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In Asia on Tuesday analysts said global Android smartphone makers were set to get a lift from the announcement that Google would buy Motorola Mobility Holdings in a cash deal.
Indeed, as Deal Journal points out, on Monday Wall Street reacted approvingly of Google's patent war, even if $12.5 billion seems a steep pricetag for a shield against lawsuits.
Around the region: Samsung was up 3.7%, LG Electronics was up 0.8%, Foxconn International was up 14%, Compal Communications is up by its limit 7% and HTC was up 2.2%. Read More »
Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings for about $12.5 billion will help it compete with Chinese phone makers. Also, New China Life Insurance prepares to list in Hong Kong.
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Aside from a relaunch Monday of Moto's hit Ming series in China, the company has started a Chinese version of its application store called Shop4Apps which, unlike Apple's Chinese App Store, is available in Chinese.
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- anthropogenic geographic feature
- An anthropogenic geographic feature is a geographic feature resulting from the influence of human beings on nature.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000002
- cave
- Naturally formed, subterranean open area or chamber.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000067
- city
- Incorporated populated place.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000856
- desert
- A region rendered barren or partially barren by environmental extremes, especially by low rainfall.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000097
- dune
- A hill of sand built by eolian processes.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000170
- extant
- This taxon is still in existence, as opposed to extinct.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/extant
- extinction status
- Indicates whether a taxon is extant (living today) or extinct.
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/ExtinctionStatus
- first appearance (older bound)
- The older bound for the first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record, in Ma.
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/paleo_firstapp_ea
- first appearance (younger bound)
- The younger bound for the first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record, in Ma.
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/paleo_firstapp_la
- forest
- An area with a high density of trees. A small forest may be called a wood.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000111
- grassland
- An area in which grasses (Graminae) are a significant component of the vegetation.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000106
- habitat
- A category or description of the habitat in which the Event occurred.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/habitat
- island
- Area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000098
- last appearance (older bound)
- The older bound for the last appearance of this taxon in the fossil record, in Ma.
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/paleo_lastapp_ea
- last appearance (younger bound)
- The younger bound for the last appearance of this taxon in the fossil record, in Ma.
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/paleo_lastapp_la
- mangrove biome
- A mangrove biome is a terrestrial biome which includes, across its spatial extent, mangrove plants (Rhizophoraceae). Mangrove plants are able to withstand high levels of salinity as well as regions of anoxia and frequent tidal inundation. Mangrove biomes often occur near tropical and sub-tropical estuaries and depositional marine coastal environments where fine sediments (often with high organic content) collect in areas protected from high energy wave action.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000181
- million years ago
- 1 megaannum in the past. Megaannum, Ma. is a unit of time equal to one million (10^6) years.
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/paleo_megaannum
- nest of bird
- A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00005805
- no
- This statement is false; the answer to this question is no.
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/no
- number of articles on EOL
- number of articles for taxa in this clade on EOL
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberArticlesInEOL
- number of images on EOL
- number of images of taxa in this clade on EOL
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberImagesInEOL
- number of media on EOL
- number of images+videos+audio files of taxa in this clade on EOL
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberMediaInEOL
- number of public records in BOLD
- number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
- number of records in BOLD
- number of records for taxa in this clade in the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD)
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberRecordsInBOLD
- number of records in GBIF
- number of records for taxa in this clade in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberRecordsInGBIF
- number of references in BHL
- number of references to taxa in this clade in the Biodiversity Heritage Library
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberReferencesInBHL
- number of rich pages on EOL
- number of species in this clade with richness >= 0.4 on EOL
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberRichSpeciesPagesInEOL
- number of sequences in GenBank
- number of sequences for taxa in this clade in GenBank
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberOfSequencesInGenBank
- records in BOLD?
- this clade is represented by geo-referenced data in the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD)
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/RecordInBOLD
- records in GBIF?
- this clade is represented by geo-referenced data in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/RecordInGBIF
- references in BHL?
- this clade is represented in the literature in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/ReferenceInBHL
- rich EOL page?
- at least one page in this clade with richness>=0.4 on eol
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/RichPageOnEOL
- savanna
- A grassland of the tropics or subtropics with scattered trees.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000261
- scrubland
- Area covered with low-growing or stunted perennial vegetation and usually not mixed with trees.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000300
- sequences in GenBank?
- this clade is represented by gene sequences in GenBank
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/SequenceInGenBank
- specimens in GGBN?
- this clade is represented by specimens in the Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN)
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/SpecimensInGGBN
- subterrestrial habitat
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- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000572
- subtropical
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000205
- temperate
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000206
- terrestrial biome
- A biome that applies to the terrestrial realm.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000446
- tropical
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000204
- well
- A cylindrical hole, pit, or tunnel drilled or dug down to a depth from which water, oil, or gas can be pumped or brought to the surface.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000026
- woodland
- Land having a cover of trees, shrubs, or both.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000109
- yes
- This statement is true; the answer to this question is yes.
- http://eol.org/schema/terms/yes
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When a bullet kills or harms someone in Toronto, one of the first questions asked is where the gun came from.
If the weapon is thought to be American, a Toronto-based U.S. special agent pairs Canadian police with U.S. authorities to discern how it got here.
For the past seven years, that agent was Regina Lombardo, who opened Toronto's office in 2005. This month, a new agent took her place with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), which has the authority to get U.S. firearm makers to provide sales records.
Lombardo arrived here shortly after the Summer of the Gun. Her replacement, Special Agent Peter Forcelli, also arrived months after high-profile gunfire on the Toronto streets.
"There's been a lot of rival gang activity happening this past summer," Lombardo said in an interview at the U.S. Consulate, where she was based. "If they are U.S.-sourced weapons, that's where our involvement comes in."
Toronto police have said 70 per cent of guns seized after crimes were smuggled from the U.S.
Lombardo, who has taken a new position in the U.S., said she can't say whether American guns were used in this summer's fatal Eaton Centre and Danzig St. shootings. But the "critical" time called for a six-week handover period, when both agents worked in Toronto.
Forcelli, 47, started his career with the New York Police Department in 1986.
He worked as a homicide detective in the Bronx before joining the ATF in 2001, starting in New York.
"Many of the states that are sources for firearms in Canada are also sources for firearms in New York City," he said. "The I-95 corridor, the I-75 corridor and whatnot."
Arizona, where he later worked as a supervisor in Phoenix, is more of a source state where firearms are purchased, he said.
Forcelli was one of the ATF agents who blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious, a botched sting operation that was intended to plant guns with low-end criminals in order to track them up the rungs to Mexican drug cartel leaders. Hundreds of the 2,000 guns allowed to "walk" simply went missing.
Forcelli testified about the operation before Congress last year, at hearings called after U.S. weapons were found at the scene of the 2010 shooting death of a border patrol agent. (He came to a mediated settlement with the government this summer after claiming he had faced retaliation after blowing the whistle.)
But Forcelli said that episode didn't change his perspective.
"When I was with the police department, we had detectives or cops that made mistakes, and frankly, what happened in Phoenix was the same thing," he said. "It had nothing to do with how ATF operates."
In Toronto, he said, he plans on continuing the operation Lombardo set up, including partnerships and training Canadian officers in techniques such as serial number restoration.
One case Lombardo worked on, Project Bluegrass, targeted an American running a gun-trafficking operation from Peel Region. Among the guns it smuggled in was one used in the Bandido motorcycle gang murders.
Canadian marijuana was being traded for weapons — a typical drugs-for-guns exchange that Lombardo said made up the majority of her cases while working here.
Another agent is based in Vancouver, but the eastern half of the country is now Forcelli's responsibility. One goal is to establish closer relationships with police outside Ontario, he said, for when they submit "trace" requests.
Last year there were 1,184 Canadian requests for help learning a gun's history — its first purchaser and what followed.
"Our job is to follow the gun," Forcelli said, "follow the gun from where it's manufactured to the crime, and try to put that puzzle together."
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In a natural environment, detection and estimation of object motion features are crucial for a correct behavior. The brain relies on the activity of retinal ganglion cells (RGC) as the only source of visual information to estimate moving stimuli. We analysed simultaneously recorded responses of RGC of isolated turtle retinas to a moving stimulus. The stimulus consisted of a pattern of squares that moved with a constant velocity for 500 ms and then changed abruptly to one of nine possible velocities in a pseudo-random fashion as described in [1]. Spike-cost based metrics [2] were applied to the responses of single RGC to test the relevance of spike rate and spike timing precision in the encoding of velocity. Furthermore, an extension of the method that considers the simultaneous activity of several neurons [3] was used to test if velocity discrimination improves if their spike responses are combined and if individual spikes are assigned to individual neurons.
Our results show that responses of single RGC allow for discrimination of different velocities based on the spike count rather than on the spike timing precision. In general, higher velocities were better discriminated than lower ones. Classification performance of certain velocities depends on the cell type. Responses of non-direction selective cells (NDSC) allow for good classification of all speeds but fail in the discrimination of movement direction (Figure 1a), whereas activity of direction selective cells (DSC) allow for better classification of velocities in the preferred direction but worse for velocities in the anti-preferred direction (Figure 1b). For all types of cells, mean velocity classification performance reached ~35%. When the activity of different RGC is combined, classification performance of velocity improves with the number of RGC and only if the neuron of origin of each spike is known (Figure 1c). Nevertheless, mean classification performance is lower than the one expected by summing the performances of single cells, suggesting some redundancy in the encoding of velocity parameters also by different types of RGC.
Figure 1. Probability of correct estimation of the actual velocity. a) Classification based on the activity of a NDSC. b) Classification based on the activity of a Left-DSC. c) Classification based on the simultaneous activity of the same NDSC and Left-DSC knowing the neuron of origin for each spike.
We thank Dr. Martin Greschner and Dr. Andreas Thiel for providing the experimental data and the German Research Foundation (DFG) for financial support (research unit FOR-701 and graduate school "Neurosensory Science and Systems").
Thiel A, Greschner M, Eurich CW, Ammermüller J, Kretzberg J: Contribution of individual retinal ganglion cell responses to velocity an acceleration encoding.
J Neurophysiol 2007, 98:2285-2296. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text
Victor JD, Purpura KP: Metric-space analysis of spike trains: Theory, algorithms and application.
Aronov D: Fast algorithm for the metric-space analysis of simultaneous responses of multiple single neurons.
J Neurosci Methods 2003, 124:175-179. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text


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Custer of the West (1967)
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Opening with a montage depicting its subject's Civil War exploits, Custer of the West carries us across four years of fighting in less than four minutes of screen time. The Civil War ended, George Armstrong Custer (Robert Shaw) longs for action and to hold onto his rank of general, so General Phil Sheridan (Lawrence Tierney) sends him West, admitting that there will be no nobility to his cause there -- the government and the people want the land, and that means getting the Indians off of it by any means necessary. He arrives in time to see a party of Cheyenne (whom the real Custer never fought) kill a pair of miners by sending them rolling down a long hill in a runaway wagon -- that motif is repeated, in ever more striking, elaborate, and violent fashions, in two subsequent action scenes. Custer organizes his command around Major Marcus Reno (Ty Hardin), depicted as an ambitious officer with a drinking problem, and Captain Benteen (Jeffrey Hunter), a humane officer with a strange, almost mystical streak, who understands the Indians better than anyone else in Custer's command. Also present are Mary Ure as Custer's loving wife and Robert Ryan in a very flamboyant performance as a larcenous sergeant who comes to no good end after being stricken with gold fever. After getting his command into the shape it needs to be -- mostly by running everyone except a lone sergeant into the ground in an extended drill -- he carries out his mission, quietly detesting the motives behind his orders but executing them out to the letter. Regarded as a hero in the East, Custer returns to Washington only to jeopardize his career by testifying about the corruption he's found around him in the West. He is left a political pariah but once more. Sheridan intercedes, again getting Custer posted with the Seventh Cavalry now engaged against the Sioux. He is, by this time, disillusioned with the army that he serves and the politicians and the business interests in whose service it functions. Though he craves the glory that comes with battle, he sees soldiering of the type he is being asked to carry out as little more than organized slaughter, even relying on machines to do the killing in ever more indiscriminate ways with none of the contest between men, of strategies, and arms and resourcefulness -- that was his real joy. The demons and goals that drive him culminate with Custer's disastrous action at Little Big Horn, which is beautifully (if not necessarily accurately) staged, in a stunning visual and aural denouement. … More
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By Maddy Bunker
As a second year undergraduate on the Housing and Communities Pathway, I am undertaking a placement in Redditch Co-operative Homes. I am particularly looking at the aim of the co-op to develop some Mutual Home Ownership housing in Wednesfield. I started this placement with limited understanding of co-operative housing in the UK and was very pleased to take the opportunity to attend a lunchtime Housing and Communities Group seminar on the history of co-operative housing in the Midlands.
The speakers both had a very longstanding involvement in the sector. Jon Stevens was a former director of Birmingham Co-operative Housing Services and Alan Clawley was one of the first residents of Small Heath Park Housing Co-operative, where he still lives. They gave presentations on the history of co-operative housing. Jon started from the first building society that was set up in 1775. This was a mutual organisation and was created as a means to fund the building of houses for the members of the society. He made an interesting distinction about social housing during the inter-war years, dividing it into: Philanthropic housing associations; Self-help co-operative housing and Municipal, Local Authority housing.
The sixties was a time of public disquiet and protest with a critique of post-war planning that was concerned with the destruction of communities. It was also a time of changing Government priorities regarding the country becoming a property owning democracy. There were several co-operative housing experiments in the sixties such as co-ownership and intermediate housing, and it was also a time of squatting and self-help co-ops. It was in the 1970s that the first co-operative housing strategy was implemented, with housing minister Reg Freeson, who was very supportive of co-operative housing and a specialist national agency, the Co-operative Housing Agency, was established to promote co-ops. The aim was to support funding and development of co-op housing. Birmingham's six Small Heath Co-operatives are an important legacy of that era.
In Birmingham during the 1970s, urban renewal was promoted by the city council as an alternative to clearance and co-operative housing was seen as a way to acquire and rehabilitate poor quality private rented housing and as an alternative to large-scale council housing. Alan spoke about how the Small Heath co-ops came to be set up in a part of Birmingham just beyond the large-scale clearance areas where residents were concerned about possible demolition of their homes. The emergence of urban renewal policies in the city provided an opportunity for something different. He felt that the key strength of co-op housing was community cohesion and gave the example that you 'only have to walk 20 yards to get things done' such as sorting out repairs.
It was interesting to hear from Alan about how co-operative housing was communicated to the public in those days. Instead of attempting to explain how the co-operative housing model works, they talked to residents of Small Heath about the need to improve their homes and how this could be done, resulting in people wanting to get involved. There was money to buy properties from private owners, improve them and then rent out to the same tenants on a co-operative basis. I consider that at the present time, it can seem complicated to explain co-op housing and even more so to explain Mutual Home Ownership to prospective tenants. It seems a useful step in the communication of co-operative housing to inform the public about how it might meet their housing need rather than becoming bogged down in detailed explanations of mutuality.
By 1985 there was growing resistance from the Housing Corporation to co-ops. They were seen as too resource intensive and the Housing Corporation did not want to fund specialist organisations but generic housing associations. This stopped opportunities for development of co-op housing which wanted to focus on certain areas whilst the Housing Corporation did not want this. The co-ops were also built on a model where the tenants as members ran their own housing. It was viewed by the Housing Corporation that ordinary people did not have the skills to run their housing and by the 1980s, the Housing Corporation would not register new co-operatives. The co-ops also faced the difficulty of fitting in with standardised regulatory requirements and council allocations policy as well as the move from stakeholder to executive models of governance. The 1988 Housing Act limited the role of co-operative housing even more as priority was given to large housing associations that could secure private funding.
Jon spoke about the present day and his belief that co-operative housing is being reinvented, using examples of mutual housing associations, community land trusts and self-help housing. He felt that as we live in 'generation rent' when many will not be able to own their own home, co-operative housing may be an option worth serious consideration. Just as in the 1970s, it could present an attractive alternative for people forced to rent and a way of improving housing conditions.
I believe that social housing has much to learn from the co-operative housing sector. Some housing association boards have moved towards a larger scale professional and commercial approach. This has caused the role of tenants to be diminished. In contrast, tenant governance is intrinsic to co-ops. The importance of community for co-operative housing is something that we can learn from today.
I found the presentation very informative and it greatly increased my understanding of co-operative housing in the UK. I am thankful to the Housing and Communities Group for arranging it and particularly grateful to Jon and Alan for the seminar.


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Cette plaque décrit un Lieu historique national du Canada et est située sur la rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, à Rivière-du-Loup. This plaque describes a Canadian National Historic Site and is located on Hôtel-de-Ville Street, in Rivière-du-Loup.
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date approved: 9/4/2013
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last visited: 11/10/2013
CNHS - Bataille-de-la-Ristigouche - Battle of the Restigouche - Pointe-à-la-Croix, Québec
Cette plaque décrit un Lieu historique national du Canada et est située sur la route 132, à Pointe-à-la-Croix. This plaque describes a Canadian National Historic Site and is located on Route 132, in Pointe-à-la-Croix.
last visited: 6/15/2014
CNHS Chapman House, Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia
William Chapman, a pre-Loyalist immigrant from Yorkshire, built this house in the late 1770's from local materials.
posted by: Lucky_Al
location: Nova Scotia, Canada
date approved: 8/12/2013
last visited: never
CNHS-Collins' Overland International Telegraph - Quesnel, BC
The Collins' Overland International Telegraph plaque about this historic event is located at Heritage Corner, a lovely park located along the Fraser River in Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada.
posted by: Marine Biologist
location: British Columbia, Canada
date approved: 8/8/2013
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Located in front of St. Ann's Academy in Victoria, BC.
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date approved: 7/25/2013
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CHRS-Canadian Pacific Railway Station - Nelson, BC
Built in 1900, Nelson's CPR station was designated a Historic Railway Station on April 6th, 1992 by Parks Canada.
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date approved: 6/23/2013
last visited: 1/5/2014
CNHS - Sir Francis Hincks 1807-1885, Woodstock, Ontario
Monument is on court house lawn. Plaque transcription follows.
posted by: elyob
location: Ontario, Canada
last visited: 12/26/2013
La maison Wilfrid Laurier-Victoriaville-Québec
Une maison ancestrale, un muse plein d'histoire! An ancestral house, a history museum!
posted by: gemeloj
date approved: 6/7/2013
last visited: 7/21/2015
CNHS - Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre - New Denver, BC
This memorial centre, dedicated to the people of Japanese descent who were wrongfully interned during WW II, is at 306 Josephine St. in the village of New Denver.
date approved: 6/5/2013
CNHS - Port Stanley - Ontario
Cairn and marker located in downtown Port Stanley.
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date approved: 6/2/2013
CNHS -Le Canal de St-Ours - St-ours - Québec
Canal ouvert à la navigation; écluse de 1933 et vestiges de celle de 1849
date approved: 4/20/2013
last visited: 7/18/2015
CHRS-Canadian National Station - Kelowna, BC
On Thursday, September 10th, 1925, tracks of the Canadian National Railway finally reached the city limits of Kelowna. This occurred after 11 years of delay.
date approved: 4/8/2013
Rosamond Woolen Mill National Historic Site of Canada, Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Ontario
In the 19th century the Rosamond Woolen Mill was one of Canada's largest woolen textile manufacturers. The six storey limestone mill was constructed in 1866 by the Rosamond brothers with financing from Montreal interests.
posted by: colincan
date approved: 4/1/2013
Nicholas Flood Davin National Historic Person of Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan
Nicholas F. Davin was one of Regina's most mercurial personalities. He was a war correspondent, lawyer then journalist. The Regina Leader newspaper he founded became a voice of conservatism on the Prairies. He cut his own tumultuous life short.
date approved: 3/31/2013
last visited: 9/28/2013
Maple Products National Historic Event of Canada, McDonalds Corners, Ontario
Maple products are a major agricultural export from Canada. The federal government has commemorated the industry at Wheeler's Sugar Bush in Lanark County, Ontario, but also at two sugar bush operations in Quebec.
date approved: 3/30/2013
James Naismith National Historic Person of Canada, Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Ontario
James Naismith, a physical education instructor, doctor and Presbyterian minister, invented basketball which now has world wide appeal. He was born in the Almonte area where a museum and basketball hall of fame are dedicated to his memory.
Old Town Lunenburg Historic District - Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
This National Historic Sites Plaque mark the designation of the older section of the Town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
posted by: wildwoodke
date approved: 2/26/2013
last visited: 7/22/2015
Edgar Dewdney National Historic Person of Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan
Edgar Dewdney was Indian Commissioner then Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories (NWT) after they were created by act of federal parliament in 1875. He convened the first meeting of the NWT Council in the new capital, Regina, in 1883.
location: Saskatchewan, Canada
date approved: 2/25/2013
last visited: 4/25/2015
CNHS - Sir William Osler - Montréal, Québec
Cette plaque, en hommage à Sir William Osler, est située sur la promenade Sir-William-Osler, à Montréal. This plaque, in tribute to Sir William Osler, is located on Promenade Sir-William-Osler, in Montréal.
last visited: 4/30/2014
Great George Street Historic District - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
This Canadian National Historic Site plaque is located at the base of Great George Street in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
location: Prince Edward Island, Canada
CNHS - William Roper Hull - Calgary, Alberta
This plaque, in tribute to William Roper Hull, is located in the Bow Valley Ranch area of Fish Creek Provincial Park, in Calgary. Cette plaque, en hommage à William Roper Hull, est située dans Fish Creek Provincial Park, à Calgary.
posted by: Country_Wife
location: Alberta, Canada
date approved: 2/24/2013
last visited: 8/4/2014
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Month 2 Catch-Up
... the Canal Saint Martin to be a much more enjoyable experience. It was a glimpse into how Parisians live their day to day lives.
- Celebrating Bastille Day in Paris was an unexpected surprise. Strangely enough, I have been celebrating the holiday for years now in San Francisco. A local bar with French ties, I am assuming, always throws a block party for Bastille Day. This year I was able to experience the celebration firsthand in Paris. Between ...
Saw large naked male
... amp; adorable Willa. Sun was shining most days & the pool was was well appreciated by all of us.
jacob & I, the intrepid culture vultures headed off to Florence one day by train. First stop Uffizi gallery where we dutifully joined the queue at 9 am. We're told it would be 60-90 mins & it was...but it is high season...
well worth the visit & spent a couple of hours there. Temperature is rising...we ...
... I sense a collective eye-roll from my nearest and dearest as they suddenly feel very sorry for the chap. Well, he didn't look like he was falling asleep and it was refreshing to meet a young person (me now being such an old person) genuinely wanting to know how a 'normal everyday' British person feels about politics and current affairs. Yes, I know, I use the term 'normal everyday' fairly loosely ...
I Want to go Back to Orvieto
After we left Pitigliano we headed west to check out Orvieto. Just as we were approaching the town we came upon a lookout where we could see the town sitting up on the hill. Breathtaking view. Although not technically in Tuscany it is a classic example of a hill town.
We parked the car and wandered up some streets until we ...
Paradise also called La Sommita
... closed for it was Monday, but we did manage to find an outdoor bar where I discovered a new favorite beer. I have a picture. When in Italy, try it. Later, we found a little trattoria and had yummy lasagna. Rain threatened, so we decided to drive home. RCD Bill did a great job and we made it back to La Sommita in record time. Our friends had gone to a famous fancy restaurant while we were on our excursion but were in bed when we arrived. It was a perfect day for ...