NEW YORK (AP) The downward-facing dog days of summer are here.

Thousands of New Yorkers are marking the first day of summer Saturday by practicing yoga in Times Square.

Row after row of yoga mats are laid out on the street as instructors guide the participants through their poses.

"Find the balance," one instructor urges. "Right leg high."

The yogis stretch and pose as tourists hustle on by, onlookers stop to gape and the horns of passing taxis screech.

The solstice celebration started at 5:30 a.m. and is scheduled to end at 9:15 p.m.

The 12th annual Solstice in Times Square is sponsored by the Times Square Alliance and Athleta, Gap Inc.'s exercise-wear brand.

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Golf courses across the country are stepping up their amenities, with plans to add yoga classes, spas, wineries, even an amphitheater so golfers will stay and play after their round of golf.

The number of rounds played on golf courses has fallen by about 10 percent from the peak in 2006, reports Bloomberg. Therefore, properties hope the added amenities will increase their revenue.

According to Bloomberg, Woodmont Country Club near Fort Lauderdale in Florida is adding conference space, stores, restaurants, a spa, and a hotel to its course, to the tune of $100 million. Mountain Ranch in Baltimore plans to pump $800,000 into its property to add a concert amphitheater, and a winery.

At Windy Knoll Golf Club in Ohio, you can opt to travel the green on a hovercraft rather than a golf cart but it will cost you. Renting a hovercraft for 18 holes will set you back $185 per person ($110 per person for nine holes).

What do you think of this trend? Do you think yoga and concerts belong at a golf course? Would you rather rent a hovercraft than a golf cart? Before you answer that, you should know that the hovercrafts in Ohio are kind of hard to control and have caused a few minor accidents, Pet Duffey, the golf courses managing director, told Bloomberg.

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Lenovo made a lot of compromises to hit this price poing, and did little to advance the hybrid concept. Still, the Yoga 2 11 has a good price-to-performance ratio.

Lenovo's Yoga product line has inspired many an imitator. Dell, HP, Toshiba, and other PC manufacturers have all jumped into the 360-degree-hinge game. No matter the display size, each of these laptop/tablet hybrids has one thing in common with the Yoga 2 11: They all make chunky tablets.

The Yoga 2 11 is a thin-and-light laptop first and foremost. But as you bend its 11.6-inch display back, you can turn it around and stand it up like a tent, puts its keyboard upside down on your desk and use it in stand mode, or fold the display all the way against the back of its keyboard and use it like tablet.

When I reviewed the Dell Venue 11 Pro, I felt as though I'd finally found a tablet that could replace my daily-driver laptop (an 11-inch Asus VivoBook X202). When I used the Dell, I found I almost always left it plugged into its optional keyboard dock.

As I set out to test the Yoga 2 11, I wondered if it would work the other way: As a laptop that could replace my iPad.I thought a machine designed primarily as a laptop would be even more practical. The price is certainly right: You'll find the Yoga 2 11 selling at Best Buy for the attractively low price of $499.

As a laptop, the Yoga 2 11 is thinner and lighter than my Asus laptop, weighing just 2.82 pounds and measuring 0.67 inches thick. The downside to its svelte profile is that its chassis can't accommodate very many ports: It has two USB ports, and only one of them is USB 3.0.

It has a Micro HDMI port, which will require an adapter or a special cable to plug into a display or HDTV. The side-mounted power button, meanwhile, is easy to access in all four operational modes, but I also found it too easy to pressaccidentally when I picked it up.

I realize this isn't one of Lenovo's pricey ThinkPad products, but Lenovo could have done better by the input devices. The trackpad seemed finicky and overly sensitive out of the box, and the control screen needed to change its settings is buried several levels deep. The keyboard experience is similarly awkward. There is so much flex to the Yoga 2 11's keyboard deck that I felt all the Chiclet keys moving around when I'd press just one.

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HALIFAX Artist Napolean Hill collected a little white paint on the tip of his brush Thursday morning and leaned into the mural hes creating on a wall in Halifax. He then dabbed a small white star on a 1776 flag.

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The 400th anniversary of the foundation of Heythrop College was marked yesterday by a prestigious international academic event presented in collaboration with the Institute of English Studies at the University of London. For the Greater Glory of God and the Common Good: the Jesuit educational tradition was hosted at the imposing Senate House formerly the Ministry of Information.

Fr Michael Holman SJ opened the conference, reminding delegates that the Jesuits operated arguably the largest education network worldwide. Heythrop itself is the longest established Jesuit education institute in the word.

The first lecture was given by Prof Maurice Whitehead of Swansea University and described the history of the college from its establishment in Louvain 1614, to its flight to Stonyhurst in 1794 before the advancing armies of the French revolution. It was English Jesuit Robert Jones who persuaded Superior General Acquaviva that an English College should be established. After 10 years in Louvain the College moved to the politically more secure principality of Liege under the generous patronage of the Wittelsbach family. Over the next 170 years the College became a renowned centre of culture and learning, with a resident community of up to 90 Jesuits, providing formation not just for English Jesuits, but also for lay students and secular clergy.

When the Society of Jesus was finally supressed in 1773, the English College survived at Liege under the remarkable Fr John Howard SJ the only Jesuit institution to do so. After a negotiation Fr Howard agreed that his clergy would adopt the dress and practice of secular priests, but would retain their corporate identity. The College was awarded the status of an enduring pontifical college. So it was not strictly a Jesuit College which fled from the French invasion in 1794. But the Jesuit ethos of Ignatian spirituality had been carefully nurtured. Thanks to the vision and generosity of Thomas Weld, and after a dangerous journey, the ex-Jesuits took up residence at Stonyhurst in Lancashire and re-opened for business barely three months after abandoning Liege and most of its contents to the French.

The durability and relevance through the centuries of the Jesuit ethos of educating the whole person was a recurring theme in the days other lectures.

Professor Kathleen Comerford of Georgia Southern University discussed how Heythrops library (known as the finest theological library in the UK with 180,000 volumes) developed from the sixteenth century and how it compared to other Jesuit libraries around the world.

Dr Robert Maryks of Boston College discussed the impact of classical literature on Jesuit education. He argued that as itinerant preachers and confessors, the first companions were not primarily concerned with education and establishing institutions. But within a generation this had changed as the Society went where the need was greatest and adopted education as its principal ministry. Jesuits began to absorb and then to lead Renaissance humanist values, and reappraise pagan classical texts. In particular Ciceros emphasis on the need for education to be purposeful and task-orientated became very important to the Jesuit curriculum. Rhetoric as a tool for success in almost any field civic, political, military, and evangelisation was a foundation stone of Jesuit education borrowed from Cicero. Jesuits became among the most accomplished Latinists in Europe.

This theme was developed by Professor Nicholas Sagovsky of Roehampton University, who entranced the delegates with his accomplished readings of the complex meter of Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, Heythrops most famous alumnus, and an accomplished classical scholar. His theme was the poet as theologian, and he explained how Manley-Hopkins theology was as advanced for its time, as his poetry.

Dr Guy Consolmagno SJ of the Vatican Observatory gave an overview of the Jesuits and Science, through four centuries and across all continents. Jesuits shone in the field of scientific exploration because of their comprehensive liberal education, because of their training in rhetoric and communication, because they travelled the globe before anyone else did, and because they had an international network of collaborators. Achievements which stood out were developments of methodologies for measurement of the earths core (James Macelwane SJ) and space! (Angelo Secchi SJ)

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For many, the notion of mindfulness conjures up images of yoga teachers, Tibetan monks and eccentric celebrities.

But the concept also has close ties with the business world.

Business leaders are starting to blend the rich tradition of spirituality with the research of psychology and neuroscience to create a simple, yet powerful way for business leaders to enhance their effectiveness.

Some top business schools, including Columbia Business School, have integrated the teaching of mindfulness into their curriculum. Hitendra Wadhwa, a professor of practice at the school and founder of the Institute for Personal Leadership, says that before you can master your business, you need to first master yourself and mindfulness is a path to such mastery.

At its essence, mindfulness is the art and practice of being fully present and focused on the moment. Mindfulness begins by cultivating awareness of your thoughts, feelings, values and motivations, to help bring clarity to your thinking. Some of the more popular forms of mindfulness include meditation and focused-breathing exercises. Typically, these techniques are designed to clear the mind and help you stay focused in the present.

Wadhwa explains that even though the inner-life issues that drive who you are tend get lost in the shuffle during a busy work day, they always play a role in our decisions and interactions. The challenge is being aware of these beliefs and emotions so as to harness them for positive purpose.

From a scientific perspective Dr. Romie Mushtaq, a neurologist with expertise in mind-body medicine, explains that advances in neuroimaging techniques have taught us how these mindfulness-based techniques affect neuroplasticity. In other words, the practice of mindfulness can enhance our ability to learn as well as how we manage stress.

Heres how mindfulness can benefit the business world:

Enhanced Focus

The true enemy of focus is multitasking. According to Mushtaq, multitasking depresses the brains memory and analytical functions, and it reduces blood flow to the part of the right temporal lobe, which contributes to our creative thinking.

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