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$340,263 to $439,113, based on experience
The Saskatchewan Cancer Agency operates prevention and early detection programs, conducts innovative research and provides safe, patient and family-centred care at our two comprehensive cancer centres - the Allan Blair Cancer Centre in Regina and the Saskatoon Cancer Centre. The provincial hematology program focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with both benign and malignant hematological conditions, including full provision of autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplant services in our Saskatoon location.
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Allan Blair Cancer Centre, 4101 Dewdney Ave, Regina, SK, S4T 7T1
We are looking for two hematologists to join the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency in Regina on a permanent, full-time basis. The positions will have responsibilities in the care of both benign and malignant patients, the proportion of each to be determined in collaboration with the team.
A competitive compensation package is offered and will be commensurate with experience. The current salary range is $340,263 to $439,113, plus benefits.
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The call schedule will be established based on an equal rotational basis with other hematologists in the department(s).
Compensation for on-call coverage at the standard rate of payment prescribed by the the Saskatchewan Ministry.
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The successful applicant will have obtained or be in the final stages of obtaining certification in Hematology with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada or have equivalent education, training and experience. They must be able to work in a multidisciplinary setting, and engage collaboratively with the team. The successful candidate must also be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan, meet the requirements for membership in the medical staff of the Saskatchewan Health Authority (Regina) and hold valid CMPA coverage.
Written and verbal fluency in English
Population Base:
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Saskatchewan is a growing and prosperous province. Saskatchewan offers a world of endless possibilities.
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We thank all candidates for their interest. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Review of applicants will be ongoing. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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For other uses, see Number (disambiguation).
Mathematical object used to count, label, and measure
Subsets of the complex numbers.
A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label. The original examples are the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth.[1] A written symbol like "5" that represents a number is called a numeral. A numeral system is an organized way to write and manipulate this type of symbol, for example the Hindu–Arabic numeral system allows combinations of numerical digits like "5" and "0" to represent larger numbers like 50.[2] A numeral in linguistics can refer to a symbol like 5, the words or phrase that names a number, like "five hundred", or other words that mean a specific number, like "dozen". In addition to their use in counting and measuring, numerals are often used for labels (as with telephone numbers), for ordering (as with serial numbers), and for codes (as with ISBNs). In common usage, number may refer to a symbol, a word or phrase, or the mathematical object.
In mathematics, the notion of number has been extended over the centuries to include 0,[3] negative numbers,[4] rational numbers such as 2 and −2/3, real numbers[5] such as 2 and π, and complex numbers,[6] which extend the real numbers with a −1 (and its combinations with real numbers by addition and multiplication).[4] Calculations with numbers are done with arithmetical operations, the most familiar being addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation. Their study or usage is called arithmetic. The same term may also refer to number theory, the study of the properties of numbers.
Besides their practical uses, numbers have cultural significance throughout the world.[7][8] For example, in Western society, the number 13 is regarded as unlucky, and "a million" may signify "a lot."[7] Though it is now regarded as pseudoscience, belief in a mystical significance of numbers, known as numerology, permeated ancient and medieval thought.[9] Numerology heavily influenced the development of Greek mathematics, stimulating the investigation of many problems in number theory which are still of interest today.[9]
During the 19th century, mathematicians began to develop many different abstractions which share certain properties of numbers and may be seen as extending the concept. Among the first were the hypercomplex numbers, which consist of various extensions or modifications of the complex number system. Today, number systems are considered important special examples of much more general categories such as rings and fields, and the application of the term "number" is a matter of convention, without fundamental significance.[10]
main classification
subclasses of the integers
subclasses of the complex numbers
extensions of the concept
Main article: Numeral system
Numbers should be distinguished from numerals, the symbols used to represent numbers. The Egyptians invented the first ciphered numeral system, and the Greeks followed by mapping their counting numbers onto Ionian and Doric alphabets.[11] Roman numerals, a system that used combinations of letters from the Roman alphabet, remained dominant in Europe until the spread of the superior Hindu–Arabic numeral system around the late 14th century, and the Hindu–Arabic numeral system remains the most common system for representing numbers in the world today.[12] The key to the effectiveness of the system was the symbol for zero, which was developed by ancient Indian mathematicians around 500 AD.[12]
First use of numbers
Main article: History of ancient numeral systems
Bones and other artifacts have been discovered with marks cut into them that many believe are tally marks.[13] These tally marks may have been used for counting elapsed time, such as numbers of days, lunar cycles or keeping records of quantities, such as of animals.
A tallying system has no concept of place value (as in modern decimal notation), which limits its representation of large numbers. Nonetheless tallying systems are considered the first kind of abstract numeral system.
The first known system with place value was the Mesopotamian base 60 system (ca. 3400 BC) and the earliest known base 10 system dates to 3100 BC in Egypt.[14]
The first known documented use of zero dates to AD 628, and appeared in the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, the main work of the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta. He treated 0 as a number and discussed operations involving it, including division. By this time (the 7th century) the concept had clearly reached Cambodia as Khmer numerals, and documentation shows the idea later spreading to China and the Islamic world.
The number 605 in Khmer numerals, from an inscription from 683 AD. Early use of zero as a decimal figure.
Brahmagupta's Brahmasphuṭasiddhanta is the first book that mentions zero as a number, hence Brahmagupta is usually considered the first to formulate the concept of zero. He gave rules of using zero with negative and positive numbers, such as 'Zero plus a positive number is a positive number, and a negative number plus zero is the negative number'. The Brahmasphutasiddhanta is the earliest known text to treat zero as a number in its own right, rather than as simply a placeholder digit in representing another number as was done by the Babylonians or as a symbol for a lack of quantity as was done by Ptolemy and the Romans.
The use of 0 as a number should be distinguished from its use as a placeholder numeral in place-value systems. Many ancient texts used 0. Babylonian and Egyptian texts used it. Egyptians used the word nfr to denote zero balance in double entry accounting. Indian texts used a Sanskrit word Shunye or shunya to refer to the concept of void. In mathematics texts this word often refers to the number zero.[15] In a similar vein, Pāṇini (5th century BC) used the null (zero) operator in the Ashtadhyayi, an early example of an algebraic grammar for the Sanskrit language (also see Pingala).
There are other uses of zero before Brahmagupta, though the documentation is not as complete as it is in the Brahmasphutasiddhanta.
Records show that the Ancient Greeks seemed unsure about the status of 0 as a number: they asked themselves "how can 'nothing' be something?" leading to interesting philosophical and, by the Medieval period, religious arguments about the nature and existence of 0 and the vacuum. The paradoxes of Zeno of Elea depend in part on the uncertain interpretation of 0. (The ancient Greeks even questioned whether 1 was a number.)
The late Olmec people of south-central Mexico began to use a symbol for zero, a shell glyph, in the New World, possibly by the 4th century BC but certainly by 40 BC, which became an integral part of Maya numerals and the Maya calendar. Mayan arithmetic used base 4 and base 5 written as base 20. Sanchez in 1961 reported a base 4, base 5 "finger" abacus.
By 130 AD, Ptolemy, influenced by Hipparchus and the Babylonians, was using a symbol for 0 (a small circle with a long overbar) within a sexagesimal numeral system otherwise using alphabetic Greek numerals. Because it was used alone, not as just a placeholder, this Hellenistic zero was the first documented use of a true zero in the Old World. In later Byzantine manuscripts of his Syntaxis Mathematica (Almagest), the Hellenistic zero had morphed into the Greek letter Omicron (otherwise meaning 70).
Another true zero was used in tables alongside Roman numerals by 525 (first known use by Dionysius Exiguus), but as a word, nulla meaning nothing, not as a symbol. When division produced 0 as a remainder, nihil, also meaning nothing, was used. These medieval zeros were used by all future medieval computists (calculators of Easter). An isolated use of their initial, N, was used in a table of Roman numerals by Bede or a colleague about 725, a true zero symbol.
Further information: History of negative numbers
The abstract concept of negative numbers was recognized as early as 100–50 BC in China. The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art contains methods for finding the areas of figures; red rods were used to denote positive coefficients, black for negative.[16] The first reference in a Western work was in the 3rd century AD in Greece. Diophantus referred to the equation equivalent to 4x + 20 = 0 (the solution is negative) in Arithmetica, saying that the equation gave an absurd result.
During the 600s, negative numbers were in use in India to represent debts. Diophantus' previous reference was discussed more explicitly by Indian mathematician Brahmagupta, in Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta 628, who used negative numbers to produce the general form quadratic formula that remains in use today. However, in the 12th century in India, Bhaskara gives negative roots for quadratic equations but says the negative value "is in this case not to be taken, for it is inadequate; people do not approve of negative roots."
European mathematicians, for the most part, resisted the concept of negative numbers until the 17th century, although Fibonacci allowed negative solutions in financial problems where they could be interpreted as debts (chapter 13 of Liber Abaci, 1202) and later as losses (in Flos). At the same time, the Chinese were indicating negative numbers by drawing a diagonal stroke through the right-most non-zero digit of the corresponding positive number's numeral.[17] The first use of negative numbers in a European work was by Nicolas Chuquet during the 15th century. He used them as exponents, but referred to them as "absurd numbers".
As recently as the 18th century, it was common practice to ignore any negative results returned by equations on the assumption that they were meaningless, just as René Descartes did with negative solutions in a Cartesian coordinate system.
Rational numbers
It is likely that the concept of fractional numbers dates to prehistoric times. The Ancient Egyptians used their Egyptian fraction notation for rational numbers in mathematical texts such as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus and the Kahun Papyrus. Classical Greek and Indian mathematicians made studies of the theory of rational numbers, as part of the general study of number theory. The best known of these is Euclid's Elements, dating to roughly 300 BC. Of the Indian texts, the most relevant is the Sthananga Sutra, which also covers number theory as part of a general study of mathematics.
The concept of decimal fractions is closely linked with decimal place-value notation; the two seem to have developed in tandem. For example, it is common for the Jain math sutra to include calculations of decimal-fraction approximations to pi or the square root of 2. Similarly, Babylonian math texts had always used sexagesimal (base 60) fractions with great frequency.
Further information: History of irrational numbers
The earliest known use of irrational numbers was in the Indian Sulba Sutras composed between 800 and 500 BC.[18] The first existence proofs of irrational numbers is usually attributed to Pythagoras, more specifically to the Pythagorean Hippasus of Metapontum, who produced a (most likely geometrical) proof of the irrationality of the square root of 2. The story goes that Hippasus discovered irrational numbers when trying to represent the square root of 2 as a fraction. However, Pythagoras believed in the absoluteness of numbers, and could not accept the existence of irrational numbers. He could not disprove their existence through logic, but he could not accept irrational numbers, and so, allegedly and frequently reported, he sentenced Hippasus to death by drowning, to impede spreading of this disconcerting news.[19]
The 16th century brought final European acceptance of negative integral and fractional numbers. By the 17th century, mathematicians generally used decimal fractions with modern notation. It was not, however, until the 19th century that mathematicians separated irrationals into algebraic and transcendental parts, and once more undertook the scientific study of irrationals. It had remained almost dormant since Euclid. In 1872, the publication of the theories of Karl Weierstrass (by his pupil E. Kossak), Eduard Heine (Crelle, 74), Georg Cantor (Annalen, 5), and Richard Dedekind was brought about. In 1869, Charles Méray had taken the same point of departure as Heine, but the theory is generally referred to the year 1872. Weierstrass's method was completely set forth by Salvatore Pincherle (1880), and Dedekind's has received additional prominence through the author's later work (1888) and endorsement by Paul Tannery (1894). Weierstrass, Cantor, and Heine base their theories on infinite series, while Dedekind founds his on the idea of a cut (Schnitt) in the system of real numbers, separating all rational numbers into two groups having certain characteristic properties. The subject has received later contributions at the hands of Weierstrass, Kronecker (Crelle, 101), and Méray.
The search for roots of quintic and higher degree equations was an important development, the Abel–Ruffini theorem (Ruffini 1799, Abel 1824) showed that they could not be solved by radicals (formulas involving only arithmetical operations and roots). Hence it was necessary to consider the wider set of algebraic numbers (all solutions to polynomial equations). Galois (1832) linked polynomial equations to group theory giving rise to the field of Galois theory.
Continued fractions, closely related to irrational numbers (and due to Cataldi, 1613), received attention at the hands of Euler, and at the opening of the 19th century were brought into prominence through the writings of Joseph Louis Lagrange. Other noteworthy contributions have been made by Druckenmüller (1837), Kunze (1857), Lemke (1870), and Günther (1872). Ramus (1855) first connected the subject with determinants, resulting, with the subsequent contributions of Heine, Möbius, and Günther, in the theory of Kettenbruchdeterminanten.
Transcendental numbers and reals
Further information: History of π
The existence of transcendental numbers[20] was first established by Liouville (1844, 1851). Hermite proved in 1873 that e is transcendental and Lindemann proved in 1882 that π is transcendental. Finally, Cantor showed that the set of all real numbers is uncountably infinite but the set of all algebraic numbers is countably infinite, so there is an uncountably infinite number of transcendental numbers.
Infinity and infinitesimals
Further information: History of infinity
The earliest known conception of mathematical infinity appears in the Yajur Veda, an ancient Indian script, which at one point states, "If you remove a part from infinity or add a part to infinity, still what remains is infinity." Infinity was a popular topic of philosophical study among the Jain mathematicians c. 400 BC. They distinguished between five types of infinity: infinite in one and two directions, infinite in area, infinite everywhere, and infinite perpetually.
Aristotle defined the traditional Western notion of mathematical infinity. He distinguished between actual infinity and potential infinity—the general consensus being that only the latter had true value. Galileo Galilei's Two New Sciences discussed the idea of one-to-one correspondences between infinite sets. But the next major advance in the theory was made by Georg Cantor; in 1895 he published a book about his new set theory, introducing, among other things, transfinite numbers and formulating the continuum hypothesis.
In the 1960s, Abraham Robinson showed how infinitely large and infinitesimal numbers can be rigorously defined and used to develop the field of nonstandard analysis. The system of hyperreal numbers represents a rigorous method of treating the ideas about infinite and infinitesimal numbers that had been used casually by mathematicians, scientists, and engineers ever since the invention of infinitesimal calculus by Newton and Leibniz.
A modern geometrical version of infinity is given by projective geometry, which introduces "ideal points at infinity", one for each spatial direction. Each family of parallel lines in a given direction is postulated to converge to the corresponding ideal point. This is closely related to the idea of vanishing points in perspective drawing.
Further information: History of complex numbers
The earliest fleeting reference to square roots of negative numbers occurred in the work of the mathematician and inventor Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century AD, when he considered the volume of an impossible frustum of a pyramid. They became more prominent when in the 16th century closed formulas for the roots of third and fourth degree polynomials were discovered by Italian mathematicians such as Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia and Gerolamo Cardano. It was soon realized that these formulas, even if one was only interested in real solutions, sometimes required the manipulation of square roots of negative numbers.
This was doubly unsettling since they did not even consider negative numbers to be on firm ground at the time. When René Descartes coined the term "imaginary" for these quantities in 1637, he intended it as derogatory. (See imaginary number for a discussion of the "reality" of complex numbers.) A further source of confusion was that the equation
( − 1 ) 2 = − 1 − 1 = − 1 {\displaystyle \left({\sqrt {-1}}\right)^{2}={\sqrt {-1}}{\sqrt {-1}}=-1}
seemed capriciously inconsistent with the algebraic identity
a b = a b , {\displaystyle {\sqrt {a}}{\sqrt {b}}={\sqrt {ab}},}
which is valid for positive real numbers a and b, and was also used in complex number calculations with one of a, b positive and the other negative. The incorrect use of this identity, and the related identity
1 a = 1 a {\displaystyle {\frac {1}{\sqrt {a}}}={\sqrt {\frac {1}{a}}}}
in the case when both a and b are negative even bedeviled Euler. This difficulty eventually led him to the convention of using the special symbol i in place of − 1 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {-1}}} to guard against this mistake.
The 18th century saw the work of Abraham de Moivre and Leonhard Euler. De Moivre's formula (1730) states:
( cos  θ + i sin  θ ) n = cos  n θ + i sin  n θ {\displaystyle (\cos \theta +i\sin \theta )^{n}=\cos n\theta +i\sin n\theta }
while Euler's formula of complex analysis (1748) gave us:
cos  θ + i sin  θ = e i θ . {\displaystyle \cos \theta +i\sin \theta =e^{i\theta }.}
The existence of complex numbers was not completely accepted until Caspar Wessel described the geometrical interpretation in 1799. Carl Friedrich Gauss rediscovered and popularized it several years later, and as a result the theory of complex numbers received a notable expansion. The idea of the graphic representation of complex numbers had appeared, however, as early as 1685, in Wallis's De Algebra tractatus.
Also in 1799, Gauss provided the first generally accepted proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra, showing that every polynomial over the complex numbers has a full set of solutions in that realm. The general acceptance of the theory of complex numbers is due to the labors of Augustin Louis Cauchy and Niels Henrik Abel, and especially the latter, who was the first to boldly use complex numbers with a success that is well known.
Gauss studied complex numbers of the form a + bi, where a and b are integral, or rational (and i is one of the two roots of x2 + 1 = 0). His student, Gotthold Eisenstein, studied the type a + bω, where ω is a complex root of x3 − 1 = 0. Other such classes (called cyclotomic fields) of complex numbers derive from the roots of unity xk − 1 = 0 for higher values of k. This generalization is largely due to Ernst Kummer, who also invented ideal numbers, which were expressed as geometrical entities by Felix Klein in 1893.
In 1850 Victor Alexandre Puiseux took the key step of distinguishing between poles and branch points, and introduced the concept of essential singular points. This eventually led to the concept of the extended complex plane.
Prime numbers have been studied throughout recorded history. Euclid devoted one book of the Elements to the theory of primes; in it he proved the infinitude of the primes and the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, and presented the Euclidean algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers.
In 240 BC, Eratosthenes used the Sieve of Eratosthenes to quickly isolate prime numbers. But most further development of the theory of primes in Europe dates to the Renaissance and later eras.
In 1796, Adrien-Marie Legendre conjectured the prime number theorem, describing the asymptotic distribution of primes. Other results concerning the distribution of the primes include Euler's proof that the sum of the reciprocals of the primes diverges, and the Goldbach conjecture, which claims that any sufficiently large even number is the sum of two primes. Yet another conjecture related to the distribution of prime numbers is the Riemann hypothesis, formulated by Bernhard Riemann in 1859. The prime number theorem was finally proved by Jacques Hadamard and Charles de la Vallée-Poussin in 1896. Goldbach and Riemann's conjectures remain unproven and unrefuted.
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Apple will start producing the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 next week, while the 5.5-inch version will be delayed until mid-August according to rumours.
Taiwan's Economic News said the enormous pocket-filling iPhone phablet will be delayed because availability of the display panel has been set back. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (who's a bit of an Apple rumour bomb-dropper) said specifically that the delay may be down to the new in-cell touch panels, which are harder to produce for larger screens.
The same report revealed that Apple's manufacturing partner, Foxconn, is preparing to appoint 100,000 new workers for its production line, specifically to work on the next-generation iPhone. Apple's secondary manufacturer Pegatron said it would take on an additional 10,000 staff to help produce the iPhone 6.
The 4.7-inch iPhone 6 is due to launch in September and new rumours suggest it will be the thinnest iPhone ever, with a slimmer battery and reduced thickness screen technology.
New rumours released overnight also suggest the iPhone 6 will feature a 13-megapixel Sony Exmor camera module, as seen on the Sony Xperia Z – a phone that's already a year and a half old. Sony's latest premium phones, the Xperia Z1 and Xperia Z2, both sported 20.7-megapixel snappers.
That whopping 5.5-inch iPhone is said to be Apple's answer to a phablet, set to rival Samsung's Galaxy Note range of devices. However, thanks to those production delays, it's not likely to be released until the tail end of 2014.
Kuo said in her report that the delays to the phablet won't impact the availability of the smaller iPhone 6, but Apple will instead opt for a staggered approach – launching the 4.7-inch device in September as planned, followed by the phablet in November.
Production delays are nothing new for Apple, of course. Before the iPad Mini with Retina display was launched in 2013, reports had it delayed until 2014. However, the device landed with little or no delay to availability, so we're still hopeful that we'll see the phablety iPhone by the year's end.
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Huancayo Overview
Huancayo Activities
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Getting To and Away
Getting to and away from this sprawling mountainous town is fairly easy, as buses run regularly from both Lima in the north and other small towns to the south. Once or twice monthly, it is also possible to catch the high train to Huancayo from Lima, an epic 13-hour journey through the Mantaro Valley and into the mountains, providing breathtaking views, and stopping along the way at the highest train station in the world.
The following bus companies service Huancayo:
Cruz del Sur: Jr. Ayacucho 281. Tel: 423-2650.
E.T.U.C.S.A: Jr. Puno 220. Tel: 226-524.
Exp Lobato: Jr. Omar Yali 148-158. Tel: 231-892.
Molina: Angaraes 334, Chilca. Tel: 224-501.
TICLSAS Chilca: corner of Ancash and Angaraes.
Turismo Central: Ayacucho 274. Tel: 223-128.
Buses leave Huancayo at the following times:
To Ayacucho (12 hr): Molina (8 a.m., 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.; $15). Some buses have bathrooms, others do not, so check ahead to reserve a seat on one that does for a more comfortable trip.
To Huancavelica (5 hr): TICLSAS Chilca has several departures leaving daily. In addition, shared taxis depart for Huancavelica whenever they fill up with four passengers from Calle Real 1241, Chilca. Taking just three hours, this is the quickest way to go.
To Huánuco (7 hr): Turismo Central (9:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.).
To Jauja/Concepción (20-30 min/50 min): Minibuses leave regularly from the corner of Jirón Amazonas and Avenida Giraldez, or you can catch a colectivo at Calle Calixta 531.
To Lima (6.5 hr): Cruz del Sur (8:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 11 p.m., 11:15 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., $11-28); E.T.U.C.S.A. (8 a.m., 1 p.m. and 8 p.m., $9.50-22.50); Molina (10 p.m., $15); Turismo Central (8:30 am., 1:30 p.m., 11 p.m. and 11:45 p.m.).
To Satipo (9 hr): Exp Lobato (7 a.m., 11 a.m., 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.).
If heading onwards to Huancavelica from Huancayo, the best way to go is by train. The station is at Avenida Ferrocarril 461 in Chilca. There are two trains daily, at 6:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. (2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Sundays), taking four to five hours. Prices vary depending on class
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Dr. Joel and Michelle Levey are the authors of Living in Balance: A Mindful Guide for Thriving in a Complex World; Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness; Wisdom at Work; The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation: Ancient Skills for Modern Minds, and many other books.
Joel and Michelle Levey are regarded as pioneers in the global "mindfulness revolution," "the international compassion movement," and work to integrate contemplative science and contemporary mind-fitness training in leading organizations in modern times. They were among the very first people to develop and introduce Mindful Leadership, Mind Fitness, and Compassion based programs within mainstream medical, higher educational, organizational, government, and military arenas beginning in the late 70's.
Over the past 40 years they have worked with thousands of leaders in hundreds of organizations around the globe including: NASA; Google; World Bank; British Parliament's All Parliamentary Roundtable on Mindfulness; NHS; NIH; M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Clinton Global Initiative; Stanford Research Institute International; Intel; M.I.T., Prime Minister's Office of the U.A.E; U.S. Army Special Forces; Surgeon General's Office; and World Business Academy. They have served as Chairpersons for the Center for Corporate Culture and Organizational Health Taskforce for the Institute for Health and Productivity Management, and as core faculty for the International Institute for Organization Design. They currently serve as clinical faculty at University of Minnesota Medical School and Bastyr University's Center for Science, Medicine, and Spirituality. The Leveys helped design the Contemplative Education and Transformational Learning Graduate program for Mahidol University in Thailand, and taught a post-graduate MBA course on Mindful Leadership and Resilience at IIM (Indian Institute of Management) in Ahmedabad, India. They stewarded the development of some of the first "mindful organizations" in the Western world – at Hewlett Packard, Intuit, Weyerhaeuser, etc.
Nobel Peace Laureate, the Dalai Lama, an advisor on a number of the Leveys' projects once wrote in a letter to the Leveys: "You are presently engaged in work that has great prospects for bringing the Dharma (the inner sciences of human transformation)to a very wide section of people who may not under ordinary circumstances come into contact with these teaching. I am very pleased about the work that you are doing and send you blessings and prayers for your success."
Joel and Michelle were fortunate to be among the first professionals in the Western world to widely introduce mindfulness, meditation, mind-fitness training, and contemplative science into mainstream organizations. They offer a unique and rich blend of insights and experience distilled from 47 years of intensive contemplative study/practice, and the seamless integration of their work in leadership and contemplative science through multiple roles as: clinicians in medical centers; corporate trainers/consultants working with leaders and executive teams around the globe; mindfulness and meditation teachers (in numerous traditions – including study with very respected teachers from many different "mindfulness lineages" and authorization to teach); mentors to leaders in government, business, medical, and military arenas; faculty at universities around the world; mind-fitness coaches for world-class and Olympic-gold athletes; and contemplative science researchers. They also have the unique distinction of having done this work together as a couple for 33 years.
The Leveys were invited by Pentagon leaders to develop the "Jedi Warrior Program" for the Special Forces, where they led the advanced "biocybernautic training" (integrating neurofeedback, "mind-fitness training,"and a month-long, silent Mindfulness style Vipassana-retreat) for this once secret, six-month, full-time program. Military leaders described Jedi as, "The most exquisite orchestration of human technology we have ever seen." Advisors Michael Murphy and George Leonard called Jedi, "the most advanced leadership development program to be offered in modern times." Jedi's profound success opened the way for their work with leaders at: NASA, Navy, NOAA, Surgeon General's Office, NIH, NHS, West Point, and Prime Minister's Office of UAE.
Michelle and Joel have been fortunate to study closely with many remarkable teachers in the diverse foundational mindfulness traditions including: Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Dipama, Anagarika Munindra, S.N. Goenka, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ruth Dennison, and Robert Hover. They've also studied closely with many of the world's most respected leaders in fields of interpersonal neurobiology and contemplative science teachers and researchers including: The Dalai Lama, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Otto Scharmer, Daniel Goleman, Daniel Siegel, Robert Thurman, Kalu Rinpoche, Krishnamurti, Karmapa, Lama Yeshe, Chagdud Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and Joanna Macy. The Leveys have devoted nearly 2 years to silent contemplative retreats including sitting the historic first Shamatha Project – a year-long silent retreat and research project that was sponsored in part by the Dalai Lama.
Joel and Michelle have been actively involved in many global learning communities related to this work including: Mind and Life Institute; Presencing Institute; Institute of Noetic Sciences; Contemplative Mind in Society; The International Campaign for Compassionate Cities; Compassion Games International; Society for Organizational Learning (SoL); Meaning Conference; and International Center of Compassionate Organizations. Joel and Michelle are also contemplative mentors and advisors for the Art Monastery Project and the ArtMonks, an international network of artists dedicated to blending contemplative practice, creative endeavor, and social transformation.
Their published works are available in 12 languages and include: Living in Balance: A Mindful Guide for Thriving in a Complex World; Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness; Wisdom at Work; The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation: Ancient Skills for Modern; Focus! Mastery of Mindfulness and Attention; The VUCA Savvy Leader; Corporate Culture and Organizational Health; Intuition at Work; Community Building in Business; Learning Organizations; and The New Bottom Line.
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"Joel and Michelle Levey have skillfully woven together contemporary insights into the value and need for mindfulness and mind-fitness training with a large number of evocative suggestions for practice. Joel and Michelle clearly have a great deal of experience teaching a wide range of different settings and this is reflected in the precision and vividness of their instructions. There is strength in the simplicity of their explanation of the value of these mindfulness and mind-fitness disciplines and their clear instructions for how to practice."
– Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine Emeritus& Founding Director The Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Author of many books on Mindfulness
"The work of Joel and Michelle Levey has long been a luminous thread in the fabric of the Great Turning. They embody in many ways this epochal transition to a life-sustaining society."
"Their book (Living in Balance: A Mindful Guide for Thriving in a Complex World) like its luminous authors, brings refreshment to mind and heart. It open us to our inner wisdom, and brings us tools, visions and whispered counsel that restore the blessed balance we deserve."
– Joanna Macy, Ph.D., Author, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy
"The Leveys' work and writings offer a skilful blend of time proven antidotes to the stress of modern life."
– Dan Goleman, Ph.D., author, Social Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, and Focus
"Living in Balance is a beautiful book that brings wisdom and love into a world that longs for balance."
– Roshi Joan Halifax, Abbot, Upaya Zen Center
"This book is an absolute treasure, filled with an abundance of insights and practices that lead the reader into depths of peace. But with all these riches, I was most affected by the love, compassion, and wisdom of Joel and Michelle present in every page. Their embrace of the reader is the best testimony that these practices lead to lives of wholeness and harmony."
– Margaret J. Wheatley, author of Leadership & the New Science and coauthor, A Simpler Way
"Today more than ever modern society makes demands on an individual for which evolution has not prepared us. Living in Balance gives each of us tools that not only allow us to navigate through a complex world but allow us to thrive. By gaining insights into ourselves and learning techniques that fundamentally allow one to rewire their brain, Joel and Michelle have given us a wonderful gift…the gift of transcendence."
–James R. Doty, M.D., Founder and Director of Stanford's Centre for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), part of the Stanford Institute of Neuro-Innovation and Translation Neurosciences and Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University
"Living in Balance is the wisest, most practical and inspiring book that I have read in years. Joel & Michelle Levey are consummate teachers because they live the teachings, humbly and compassionately laying out a roadmap that anyone motivated to lead a happier, more balanced life can follow. The simple exercises and questions they ask were like lightbulbs that helped me see my own life more clearly. This is one book that really does have the power to help you change your life."
– Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, and A Woman's Book of Life cofounder and former director of the Mind/Body Clinic, New England Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
"Michelle and Joel Levey demonstrate–in a style that is graceful and gentle and personal and inspiring–how balance in our individual minds and lives is both the key to healing the world and the source of our greatest happiness. Their invitation to awakening makes the spiritual journey clear enough to be accessible to everyone while preserving the profound sanctity of its purpose."
"Michelle and Joel Levey have done such a graceful, personal and inviting presentation of the profound necessity to devote/dedicate oneself to as full a practice of living in balance as one can, without at all trivializing it and making it less profound than it is, but making it sound like everybody can do it–like it's just normal–which is what it is!"
"I've really enjoyed Living in Balance–I found I didn't want to skim it because it had so many wonderful things in it. So thanks a lot for it!"
– Sylvia Boorstein, author of: It's Easier Than You Think; and Don't Just Do Something, Sit There
"Living in Balance invites us to return to the inner source of serenity and wisdom within. Never before have we so urgently needed the clear, compassionate teachings that are so lovingly described in this book."
– Larry Dossey, MD, author of Be Careful What You Pray For, Prayer is Good Medicine, Executive Editor, Alternative Therapies
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CRYSTALLEX INTERNATIONAL has hired Ken Thomas as its COO. A process engineer, he will oversee the company's Las Cri...
CRYSTALLEX INTERNATIONAL has hired Ken Thomas as its COO. A process engineer, he will oversee the company's Las Cristinas project in Venezuela. Thomas has won the Selwyn G. Blaylock medal awarded by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and the Mill Man of the Year from the Canadian Mineral Processors.
Anthony (Tony) Walsh has joined the board of NORTHERN MINING EXPLORATIONS as an independent director. He is also president and CEO of Miramar Mining Corp.
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Chapel Hill North, a long-standing neighborhood in eastern Round Rock, is small, covering only about a square mile. The community was developed in the mid-1980s to early 1990s, and it contains about 120 homesites. It is known as a well-established area, with homes that are modest in both size and price. Home buyers here are able to purchase a single family property on a good-sized lot for a price in the $100s.
The Chapel Hill North neighborhood is prized for its convenient location, only about two miles north of downtown Round Rock, ten miles east of downtown Cedar Park, and twenty miles north of downtown Austin. Residents have easy access to major thoroughfares, as Chapel Hill North is less than a mile east of I-35, just over a mile north of Highway 79, and about three miles south of FM 1431. It is located within the following boundaries: south of East Old Settlers Boulevard, north of East Bowman Road, east of James Place, and west of Andover Drive. Properties in Chapel Hill North lie in Williamson County and are in the 78664 zip code.
Development of the Chapel Hill North community occurred from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s. An average-sized home in this neighborhood is a three bedroom, two bath home with about 1,346 square feet. Over the past two years, 19 homes have come up for sale in Chapel Hill North. The smallest was a 820 square foot home with two bedrooms and one bathroom, and the largest was a 2,093 square foot home with three bedrooms and three bathrooms. The list prices for these homes ranged from $90,000 to $185,000. The median sold price in the Chapel Hill North neighborhood over the past couple of years was $148,000, or $112.71/square foot.
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While there are not community-owned amenities within the Chapel Hill North neighborhood, there are several public parks located a short distance away. Bowman Park is just a half mile walk east through neighborhood streets. This pretty park covers 8.54 acres of land and includes a playscape and a .25 mile hike and bike trail that circles around the playground, as well as picnic benches and parking areas. Residents are also close to Settlement Park, which offers 2.5 acres of parkland with a full basketball court, playground, a .15 mile trail, and a small body of water in the heart of the park. About a mile to the west in the adjacent Greenhill neighborhood, residents can enjoy Greenhill Park. It covers .62 acres of land and is equipped with picnic tables and grill areas, and a playscape for the children.
Another benefit of living in Chapel Hill North is that it is located only about three to four miles from Round Rock's campuses for higher education, including Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas State University, and Austin Community College.
Children living in Chapel Hill North are zoned to public schools in the esteemed Round Rock Independent School District. The elementary school for this neighborhood, Union Hill, takes pride in its multilingual engagement opportunities for students and families and has received an exemplary rating for its second language acquisition programs.
Entertainment and dining options are prevalent in Round Rock, and many amazing restaurants are located within a short distance from the Chapel Hill North neighborhood. Here are a few of the best rated ones on Yelp in the eastern Round Rock area.


The Jammu and Kashmir State School Education Department has successfully completed the JNVST 6th class and 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th Grade Vacant seat admission selection tests on behalf of JNV Chandigarh Region officials.
Nearly three lacks of boy's and girl students are appeared to all 5th to 6th class admission selections and other vacant seat admission test of Lateral Entry tests in the state, there are 23 NVS schools in the state and those exams ate held on February 2nd for Vacant seat admission and class 6th class admission test held on April 6th.
Every year huge number of students are appeared like this year from Jammu and Kashmir all rural and urban area, the students are waiting for JNVST 6th Result 2019 with school wise selected and waiting listed student details also.
The JNV Chandigarh will be conducted the J&K state Navodaya exams in single setting and they will be announced district wise and school wise selected lists.
The State Navodaya Selection test conducted by JNV Chandigarh will be conducted evaluation of marks with answer sheet corrections, after completed of the process the JNVST Result Date 2019 will be announced to release Navodaya school wise selected list 2019.
According to the JNVST official notification 2019 the Navodaya Result date 2019 is March 2019 but the exact result date is not maintained, we have expected this year the Navodaya Jammu and Kashmir result 2019 will be announced on first or second week of June 2019.
However please wait for official announcement, we will update all JK State Navodaya Result Date 2019 with Selected list in student wise and roll number wise for all schools under Chandigarh division here, and please wait for result date we will update.
After then NVS officials will be announced the Jammu and Kashmir State school wise result with merit and qualified student details with displaying at all educational offices notice board in the state.
Every JNVST 2019 participant can check their result at nearest DEO, MEO, District Magistrate, and Principal of NVS school in your circle, and the Navodaya Result 2019 will be published at JNV Chandigarh website with main website also, we have listed all educational circles to check JNVST School Wise Result 2019 in student roll number wise just follow.
We have advised to all student can follow your regional language newspapers, they have published roll number wise result at the district page of newspaper.
Every student who have received the admission selection letter they can get complete schedule of their counselling certificate verification, the student van visit selected NVS school authorities with supported certificates and documents to verify their certificates to clime their admission in the NVS school.


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The inspiration for the creation of this Donation page came from my interaction with a fellow ZUMBA Instructor from Jackson, New Jersey...Alexis. It's not practical to send tangible items in the mail, but it is very practical to receive donations which go directly to the American Red Cross in support of their campaign to bring Emergency Relief to all affected areas. This was the request of my Zumba Sister Alexis and I'd love to honor that by helping.
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WarnerMedia Kids & Family and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, today announced the next phase of their growing content partnership. Sesame Street Mecha Builders, the first of many new Sesame Workshop originals for WarnerMedia's Cartoonito preschool programming block, is set to debut on HBO Max and Cartoon Network in early May. More animated series and specials, including newly greenlit family miniseries Charlotte's Web, upcoming preschool shows Bea's Block and a Sesame Street-themed reimagining of The Nutcracker, are also set to debut this year, with other exciting projects already in the works.
"Our relationship with Sesame Workshop is critical in ensuring that we have an ongoing lineup of content that parents find unquestionably safe, educational, and entertaining for their kids to enjoy," said Tom Ascheim, President, Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics. "The new and classic properties we're developing together have just the right multigenerational appeal to resonate with parents and children alike, with fresh music and characters offering some surprises along the way."
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As a single digit handicap golfer Terri has won her local Club Championship and Senior Championship. To further her knowledge of rules she has taken the USGA rules class. When Terri isn't on the golf course she dedicates her time as a member of the Savannah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, is a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy, Alexandria, Louisiana Chapter. She has also taken the UGA extension - Chatham County Master Gardner course, leading her to serve on The Landings Gold Club Standard Committee.
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Becky attended Middle Georgia College playing basketball and tennis before transferring to the University of Georgia. Playing basketball for the Lady Bulldogs in 1978/79 she was team captain her senior year. Married to her high school sweetheart they have two children and four grandchildren. She is the current keyboard/piano player in the Praise Band of the First Baptist Church in Camilla.
Career: Military retiree - 35 years of service.
A graduate of the Minnesota School of Business in computer programming JoAnn went on to join the Air Force. Assignments included Grand Forks, ND, Kwang Ju Korea, Clark Air Base Philippines and then back to Minnesota.
After 13 years of service JoAnn joined the Army. Specializing in logistics she worked directly for the Commander of Headquarters. She was responsible for inventory control of all soldier equipment accomplishing this task with 100% accuracy. During her military career she earned a B.S. degree in Business Administration and General Business as well as a Master of Science in Research Management and Human Resources.
In retirement JoAnn is busy golfing and volunteering within the golf community. She volunteers with GSGA as a rules official. A few favorite assignments are with the Georgia State Junior and High School golf teams. She also volunteers with the Symetra, PGA and LPGA tours. In addition, she is Chairman of the board for the Mid-GA Ladies Golf Association and a former President of the Griffin Ladies Golf Association.
Janet and her husband of 22 years retired to Reynolds Plantation in 1998. There she has been able to purse her passion for golf. She has enjoyed being actively involved in the 200+ ladies golf association and has served as President of the league. She is also an involved member of the Lake Oconee Presbyterian Church and a strong supporter of St. Jude Children's Hospital.
Janet's other passions include hunting, fishing and gardening.
A graduate of Georgia Southern holding a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration Marie has had multiple leadership roles throughout her 28 year career including: Human Resources, Auditing, IT Production Services and Procurement.
In 2012 Marie decided to take up golf, not realizing it would be a lifetime adventure. She became a member of Business Women's Golf League (BWGL) located in Newnan. She quickly became involved in the leadership team as Treasurer. Since 2015 Marie has served as President of BWGL.
After attending the GWGA Jekyll Island Tournament in 2017 Marie was bitten hard by the golf bug. She is now focused on improving her game, playing as much golf as possible.
Utilizing her financial and technological experience, Phyllis has been able to move GWGA forward in these capacities. While working at GPC she became active in promoting women's golf, becoming one of the founding members of the Executive Women's Golf League (EWGA) in the Atlanta area. Throughout her career she encouraged management to provide women's golf teams to support various charity events while representing GPC. In retirement she continues to expand her knowledge in the fields of management, financial and technology fields.
Tracy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Journalism and received her law degree from Florida Coastal School of Law. Her law firm provides pro bono services to the Wayne CountyIndustrial Development Authority, Boys & Girls Club of the Altamaha area, and Fairhaven Domestic Abuse Shelter.
Tracy is the Treasurer of the Jesup Bar Association and Wayne County Law Library, as well as Wayne County of Commerce & Vice Chair 2008-2015.
As a native of eastern North Carolina her love of all things nautical was born. Growing up she spent her time water skiing and sailing the Ablemarle Sound. In 2004 she earned her Captain's license. She loved piloting her Boston Whaler, until her love of golf consumed her free time.
community where she is Co-Owner and Managing Partner of AIGT LLC. A multiplex condominium complex located on Lake Oconee. A lifetime member of the Auburn University Alumni Association with a B.S. in Business, Pam has also worked for Gap Inc, and Banana Republic.
Pam serves as the Secretary of the Claude A. and Johann S. Petty Foundation which provides funds to charitable causes. In addition, she served on the board of the Atlanta Country Club Ladies Golf Association for six years. This is her fourth year serving on the GWGA board.
When she's not promoting golf, Pam is a very dedicated to her family. She has two sons Spencer and Will and two grandchildren Liam and Rylin. Her favorite colors are orange and blue. Go War Eagle!
Career: Payroll Supervisor/Cost Accountant - Rayonier Inc.
Born and raised in the Philippines, Maria came to the states to study at the University of Hawaii. She received her BS in Accounting at City University in Seattle.
She has one son Kevin, who has participated in the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour and American Junior Golf Tour.
Maria enjoys participating in national and state level competitions. Earning the title of top medalist at the Washington State Sectional she qualified to compete in the 1995 US Women's Mid-Amateur Championship in Essex, MA. Partnered with Danielle Davis in 2004, they won the GSGA State Team held at Wilmington Island Country Club in Savannah, GA. She participated as a co-captain in the GA-FL Team Match Competition, now known as the Women's Southeastern Challenge Match. At Doublegate Country Club in Albany she was runner up in the Inaugural Women's Match Play 2011. She has been the Pine Forest Country Club Champion since 1997.
Currently the Pine Forest Ladies Golf Association in-house Tournament Chair and Treasurer of the Pine Forest Country Club Homeowner's Association.
With a B.S. degree in Biology and an MBA degree in Finance from Georgia State University, Betsy has a proven track record in business. Early in her career she worked as a Financial Advisor for Smith Barney. She then joined the investment banking division of Central Bank of the South in Birmingham, AL. As Vice President in the investment division she led the division's move from using a service bureau to its own in-house hardware and software systems. Subsequent positions in the investment division include, Manager of Central Bank Discount Brokerage and Manager of the retail bond sales department.
In other roles, Betsy owned a Central Park restaurant franchise, the first drive-thru only chain in the country.
She has also served as the Executive Director of the Georgia Foundation for Athletic Excellence whose mission is to support Georgia athletes in their pursuit of competing in the Olympics. As Executive Director, Betsy led fundraising campaigns and established innovative counseling and coaching programs for young athletes. Most recently she served on the Board of Sally Ride Science for three years.
Betsy competed on the women's professional tennis circuit in the late 1970's.
As a single digit handicap golfer, she won the 2012 GSGA Team Championship.
While working as a Surgical Nurse for a private practice General Surgeon in Atlanta, Nina realized medical satellite offices were becoming popular and necessary. She began assisting physicians in setting up and managing their second office. This led her to start her own business, Secretaries Unlimited. A secretarial service and executive suite center which she operated for ten years. Taking many years off to raise children she went back to work for another ten years outsourcing HR services to small businesses.
Nina has served as President of the North Fulton Chamber of Commerce; Alumni of Leadership North Fulton and Leadership Coweta. She has logged over 800 hours as a single engine pilot and, co-researched "A Pilot's Guide to the Bahamas." as well as completing the Coweta-UGA Master's Gardner's program.
Her love affair with golf began when she was 37. She has been a Ladies Club Champion at two different clubs as well as a Senior Ladies Champion. As a member of The Hole In One Club she continues to perfect her game.
Trainer - PF Chang's China Bistro.
As a native of Southern California Gina loves all things outdoors. She took up golf five years ago. The love of the game was instantaneous as well as the humbling factor it provides. It's her first year serving on the GWGA Board.
own company offering catering and personal chef services. In 2009 she combined her love of food and fitness earning a Personal Training certificate at the National Personal Training Institute.
and Country Club in Alabama this year.
For the past 30 years Lynn has worked in the legal services field, providing invaluable support to the community. She currently works with Astin Law Firm.
Serving on several volunteer boards including the Downtown Association Board for the development of the City of Cedartown, the Polk County Humane Society Board and the Polk County Animal Control Board.
Lynn has served as a past GWGA President. She views her services to GWGA as a continuation of her community focused service to her church, female golfers and the elderly.


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Trust me, you want to eat this. What is it? Well, let's start with the pain perdu – literally translated as "lost bread," this is a chewy yet light French toast (Oh that we could all be lost so happily). It is accompanied by sautéed pears and salted butter caramel ice cream and sauce.
Where might you sample such a delight? My very favorite ice cream shop in Paris tucked into the heart of the Ile Saint-Louis. We always makes stops at Berthillon for ice cream cones, but on this visit decided to sit down in their mirrored little salon next door. Now it is twice as expensive than ordering from the window. But you'll have the added pleasure of enjoying your ice cream in old-fashioned silver dishes.
You might also try the Belle Helene, which in addition to the pears and ice cream served in my dessert comes topped with homemade chocolate sauce and lots of creme Chantilly.
Elegance aside, I threatened to lick my plate. This was as close as I was brave enough to get.
This post is part of my Postcards from the Road, Summer 2012 series, where I'll be sharing short pictorial posts of our adventures in Europe. (Full disclosure: I'm actually back in the U.S., but apparently all of my postcards didn't make it over here before I did. You can expect to see them on the site through this week. Then I'll be diving into our adventures in detail.) I also share it as part of Wanderfood Wednesday, where perhaps you can find something savory to go along with these sweets.


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Nazi Brides
Dressed in modest petticoats and starched white aprons, their hair pulled back into neat plaits, a group of women are pictured marching through a hayfield. Arms linked, broad smiles across their faces, they are carrying baskets laden with flowers, which later they will arrange into pretty garlands. In another photograph, they are purposefully huddled around a sewing machine, darning pairs of pinstriped trousers, while other images show them gleefully feeding livestock, chopping vegetables on a kitchen worktop and singing along to another woman's accordion-playing.
Scenes From The Imperial Capital
Why The Base Matters
Timmy fights back:
Embattled Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is pleading with malcontents in his own party to put away the knives.
Returning from a one-week summer vacation Monday to quell the rebellion fomenting in his absence, Hudak said he opposes another leadership review and warned party infighting only helps the governing Liberals.
There are no true absences in politics. Timmy might have been away in body, but I doubt he was ever a smart phone away from the intrigue. Vacations are for children, retirees and non-entities. A man who is potentially a few hundred thousand voters away from the second most powerful job in Canada doesn't take vacations. The pressure and workload might tapper off for a few days, the war carries on.
Which bring us to why there still is a war. A tottering and corrupt Liberal government should be catnip to an opposition party, especially a Tory one. By all historical rights Tim Hudak should already be Premier. Even assuming that 2011 was a fumble, now should be the moment when the Tory leader is priming himself to deliver the coup d'grace next spring.
But instead he's fighting rebels in his own caucus.
In politics no one likes a loser. Unless you're the NDP, a perennial Miss Congeniality in most of the country. If anything the Dippers failure to win has given them an aura of principle and romance. So long as you find granola munching hippies, unionized rent seekers and militant professors romantic. The Tories, however, are the party of practicality. Small town business people, disgruntled residents of rural regions and the odd real estate developer. The NDP's base doesn't mind losing or not having power, their daily lives are divorced from the rest of society. The Tory base does much of the work that still keeps this province functioning. They want results.
The sneaking suspicion about Tim Hudak is that he is more a politician than a conservative. Not a bad guy mind you, but he seems to lack the inherent practical ruthlessness that Tories love so much. That vital combination of bank manager and Attila the Hun. He seems anxious not to offend the Globe and Mail's editorial board. In a Liberal leader that's probably a sensible approach. Among Tory chieftains it's a fatal character flaw.
In 2011 Timmy was following the standard front runner's strategy. Be bland and let the other guy screw up. Then his commanding lead vanished as the election approached. After the defeat he received an earful from hither and yon within the party. So then Tim began to limp Right, somewhat convincingly. These recent by-election defeats were, however, proof to some that Timmy wasn't turning his limp into a firm Rightward lean.
While the argument is plausible it fails to keep in mind that by-elections are a crap shoot. A not so random sampling of the overall electorate. Their predictive power is weak and will be read any which way by the interested. Perhaps the combined reincarnations of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Mike Harris and Milton Friedman would have fared no better. Stuff happens and sometimes it's no one's fault.
The problem for Timmy is that the base doesn't trust him. That lack of trust means that every slip up becomes a mortal sin. Short of winning all five by-elections there would still be Tories calling for his resignation. They think he's a compromising wimp. Before Hudak can fix his image with the wider electorate, he needs to fix his image with the party.
The split here between the party high command and the grassroots is partly cultural. The guys running the party are typically university graduates in public policy or political science, they view issues in an often highly technical manner. Some are policy wonks, others are polling geeks and a few are natural intriguers. They live a world somewhat removed from their natural supporters. That leads to bits of cognitive dissonance.
In the lead up to 2011 the High Command developed a platform plank that called for using convicts to clean city streets. The idea was impractical and a fairly craven attempt to appeal to the base. The thing was that in addition to being dumb, the idea also sounded insincere. Like a white suburban kid attempting to pass himself off as a young black ghetto hood.
With the cultural disconnect comes the strategic misapprehension. Those running the party confuse polling with elections, just as they confuse their little world with the wider electorate. In an age when most people voted paying attention to the polls mattered. But in 2011 less than half the electorate showed up to vote in Ontario. In other words the pollsters are asking a somewhat random sampling of the adult population, but only the most motivated are actually voting. That means that the polls aren't telling party strategists what they need to know. It's also why pollsters have screwed up recent election predictions in Alberta and British Columbia. In Alberta the turnout was 57%. In B.C. it was about 50%.
Pollster have attempted to deal with this problem by asking for "likely voters." That doesn't mean much. Someone being polled might very well feel likely when asked, and then feel lethargic on election day. Put it another way: Among likely dieters how many will not buy that bag of cookies? There are too many variables at play. That doesn't even get us into the issue of pollsters calling landlines in an age when many people have only have cell phones.
Modern Canadian political strategists are faced with a shrinking electorate. In the years ahead only the most motivated will bother showing up. This is a phenomenon that has been happening in the US for decades. The implications haven't really been absorbed yet by the political class here. A shrunken electorate means more polarized campaigning. Real attack ads as opposed to the timid ones we've seen so far. It means that getting out your base is as important, or more important, than reaching out to the middle. Wondering what the Globe and Mail thinks is a poor strategy. Their editorial board couldn't even swing Toronto-Centre, much less the 905.
Tim Hudak will likely survive this bout of rebellion. The Ontario Tories are many things but they lack the suicidal instincts of the federal party back in Dalton Camp's day. The problem for Timmy isn't today's revolt, it's that an embittered base will sit on its hands come the next election.
Monday Night - Luther
Magna Carta to Canada
Two years ago, Len Rodness, a self-described history buff, had an off-chance talk with a teacher at his son's school in Toronto.
Today, the Toronto lawyer has turned that brief encounter into a nationwide campaign to bring the Magna Carta, one of the most famous documents in the world, to Canada.
Robby My Boy
Please put down the glass:
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford acknowledges having a few beers on Friday night while attending the Taste of the Danforth festival, but said he didn't drive home afterward.
"Did I have a couple of beers? Absolutely I had a couple of beers. But you know what, I had a good time," Ford said on his Sunday radio show on Newstalk 1010. "I think things are getting blown out of proportion."
Good mayor or no, Rob Ford has plunged Toronto into an episode of the Trailer Park Boys.
I'll let our gentle readers decide which of this motley cast of characters most closely resembles Bubbles.
Despite his repeated poor behaviour the Mayor's popularity actually seems to be increasing. This is puzzling because Torontonians are, by their nature, a fairly uptight lot. Their primary civic obsession is with rivalling New York as a world class city. While the Capital of the World has certainly had its cast of colourful characters in Gracie Mansion, none quite rival Rob Ford in a raw expression of the human condition. So in a sense we have completely surpassed New York City. Something the tourist bureau should keep in mind for their next campaign.
Rob Ford may, in a odd sense, share the same kind of Teflon coating that Dalton McGuinty displayed in his long and lamentable stint at Queen's Park. Both men, one too gregarious for his own good and the other so wooden he could be suffering from Dutch Elm disease, benefited from the very low expectations of the public. They get away with being who they are because the public doesn't think much of them or the political class.
The Dalt's sheer dullness as a public figured rendered him immune from a great deal of public censure. A large swath of the electorate simply concluded that a) most politicians are crooks so replacing the Dalt with another crook would not be an improvement b) McGuinty didn't seem villainous enough to do any real damage. One could imagine Mike Harris as a Bond villain sending henchmen to piranha driven deaths. The Dalt? He resembled your shifty brother-in-law who sells insurance from a company you've never heard of before.
Hizzoner Rob benefits from his fat blond louse persona. David Miller might have squandered the public fisc on transit lines to nowhere and over priced chianti. Rob Ford, by contrast, is a millionaire with beer budget tastes and white trash vices. He doesn't seem clever enough to get into that much trouble. If things go very wrong the city might wind up paying for some magic beans, but that's the nature of politics. The people lobbying politicians are typically much more intelligent than the politicians themselves. That's why they're lobbyists and not politicians.
The concern here is for when exactly the public's patience wears out. With the Dalt it was the cancellation of the Oakville and Mississauga power plants. The scandal, which is still unravelling, showed the public that their wooden toy soldier was a bit more clever and deceitful than they had hitherto assumed. They could no longer trust his mediocrity.
Rob Ford's problem is a lack of self control. While the public drunkenness has had an oddly humanizing impact on the Mayor's persona, assuming your fond of enabling drunks, no one is quite sure where this ends. Given his track record there is a fair chance that between now and the next election Mayor Ford, his posh Escalade and some portion of Toronto's physical infrastructure are going to have a nasty run in. Staggering drunk along the Danforth is one thing, a lot of people do that, driving drunk is something else entirely.
There are many conservatives in this city, exhausted by the council's pronounced left limp, who will excuse any behaviour on the part of the Mayor, so long as he keeps taxes low. Rob Ford has been the driving force behind several important, though overall modest reforms of municipal government. Many would like to see the Mayor complete the job he started. The greatest barrier, however, to the reform agenda in Toronto is Rob Ford himself. When Rob Ford is the issue, then the thousand other concerns of local government stop being the issue.
We need to talk about the Gardiner. About public sector union pay and benefits. About expanding the subway. About crumbling infrastructure. About social housing. About the homeless. We're not talking about these issues, nor will we anytime soon. The MSM is many things but above all it suffers from ADD. It will chase the bright shiny thing over the boring substantive thing. Partly that's because the viewership and readership wants bright shiny things, and partly because it's less work for the hacks. Explaining the infrastructure deficit is trickier and less compelling than posting pictures of a fat drunk guy.
Rob Ford's biggest enemy, however, isn't the MSM, it's Rob Ford.
Friday Night - The Red Shoes
An Unsound Man
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The briefing notes from unnamed diplomatic staff also warn her of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's "complex personality," and his "unsound personal views on east/west problems and strategic balance." Thatcher was also told that then-prime minister Trudeau's desire to accompany her on her Canadian tour would "affect the nature" of her stops in Toronto and Edmonton, two provincial capitals of particular interest to the British leader because their premiers were conservatives.
Back to Quebec
This is a sequel I have no interest in watching:
After letting his support in the province sink to new lows, Stephen Harper seems to be on a mission to improve his party's standing in Quebec. It speaks volumes about the trouble he is in.
The prime minister was in Quebec City last week, flanked by a crowd of caucus members, to make an announcement that hardly seemed worthy of such a visit: an investment of little more than $8 million to help ease traffic in the provincial capital during the winter. It was the first step in the Conservative plan to reconquer the hearts and minds of Quebecers.
Tossing the odd slab of pork to Quebec is actually routine. While the Tories have only the slenderest of hopes in La Belle Province, they cannot be seen as alienating a quarter of the country. Pauline Marois is holding onto power by her manicured finger tips, this makes her more desperate than the average Quebec politician. It is part and parcel of modern inter-governmental politics that the premiers are expected to beat the Prime Minister over the head with their begging bowls. As with so many things in that fabled province, Quebeckers have raised this sordid behaviour into a grand art form.
Whether a Quebec Premier is a member of the federalist tribe or the nationalist tribe, they are both insistent that the good taxpayers of the province are being fleeced by Ottawa. It's a lie and a fairly spectacular one at that. Repeated so often and over so many decades it has acquired the sheen of common sense along the St. Lawrence. Many a federalist will repeat this truism with great earnestness. Since Madame Marois has nothing else to offer the electorate, she plays the wounded bankrupt to excess.
Stephen Harper, who is many thing except a fool, knows that unless a modest amount of Danegeld is sprinkled about Quebec, the Pequistes will use his parsimony against him and Canada. So he pays a modest bribe and then goes about the business of securing a fourth term. A victory to be won with the fresh new Ontario, Alberta and B.C. seats being added to the Commons in 2015. Electorally Quebec is no longer arbiter of the national destiny. The PM has, rather logically, decided to humour the old girl and focus his energies elsewhere to better effect.
If things work according to plan by the time Jason Kenney secures his second majority government, Quebec will be at about 20% of the population. At about that time Alberta - British Columbia should be hovering at about 25% of the electorate, possibly higher. That means the West will matter far more than Quebec. At that point the Quebecois nationalist blackmail scheme will be as faded as boomer memories of Expo '67.
Patience is a virtue. Just let the demographic stream solve the problem.
Thursday Night - This Happy Breed
The Funniest Sexist Computer in the World
The machine, which has been created by scientists at the University of Edinburgh, was designed to generate its own witty one-liners following a simple set of rules.
The system was programmed to exploit one of the most successful and popular components of comedy, where a statement is followed up with a surprising comment.
However, like some of its human predecessors, the computerised comedian has developed a rather politically incorrect approach to humour – the jokes it produces can be rather sexist.
"It is marvellous in our eyes."
Brother Can You Spare a Billion?
Rebel Without a Drink
That Which Survives
With Conservatives Like These...
Princess of Trudeaupia
Deliverology
Tories In Dark Places
Pork By Any Other Name
Arma Virumque - The New Criterion
Bow, James Bow
Caledonia Victims Project
Canada's Historic Places
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
EclectEcon
James Burke Documentaries
POEMS OF RUDYARD KIPLING
Quotulatiousness
SF Debris
Sobering Thoughts
Canadian Global Affairs Institute
Perry de Havilland on "It is marvellous in our eyes."
Jim Whyte on With Conservatives Like These...
Gerry T. Neal on Princess of Trudeaupia
John Chittick on Pork By Any Other Name
Jim Whyte on A Quantum of Farce
Cytotoxic on Orange Leap
John Chittick on A Quantum of Farce
BRIAN MALLARD on A Quantum of Farce
Cytotoxic on Looking Good
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If only space travel were as easy as depicted in Star Wars or Star Trek! Traveling a few thousand times the speed of light onboard the Enterprise or a hundred times faster by jumping to lightspeed enables these fictional ships to traverse stellar distances in fractions of a day. Unfortunately, the real world poses much greater constraints. Even cruising at one-tenth the speed of light (well beyond our current or imaginary technology), the trip to star system Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor, would take nearly 45 years. Some of the latest research reveals the damage even a few months in space causes to the human body. By contrast, Earth's environment seems ideally suited for humans.
Perhaps exercise and nutrient intake can counteract the effects of long-term space travel, but research also reveals human immune system problems. Another team of scientistsinvestigated the levels of "natural killer cells" (NK cells) for astronauts spending six months or more in space. These NK cells are white blood cells that kill cancerous cells and prevent viral cells within the body from reactivating. The team drew blood samples before launch, during flight, and after return for the astronauts, as well as a control sample of people who remained on Earth. The study showed that the level of NK cells on the long spaceflights decreased by 50%.2 If such an effect grows with flight duration, the consequences would result in most (if not all) space travelers developing cancer or succumbing to previous viral infections that immune systems on Earth naturally keep in check. Such problems become more severe considering that long-duration spaceflights induce a condition called HALS—hydrocephalus associated with long-duration spaceflight. The buildup of fluid in the brain causes increased brain pressure in the part of the brain responsible for body movement and higher executive function.
These problems result from spaceflights near Earth. Longer trips, like going to Mars, bring another, more severe problem. Flights to Mars require more than six months outside the protective confines of Earth's magnetic field. Consequently, space travelers are exposed to cosmic radiation that the magnetic field deflects from Earth's inhabitants. Mice provide a good proxy for the human physiology, so a team of researchers exposed mice to radiation doses similar to those encountered on a trip to Mars. The study showed that cosmic radiation dosage severely damaged the intestinal lining of the mice. Specifically, the gastrointestinal (GI) tract has a 3- to 5-day self-renewing mechanism that keeps the top layers of the tract healthy. The cosmic rays disrupted this renewing mechanism, which dramatically affects nutrient absorption and leads to cancerous growth.3 Additionally, signs of the damage remain at least one year after the radiation exposure ends.
Taken together, these studies demonstrate two points. First, space travel may capture the human imagination, but the physiological toll of traveling anywhere beyond the Moon may destroy any hope to journey beyond our home planet. Second, the environment of space exposes humanity to seriously detrimental effects. However, our well-designed Earth provides an incredible environment for humanity (and an abundant array of diverse life) to not only survive but to truly thrive.
Katelyn Burkhart, Brett Allaire, and Mary Bouxsein, "Negative Effects of Long-Duration Spaceflight on Paraspinal Muscle Morphology," Spine, published ahead of print (December 8, 2018), doi:10.1097/BRS.0000000000002959.
Austin B. Bigley et al., "NK-Cell Function Is Impaired during Long-duration Spaceflight," Journal of Applied Physiology (November 1, 2018), doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00761.2018.
Santosh Kumar et al., "Space Radiation Triggers Persistent Stress Response, Increases Senescent Signaling, and Decreases Cell Migration in Mouse Intestine," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 42 (October 16, 2018): E9832-41, doi:10.1073/pnas.1807522115.
Since my earliest memories, science and the Christian faith have featured prominently in my life – but I struggled when my scientific studies seemed to collide with my early biblical training. My f… Read more about Jeff Zweerink.
Nobody likes to be interrupted when they are talking. It feels disrespectful and can be frustrating. Interruptions derail the flow of a conversation.
In part 1 of this series, we noted that Apologia Sophia (Gk: ἀπολογία σοφία) transliterates the Greek word endings and roughly translates to "apologetics wisdom." In this second (of six) installment, I hope to offer more apologetics wisdom for our noble task. Here are three points that apply equally to both professional and lay Christian apologists. These points relate to connecting apologetics to Christian foundations.


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Q: Received Data is nil when calling a https-function of google cloud function I´m trying my first app with google cloud functions. I have a simple javascript function like this:
exports.updateisavaiable = functions.https.onCall((data) => {
  const ref = admin.database().ref('/appinfo/actualversion');

  ref.once("value", function (snapshot) {

    const actualversion = String(snapshot.val());
    const currentversion = data.currentversion;

    console.log(currentversion);
    console.log(actualversion);

    let updateavailable;

    if (actualversion > currentversion) {
      updateavailable = true;
    } else {
      updateavailable = false;
    }

    console.log(updateavailable);
    return(updateavailable);
  });
});

When I´m calling this function in my swift app with the following code I just get "nil":
private func updateisavailable() {
        //Überprüft ob ein Update verfügbar ist

        let functions = Functions.functions()

        functions.httpsCallable("updateisavaiable").call(["currentversion": CVersion.GetCleanVersion()]) { (result, error) in
            //Wenn Update verfügbar, dann zeigt er eine Meldung
            if let updateavailable = result?.data as? Bool {
                if updateavailable {
                    CAlert.showBasicAlert(title: "Update available", message: "There is an update of schnitzelwithme available. Please download it in the app store to be sure, that you can use all functions of schnitzel with me!", vc: self)
                }
            } else {
                print(error?.localizedDescription ?? "error could not be load")
            }
        }
    }

In the console i get the correct values (actualversion = "0.6.3", currentversion = "0.6.2", updateisavailable = true).
I don´t know whats the problem with these functions and why the value is nil.

A: You're not actually setting data, try this:
return({data: updateavailable});

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