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Intro to Yoga-Currently offered as a 4-week series only. Please contact us for class/payment information.$65.00 A comprehensive introduction to asana, pranayama and mediation in an 8 week series. In addition to the 8 classes, student will receive a free Restorative class pass.
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The Living Yoga Center does not offer refunds for pre-paid memberships, class card purchases, classes, series, programs or workshops.
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Returning active duty military men and women, their spouses and nuclear family are offered yoga free as our thank-you for their service.
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Karma Yoga is the yoga of selfless service. It is the path of doing the right thing, following one's dharma, and making right decisions as life unfolds. At Living Yoga Center, our tribe serves others in their growth on the yogic path.
Our Karma yoga program is time and energy you donate to the Living Yoga Center in exchange for free yoga classes. Let us know why you would be a perfect karma yogi, your skills and availability for work, and why yoga is important in your life. The work-exchange program is for sincere yoga students who want to regularly take classes and develop their practice within the Living Yoga Center community and who support our mission to meet students where they are!
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If I don't hurry up, a whole calendar month will have gone by with no post. And I read a blog post yesterday about having to keep up with your blog even if you have nothing to say or your readership will dwindle.
- Hi, readers. This is for you. (Mom.)
- It's been the busiest time for me ever in recent memory with no time to focus on just one thing, so this is another one of those random posts. Anything. Nothing.
- See what I did there.
- 4th bullet. What to say.
- I was catching up with my PVR tonight. We have the View. We have The Daily Show, and Colbert. May I just say: Romney has added a new adjective to my vernacular. I'm submitting it to Oxford: Dumbassier.
- U.S. pals are usually bemused by why their politics entertain/interest us as much as they do. Hello, we get all the U.S. channels. Do you get CBC/CTV in the States? It's a genuine question. My guess is no. I don't know how much of those stations we even watch up here. (Strombo: I watch all your shows.) But for real, the U.S. presidency affects us all, particularly adjacent folks as we. I'm pretty sure this was grammatically correct as WordPress didn't dot-dot-dot underline it for me. Anyway I hope Obama gets re-elected, mostly because I just like him. My mom thinks he won't. Because he's just too sensible. Face it, the jaded all talk about how politicians are all liars, right to centre to left, and say what they need to to get elected. But Obama has always talked about how tough the road ahead is. And he lays out all the stuff that needs doing to get there. And explains the pros and cons. And it's kind of boring. And it's actually acutely similar to how I parent. I never make a promise to the kids that isn't 100% guaranteed to occur. Not the most entertaining or exciting thing in the world, but deeply seeded in reality and hopefully will prepare folks for surprises/not to be surprised. All I can say is: Bush Jr. got re-elected (although there is legitimate debate about whether he was even elected fair and square in the first place). BUSH. Got RE-ELECTED. You give that guy 4 more years, you had better damned well give Obama another term.
- Speaking of The View, that one guy from 2 1/2 Men is on right now. Or he was whatever day. I PVR the show. Anyway I don't watch 2 1/2 Men and never have. And I hate that show because whenever I see this actor I no longer think of him as Duckie. Who I LOVED. Which I HATE. I mean, that's just one reason. I think I've outgrown the 22-minute sitcom.
- Except for Modern Family.
- Speaking of TV, I don't watch it much, except for what I record. So those shows are as mentioned above, as well as Jeopardy, SNL, and my kids' favourite, The Middle. And hockey.
- We're not talking about hockey this time. There is much and nothing to talk about and for once I will say nothing.
- I was driving to work today and stuck in the non-HOV lane which is pretty much a parking lot. I gazed out over the huge lineup of vehicles in front of me. WHERE ARE ALL THE RED CARS. I'm the only one. Everyone's grey, grey, silver, dark grey, grey, light grey, black, black, white, and some blues. I'm the only red one. At least I can spot my damned car in the parking lot.
- Oh yeah about U.S. politics again for a second, Clint Eastwood made me laugh/cringe/sad. Good lord, who did the RNC's casting. And where the hell was that poor old man's agent. Find him, and fire him.
- The dog. As if you thought we'd get through a post without the dog. You know how you are usually dumbstruck by unexpected or hurtful or offensive comments from people and then come up with a really good rebuttal/comeback like a day later? No? Whatever.
- Last night this one neighbour who's sort of an eccentric but usually super nice to me and is always wandering around outside browsing on his iPad with his cat started kind of going off on me because I had the dog off the leash. He's seen us out there 8 million times. I get home from work, and before I even change out of my office clothes, I grab the ball and let the dog out and we play fetch on the patch of grass right in front of our house for 30 minutes, until she starts lurching around like a drunk because she's so exhausted (but would keep going until she passed out, if allowed) – at which point I cut her off, and go to the dumpster to throw away her business. Every day, Monday to Friday. The neighbours all know it, and see it. So this one guy last night out of nowhere made a big show on our walk to the dumpster about how she was off-leash. His crazy orange cat was outside lolling around, and my crazy puppy didn't even give the damned cat a glance, because she was too busy trying to walk a straight line like she was at a checkpoint. He told me, "He (she's a girl, goddammit) should be on a leash." Me: "Okay, thanks!" (walking away) Him: "He should be on a leash at all times outside" Me "Thanks!" (walk walk walk….open door, get inside house). Five minutes later, he was ringing my damned doorbell. "Hi, so the dog should be on a leash at all times in the common area. It's in the bylaws." Me: "Thank you so much, and you've expressed yourself 3 times now, I have heard you, have a nice evening." Whatever, confrontation is not one of my strengths. Still, by now, I'm starting to stew. And then I thought, Wait: Bylaws? Let's have a look at the %$#@*& bylaws. Scan, scan, scan, HERE IT IS….PETS should be leashed at all times. PETS. Not dog-specific. That effing cat is always wandering around, and outdoor cats are always crapping wherever they feel like and their owners do NOT do a thing about it. Gaaaaah. If I'd ever bothered to read anything the Strata ever sent before now I would have had the perfect comeback for him.
- You guys, do NOT tell my Strata I ignore everything they send. I am terrified of them.
- So guess WHAT. I came home today, grabbed the puppy, put her on a leash and took her up the hill for a run. It takes about 40 minutes out of my already brief evening just to get her far away but I was not interested in raising this Dippy Neighbour's ire again (it's a different neighbour than Grumpy Bastard, previously mentioned in another post, btw). And once she got tired, I made my way back. And if I'd scripted it, it couldn't have been better: Dippy Dipster was out wandering around in circles (this is not unusual, it's what he does) and I didn't see his cat. Then I saw him kind of panic and head down to the greenbelt. He was looking for the frigging cat, I was sure. I quietly followed him down there, with him completely unaware. I saw him go running behind a fenced area, then come running back out to go back to his house, and I just know he had lost the cat. When he came dashing back out he raised his head and said "Oh, hi, Veronica". Me: "Oh hi! Just wanted you to know I so appreciated you calling my attention to the bylaws. And I did look at them. And they say PETS have to be on a leash at all times. PETS. Not just dogs. PETS." Him: "Oh, really?" Me: "Yes, in fact. That means cats too. And wasn't yours on another neighbour's deck just the other day?" Him: "Oh, well, I'm not concerned about my cat. I'm concerned about your dog." Me: "Yes, I'm sure you are. Thank you for your concern. The cat has to be on a leash. It's in the bylaws. Have a nice evening!"
- I felt triumphant at his blank look with no response as I turned and walked away, for about 3 seconds. And then I felt bad. But at least I got the chance to give him the perfect comeback (about 28 hours late) that I'd imagined – how often does that happen? To me, never. And at least he didn't come ringing my doorbell later. How long do you figure until I can take the dog out with no leash again? Not one single other neighbour, including Grumpy Bastard, has ever registered a complaint about my dog.
- Remember the pedometer challenge that my team and I were in? We won. And we didn't win iPads. We got APPLE STORE GIFT CARDS. Mama's getting an iPhone 5! I hate my 4S now. Stupid paperweight. So who wants to buy it?
- Oh yes: I always want to say: All the guys at Fox News are always bragging about how they get the highest ratings. This has always seemed crazy to me. Of course they do. All the right wingers are watching them. All of them. Everybody else is spread out amongst the other 5 or so stations. It's not rocket science. Am I the only one seeing this?
- And why do we care so much about Kate Middleton's boobs? I can't believe the press they're getting.
- I have to renew my passport soon. The thing I hate about that the most is not being allowed to smile in the picture. It's the worst. The camera's right there, but you can't even sort of raise your eyebrows let alone let your mouth turn up. When I see the picture it's like it's somebody else. Now I know why when I have my serious face on, people go, "What's wrong?"
- You know what's hilariously funny? I mean, probably just to me. The ID I have to present to renew my passport is my proof of Canadian citizenship, which, since I wasn't born in this country, is my Canadian citizenship card that was given to me when I was SEVEN. The photo of me was taken when I was SEVEN.
- Shut up.
- It's past midnight. This is very late for me on a weeknight so this is it until…October. Let's be real.
- By that time I may be emotionally ready to talk about (the lack of) hockey.
- (I'm sorry for saying shut up.)
Bonne nuit!

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Olinda Woods Wellness Retreat is a self-contained cottage with extensive views of a private 3 acre forest. Designed by health & wellness professionals with decades of experience; hosts John, Sue and Autumn oversee this newly renovated hideaway amongst the magnificent Mountain Ash forest.
The focus of this space is on offering you a luxurious resting place, complete with organic towels and linens, a double spa and complimentary chocolates from local organic chocolatiers Hunted & Gathered. Best suited to 2 guests, we can accomodate up to 4 with the provision of a fold out bed - also with organic linens and biodynamic woollen doona.
You will share your stay with native kookaburras, the resident wombat and exquisite indigenous flora and exoctic plants.
It's a 3 minute walk to the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Gardens (formerly the National Rhododendron Gardens), a 10 minute walk to the Olinda township and a 20 minute drive to the stunning Yarra Valley. With soft organic cotton gowns and polished floorboards underfoot, bird song in the morning calling from the tree-top views, and organic goodies in the pantry, a retreat at Olinda Woods will leave you feeling rejuvenated and deeply nourished - on every level.
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Upon arrival you will find a delicious organic breakfast box to tantalise and nourish. We have created two different boxes to choose between, and will organise your dietary preferences after booking.
The living room has been renovated to highlight the panoramic views of the forest, a tranquille moving art installation. In the corner of the living room is a cosy wood burning stove and pre-cut firewood for you to use. In the summer months the cottage is fully air conditioned for your comfort.
The hand carved deck (by owner and carpenter John Tansey) hosts a BBQ that you are welcome to use. The cottage utilises non-toxic cleaning methods, with sustainable features including double glazed windows, earth-insulation, septic system, LED lighting, and UV filtered rainwater. Organic amenities are also offered for your use, along with a cold-press juicer, blender, yoga mats and meditation stool.
This truly wonderful space is a haven from the busy city life… we can guarantee you will want to extend your stay!
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You will have complete privacy during your stay. Hosts John and Sue have a residence on the acreage, so you may see them busy away in the garden from time to time.
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Culture Connect is an intercultural non-profit organisation based in Drogheda. They are a platform for cultural diversity, friendship networks and information exchange. They promote interculturalism, community cohesion, racial equality in the education and workplace. They improve the participation of new communities and ethnic minority groups in the community by ensuring that they have access to training, information, advice and support. They provide information and training for individals and service providers on issues relating to race, equality and cultural tolerance.
The vision is to promote the sharing of cultures between Irish citizens and immigrants, educate people to recognize the strength in cultural diversity and encourage communities to accept differences while celebrating similarities to make the community a more inclusive and friendlier place.
The goal of Culture Connect is to work towards removing barriers that hinder social inclusion by building social alliance between immigrants and Irish citizens.
To achieve their goals and realise their vision, they will take the following approaches:
* Provide a "One-stop shop" (Cultural Diversity Resource Centre)
* Run public education events
* Promote cultural activities
* Support community activities
* Establish a mentoring programme for newcomers
* Work with businesses
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* Individuals
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Do You Have What It Takes To Be A University Graduate?
Was a question asked to me by my English lecturer recently. It kinda knocked my mind a bit actually hha. It made many more questions popped up in my head. Questions like "Am I actually ready for University life?", "Am I ready to live on my own at the United States?", "Do I actually qualify to be given the chance to study at the US?" and finally the main question itself, Do I Have What it Takes To Be A University Graduate?
I know before I answer the main question above, I would have to answer all the questions that had came up in my head first or else my mind wouldn't be at peace*LOL but seriously hha*. These questions I believe, actually are in everyone's mind but are kept at the furthest most place in their minds. After sometime, I believe I finally have the answers for all those questions. It took quite sometime you know, to convince myself. To convince myself of my own answers, my own resolve.
So here goes, for the question "Am I actually ready for University life?", My answer would be, Yes. Simply because I really believe I can manage myself properly when I'm in university. 5 years of boarding school life had taught me more than enough experience on how to survive without my parents constantly by my side. The valuable experiences I gained throughout those years are the most important part of me that helped to ready myself for tertiary education life.
Next, for the question "Am I ready to live on my own at the United States?". My answer is Yes. Yes I'm ready. We will never actually live on our own actually :). I was quite scared*
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Furthermore, "Do I qualify to be given the chance to study in the US?". Another Yes. I believe that I had given my all throughout my life and I deserve to be in this MARA ADP Program. All my efforts and the way I had overcame all the challenges in my life up untill this point, I can say that I do qualify to be given this rare chance. Eventhough there were ups and downs, I never really gave up and kept on striving*Believe me it was not all flowers in my life peeps*. I will always find a way to solve the problems that I encounter. That is why to me, anyone who never gave up are the ones who qualify for everything. It's not the results that counts, It's the effort.
Finally, for the main question "Do I have What It Takes to be A University Graduate?", the answer is Yes. The answers for the other questions above explains it all. I have a really strong resolve. I have friends and people whom I could truly count on including myself. I never gave up through out my life, never backed down from challenges. That is why I have the believe, I believe that I Do Have What It Takes to be A University Graduate. Because in my opinion, the most important thing is to believe in yourself. Even if it seems impossible, Believe in yourself, Believe in Allah. InsyaAllah you will overcome all those challenges in your life.


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High rise window cleaners are experts with high rise scaffolding equipment, safety equipment, and the "squeegee" making it capable for them to clean high rise windows. Dubai has some of the tallest buildings on Earth, so, who wants to clean those enormous windows? In Dubai there are very few qualifications required to legally work as a high rise window cleaner. Obviously, for your own safety and that of others, qualifications in suspended scaffolding and safety at heights is a good idea.
Does Dubai pay very well for its high rise window cleaners? The rate of pay isn't bad for window cleaners in Dubai, but compared to the large amounts of money the professionals from overseas are generally earning working in Dubai, window cleaners aren't getting the best deal.
That said and done, high rise window cleaners are in demand in Dubai.


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Gail Scott
Gail Scott is an author and translator whose most recent novels are The Obituary (Coach House, 2010) and My Paris (Dalkey Archive, 2003). Her translation of Michael Delisle's Le Déasarroi du matelot was shortlisted for the Governor General's award in translation (2001). She is a cofounder of the critical French-language journal Spirale (Montréal), Tessera, and Narrativity, an online journal of contemporary experimental narrative. She also coedited, along with Robert Glück, Mary Burger, and Camille Roy, Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative. Gail Scott teaches creative writing at Université de Montréal and has also taught or been an invited writer or resident writer at Concordia University, University of Alberta, University of California at San Diego, and Brown University.


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Lena Henke placed an ornate, bright red gate at the threshold to 'Heartbreak Highway' at Real Fine Arts. Decorative tendrils suggesting ropes or braids, that seemed to loosely outline a feminine hairstyle, hung from a central bar that was blocking the gallery doorway when I arrived at the space, though the gate easily swung open when pushed. This work, Gridlock Sam and his partner (2016) was named for the New York cab driver turned transport engineer Sam Schwartz who popularized the term 'gridlock', and introduced an exhibition which summoned messy flows and movements – a kind of unlocking of grids.
Heartbreak Highway featured porcelain sculptures of horses' feet, glazed in creamy architectural speckles suggesting brickwork, contrasting with shiny smacks of dark lacquer around the hoof. As the shoe curves up and becomes a horse's foot or leg the forms become over-voluptuous and feminine, robust yet awkward. Two more movable gates were placed at the rear of the gallery, these ones ballet ribbon shades of pink and peach, which outline the shape of a horse's face and a girl's face. Two of the horse shoe sculptures, pointed slightly inward to face one another like a pair of large clumpy patent school shoes worn by a hesitant child.
The hollow forms of the hoof sculptures suggest buildings, however, several plastic milk containers create a kind of hybrid model home made of junk and animal body. Messy, feminized forms, they suggest families – mothers and daughters in particular. The semi-opaque plastic of the milk bottle can be seen to describe a rudimentary model shelter or a dolls house, whilst milk is suggestive of mothering (as well as being the classic example of abjection in Julia Kristeva's writing 'I feel like vomiting the mother', she writes as her lips touch the skin on some milk[1]). Several sculptures have vagina forms in them, crevices or cleavages with coins pushed into them as though into a slot in a laundrette. Burgeoning female sexuality, the girlish passion that young girls can have for horses, psychoanalysis, the gendered labor of cleaning and mothering, such themes are present in Henke's exhibition as dredged issues, which are have returned to us from the 20th century like trash from a riverbed that has remade itself.
In New York, trash does return in such a way. Down at Dead Horse Bay in Brooklyn workers used to grind and melt down horse bones into glue, but today mid-century garbage regularly washes onto the shore, leaking from below the water's surface. In 1926 the infamous city planner Robert Moses joined Barren Island in the bay to the rest of the Brooklyn landmass using sand and landfill waste. The connecting landmass is now leaking and seeps old waste into the surrounding water. The sound of chiming glass can be heard when waves hit the shore. Henke's sculptures are amalgam, mutant forms that suggest a reconstituted world, a trash world, a ghost world, a female world that oozes beneath New York like a subconscious.
A brutal line from Moses himself was used as a kind of epigraph to Heartbreak Highway in the press release; here describes developing in an overbuilt metropolis as akin to hacking with a 'meat ax'. In light of his words, it's possible to see the horse feet in the exhibition as violently dismembered. Indeed, the figure of Moses appears as a kind of bête noir in the exhibition. As well as touching associatively on his sloppy work at Dead Horse Bay Heartbreak Highway stages a face off with one of Moses's most notorious works of butchery, the Brooklyn-Queens-Expressway (BQE), which tore through the surrounding neighbourhood and today casts a towering shadow over Real Fine Art's space. Against the curlicues and contours of Henke's works, Moses's approach expresses extreme-edge rationality – a form of power that bulldozes through the world in straight lines – yet Henke extracts elements of wild surrealism at the center of this masculine vision, the leak that persists.
Henke's models are irrational, animal, and sexualized, but is there anything rational about the BQE or the glass and steel towers erected all over the city in their hard phallic lines? The grids maintain its power overground, whilst beneath, the city's subconscious expels new forms.
Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror (Columbia University Press, New York, 1982) p. 56
Umberto Eco, 'Form as Social Commitment' in The Open Work (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989) p. 157
Umberto Eco, 'Form as Social Commitment' in The Open Work (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989) p. 143


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Source: ESPN
Ozzie Guillen is viewed unfavorably by nearly half of Cuban-Americans surveyed in an ESPN-commissioned poll, but nearly two-thirds of Miami residents, and 56 percent of Cuban-Americans, think Guillen should keep his job despite comments about Fidel Castro that earned the Miami Marlins' manager a five-game suspension.
Only 27 percent of Miami-area Cuban-Americans view Guillen favorably, while 28 percent view him "extremely unfavorably," according to a survey of more than 900 adults in the Miami media market. The survey was conducted on Tuesday by ESPN and the Global Strategy Group and included nearly 200 Cuban-Americans. The overall margin for error is plus-or-minus 3.2 percent.
WATCH: Roland Martin, Will Cain, John Fugelsang Soledad O'Brien Discuss Ozzie Guillen Coming Under Fire For Comments He Made About Fidel Castro
The survey found that nearly three out of four Cuban-Americans found Guillen's comments that he "loves" Castro and respects him for staying in power for as long as he has offensive. Half found the comments very offensive.
Despite that, 69 percent of sports fans and 62 percent of baseball fans said Guillen should keep his job. One-third of Cuban Americans said he should be fired, but 56 percent said he should remain the manager of the Marlins.
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In vertebrates, the tumour suppressor PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10) regulates many cellular processes through its PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 lipid phosphatase activity, antagonizing PI3K (phosphoinositide 3-kinase) signalling. Given the important role of PI3Ks in the regulation of directed cell migration and the role of PTEN as an inhibitor of migration, it is somewhat surprising that data now indicate that PTEN is able to regulate cell migration independent of its lipid phosphatase activity. Here, we discuss the role of PTEN in the regulation of cell migration.
- cell migration
- chemoattractant
- lipid phosphatase
- phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)
- PtdIns(3,4,5)P3
- phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN)
Stem Cells and Development: A Focus Topic at BioScience2005, held at SECC Glasgow, U.K., 17–21 July 2005. Edited by T. Kouzarides (Cambridge, U.K.), S. Newbury (Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.), B. Richardson (University College London, U.K.), R. Sablowski (John Innes Centre, Norwich, U.K.), D. Tosh (Bath, U.K.), M. Welham (Bath, U.K.) and A. Willis (Nottingham, U.K.).
Abbreviations: fMLP, N-formylmethionyl-leucylphenylalanine; PTEN, phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10; PI3K, phosphoinositide 3-kinase; TPTE, transmembrane phosphatase with tensin homology
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James Becker is an accomplished graphic designer whose work appears in many different media, including magazines, books and videos in over 60 different countries and in more than 17 languages. Recently he has started to create fine art pieces and make them available to the public. Currently he is exploring a fascination with automobiles from all eras in his Heads & Tails collection. He delights in the chrome and tail-fins of the 50's, the quiet elegance of the early 1900's, the power of the muscle cars of the 70's and the sleek, aerodynamic curves of the future.
"There is beauty in the design of everything from a simple spoon or chair to the most ornate cathedrals of Europe. It just depends on where you place your focus. When you look at a car you might just think it's a thing that'll get you where you're going. But if you look closely at something like the way reflections dance off the chrome surrounding a 1957 Chevy tail-light I think you might find as much of interest there as in any piece from Rembrandt or Dali."
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Tom Robertson
April 18, 2014
Tom Robertson is one of our oldest friends in Missoula. We love him dearly and so it was with great pleasure that we invited him along with us to Fernie BC for a little ski adventure hosted by Tourism Fernie. Armed with a gaggle of new and old friends Andrea Westerlind, Yumi Sakuma, Geoff Mcfetridge and Ben set out for fun. Here is what we found. Special thanks to Giro, Surface Skis, Fernie Wilderness Adventure and Matt Mosteller!
1. Who is Tom Robertson
I'm a Montana-based photographer and outdoors enthusiast. A native Montanan who wasn't born or raised in Montana. A lover of quad espresso shots. And someone who can't sit still... Probably because of all of the quad shots.
2. Why the Missoula?
It chose me. In the early 1990's, within hours of moving here, I knew I was home. I think it's 1/3 mountains, 1/3 people, and 1/3 the ability to be on a trail within seconds of stepping out of my front door.
3. Favorite photographer
It changes weekly. In the grand scheme of things, Richard Avedon, Galen Rowell, William Eggleston. This past few weeks a lot of Jake Stangel and Tom Hull.
4. Top 5 cyclists and why
1) Peter Sagan. Wheelies over finish lines.
2) Fabian Cancellera. 12 podiums in the last 12 classics.
3) Tejay van Garderen. He's the only World Tour rider I've ever beaten in a bike race. Sure, he was 11 years old the first time (and I was 33), and by the time he turned 16 it never happened again. But I still have those few years.
4) Zdenek Stybar. Style.
5) Sven Nys. Because he's Sven.
5. Tour or Giro?
Bonus Questions for extra points
6. Best coffee shop
How about top 3? Verve - Santa Cruz. Blue Bottle - Bay Area. Caffe d'Arte - Seattle.
7. Why quad shots?
There's a pretty fine line between too much and too little caffeine. That line for me is consistently 4 shots per sitting.
8. Top five albums?
The toughest question of then all. And one that took me 45 minutes to answer...and I still don't think it's right.
1) Uncle Tupelo. Anodyne
2) Rolling Stones. Exile on Main Street
3) Lucinda Williams. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.
4) Grateful Dead. Europe '72
5) Son Volt. Trace


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Verified computations¶
When used inside Sage, SnapPy can verify the following computations:
Complex intervals for the shapes that are guaranteed to contain a true solution to the rectangular gluing equations:
sage: M = Manifold("m015(3,1)") sage: M.tetrahedra_shapes('rect', intervals=True) [0.625222762246? + 3.177940133813?*I, -0.0075523593782? + 0.5131157955971?*I, 0.6515818912107? - 0.1955023488930?*I]
dec_precfor higher precision intervals.)
Verify the hyperbolicity of an orientable 3-manifold using intervals:
sage: M = Manifold("m015") sage: M.verify_hyperbolicity() (True, [0.6623589786224? + 0.5622795120623?*I, 0.6623589786224? + 0.5622795120623?*I, 0.6623589786224? + 0.5622795120623?*I])
Give the canonical retriangulation (a close relative to the canonical cell decomposition) of a cusped hyperbolic manifold using intervals or exact arithmetic if necessary:
sage: M = Manifold("m412") sage: K = M.canonical_retriangulation(verified = True) sage: len(K.isomorphisms_to(K)) # Certified size of isometry group 8
Remark: For the case of non-tetrahedral canonical cell, exact values are used which are found using the LLL-algorithm and then verified using exact computations. These computations can be slow. A massive speed-up was achieved by recent improvements so that the computation of the isometry signature of any manifold in
OrientableCuspedCensustakes at most a couple of seconds, typically, far less. Manifolds with more simplices might require setting a higher value for
The isometry signature which is a complete invariant of the isometry type of a cusped hyperbolic manifold (i.e., two manifolds are isometric if and only if they have the same isometry signature):
sage: M = Manifold("m412") sage: M.isometry_signature(verified = True) 'mvvLALQQQhfghjjlilkjklaaaaaffffffff'
The isometry signature can be strengthened to include the peripheral curves such that it is a complete invariant of a hyperbolic link:
sage: M = Manifold("L5a1") sage: M.isometry_signature(of_link = True, verified = True) 'eLPkbdcddhgggb_baCbbaCb'
Remark: The isometry signature is based on the canonical retriangulation so the same warning applies.
Complex intervals for the translations of meridian and longitude with respect to disjoint cusp neighborhoods:
sage: M = Manifold("s441") sage: M.cusp_translations(verified = True) [(0.30456698? + 1.38179990?*I, 1.84652839?), (0.30456698? + 1.38179990?*I, 1.84652839?)]
These can be used to find all potential exceptional slopes which by the Agol's and Lackenby's 6-Theorem must have a translation less or equal to 6.
This is all based on a reimplementation of HIKMOT which pioneered the use of interval methods for hyperbolic manifolds. It can be used in a way very similar to HIKMOT, but uses Sage's complex interval types and the Newton interval method (instead of the Krawczyk test) for certification. See Zgliczynski's notes for a quick overview of these two tests. It furthermore makes use of code by Dunfield, Hoffman, Licata. The code to compute the isomorphism signature was ported over from Regina.
This verification code was contributed by Matthias Goerner.
The canonical retriangulation and the isometry signature¶
The canonical retriangulation is a close relative to the canonical cell decomposition defined by Epstein and Penner. Like the canonical cell decomposition, it is intrinsic to a hyperbolic manifold M and is (up to combinatorial isomorphism relabeling the tetrahedra and vertices) completely determined by the isometry type of a hyperbolic manifold. Unlike the canonical cell decomposition, the canonical retriangulation always conists entirely of tetrahedra which makes it more amenable for many computations by SnapPy.
If the canonical cell decompositon of manifold M has only tetrahedral cells,
we define the canonical retriangulation to be the canonical cell decomposition.
In this case, the canonical retriangulation consists of ideal hyperbolic
tetrahedra and the
canonical_retriangulation method returns a
SnapPy manifold. Example:
sage: M = Manifold("m015")
sage: K = M.canonical_retriangulation(verified = True)
sage: K.has_finite_vertices() # False iff all canonical cells tetrahedral
If the canonical cell decomposition has non-tetrahedral cells, we turn it into
a topological triangulation as follows: pick a point (called center) in each
3-cell. "Suspend" each 2-cell (which is an ideal n-gon) between
the centers of the two neighboring 3-cells. These suspensions form a
decomposition of M into topological "diamonds". Each diamond can be split along
its central axis into n tetrahedra. This introduces finite vertices, thus
verified_canonical_retriangulation method returns only a SnapPy
triangulation. Example (canonical cell is a cube):
sage: M = Manifold("m412")
sage: K = M.canonical_retriangulation(verified = True)
sage: K.has_finite_vertices()
The canonical retriangulation can be used to certifiably find all isometries of a manifold:
sage: K.isomorphisms_to(K)
[0 -> 1 1 -> 0
[1 0] [1 0]
[0 1] [0 1]
Extends to link,
Extends to link]
sage: len(K.isomorphisms_to(K))
Recall that the isomorphism signature is a complete invariant of the combinatorial isomorphism type of a triangulation that was defined by Burton. We can compute the isomorphism signature of the canonical retriangulation:
sage: Manifold("m003").canonical_retriangulation(verified = True).triangulation_isosig()
The resulting invariant was called isometry signature by Goerner and, for convenience, can be accessed by:
sage: Manifold("m003").isometry_signature(verified = True)
It is a complete invariant of the isometry type of a hyperbolic manifold. Thus it can be used to easily identify isometric manifolds (here, the last two manifolds have the same isometry signature and thus have to be isomorphic):
sage: Manifold("m003").isometry_signature(verified = True)
sage: Manifold("m004").isometry_signature(verified = True)
sage: Manifold("4_1").isometry_signature(verified = True)
sage: Manifold("m004").isometry_signature(verified = True) == Manifold("4_1").isometry_signature(verified = True)
Other applications of the canonical retriangulation include the detection of 2-bridge knots.
Methods for verified computaions¶
verify_hyperbolicity(manifold, verbose=False, bits_prec=53, holonomy=False, fundamental_group_args=[], lift_to_SL=True)¶
Given an orientable SnapPy Manifold, verifies its hyperbolicity. Similar to HIKMOT's
verify_hyperbolicity(), the result is either
(True, listOfShapeIntervals)or
(False, [])if verification failed.
listOfShapesIntervalsis a list of complex intervals (elements in sage's
ComplexIntervalField) certified to contain the true shapes for the hyperbolic manifold.
Higher precision intervals can be obtained by setting
sage: from snappy import Manifold sage: M = Manifold("m019") sage: M.verify_hyperbolicity() # doctest: +ELLIPSIS (True, [0.780552527850...? + 0.914473662967...?*I, 0.780552527850...? + 0.91447366296773?*I, 0.4600211755737...? + 0.6326241936052...?*I]) sage: M = Manifold("t02333(3,4)") sage: M.verify_hyperbolicity() # doctest: +ELLIPSIS (True, [2.1521881536...? + 0.284940667...?*I, 1.92308491369? + 1.1036070150...?*I, 0.014388591584? + 0.143084469681?*I, -2.5493670288? + 3.7453498408?*I, 0.142120333822? + 0.176540027036?*I, 0.504866865...? + 0.82829881681?*I, 0.50479249917? + 0.98036162786?*I, -0.5894957050...? + 0.81267480427?*I])
One can instead get a holonomy representation associated to the verified hyperbolic structure. This representation takes values in 2x2 matrices with entries in the
sage: M = Manifold("m004(1,2)") sage: success, rho = M.verify_hyperbolicity(holonomy=True) sage: success True sage: trace = rho('aaB').trace(); trace # doctest: +ELLIPSIS -0.111862...? + 3.853612...?*I sage: (trace - 2).contains_zero() False sage: (rho('aBAbaabAB').trace() - 2).contains_zero() True
Here, there is provably a fixed holonomy representation rho0 from the fundamental group G of M to SL(2, C) so that for each element g of G the matrix rho0(g) is contained in rho(g). In particular, the above constitutes a proof that the word 'aaB' is non-trivial in G. In contrast, the final computation is consistent with 'aBAbaabAB' being trivial in G, but does not prove this.
A non-hyperbolic manifold (
Falseindicates that the manifold might not be hyperbolic but does not certify non-hyperbolicity. Sometimes, hyperbolicity can only be verified after increasing the precision):
sage: M = Manifold("4_1(1,0)") sage: M.verify_hyperbolicity() (False, [])
Under the hood, the function will call the
CertifiedShapesEngineto produce intervals certified to contain a solution to the rectangular gluing equations. It then calls
check_logarithmic_gluing_equations_and_positively_oriented_tetsto verify that the logarithmic gluing equations are fulfilled and that all tetrahedra are positively oriented.
verified_canonical_retriangulation(M, interval_bits_precs=[53, 212], exact_bits_prec_and_degrees=[(212, 10), (1000, 20), (2000, 20)], verbose=False)¶
Given some triangulation of a cusped (possibly non-orientable) manifold
M, return its canonical retriangulation. Return
Noneif it could not certify the result.
To compute the canonical retriangulation, it first prepares the manifold (filling all Dehn-filled cusps and trying to find a proto-canonical triangulation). It then tries to certify the canonical triangulation using interval arithmetics. If this fails, it uses snap (using LLL-algorithm) to guess exact representations of the shapes in the shape field and then certifies that it found the proto-canonical triangulation and determines the transparent faces to construct the canonical retriangulation.
The optional arguments are:
interval_bits_precs: a list of precisions used to try to certify the canonical triangulation using intervals. By default, it first tries to certify using 53 bits precision. If it failed, it tries 212 bits precision next. If it failed again, it moves on to trying exact arithmetics.
exact_bits_prec_and_degrees: a list of pairs (precision, maximal degree) used when the LLL-algorithm is trying to find the defining polynomial of the shape field. Similar to
interval_bits_precs, each pair is tried until we succeed.
verbose: If
True, print out additional information.
The exact arithmetics can take a long time. To circumvent it, use
exact_bits_prec_and_degrees = None.
More information on the canonical retriangulation can be found in the SnapPea kernel
canonize_part_2.cand in Section 3.1 of Fominykh, Garoufalidis, Goerner, Tarkaev, Vesnin.
Canonical cell decompostion of
m004has 2 tetrahedral cells:
sage: from snappy import Manifold sage: M = Manifold("m004") sage: K = verified_canonical_retriangulation(M) sage: K.has_finite_vertices() False sage: K.num_tetrahedra() 2
Canonical cell decomposition of
m137is not tetrahedral:
sage: M = Manifold("m137") sage: K = verified_canonical_retriangulation(M) sage: K.has_finite_vertices() True sage: K.num_tetrahedra() 18
Canonical cell decomposition of
m412is a cube and has exactly 8 symmetries:
sage: M = Manifold("m412") sage: K = verified_canonical_retriangulation(M) sage: K.has_finite_vertices() True sage: K.num_tetrahedra() 12 sage: len(K.isomorphisms_to(K)) 8
Burton's example of
x103which are actually isometric but SnapPea fails to show so. We certify the canonical retriangulation and find them isomorphic:
sage: M = Manifold('x101'); K = verified_canonical_retriangulation(M) sage: N = Manifold('x103'); L = verified_canonical_retriangulation(N) sage: len(K.isomorphisms_to(L)) > 0 True
Avoid potentially expensive exact arithmetics (return
Nonebecause it has non-tetrahedral cells so interval arithmetics can't certify it):
sage: M = Manifold("m412") sage: verified_canonical_retriangulation(M, exact_bits_prec_and_degrees = None)


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Activate Windows 10 build 10576
Microsoft released the very first Windows 10 on past 29th July. The Windows 10 RTM was set as build number 10240. With new Microsoft plans, Windows 10 isn't done yet, as the company pretends to update its OS regularly as is known that a new major update, known as 'wave 2' of Threshold 2, or shortly just Threshold 2, is scheduled for this year, maybe November or December (like Mobile release). The Insider program stills on it's way, and all post-RTM builds are of type 105XX. Currently, the latest public build is 10576. On this tutorial, I will just show how to activate these builds, running away of the keyless activation feature implemented by Microsoft. Basically, so that you can use a TH2 branch build with genuine licence, you must install a previous build from TH1 and get an activated build, and for that, you must had a genuine copy of Windows 7 or 8.x. For sure, if you are already running a Windows 10 genuine copy, you can join the Insider program and go ahead with TH2 builds 🙂
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For those you want to use the preview builds and have no way to activate it, this is the trick 🙂
Note: Pictures are from build 10565, but this tutorial is applicable on all TH2 and TH1 branch builds till latest released 10576. You can check latest picture as proof.
How to activate Windows 10 Wave 2 builds?
If you have already installed Windows 10 Insider builds that are part of Wave 2, and you don't want to waste time installing original and licensed Windows 7 or 8.x, followed by install Windows 10 RTM (th1 branch) and finally jump to Windows 10 Insider th2 branch builds, on range 105xx, there is a way to activate it using KMS activators, and for this, I will use Ratiborus KMSAuto Net 2015.
First, download the rar file. Make sure you extract it before running, I mean, do not try to run the executable file directly from WinRAR or any other program you have associated with RAR files.
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A sequence of tones transmitted from the spacecraft confirmed the braking manoeuvre had gone as planned.
Receipt of the radio messages from the Juno satellite prompted wild cheering at Nasa Room control in Pasadena, California, USA.
Scientists use the Juno spacecraft to sense the planet's deep interior. They want to study the structure and the chemistry of jupiter which hold clues. The giant juptier planet formed some four-and-a-half-billion years ago.
It is the first spacecrafts which enters the orbit of jupiter. No previous spacecraft has dared pass so close to Jupiter because the intense radiation of jupiter belts can destroy unprotected electronics.
By avoiding the danger of radiation, the probe should now be able to prepare its instruments to start sensing what lies beneath Jupiter's opaque clouds.
Juno got insertion in orbit in a large ellipse around the planet that takes just over 53 days to complete.
A second burn of the rocket engine in mid-October will tighten this orbit to just 14 days. It is then that the science can really start.
Juno has eight remote sensing instruments. Juno will use its eight remote sensing instruments plus its camera to peer down through the gas. This planet has many layers. The Juno uses their sensor to measure the composition, temperature, motion and other properties of the planet.
The priority of Juno will be to determine the abundance of oxygen at Jupiter. Oxygen will be bound up in the water of planet.
Juno also study about the immense magnetic field its spectacular auroras. Scott Bolton who is Principal investigator at NASA said Juno helps us to understand about the Great Red Spot of Jupiter which is known as a long-lived giant storm of the planet.
NASA plans to run Juno through to February 2018 because the strong radiation of jupiter can damage the Juno. The performance of the camera of Juno is expected to degrade rapidly within a few months due to the radiation.
Some feature about giant Planet Jupiter:
- Jupiter is 300 more massive times than Earth and 11 time wider.
- One day is 10 hour long on Jupiter and it take 12 Earth year to orbit the Sun.
- Jupiter resembles a star, it has mostly hydrogen and helium.
- The Giant Red Storm is 2 times wider than Eart


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Re: Toronto Zoo's pickiest eaters, April 22
Toronto Zoo's pickiest eaters, April 22
According to this article, 90 per cent of a cute-beyond-words panda's diet comes from bamboo. What the other 10 per cent is we are not told. Whatever it is, taxpayers are footing the bill, along with the 600 to 900 kilograms of bamboo brought in two or three times a week by Fedex.
Had the photogenic animals been left alone in their native habitat, assuming there is any left, they could dine for free. Of course we couldn't coo over them unless we went there.
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This is a great blog for any learner of English, and it contains lots of links which will be of particular interest to anyone studying for IELTS or using English at work.
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Feds investigating whether St. Louis Cardinals hacked Houston Astros' network
The FBI and Justice Department prosecutors are investigating whether front-office officials for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful teams in baseball over the past two decades, hacked into internal networks of a rival team to steal closely guarded information about player personnel.
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The case is a rare mark of ignominy for the Cardinals, one of the sport's most revered and popular organizations. The team has the best record in baseball this season at 42-21, regularly commands outsize television ratings and has reached the National League Championship Series nine times since 2000. The Cardinals, who last won the World Series in 2011, have 11 titles overall, second only to the Yankees.
Law enforcement officials believe the hacking was executed by vengeful front-office employees for the Cardinals hoping to wreak havoc on the work of Jeff Luhnow, the Astros' general manager who had been a successful and polarizing executive with the Cardinals until 2011.
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That tactic is often used by cybercriminals, who sell passwords from one breach on the underground market, where others buy them and test them on other websites, including banking and brokerage services. The breach on the Astros would be one of the first known instances of a corporate competitor using the tactic against a rival. It is also, security experts say, just one more reason people are advised not to use the same passwords across different sites and services.
Last year, some of the information was posted anonymously online, according to an article on Deadspin. Among the details that were exposed were trade discussions that the Astros had with other teams.


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This is a transcription of Article XIX. in a series called 'Newfoundland Name-Lore' written by Rev. Michael Francis Howley. This series which was quite popular began in the second edition of the Newfoundland Quarterly in October 1901, and continued until Rev. Howley's death in Oct 1914.
Communities covered – Bay Roberts, Coley's Point, Clarks Beach, Port de Grave, Bareneed, Sea Forest, South River, Cupids, Brigus, Gallows Cove, Turk's Gut, Colliers, Salmon Cove (Avondale), Cat's Cove (Conception Harbour), Harbour Main, Chapel (sic) Cove, Gastries, (sic).
Centre for Newfoundland Studies – Periodicals The Newfoundland Quarterly, volume 07 (1907-08)
Newfoundland Quarterly Vol. 7 No. 2; October 1907, pg 5 – 6
Newfoundland Name-Lore.
By Most Rev. M. F. Howley, D.D.
Bay Robert's is no doubt called from a family of that name. It is an old English family name (though Lord Roberts is of Irish origin). The name still survives in Newfoundland under the corrupt or modernized form of "Rabbits." the name of Bay Robert's is found on very early maps. The earliest mention I find of it is on Thornton's map, dated 1689. On T. Cour Lotter's map, 1720, it is given as R. Robert, the name being transferred to the River. On the Royal French map, 1780, it appears as B. Rober, and the French map, 1792, has Baye de Robert. Thus we see the name boasts of a considerable antiquity. Bay Roberts is divided into two harbours by a peninsula called COLEY'S POINT.
Mr. Shortis, of G.P.O., to whom I am indebted for a great deal of information concerning these localities, informs me that this point was originally called "Coldest Point." That the first settlers were Daveys and Snows! (a very appropriate place for these latter). In the "Sailing Directions" it is called Cold East Point. There is still a place there called Davey's Head. The present member of the Assembly for Burin is a descendant of this family.
The next large arm of the sea to the south of Bay Robert's is named PORT-DE-GRAVE, that is to say, the Port of Harbour of the Beach. The ordinary French word for a beach is greve, pronounced broadly as the English word grave. It is also sometimes so spelt in French, and is pronounced by the fishermen still broader as "a" in the English word "to Halve." The name, is of course, given on account of the splendid beach which spreads across the bottom of the harbour, into which flow the two beautiful streams known respectively as the North and South Rivers. The modern English name of CLARKE'S BEACH is no doubt derived from the name of one of the early settlers, most probably a relative of (if not the same person) Adam Clerke or Clarke mentioned in the last article (XVIII.) as the pioneer of Adam's Cove.
When going to Harbour Grace by train, a few years ago, I noticed a remarkable looking bald round head rising from the point of land which forms the northern side of Port-de-Grave Bay. Monsignor Walsh, who was on the train, informed me it was BARENEED.
I was struck with the peculiar manner in which he pronounced it, viz: Baren-ead making three syllables of it, and so it is pronounced by all the people of the place. This pronunciation, together with the remarkable formation of the knoll or tolt, caused me immediately to seize upon the idea that the name was a corruption or rather a Devonshire pronunciation of "Barren Head" which would be a most appropriate name. Sometime afterwards I received a letter from Mr. W. J. Carroll, of the Registrar's Office, in which he informed me that Mr. Adams, Dep. Registrar, had come across a Deed referring to Bareneed, "in which the name is given as "Bearing Head."
Mr. Adams kindly sent me an extract of the Deed, which is worth reproducing here. It is as follows:–
John Snow to Hunter & Co:
A Deed of Mortgage registered in 1807, referring to property situate in what is now known as Bareneed, Port de Grave Conception Bay. This property was bequeathed to the morgageor (sic) in 1787 by his father Jacob Snow and the place is referred to and called "Bearing Head." … The particulars may be found in Vol. 4, of the Miscellaneous Registry, pp. 48 & 49."
Geo. J. Adams,
D. Reg. Sup. Court.
I take this opportunity to thank Mr. Adams for the interesting information. I think it bears out my conjecture. There would be no meaning in the word "Bearing" Head. But barren is quite intelligible, and the short a in such words as barren is very often lengthened by West-Country men's dialect. I have often heard the word "halve" pronounced as the a in shave. I may hear mention that there is a hill between Renewse and Fermeuse named Bald Head.
At the south-west corner of Clarke's Beach the SOUTH RIVER flows in. At the mouth of this river was situated the Colony of John Guy, or rather the farm belonging to that colony. This farm or settlement was called SEA FOREST, as we learn from the patent giving the Boundaries of Lord Baltimore's Colony of Avalon. Prowse says in his History (p. 98) that early in this (XIX) Century the remains of Guy's building, mills &c. were found, together with millstones, coins, &c. The principal centre, however, of Guy's colony was the snug little harbour now known as CUPIDS.
This place was well chosen as offering excellent harbourage. It is thus in the British Pilot, 1755, "Cupids Cove is a good place for a ship or two to ride in; 4, 5, or 6, fathoms, and are not above a point open."
It is now certain that Cupids was the principal place of John Guy's settlement, though as remarked in No. XVIII, he may also have had a branch settlement at Mosquito. Prowse says (p. 98) "at Cupids Guy built three houses besides his wharves, stores, and fishing establishment. It was not, however, at first known by the name of Cupids, which is only a modern variant. It was originally called COOPER'S COVE probably after the name of the first agent, manager, or Governor of the Colony.
Like many other names we find a great variety of spellings. Thus on Mason's Map, 1625, we have Cupert's Cove. On Dudley's map, 1647, Cuetes, which must be a mistake of the cartographers. On Seller's map, 1671, "Coper's Cove", while the Governor of the Colony, John Slaney, in his letters to his Chief, spells it Cuper's Cove. The name has been corrupted, or rather in this case improved into Cupid's, as early as 1630, for it is called by Sir William Alexander, the founder of Nova Scotia, at that early date.
The next settlement coming south from Cupids is BRIGUS. This name has given rise to a good deal of controversy. It may be here stated that there is another small harbour near Cape Broyle which bears the same name, and for distinction's sake it is called Brigus South or Brigus by South, while the one under consideration is called Brigus By North.
Mr. Shortis maintains that the name is a corruption of Bridge House or Brig House, from a small village near Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire, whence the first settlers of Brigus came. He has an ancient hymn book bearing in gilt letters on the cover the the name of "Brighouse." This book formerly belonged to one of the old families of Brigus. There is also an old Bible bearing the same name on its covers. It was originally the property of the Rev. Mr. Piercy, the first Methodist Minister, who was a native of the country; the date of the book is 1787. This book Mr. S. informs me is still in the possession of Mr. W. A. Munn, whose family was related to the Piercys. The Lancashire and Yorkshire people, like the Scotch pronounce Bridge as Brig–and Brighouse would certainly be pronounced "Brigus". Nevertheless, I am still of opinion that the name is derived from Brig a ship, and means BRIG HARBOUR.
This place is called by Abbe Baudouin, Army Chaplain to D'Ibberville in 1697,–Brigue. There is a harbour on the N.W. Coast near Flower's Cove, Straits of Belle Isle, called Brig Bay and the French call it Brique precisely as they call this harbour of Brigus. The British Pilot of 1755, an entirely English Book, spells it Brigues
There is in Brigus Bay or Harbour a cove called Gallows Cove. Mr. Shortis derives it from the Gallowes the name by which the fishermen, generally designate a pair of men's braces or suspenders, the arms of the cove being shaped like a fork and bearing some resemblance to the form of these braces when crossed over the back. But considering that there is scarcely a harbour or settlement in the Island, including St. John's itself, which does not rejoice in the gruesome adjunct of a gallows-cove, or gibbet hill, &c., I think we are justified in believing that this name represents the place where capital punishment used to be inflicted, and is a painful reminder of the days of stern naval and military rule. The days of the Surrogates and Fishing Admirals.
Coming southwards from Brigus we meet with TURKS GUT. It has already been mentioned (Art VII) that the coast of Newfoundland was infested with pirates. Some of these came from Barbary, and were called generally by our fishermen "Turks." Hence the name of this and other such harbours around our coast. (See Prowse p. 146, and articles VIII. and XVII. of this series.)
Next we come to COLLIERS. This place is probably called from a family name. The name is still of frequent occurrence among out people. A French map (Bellin, 1744) gives the name as Baye du Charbonniere, i.e. Bay of the Charcoal Burner, but I think there is no ground for the name, and that this is just a translation of the English Colliers. I have heard that indications of coal have been found in the place, but this, I think is geologically impossible.
Next we come to SALMON COVE, a name of such frequent occurrence that it has been found necessary to change it in many places. The present one has been recently renamed AVONDALE.
One of the harbours in this bay was formerly named Cat's Cove which name has recently been changed to Conception, both these names have already been fully discussed (Art XVI.-XVII.).
Vol 6 No 2, October 1906
Article XVI.
pg 10
CAT'S COVE named after the wild cat, locally known as the wood cat. "My firm belief is," continues Canon Smith, "that every place in Newfoundland known as Cat's Cove has been so named after the wood-martin. That little animal was far more common on the sea-coast, and that up to quite recent times within my own memory, than many suppose. When I was a boy the wood cats were frequently trapped in Smith's Sound in Trinity Bay. …"
The settlement on the coast of the peninsula, which forms the northern side of this harbour, is called CATCHUSES, or Kitchuses, a name the origin of which is unknown. It has been suggested that it is a corruption of Kit Hughes's, for Christopher Hughes's, but this seems far-fetched, and I am not aware that any person of such name ever lived there.
The next harbour is HARBOUR MAIN. The meaning of this name has been explained in Art. VI. It is called from St. Men.
Vol 2 No 4, March 1903
Article VI. (Begins on page 1)
pg 2
Extracted from a description of … HARBOUR OF ST. MEEN, or Men, or Mein.
This is a also a Breton name, being the name of a small town near St. Malo, with a Seminary and Abbey. St. Men was an Irish Saint, who like many other missionaries from "The Isle of Saints," preached the Gospel and founded churches and schools in many parts of Europe. The proper spelling of the name is Meen and it is pronounced by the Bretons Mahn, broad like aun in the English word haunt. The Province and River Maine, in France, are derived from the same name. It is to be found in various parts of Newfoundland under the different corrupt forms. Thus Ming's Bight, celebrated for its gold deposits. Also, Harbour Maine (sic) the capital of the Electoral District in Conception Bay. This latter harbour is distinctly called Harbour Men by Abbe Baudouin, as far back as 1696. The festival of the Saint occurs on January 15th.
Between Harbour Main and Holy Rood there is a small cove called Chapel Cove,(sic) the origin of the name has been referred to in Art. XVI.
Vol 6 No 2 (see Cat's Cove)
Article XVI. pg 9 – 10
Rev. Howley says:
This name is found repeated in different parts of the Island. It probably has some connection with Lieutenant Chappel who in 1813 made a cruise of the shores in H.M.S. Rosamond.
Eileen's note: I haven't read all of Rev. Howley's Name Lore articles yet, so perhaps at a later time he revised his opinion on the origins of Chapel's Cove, in Conception Bay. I do know that this community was listed in the 1805 Plantation List, which predated Lieutenant Chappel's visit by eight years.
On the point or peninsula between Salmon Cove and Harbour Main is the settlement of Gastries, (sic) the origin of which name is also alluded to in No. XVII.


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Thanks for the award Ally!
According to the award rules, I need to tell you seven things about me:
1. I love the theater. My husband and I save our pennies and go to see Broadway productions whenever possible. In December, we saw Once, which was a terrific and tender love story
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3. I love my i-pod. I lost it a few weeks back and found it again yesterday. Highlight of my week!
4. I have a quirky sense of humor. I love weird stories. I use them whenever I can in my writing
5. I have a thing for raw cookie dough.
6. Hallmark commercials make me cry
7 I wanted to be a zookeeper when I was a kid
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
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Since this is the last piece of cover art I'll be doing for a volume of Mascara, I've decided to do something special. I've decided to make this cover and two of my favorites available to be purchased as prints on Deviant art.
Volume 7 Cover Reveal!
Posted by Arcadia Page at 3:08 PMNext week I will be posting the first pages of the last volume of Mascara. And with a new volume comes a new cover. Are you ready for the last cover that I'll ever do for Mascara? Well, here it is:
Since this is the last piece of cover art I'll be doing for a volume of Mascara, I've decided to do something special. I've decided to make this cover and two of my favorites available to be purchased as prints on Deviant art.
My favorite covers are this one:
And this one:
If you're interested and buying prints click here.
One piece of advice--when you go to DA, they automatically show the most expensive stuff they've got. For something more reasonable, click on the tab entitled Photo which is right next to the more expensive Art Prints. ^_^
I have to confess, coloring the last cover was very difficult. I changed the colors so many times. At one point, I considered letting Addison's hair be this reddish color. It's not her real hair color, but I liked how it looked. My first draft of the cover looked like this:
Over all, I'm happy with the changes I made to the colors. Addison's eyes were way too brown. When I printed it out, they looked more reddish because the brown was so intense. As for the drawing, I thought it was fitting to go with a kind of masquerade party theme because the story really is about these different masks that Ian wears as a character. And perhaps Addison has been wearing a few disguises of her own--she just hasn't been aware of it. Volume 7 as a whole is a very active volume. It's like, something is always happening. At this point, I have about four more chapters left to draw, but I've been enjoying every moment.
And if there are any other covers or specific pages you would like to see as a print, let me know in a comment, and I'll make it happen!
New covers are available for print!
There's this one:
And I decided to add the extra artwork that was included in this volume as well:
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I love the colors on the new cover. I'm very excited about this final volume. ^_^ReplyDelete
A print of the cover for volume 5 would be awesome! That's one of my favorites. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
I love the new cover too! I like how you gave Ian a "phantom of the opera" type mask.ReplyDelete
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SELINSGROVE, Pa.- The men's indoor track and field team opened up their season at the Susquehanna River Hawks opener, Friday afternoon.
Daniel Fernandez (Oxford, Pa./ New Oxford) finished tenth in the weight throw while Thayer Phillips finished 12th. In the long-jump, John Randolph (Jonestown, Pa./ Northern Lebanon) finished fifth marking 6.05m. In the high jump, Storm Fridinger (Shippenburg, Pa./ Shippensburg) and Brenden Gardner finished fifth and sixth respectively. In the shot put, Fernandez led the Eagles finishing sixth while Zach Krug finished just behind him. Phillips finished 14th in the shot put.
On the running side of things, Gardner finished fourth for the Eagles. In the 400 meter dash, Fridinger took top honors coming in with a time of 53.16. In the 200 meter dash, Ian Harpel finished 13th coming in with a time of 24.45. Kevin Schofield (Madison, Conn. / Daniel Hand) finished fifth in the 3,000 meter run.
There were also a few records and PR's set during the meet. Fridinger ran a 53.16 in the 400 meter dash to improve on his number five ranking all-time at Juniata. Evan Ulrich (Homer, N.Y. / Homer) moved to number five all-time in the 3,000 meter run for Juniata and that also added a personal best for him. Fernandez had an indoor best in the men's shot put. Schofield set an overall PR of 9:14.79 in the 3,000 meter run.
The Eagles do not return to action until January 19th where they will compete in the Orange & Maron Classic at Susquehanna.


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No new blog changes; there just isn't time. I have things in mind and no chance to enact them.
But I do have a new treasure; my sweet husband, bribing me away from my database job, has purchased a new Macbook for me.
It arrived today; I'm typing on it now. Big pink puffy hearts. And still growing as I learn about what this thing can do.
And it's so, so pretty. And all mine.
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My good friend recently sent me a photoset from Pikes Peak Highway looking at Pikes Peak that included the following pictures. He says:
Started to use the chicken aka cock for cave pics & jokes. Cock for scale... It's suspended from a tree on fishing line.
BTW it was a give-a-way at the local thrift store for making a donation for some charity.


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EDITOR'S DESK: Looking forward to the Showcase
It's a fun future that offers up the Simpich Showcase.
After all the pleasure that Bob and Jan Simpich brought to Old Colorado City during their years making and selling their uniquely crafted dolls, it was disappointing - though inevitable and well-deserved - to see them finally retire a year and a half ago, leaving a creative (not to mention financial) hole in the historic shopping district.
And imagine, if many of us felt that sense of loss, how frustrating it must have been for their son David. As he discusses in the article starting on Page 1 this issue, he wanted to carry on his parents' tradition - and people were asking him to keep the Character Dolls business going - but he and his wife Debby knew it was not a financially sensible course.
So it must have been a fine epiphany last September when the three-pronged Showcase vision began taking shape in his mind. It's one of those jewel-like ideas that looks good no matter what angle you view it from. In retirement, his parents have gone back to their original love of painting. The gallery will give them a place to show their work (along with that of other artists), while enhancing Old Colorado City's growing creative reputation. Then there's the museum. It sounds like a great opportunity for the lovers of Simpich dolls to see them again - nicely presented, up close and personal, instead of just in old pictures or on some computer screen. And the marionette theater gives David a local venue for his talents, a chance to come home after 15 years of touring the country with his family.
Finally, let's not forget the planned loft development on the second floor, the final piece of the puzzle for all that interior space.
All in all, a nice future. Bring on the Showcase!