive figure skater. At age 12 she came across her passion for acting, and she grabbed her first acting appearance in the 2001 Disney series "The Famous Jett Jackson." She appeared in her first American film in the 2002 movie "The Hot Chick" alongside Rob Schneider. In 2004, McAdams became a household name with her role in "Mean Girls." That same year she would also star in the romantic hit "The Notebook." In 2005, she continued to appear in successful movies including "Wedding Crashers," "Red Eye" and "The Family Stone."
McAdams took a break from acting in 2006 and 2007. Since her return to acting, she has starred in movies such as "The Time Traveller's Wife," "Morning Glory," "The Vow" and "A Most Wanted Man." McAdams' biggest award to date came from her acting performance in "Spotlight." She won best actress for her role in the film and the movie itself won an Academy award for best picture.
Evan Rachel Wood studying law
Rachel Shenton's Oscar win still feels surreal
Rachel's baby surprise
Rachel wants affordable fashion for mothers
ABU...DOESN'T ONE USE PLAN B WHEN PLAN A FAILS?
Ideological distress: A rudderless journey
Muhammad Imran
Parliament: an ordinance faculty!
Masud Ahmad Khan
GB and India's new map controversy
Petty Politics
Another Government Capitulation
Technical Assistance By EU
Neglected Tehsil
Future of water in Pakistan
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NOAA announced today the Kenneth Graham would be the next Director of the National Hurricane Center, starting April 1st. He has been at the NWS New Orleans-Baton Rouge office since 2008. With his experience working coastal offices from Maryland to Texas and in events like Katrina to the Gulf Oil Spill, he looks qualified and recommended by his co-workers.
The $1.3 trillion spending package that Congress just approved includes $122 million for NOAA to acquire backup aircraft for its older fleet of "hurricane hunter" jets.
Comedian and producer Byron Allen bought the Weather Channel TV network for $300million. This was just the television portion of what used to be part of The Weather Company before Blackstone Group, Bain Capital and Comcast Corp. broke them up and sold the digital assets to IBM. Byron Allen has been putting together a network and is planning on investing farther into the Weather Channel including having more local reports.


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\section{Introduction}

Paracontact metric manifolds $(M,\widetilde\varphi,\xi,\eta,\widetilde g)$ have been studied by many authors in the recent years, particularly since the appearance of \cite{zamkovoy}. A special class among them is that of the $(\widetilde\kappa,\widetilde\mu)$-spaces, which satisfy \cite{CKM}
\begin{equation}\label{kappamu}
R(X,Y)\xi=\widetilde{\kappa}(\eta(Y)X-\eta(X)Y)+\widetilde{\mu}(\eta(Y) \widetilde{h} X-\eta(X) \widetilde{h} Y),
\end{equation}
for all $X,Y$ vector fields on $M$, where $\widetilde\kappa$ and $\widetilde\mu$ are constants and $\widetilde h=\frac12 L_\xi \widetilde\varphi$. These spaces include the paraSasakian manifolds \cite{kaneyuki,zamkovoy} and certain $g$-natural paracontact metric structures constructed on unit tangent sphere bundles \cite{mio-calvaruso}, among others.

Although the nullity condition~\eqref{kappamu} seems very technical, paracontact metric $(\widetilde\kappa,\widetilde\mu)$-spaces appear naturally when studying the relation between contact and paracontact metric geometry. Indeed, any non-Sasakian contact metric $(\kappa,\mu)$-space admits two paracontact metric $(\widetilde\kappa,\widetilde\mu)$-structures with the same contact form  and, under some natural conditions, every non-paraSasakian paracontact metric $(\widetilde{\kappa},\widetilde{\mu})$-space accepts a contact metric $(\kappa,\mu)$-structure with the same contact form \cite{mino-pacific,CKM}.

However, there are also some important differences between a contact metric $(\kappa,\mu)$-space $(M,\varphi,\xi,\eta,g)$ and a paracontact metric $(\widetilde\kappa,\widetilde \mu)$-space  $(M,\widetilde\varphi, \xi, \eta, \widetilde{g})$. First of all, while they satisfy  $h^2=(\kappa-1)\varphi^2$ and $\widetilde{h}^2=(\widetilde\kappa+1)\widetilde\varphi^2$, respectively, the first condition implies that  $\kappa \leq 1$ but the second one does not give any type of restriction over $\widetilde\kappa$ because $\widetilde{g}$ is not positive definite \cite{blair95,CKM}.

Another difference is that, in the contact metric case, $\kappa=1$ is also  equivalent to the manifold being Sasakian, i.e.  $h^2=0$ implies $h=0$. Nevertheless, there are non-paraSasakian paracontact metric $(-1,\widetilde\mu)$-spaces, i.e. with $\widetilde{h}^2=0$ but $\widetilde h\neq0$.

The first examples of these remarkable paracontact metric manifolds shown in the literature all had $\text{rank}(\widetilde h)=n$ and $\widetilde{\mu}=0$ or $2$, \cite{CP,mino-pacific,CKM,murathan}. Indeed, until very recently, there seemed to be no literature discussing the rank of $\widetilde h$, if it had to be constant or why the values of $\mu$ zero and two were important.

This motivated the paper \cite{mio}, where the author presented a local classification of paracontact metric $(-1,\widetilde\mu)$-spaces in terms of the rank of $\widetilde h$, examples of paracontact metric $(-1,2)$-spaces with every possible constant rank of $\widetilde h$ and an explanation of why the values of $\mu$ zero and two are special. Later, the author also  wrote \cite{mio2}, where she gave an alternative proof of her main result, examples of paracontact metric $(-1,0)$-spaces with every possible constant rank of $\widetilde h$ and examples of paracontact metric $(-1,\widetilde\mu)$-spaces where $\widetilde h$ is of non-constant rank.

In the present paper, after the preliminaries section, we will summarize what is known about the remarkable class of paracontact metric $(-1,\widetilde\mu)$-spaces with $\widetilde h\neq0$, which have no contact metric counterpart.

\section{Preliminaries}

\emph{Almost paracontact manifolds} are $(2n+1)$-dimensional smooth manifolds endowed with a $(1,1)$-tensor $\widetilde\varphi$, a vector field $\xi$ and a $1$-form $\eta$ such that $\widetilde\varphi^2=I-\eta \otimes \xi$, $\eta(\xi)=1$ and $\widetilde\varphi$ induces a paracomplex structure on $\mathcal{D}=\text{ker} \, \eta$, i.e. the eigendistributions $\mathcal{D}^{\pm}$ corresponding to the eigenvalues $\pm 1$ of $\widetilde\varphi$ are both of dimension $n$ \cite{kaneyuki,zamkovoy}.

If the almost paracontact manifold admits a pseudo-Riemannian metric $\widetilde g$ of signature $(n+1,n)$ such that $\widetilde g(\widetilde\varphi X,\widetilde\varphi Y)=-\widetilde g(X,Y)+\eta(X)\eta(Y)$ and $d\eta(X,Y)=\widetilde g(X,\widetilde \varphi Y)$ for any vector fields $X$ and $Y$, then $M$ is called a \emph{paracontact metric manifold} and $(\widetilde\varphi,\xi,\eta,\widetilde g)$ its paracontact metric structure, \cite{zamkovoy}. We refer to \cite{mio-calvaruso2} for a recent survey on this type of manifold.

Given a a paracontact metric manifold, the tensor field $\widetilde{h}:=\frac{1}{2}L_{\xi} \widetilde\varphi$ is symmetric with respect to $\widetilde{g}$, i.e. $\widetilde g(\widetilde hX,Y)=\widetilde g(X,\widetilde hY)$, for all $X,Y$, and satisfies $\widetilde h \widetilde\varphi=-\widetilde\varphi \widetilde h$ and $\widetilde h\xi=\text{tr} \, \widetilde h=0$ \cite{zamkovoy}. Moreover, $\widetilde h=0$ if and only if $\xi$ is Killing, in which case the manifold is said to be a \emph{$K$-paracontact manifold}.

An almost paracontact structure is called \emph{normal} if and only if the tensor $[\widetilde{\varphi},\widetilde{\varphi}]-2d\eta\otimes\xi=0$, where $[\widetilde{\varphi},\widetilde{\varphi}]$ is the Nijenhuis tensor of $\widetilde{\varphi}$ \cite{zamkovoy}. A normal paracontact metric manifold is said to be a \emph{paraSasakian manifold} and is in particular $K$-paracontact. The converse holds in dimension $3$ \cite{calvaruso} and always for $(-1,\widetilde\mu)$-spaces \cite[Th.~3.1]{mio}. However, it is not true in general, \cite[Ex.~2.1]{mio}.

Every paraSasakian manifold satisfies
\begin{equation}\label{parasasakian-r}
R(X,Y)\xi =-(\eta(Y)X-\eta(X)Y),
\end{equation}
for every $X,Y$ on $M$. The converse is not true, since Examples~3.8--3.11 of \cite{mio} and Examples~4.1 and~4.5 of \cite{mio2} show that there are examples of paracontact metric manifolds satisfying Eq.~\eqref{parasasakian-r} but with $\widetilde{h}\neq0$ (and therefore not K-paracontact or paraSasakian).

\section{Classification and examples}

Many examples of paraSasakian manifolds are known. For instance, hyperboloids $\mathbb{H}^{2n+1}_{n+1}(1)$ and the hyperbolic Heisenberg group ${\mathcal H}^{2n+1}=\mathbb{R}^{2n}\times\mathbb{R}$, \cite{ivanov}. We can also obtain ($\eta$-Einstein) paraSasakian manifolds from contact metric $(\kappa,\mu)$-spaces with $|1-\frac{\mu}{2}|<\sqrt{1-\kappa}$. In particular, the tangent sphere bundle $T_1N$ of any space form $N(c)$ with $c<0$ admits a canonical $\eta$-Einstein paraSasakian structure,  \cite{nuestro-mino}. Finally, we can see how to construct explicitly a paraSasakian structure on a Lie group, \cite[Example 3.4]{mio}, or directly on the unit tangent sphere bundle, \cite{mio-calvaruso}.

On the other hand, until \cite{mio} and \cite{mio2} only the following examples of paracontact metric $(-1,\mu)$-spaces $(M^{2n+1},\widetilde{\varphi},\xi,\eta, \widetilde{g})$ with $\widetilde{h}\neq0$ were known (cited here in chronological order):
\begin{itemize}

\item paracontact metric $(-1,2)$-space with $\text{rank}(\widetilde h)=n=2$, \cite{mino-pacific}.

\item paracontact metric $(-1,2)$-spaces with $\text{rank}(\widetilde h)=n=\text{arbitrary}$,  \cite{CKM}.

\item paracontact metric $(-1,2)$-space with $\text{rank}(\widetilde h)=n=1$, \cite{murathan}.

\item paracontact metric $(-1,0)$-space with $\text{rank}(\widetilde h)=n=1$, \cite{CP}.

\end{itemize}

We will first show why there only seem to be examples of paracontact metric $(-1,\widetilde\mu)$-spaces with $\widetilde\mu=0$ or $\widetilde\mu=2$. Given a paracontact metric structure $(\widetilde{\varphi},\xi,\eta,\widetilde g)$, a ${\mathcal D}_{c}$-homothetic deformation is the following change \cite{zamkovoy}:
\begin{equation*}
\widetilde{\varphi}':=\widetilde{\varphi}, \quad \xi':=\frac{1}{c}\xi, \quad \eta':=c \eta, \quad g':=c \widetilde g + c(c-1)\eta\otimes\eta,
\end{equation*}
for some $c\neq0$.

It is known that $\mathcal{D}_c$-homothetic deformations preserve the class of paracontact metric $(\widetilde\kappa,\widetilde\mu)$-spaces. In particular, if we deform a paracontact metric $(-1,\widetilde\mu)$-space, we obtain another paracontact metric $(-1,\mu')$-space with $ \mu'=\frac{\widetilde\mu-2+2c}{c}$.

Therefore, paracontact metric $(-1,2)$-spaces remain invariant under  $\mathcal{D}_c$-homothetic deformations. Given a paracontact metric $(-1,0)$-space, if we $\mathcal{D}_c$-homothetically deform it with $c=\frac2{2-\widetilde\mu}\neq 0$ for some $\widetilde\mu\neq2$,  we will obtain a paracontact metric  $(-1,\widetilde\mu)$-space with $\widetilde\mu\neq2$. A sort of converse is also possible: given a $(-1,\widetilde\mu)$-space  with $\widetilde\mu\neq2$, a  $\mathcal{D}_c$-homothetic deformation with $c=1-\frac{\widetilde\mu}{2}\neq 0$ will give us a paracontact metric $(-1,0)$-space.

The case $\widetilde\mu=0$, $\widetilde h\neq0$  is special because the manifold satisfies \eqref{parasasakian-r} but it is not paraSasakian. Therefore, it makes sense to concentrate on $\widetilde\mu=0$ and $\widetilde\mu=2$.

We will now see that there are other possible ranks of $\widetilde h$ apart from $n$. We mention the following result, which appeared first in \cite{mio} and later with an alternative proof in \cite{mio2}.

\begin{theorem}[\cite{mio,mio2}]
Let $M$ be a $(2n+1)$-dimensional paracontact metric $(-1,\widetilde\mu)$-space $(\widetilde{\varphi},\xi,\eta,\widetilde g)$. Then we have one of the following possibilities:
\begin{itemize}
  \item
  either $\widetilde h=0$ and $M$ is paraSasakian,

  \item
  or $\widetilde h\neq 0$ and $\text{rank} (\widetilde{h}_p)\in \{1,\ldots,n \}$ at every $p  \in M$ where $\widetilde{h}_p \neq 0$. Moreover, there exists a basis $\{ \xi_p, X_1,Y_1,\ldots,X_n,Y_n \}$ of $T_p(M)$ such that the only non-zero values of $\widetilde{g}$ on the basis are $\widetilde{g}_p(\xi_p,\xi_p)=1$ and $\widetilde{g}_p(X_i,Y_i)=\pm 1,$ and $\widetilde{h}_p$ can be written as either
      \[
      \widetilde{h}_{p| \langle X_i,Y_i \rangle}=
      \begin{pmatrix}
      0 & 0\\
      1 & 0
      \end{pmatrix}
      \quad
      \text{ or }
      \quad
      \widetilde{h}_{p| \langle X_i,Y_i \rangle}=
      \begin{pmatrix}
      0 & 0\\
      0 & 0
      \end{pmatrix},
      \]
      where obviously there are exactly $\text{rank} (h_p)$ submatrices of the first type.
\end{itemize}

If $n=1$, such a basis $\{ \xi_p, X_1,Y_1\}$ of $T_p(M)$ also satisfies that
\[
\widetilde{\varphi}_p X_1 =\pm  X_1, \quad \widetilde{\varphi}_p Y_1 =\mp  Y_1.
\]
\end{theorem}

Examples of paracontact metric $(-1,2)$-spaces with every possible constant rank of $\widetilde h$ were also presented in \cite{mio}.

\begin{example}[$(2n+1)$-dimensional paracontact metric $(-1,2)$-space with \break $\text{rank}(\widetilde h) = m \in \{1,\ldots,n \}$, \cite{mio}]
Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be the $(2n+1)$-dimensional Lie algebra with basis $\{\xi,X_1,Y_1,\ldots,X_{n},Y_{n} \}$ such that the only non-zero Lie brackets are:
\begin{align*}
[\xi,X_i]&=Y_i, \quad i=1,\ldots,m, \\
[X_i,Y_j]&=
\left\{
\begin{array}{l}
\delta_{ij} (2\xi +\sqrt2 (1+\delta_{im})Y_m)\\
\qquad +(1-\delta_{ij})\sqrt2 (\delta_{im}Y_j+\delta_{jm} Y_i),                                        \hspace*{2cm} i,j=1,\ldots,m,\\
\delta_{ij}(2\xi+\sqrt2 Y_i),                                                                          \hfill i,j=m+1, \ldots,n, \\
\sqrt2 Y_i,                                                                                \hfill i=1, \ldots,m, \; j=m+1, \ldots,n.
\end{array}
\right.
\end{align*}

If we denote $G$ the Lie group whose Lie algebra is $\mathfrak{g}$, we can define a left-invariant paracontact metric structure $(\widetilde{\varphi},\xi,\eta,\widetilde g)$ on $G$. Indeed, let us take the $(1,1)$-tensor $\widetilde{\varphi}$ and the $1$-form $\eta$ such that
\begin{gather*}
\widetilde{\varphi} \xi=0,  \quad \widetilde{\varphi} X_i=X_i, \quad  \widetilde{\varphi} Y_i=-Y_i,  \quad i=1, \ldots,n,
\\
\eta(\xi)=1,  \quad \eta(X_i)=\eta(Y_i)=0, \quad  i=1,\ldots,n.
\end{gather*}
We define the metric $\widetilde{g}$ as the one whose only non-vanishing components are
\[
\widetilde g(\xi,\xi)=\widetilde g(X_i,Y_i)=1, \quad i=1,\ldots,n.
\]
Long computations show that the manifold is a $(-1,2)$-space and that $\text{rank}(\widetilde h)=m$.
\end{example}

Examples of $(2n+1)$-dimensional paracontact metric $(-1,0)$-spaces with  $\text{rank} (\widetilde h)=1$ also appeared in \cite{mio} and were the first non-paraSasakian paracontact metric $(-1,\widetilde{\mu})$-spaces with $\widetilde{\mu}\neq2$ of dimension greater than $3$ that were constructed.
Later, examples of $(2n+1)$-dimensional paracontact metric $(-1,0)$-spaces with  $\text{rank}(\widetilde h)=m\in \{ 2, \ldots, n\}$ were constructed by the author in \cite{mio2}.

Finally, the question of the existence of paracontact metric $(-1,\widetilde{\mu})$-spaces with $\widetilde h$ of non-constant rank was answered also in \cite{mio2}, where the author showed the first-known examples of paracontact metric $(-1,2)$-space and $(-1,0)$-space with $\text{rank}(\widetilde{h}_p)=0$ or $1$ depending on the point $p\in M$. We show here one of them.

\begin{example}[$3$-dimensional paracontact metric $(-1,2)$-space with $\widetilde h$ of non-constant rank, \cite{mio2}]
Let us consider the manifold $M=\mathbb{R}^3$ with the usual cartesian coordinates $(x,y,z)$. The vector fields
\[
e_1= \frac{\partial}{\partial x}+x z \frac{\partial}{\partial y}-2y\frac{\partial}{\partial z}, \quad
 e_2=\frac{\partial}{\partial y}, \quad
 \xi=\frac{\partial}{\partial z}
\]
are linearly independent at each point of $M$. We can compute
\[
[e_1,e_2]=2 \, \xi, \quad
[e_1,\xi]=-x \, e_2, \quad
[e_2,\xi]=0.
\]

We define the semi-Riemannian metric $\widetilde g$ as the non-degenerate one whose only non-vanishing components are $\widetilde g(e_1,e_2)=\widetilde g(\xi,\xi)=1$, and the $1$-form $\eta$ as $\eta=2y dx+dz$, which satisfies $\eta(e_1)=\eta(e_2)=0$, $\eta(\xi)=1$. Let $\widetilde{\varphi}$ be the $(1,1)$-tensor field defined by $\widetilde{\varphi} e_1=e_1, \widetilde{\varphi} e_2=-e_2, \widetilde{\varphi} \xi=0$. Then $\Phi=d\eta$  and $(\widetilde{\varphi},\xi,\eta,\widetilde g)$ is a paracontact metric structure on $M$.

Moreover, $\widetilde{h}\xi=0$, $\widetilde{h} e_1=x  e_2$, $\widetilde{h} e_2=0$. Hence, $\widetilde h^2=0$ and, given $p=(x,y,z) \in \mathbb{R}^3$, $\text{rank}(\widetilde h_p)=0$ if $x=0$ and $\text{rank}(\widetilde h_p)=1$ if $x\neq0$. Direct computations prove that the paracontact metric manifold $M$ is also a $(-1,2)$-space.
\end{example}

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Be Glad Mitch Daniels Isn't the Nominee Either
This Mitch Daniels "Bad Luck" Is Neither Luck Nor Ironic
By Charles P. Pierce Published: Jan 12, 2012
I think it's time for another mournful column from either David Brooks or Ross Douthat, bemoaning the fact that so manymembers of the putative GOP A-team are sitting out this here presidential election.
There's not much to say about Boss Hogg down there in Jackson. He's going back to his profitable career as a bagman, so what does he care that a lot of people in Mississippi now think of him as Michael Dukakis with jowls. But Mitch Daniels is being term-limited out of his job, and he's seeking to make as the final monument to his tenure the complete elimination of organized labor in Indiana, which, of course, has to be accomplished before Indianapolis hosts the Super Bowl. This got him a fan letter in the former home of anti-Clinton dirty tricks. The young scribe seemed particularly moved by this passage from the highly successful emigre from of Lilliput:
"It was our ironic bad luck to create a top economic climate just as the nation plunged into its worst modern recession, and business investment slowed to a crawl: We became the prettiest girl in school the year they called off the prom."
Can we stop here for just a minute and let common sense catch up? This guy was the budget director for George W. Bush, who fought two off-the-books wars, cut taxes while doing so, and pushed through a Medicare adjustment without the slightest idea how anyone was going to pay for it. The nation did not "plunge" into a recession, Mitch. You clowns pushed it off a cliff. Nobody "called off the prom." You kidnapped all the class officers, poisoned the canapes, shot the band, and burned down the fking banquet hall. You're the Carrie White of our national economic prom, Mitch.
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AFTERNOON SPEAKER
Afternoon Session Information
Dr. Mark Greenberg
Mark Greenberg, Ph.D. holds The Bennett Endowed Chair in Prevention Research in Penn State's College of Health and Human Development and he is the Founding Director of the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development. He is the Chair of the Advisory Board of PATHS Education Worldwide and one of the developers of the PATHS Curriculum which is used in over 3000 schools worldwide. He is the author of over 300 journal articles and book chapters on the development of well-being, learning and the effects of prevention efforts on children and families. He is an Emeritus Board Member of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL). One of his current interests is how to help nurture awareness and compassion in our society.
Session 1:
Where Do I Begin? Implementing Social and Emotional Learning at the Building & District Level
This workshop for principals and administrators will use illustrations from CASEL's work with school districts to support the development of effective and sustainable SEL programs, practices and policies. Using the CASEL School ToolKit, the workshop will cover the steps towards creating a comprehensive model of SEL at the level of the district and/or building. Dr. Greenberg is a founding Board Member of CASEL and is currently conducting a federally-funded study of SEL implementation in 28 Chicago schools.
Target Audience: Administrators, Community Leaders
System Change to Create Sustainable Social-Emotional Development and Academic Engagement
The PATHS® curriculum is an evidence-based SEL program designed to facilitate self-control, emotional awareness, interpersonal problem-solving skills, and classroom engagement in elementary school children. The PATHS® curriculum has been implemented in over 30 countries.
C.A.R.E. (Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education)
A unique professional development program that helps teachers handle their stress and rediscover the joys of teaching. The goal of CARE is to meet the specific needs of K-12 teachers. CARE offers teachers and administrators tools and resources for reducing stress, preventing burnout, enlivening teaching and helping students thrive socially, emotionally and academically.
The workshop will focus on the practical issues in effectively implementing the curriculum and sustaining it over time. The workshop will include video examples, and demonstration of the use of the curriculum, and ample time to discuss issues regarding training, implementation, and ongoing use/sustainability.
Dr. Robert Roeser
Robert W. Roeser is the Bennett Pierce Professor of Care, Compassion and Human Development at Penn State University. He has a Ph.D. from the Combined Program in Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan (1996) and masters degrees in religion and psychology, developmental psychology and clinical social work. He has twice been a US Fulbright Scholar in India; a WT Grant Faculty Scholar; and the Senior Program Coordinator for the Mind and Life Institute (Boulder, CO). Roeser studies compassion and mindfulness in society, specializing in how schools and other educational institutions help improve in mental development. He also has studied aiding human development in India.
Lana Penley
Lana Penley is a leader in the field of mindfulness in education and a current K-8 Principal in Portland, Oregon. Following a school crisis of a fire during the school day and utilizing her 20+ years of school leadership, Lana shifted her life and the path of her school through a whole school implementation of mindfulness. Over the past 5 years, her school has experienced significant change; decreasing suspensions, reducing office referrals, and drastically improving teacher happiness. Her school has hosted more than 75 schools over the past year giving others a taste of what is possible when mindfulness permeates the whole school. Lana is a dynamic speaker and trainer who has spoken at numerous conferences and trained over 1,000 people.
Session 1: Art and Science of Human Flourishing
How can mindfulness and compassion practices be integrated into higher educational
settings? In this session, Roeser will describe a three-university project aiming to do
this with first semester, incoming first-year college students through an innovative
and flipped course. Descriptions of the curriculum, the pedagogy, and planned scientific
research on the course across the universities will be discussed.
Target Audience: Higher Ed
Session 2: Building Compassionate Communities of Learning: The Whole School
In this session, Principal Lana Penley from Portland, OR and Robert Roeser will discuss their work and collaboration in Portland around taking mindfulness-based programs to the whole school level. Based on her work in a Title 1 K-8, Penley will share her insights as a school principal in how mindfulness turned her school around. Roeser will add insights from their collaborative work in the district.
Andres Gonzalez
Andres Gonzalez has been the Co-Founder and Marketing Director for the Holistic Life Foundation, Inc. in Baltimore, MD since 2001. For sixteen years, Andres has taught yoga to diverse populations throughout the world, including Baltimore City Public School students, drug treatment centers, mental crisis facilities, homeless shelters, wellness centers, colleges, private schools and other various venues throughout the nation and throughout the world. He has partnered with John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health and the Penn State's Prevention Research Center on a Stress and Relaxation Study and is a published author in the Journal of Children's Services. His work with the Holistic Life Foundation has been featured on Making a Difference on the NBC Nightly News, CNN, and CBS, as well as O the Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, Upworthy, Mindful Magazine, Yoga Journal, Shambala Sun, and many other publications. He is a certified Health Coach through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, maintains a B.S. in Marketing from University of Maryland, College Park and an MBA from the University of Maryland, University College.
Through a combination of practice and lecture, you will learn breathing and centering exercises, mindfulness practices, and meditations. You will also learn youth engagement principles, teaching philosophies, and strategies for working with "problem" students, while exploring methods to make the whole approach practical and, most of all, fun.
Target Audience: All
Doug Worthen
Doug Worthen is the Director of Mindfulness Programs and Boys' Varsity Lacrosse Coach at the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts. Since 2010 he has been supporting the Middlesex School community (students, faculty, staff, parents, and alums) in mindfulness practice and in 2014 his role became a full-time faculty position. Doug is also a retreat teacher for Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme), has staffed or taught over twenty iBme retreats, and served on the iBme Board of Directors for six years. He began practicing mindfulness meditation in 1999 as a member of the UVA national championship lacrosse team and has been especially interested in how to integrate mindfulness into athletics. Over the last two decades he has attended a combined year of silent retreat and lived through two bouts of stage-4 lymphoma, which involved a bone marrow transplant in 2007.
Session 1: Mindfulness at Middlesex School: In this workshop participants will learn about the evolution and structure of the Middlesex School mindfulness program and what a full-time mindfulness teacher in a school community looks like. Participants will also learn about other schools taking on a similar model and why a full-time Mindfulness Director role might makes sense for your school.
Session 2: iBme Mindfulness Retreats for Teens and Young Adults: In this workshop participants will learn about the structure, philosophy, and science of iBme mindfulness retreats, including how the retreat model has evolved over many years to best serve a diverse population of youth. Participants will also learn activities used on iBme retreats that help support connection, joy, safety, and understanding amongst participants and staff of the retreats.
Target Audience: Programs serving teens and young adults.
Sandra Stewart
Sandra Stewart began working in the field of education in 1979 and has served in a variety of teaching roles. She began her work in prevention research at Penn State University in 1993. She has served as an Educational Coordinator in the Fast Track Project and now serves as the Clinical Supervisor for PATHS® coaches and Friendship Group Leaders on various projects. Sandra has been a PATHS® trainer since 1993 and has trained and supported teachers in numerous school districts throughout the United States as well as Winnipeg, Canada, Ireland and the UK.
Come and discover how the PATHS® curriculum can work for you! We'll quickly explore why SEL is critical in these times, will do a little bit of brainstorming, and you'll learn about the core components of this innovative SEL curriculum
The PATHS® curriculum is a comprehensive program that promotes emotional and social competencies, reducing aggression and behavior problems in preschool through elementary school-aged children, while simultaneously enhancing the educational process in the classroom. This innovative curriculum is one of the only evidence based SEL programs designed to be used by educators and counselors universally. Although primarily focused on the school and classroom settings, information and activities are also included for use with parents.
Target Audience: Pre-school-8th grade educators, Caregivers
Laura S. Bakosh, Ph.D.
As one of Inner Explorer's Co-Founders, Laura discovered the benefits of mindful awareness more than 25 years ago when she was trying to manage the stress of travel and long workdays. While working at GE, Laura had the insight to share her mindful awareness practice with hundreds of fellow employees. Upon seeing the many positive results the daily practice had on performance, creativity, and wellbeing, she realized it would be the perfect fit for education. The practices can help children navigate the ups and downs of life with resilience, alleviating stress and anxiety, and can help them focus, allowing them to be 'ready to learn'. -- all with compassion, openness, and love. She deeply believes that mindfulness practices are to cognitive health what teeth brushing is to dental health, it ought to be done every day! Laura received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Boston College and a Doctoral Degree in Psychology from Sofia University. She was trained as a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor through the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts. In 2012 and the program is currently used in 2500 schools in the US, serving 600,000 students and teachers. She co-authored two published scientific papers and a book chapter that describe how the program positively impacts students and teachers. When not working, Laura loves to spend time with family and friends, especially with her husband Rick and son Will. She loves being outside, going for a bike ride, running with her dogs Scout and Bella, or playing tennis. Read more about Laura's professional history or email her at lbakosh@innerexplorer.org.
Maureik Robison
Maureik Robison is a former educator from the public school system with a BA in English Literature and a BA in Humanities from the Florida State University. Maureik began his mindfulness practice in high school after being exposed to the work of Thich Nhat Hanh. In the public school system, Robison worked with students from low-socioeconomic circumstances- many of whom often did not come in with the social and emotional skills necessary for academic achievement in the classroom. He knew the practice of mindfulness in his own life could be shared with students, families and teachers through Inner Explorer. When he saw an anxious student pause to count their breaths during a standardized test, Robison knew how transformative mindfulness could be for students. Robison says, "From my experience, most teachers feel the enormous responsibility to heal their students. However, mindfulness teaches students the skills they need to help heal themselves." Maureik Robison is passionate about the intersectionality of art and community. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Youth Artists Network and lives in his hometown of Sarasota, Florida.
Fostering 'Readiness to Learn' – A consistent school and district-wide approach to mindfulness-based social emotional learning (MSBEL)
'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.
This interactive session will allow participants to:
- Experience MBSEL practices used in PK-12 classrooms
- Consider the latest scientific evidence linking stress to reduced cognitive function as well as linking mindfulness to enhanced prefrontal cortex (PFC) activation and emotional regulation
- Apply the lessons from neuroscience to the challenges they face in their district
- Explore various methods to integrate MBSEL programming into the classroom and linking home and school
- Discuss the potential challenges in implementing an MBSEL program (cost, time, buy-in), as well as best practices, related to teaching staff, parents and community leaders.
- Hear feedback from educators who have adopted MBSEL in their schools and districts
Target Audience: Pre-school-Grade 12, Caregivers
Lee Ann Cook
Lee Ann Cook is an Assistant Director for the EPISCenter. Her roles include providing technical assistance to providers who are implementing evidence based programming, supporting outcomes data collection and reporting efforts across programs, and assisting in aggregating outcomes data for the state of Pennsylvania. Lee Ann earned a bachelor's degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Penn State, and a masters in Social Work from Bryn Mawr School of Social Work and Social Research. She has training and practice experience in several evidence based models including Project Towards No Drug Abuse, Multi-Systemic Therapy, Families and Schools Together, Creating Lasting Family Connections, and Motivational Interviewing. She has worked throughout the North-East United States, and across the UK and Central Asia to provide training and technical support to providers of the Families and Schools Together Program. She has served as the Project Coordinator for both SAMHSA and Drug Free Communities prevention grants. In her current role Lee Ann has enjoyed broadening her focus to include all of the Evidence Based Programs supported by theEPISCenter. She looks forward to helping communities and providers successfullyimplement and track the outcomes for these programs.
Jordan Joyce
Jordan Joyce is an Implementation Specialist at the EPISCenter. She provides support to schools and community organizations across the state that are implementing evidence-based programs. The list of programs that Jordan supports are as follows: Positive Parenting Program (Triple P), The Incredible Years(IYS), Functional Family Therapy (FFT), LifeSkills Training (LST), the Olweus Bullying Prevention
Program (OBPP), and Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS). Jordan graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in Education and she is currently pursuing a Master of Professional Studies Degree in Organization Development and Change. Over the
last thirteen years, she has worked in schools and county-based agencies, striving to make a difference in the lives of children, youth and families throughout Pennsylvania and continues to do so at EPISCenter.
Getting Beyond the Evidence-Based Label: Understanding What Works in Prevention
Schools and organizations want to provide the best possible environments and services
that help support children, youth, and families in their communities. While utilizing data
to make informed decisions is significant for schools and organizations, representatives
from the EPISCenter will take this opportunity to provide an education on how to be
strategic in gathering the data, assessing community needs, understanding what works in
prevention, accessing funding to get started, as well as measuring your success!
1. Participants will learn how to access and understand community needs through the
PAYS data.
2. Participants will learn key principles of effective prevention.
3. Participants will learn how to choose effective programming for prevention.
4. Participants will learn how to access grant funds from PCCD and partner with
EPISCenter for support.
5. Participants will learn how to measure program impact.
Sandi Conley
Sandi Conley is the Lead Trainer and Manager of School Partnerships at MindUP™|The Goldie Hawn Foundation. She has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola Marymount University and a Masters of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. She also holds a Certificate in Positive Psychology through Wholebeing Institute. Sandi has led lessons and facilitated workshops in the MindUP curriculum since 2011 working with students, educators, parents and in-patient mental health agencies. As an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist she is guided by her experience in positive psychology and mindfulness practices, focusing on building skills that promote clarity, optimism and resilience. Previously working as a Behavioral Health Coordinator, she served as an educator across multiple school districts overseeing program development and implementation for youth ages 5-18. Her compassion for the challenges faced by our youth in today's world inspires her work as an educator, therapist and motivational speaker.
This session will provide participants will an introduction to the MindUP program – an evidence-based primary prevention program for children in Kindergarten through 8th grade. The 15-lesson MindUPTM program, developed by the Goldie Hawn Foundation, was designed to enhance children's self-awareness, social awareness, focused attention, self-regulation, problem solving, pro-social behaviors (helping, sharing, and cooperating), and positive human qualities, such as happiness, optimism, and altruism. During the session, participants will learn about the foundational pillars of MindUPTM which include neuroscience, mindfulness, social emotional learning (SEL), and positive psychology. In addition, participants will be offered the opportunity to engage in experiential learning with examples of activities from the MindUPTM program. Finally, the session will conclude with a discussion about how MindUPTM can be implemented within the classroom context to support mindful awareness, social emotional competencies, and increased engagement.
Target Audience: Pre-k - Grade 8
Juliana Santoyo
Juliana holds a B.A in Human Development from Boston College and an M.Ed degree from Boston University. Her professional background as a teacher in public schools in Boston and New York has been greatly informed by her use of restorative justice practices inside and outside the classroom. She has also worked to design and implement new models for curriculum that integrate a liberatory educational approach, centering the voices of the historically disenfranchised in literature and history while providing opportunities for healing and processing of intergenerational trauma in the classroom through the use of contemplative practices.
Session Name: What's Love Got To Do With It: Social Justice & Contemplative Practice
Courage of Care's Sustainable Compassionate Education workshop integrates current research in neuroscience, social-emotional learning, mindfulness, and developmental and social psychology to offer educators, administrators, counselors, students, and parents tools for strengthening their capacity for care and connection in order that we might collectively grow and sustain more compassionate, equitable educational communities in which all people feel seen, welcome, and supported in realizing their fullest potential.
Developing our caring and compassionate capacities while developing an understanding of the systems that perpetuate our collective suffering helps us to cultivate the readiness and wisdom to act for change. In this workshop participants will have the opportunity to engage in a short meditation for cultivating compassion and connection in our daily lives. In addition to compassion training, our workshop seeks to engage participants with critical tools to assess personal, interpersonal, social and organizational structures and practices that drive inequity and injustice and inhibit our capacity to realize more connected, caring and creative school communities.
Leah Northrop
Leah Northrop is a certified yoga teacher and holds a master's degree in counseling psychology. She has been teaching yoga and mindfulness at Falk Laboratory School at the University of Pittsburgh since 2011, and created a therapeutic yoga program at Falk for students with a variety of challenges in the social, emotional, behavioral, and learning realms. Leah is co-director of the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Mindfulness and Consciousness Studies, and collaborates extensively with faculty in the University's School of Education.
This session will combine learning and practice as you explore mindful movement, breath-work, and relaxation that can be included in your personal practice and shared with your students as you practice together. Please come prepared to move, reflect and explore.
Dr. Stephanie Romero
Stephanie Romero has over twenty years of experience in teaching all levels; from elementary, middle school, high school to college. Stephanie has been a meditator and mindfulness practitioner since the early 2000s. She found that her meditation practice profoundly influenced her life. In 2013, wanting to understand how to bring mindfulness practices to others, Stephanie was trained in the Path of Freedom Mindfulness Curriculum, which she delivered through the HOPE pre-release program in the Allegheny County Jail. Stephanie is the Executive Director of Awaken Pittsburgh and a member of the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Mindfulness and Consciousness Studies.
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Column: Who do you hate the least? The dilemma for French voters
Noah Barkin
PEYPIN, France (Reuters) - In Michel Houellebecq's bleak satirical novel "Submission", the French political order is turned on its head after the soul-crushing re-election in 2017 of Francois Hollande, the most unpopular president the country has ever seen.
French President Francois Hollande (R) stands with Nicolas Sarkozy, former president and current head of the Les Republicains political party after their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, January 22, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo
"A strange, oppressive mood settled over France, a kind of suffocating despair, all-encompassing, but shot through with glints of insurrection," writes Houellebecq in his 2015 bestseller.
Nine months before real French voters go to the polls, this gloomy vision - or some variation of it - no longer seems quite so outlandish.
Hollande, 62, may be a long-shot to win re-election. But the chances of him emerging as the Socialist candidate for president remain high despite his abysmal approval ratings, now hovering in the mid-teens.
Also high, following a string of horrific attacks in France that have made security the top issue in the campaign, are the chances that his main challenger could be Nicolas Sarkozy, 61, the man who was France's most unpopular modern leader before Hollande beat him in 2012 and claimed the mantle for himself.
So the next French election could well boil down to a choice between two failed presidents who are viewed with disdain by a majority of French voters, and Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front.
"It would be election by elimination," says Thomas Guenole, a political scientist and co-founder of consulting firm Vox Politica. "The choice facing French voters would be: who do you hate the least?"
A survey by Ifop last month asked French voters who they would not want to see elected next year under any circumstances. Hollande came out on top at 73 percent. Sarkozy and Le Pen were not far behind, at 66 and 63 percent, respectively.
Perhaps the only certainty in such a race, is that Le Pen, whose party is comfortably ahead of Hollande's Socialists and Sarkozy's Republicans in the polls, would make it into the second round.
The expectation is that Hollande, if he did run, would not. But if he is up against Sarkozy in the first round and if Francois Bayrou, leader of the centrist Democratic Movement, joins the fray, he perhaps has a glimmer of hope.
Le Pen's chances of winning a second-round run-off are seen as extremely slim. But the antipathy towards both Hollande and Sarkozy makes it difficult to completely rule out a Le Pen victory.
Unlike in 2002, when Socialist voters held their noses and backed center candidate Jacques Chirac in the second round to stop Le Pen's father Jean-Marie, the appetite for crossing party lines to back Hollande or Sarkozy would be far more limited - in part because Marine Le Pen has spent years softening the image of the National Front.
"If elections were taking place today she would have no chance," said Dominique Moisi, senior adviser at the French Institute for International Affairs (IFRI). "But if they are taking place in a context of new terrorist attacks you cannot exclude this scenario."
Regardless of who emerges victorious, the choice between three deeply unpopular candidates could deepen the sense of alienation in France, fuelling a despondency akin to what Houellebecq describes in his book.
France is not the only country whose voters face poor choices.
The U.S. election campaign is playing out in similar fashion, with Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump both intensely disliked by large portions of the U.S. voting population.
In Germany, which will hold an election in the autumn of 2017, voters may feel they have little choice but to give Angela Merkel a fourth term, despite deep misgivings over her handling of Europe's refugee crisis. There are simply no attractive alternatives.
But the situation in France stands out because the country has such a desperate need for new ideas and leadership to pull it out of its economic malaise and spiraling crisis of confidence.
JUPPE AND MACRON
On the right, the alternative to Sarkozy is Alain Juppe, the 70-year-old former prime minister, foreign minister and defense minister.
Polls suggest Juppe would have an easier ride to the presidency. And although there is nothing "new" about him, he enjoys broader support than his conservative rival, with 58 percent of French saying they could accept him as president, according to the Ifop poll.
But the recent attacks - a mass killing on the promenade in Nice and the throat-slitting of a Catholic priest in a church near Rouen - have shifted the focus of the campaign to security, immigration and national identity, themes that play to Sarkozy's strengths as a hardline former interior minister.
Sarkozy is climbing in the polls and Juppe, seen for months as the frontrunner, is falling as a November primary to decide the center candidate for president approaches. Whoever wins that primary will be the favorites to become France's next president.
The attacks are also undermining the appeal of Emmanuel Macron, the 38-year-old economy minister and former investment banker who has been positioning himself as an alternative to Hollande on the left by preaching economic renewal.
A political sensation a few months ago, French media are now questioning whether Macron's new political movement "En Marche" (forward) shouldn't be renamed "En Panne" (broken down).
"In the current environment people want an experienced commander in chief and that is not Macron," says Jerome Fourquet of Ifop.
That means French voters may well be confronted with a choice next year that satisfies few.
In Houellebecq's fictional world, the disillusionment resulting from Hollande's re-election leads to the rise of a Muslim candidate who defeats Marine Le Pen in 2022 and introduces Sharia law and polygamy in France.
That won't come to pass. But if the 2017 vote does play out as it now looks like it might, it would not be good for France or for Europe, where leaders are already struggling to inspire their citizens.
Reporting by Noah Barkin; editing by Ralph Boulton
The views expressed in this article are not those of Reuters News.


Great horror films are rare these days, and ghost stories are even rarer. The most memorable ghost story in recent years is The Orphanage by director J.A. Bayona and writer Sergio G. Sánchez, who were also the director and writer of last year's The Impossible. It's hard to get chills just right in a movie, and The Orphanage did it. The Conjuring has many problems and clichés, but it still somehow manages to rise above the schlock that's passed off as horror these days. It's certainly entertaining — best seen with a large audience — but don't expect an original masterpiece. The Conjuring is probably as good as you're going to get for a while.
Director James Wan has had at least two good, solid films as a director with Saw and Insidious. The former was clever, bloody and fun before the series got out of control, and the latter is actually a better film than The Conjuring. Cowriters Chad and Carey Hayes wrote the remake of House of Wax and The Reaping and were cowriters of Whiteout. The filmmakers would have been better off if they had come up with an original idea rather than steal concepts, scares and elements from other modern horror flicks. Instead, there's the ridiculous assertion that the events are based on a true story. If that doesn't irk you, the title will because there's no conjuring going on here. I guess someone thought the title sounded cool and used it even though it doesn't represent the movie at all.
The only connection to the real world is the presence of two of the main characters, Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson) and wife Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga). These paranormal investigators did look into a variety of cases in the '70s, and this film is supposedly based on one case that really spooked them. Lorraine is still alive, and she served as a consultant on the film. My guess is that they probably involved her in the production of the movie so that she wouldn't say how silly it is to use the argument that it's based on a true story. A prologue set in 1968 serves as an introduction to the Warrens and what they do. They retrieve a possessed doll named Annabelle and place it in their storage room. This collection of haunted or bad items strongly reminded me of the antiques shop in Friday the 13th: The Series or, on a grander scale, the titular location in Warehouse 13. The prologue really sets the tone for what's to come; that doll is one nasty little creature.
The main story takes place in Harrisville, Rhode Island, in 1971. You know it's 1971 because of the long sideburns on the guys and the static on the television late at night. Trucker Roger Perron (Ron Livingston) and housewife Carolyn Perron (Lili Taylor) move into this large home for a new beginning. They have five daughters: Andrea (Shanley Caswell), Nancy (Hayley McFarland), Cindy (Mackenzie Foy), April (Kyla Deaver) and Christine (Joey King). The adorable King was most recently seen in Oz The Great and Powerful and is currently also in White House Down. At first, small things happen like doors opening and strange sounds emanating from nowhere. These events grow in both frequency and menace such that the Perrons call on the Warrens to cleanse their house of whatever bad spirits are hanging around. The Warrens somehow have supernatural powers and can sense things that we mere mortals can't, so they get such a bad vibe from this place that they really want to have nothing to do with it. The Conjuring "borrows" heavily from The Amityville Horror, Poltergeist, The Exorcist and probably about a dozen other horror films. Your enjoyment of the movie depends a lot on how many genre films you've seen over the years. From screeching, bleached-white bodies to loud sounds designed to make you jump, it's all in there. Despite the familiar elements, Wan somehow makes the movie fun and polished.
I'm not going to say too much about the specifics of the scares in The Conjuring because that would ruin the only good thing it's got going for it. It somehow pulls off a few good spooky moments despite being derivative, unoriginal and too reliant on "boo scares" or "jump scares." These are moments in which sound effects or suddenly appearing objects or persons combined with sound effects catch you off guard. It's like when someone opens a refrigerator door and closes it to reveal a person suddenly standing there. I find this type of horror cheap and only occasionally effective. Even worse, the trailer ruins one of the best moments in the film during the Hide and Clap game that Carolyn and her daughters like to play. The Perrons and the Warrens are dumb as far as movie characters go, too. They do stupid things like go in the basement when it's dark and investigate strange sounds and sights by themselves. There are silly plot holes like the basement that's closed off from the rest of the house being the only place to turn on the furnace and heat the house. Also, how many movies have birds flying into the side of the house and killing themselves? Enough already! The scary parts do increase in intensity, so by the time the finale kicks in, you will likely be on the edge of your seat.
The Conjuring has plenty of things to make you roll your eyes as well as jump out of your chair. If you're a 16-year-old high school kid out with your friends, you'll probably love it. If you've seen as many horror films as I have, it's more like a walk down memory lane. The cast is good, but this movie isn't about actors. It's about scary spirits and noises, so as long as the actors get out of the way and react believably to the frightening things, they're fine. Ed compares a bad spirit to gum stuck to your shoe. It follows you around and is tough to scrape off completely. It won't be that hard to shake off The Conjuring. In about two months, the Halloween offerings will come out and put this movie completely out of your memory. If you want to try something that lingers a bit longer, try Wan's Insidious instead.


Numbers on the low side for Hare 'n Hounds :( but at least the ones that raced all got lots of points!! Great effort from you all and thanks to Helen Marriott for helping me time too.
Ray Stamp is still in the lead of TT1 whilst Bob Scholey moves into first place in TT2, just one point between the K2 Trophy with Jess/Jelly with 21 and Teifi/Richie with 20!
Also Just wanted to say Georgia Hunt and John Hatton also started the race, after a slight hitch (a wet one!!) they did finish the TT1 course, I couldn't add them to the results as their slow times affected the Promotions/Demotions dramatically.
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AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it would sell rights to its one-time blockbuster cholesterol drug, Crestor, to German pharmaceutical company Gruenenthal GmbH for an upfront payment of $320 million as the British drugmaker focuses on its cancer treatments portfolio.
Crestor, which brought in revenue of over $5 billion for AstraZeneca in 2015, was among its best-selling medicines and used to contribute to around 20 per cent of the company's total revenue.
Crestor was hit by the arrival of cheap generic rivals in 2016 and newer medicines such as Tagrisso and Imfinzi for cancer and Fasenra for severe asthma were promoted by AstraZeneca as medicines that would take over.
AstraZeneca, which is among the front-runners in the race to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, has been trying to focus on its cancer drugs as it streamlines its business.
The London-listed company has been viewed as having a head start in the race for cancer treatments and sales of those medicines, including blockbuster lung cancer treatment Imfinzi, have been key to its turnaround.
Tuesday's deal will give Gruenenthal rights to sell Crestor and associated medicines in more than 30 countries in Europe, except the UK and Spain, AstraZeneca said.
AstraZeneca will continue to manufacture and supply the drug to Grünenthal during a transition period and will continue to sell it in other regions, including North America and China, it said.
The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2021, AstraZeneca said.
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German Security Service Reports Sharp Uptick in Islamist Radicalization
With an uptick in radicalization, sure you can ban travel, suspend immigration, but how do you stop it from happening online? How far will big brother go in Europe when it comes to spying on folks at the coffee house – PB/TK
German Security Service Reports Sharp Uptick in Islamist Radicalization – By James Carstensen | February 26, 2017
Berlin (CNSNews.com) – Germany's intelligence officials have announced an uptick of hundreds of people in the "Islamic radical scene" in a matter of months, saying young people were largely becoming radicalized online.
The domestic security and intelligence agency (BfV) reported that the number of people who had been radicalized had risen from only about 100 in 2013 to around 1,600 now. It said the number had "jumped by several hundred" in a matter of months.
Of the 1,600 radicalized Islamists currently living in Germany, the BfV said some 570 were considered "dangerous" – capable of planning a terror attack.
The revelation came as the German cabinet approved sweeping proposals for stricter measures to combat the increased threat, such as broadening surveillance and ensuring faster deportations of rejected asylum-seekers.
Last week the government of Bavaria approved a ban on Islamic religious clothing such as full-face veils in public spaces. The state's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said such garb hindered public safety by obscuring communication.
The measures being taken and proposed are motivated by security concerns, but are to some degree also likely politically driven, as parties scramble to lure votes from the anti-Islam, anti-immigrant AfD ahead of federal election in September.
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The small Principality of Monaco is the stuff of legends and intrigue, but it's also a fun place to visit.
The Principality of Monaco, a quasi-sovereign country on the Côte d'Azur 21 km (13 miles) east of Nice (map), is famous for its ritzy casino and the wealth of its residents.
Though small, it offers quite a variety of sights to visitors.
The heart of historic Monaco is centered on The Rock (Le Rocher), the high promontory that is home to the palace of the Grimaldi family. It's also home to the Old City, the Cathedral, and the Oceanographic Museum. It's fascinating to spend an hour or so wandering its narrow streets, strolling in the beautiful gardens near the museum, or enjoying the many views of the town and the coast.
The lower center of Monaco, traditionally called La Condamine, today includes the busy port, with its many yachts and sailing vessels, as well as lovely streets and shops.
Monaco is perhaps best known for Monte-Carlo, home of the famous Casino, as well as many luxurious villas, palaces, and shops. You'll see plenty of fancy cars here, as well as people in furs and jewels.
Monaco also hosts the annual Grand Prix in May. It's hard to imagine cars racing through the narrow streets of the Principality, but they do each year.
The Principality also is home to several museums, including the National Museum, with exhibits on the history of Monaco, and the Collection des Voitures Anciennes, housing over 100 old cars and other vehicles. The Museum of Old Monaco, on the Rock, is notable for its sign in Monégasque.
Monaco is an easy day trip from Nice. It's also very close to Italy if you want to continue your adventures in that direction.
Above, Place du Palais, the Rock, Monaco.