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Microscopic photo showing cross section of posterior tibial artery with circumferential medial calcifications and occlusive intimal atherosclerotic plaque. The arterial lumen is completely occluded. H & E stain. 10X Jian-Hua Qiao, MD, FCAP, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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April 2016: Work on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) road bypass at Brimmond Hill between Kingswells North junction and Craibstone Junction (Aberdeen Airport)
New Aberdeen Airport link road from new roundabout on A96 built as part of Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) / Aberdeen Bypass project with Dyce Park & Ride on left
December 2018: River Don bridge nearing completion for AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass dual carriageway
November 2017: Work on the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass bridge over River Dee at Milltimber
Its been a couple of years since I first took a dandelion close-up shot. I saw some in the fields while out dog walking with a film camera. I picked one to shoot at home.
This one was taken with flash and I wanted the peripheral seeds in shot.
In the end, my various peripherals were all in electrostatic bags, because I hoard them for this exact purpose. Those things that still had their original box went back into those as well. This stuff stores easily in drawers/crawlspaces. You can also see my trusty computer tookit, which has come in handy so many times. Especially the claw thing with the 3 metal fingers that comes out and grabs the tiny screws that my hands are too big to handle. And the bottle o' screws is very handy too.
BACKSTORY: My favorite computer EVER died. Moment of silence for "Storm", 1999-2007. This computer started as 1 of 3 identical post-house purchase computers we built for ourselves, to supercede our pre-existing college-era 3 computers (2 defunct Pentiums and a K6-233 which can still run Win98 today). It underwent one MAJOR upgrade, changing cases and practically becoming a new computer... So from 2001-2008 it was unique. I had really, really, REALLY grown into that machine. I'm stillnot as grown into my current machine Hades yet, and it has been well over 6 months.
So suffice to say, this computer dying SUCKED. And now I had to salvage all useful parts.
As for the death, I pretty much covered what happened day-by-day, starting at day 1, when it broke, continuing on to day 2, and Days 3-10. I then wrote about 10 more blogposts about the birth of Hades
decommissioning computer.
PCI card, WD-40 lubricant, box, cards, computer, screwdriver.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
August 20, 2007.
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Microscopic photo showing cross section of posterior tibial artery with circumferential medial calcifications and occlusive intimal atherosclerotic plaque. The arterial lumen is completely occluded. H & E stain. 10X Jian-Hua Qiao, MD, FCAP, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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THIS SATURDAY APRIL 24th
The "Street Art New York" Silent Auction Benefit
benefitting the arts and mentorship programs of Free Arts NYC
at Factory Fresh Gallery
Saturday April 24, 2010
Event 7-11, bidding 7-9:30
Factory Fresh Gallery
1053 Flushing Avenue between Morgan and Knickerbocker,
off the L train Morgan Stop
Everyone is welcomed to this community event.
With exciting new work by 60 of today's Street Artists
Abe Lincoln Jr., Alex Diamond, Anera, Avoid Pi, Billi Kid, Bishop 203, Blanco, BortusK Leer, Broken Crow, C Damage, C215, Cake, Celso, Chris RWK, Chris Stain, Creepy, Dain, Damon Ginandes, Dan Witz, Dark Clouds, Dennis McNett, Elbow Toe, EllisG, FKDL, Gaia, General Howe, GoreB, Hargo, Hellbent, Imminent Disaster, Infinity, Jef Aerosol, Jim Avignon, JMR, Joe Iurato, Jon Burgerman, Keely, Know Hope, Logan Hicks, Mark Carvalho, Matt Siren, Mint and Serf, Miss Bugs, NohJColey, Nomadé, Peru Ana Ana Peru, PMP/Peripheral Media Projects, Poster Boy, Pufferella, Rene Gagnon, Roa, Royce Bannon, Skewville, Specter, Stikman, Swoon, The Dude Company, Tristan Eaton, UR New York (2esae & Ski), Veng RWK
***
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For more information please contact:
info@StreetArtNewYork.com; Web: www.StreetArtNewYork.com
Auction Time: Promptly 7 pm to 9:30 pm EST
Absentee bidders please register with
Bernadette DeAngelis
at bernadette@freeartsnyc.org
or call 212.974.9092.
Registered absentee bidders receive a complete directory of all pieces. The directory will be available after April 21.
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December 2018: River Don bridge nearing completion for AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass dual carriageway
The Digilent I/O Explorer USB is a USB peripheral device that allows programmatic access from a personal computer to various external Input/Output (I/O) devices.
The I/O Explorer provides a number of I/O devices on the board itself, as well as RC servo connectors, and Digilent Pmod connectors that allow access to devices external to the I/O Explorer.
In addition to its use as a dedicated USB peripheral device, the I/O Explorer can also be used as a microcontroller development board. It features two Atmel® AVR microcontrollers, one having USB device capability.
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August 2017: Work on the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass from Contlaw Road bridge looking south towards Milltimber junction
Microchip announced from Electronica in Germany an expansion of its 8-bit PIC® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio, with the peripheral-rich, low-pin count PIC16(L)F161X family. These new MCUs introduce and expand the offering of Microchip’s Core Independent Peripherals (CIP), which were designed to reduce interrupt latency, lower-power consumption and increase system efficiency, and safety, while minimizing design time and effort. These peripherals are designed to reduce system complexity by eliminating the need for additional code and external components. Hardware-based peripherals offload timing-critical and core-intensive functions from the CPU, allowing it to focus on other critical tasks within the system. For more ino, visit: www.microchip.com/PIC16_LF161X-Family-Product-Page-111114a
April 2016: Work on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) road bypass at Brimmond Hill between Kingswells North junction and Craibstone Junction (Aberdeen Airport)
The "Open Hand" is the most vaguely-programmed bit of the Capitol Complex; sitting at what became the edge of the ensemble, it feels particularly peripheral, like a weird footnote or signpost: You are now leaving Chandigarh. We hope you've had a pleasant stay. Gimme five! That it was only completed in the early 1970s, well after Le Corbusier's death, only further cements this "afterthought" reading. Of course, in the designed scheme, it was a piece of considerable symbolic importance, perhaps even the most crucial piece for the purposes of Corb's vaguely optimistic politics (cleansed of specific partisan tendencies following his awkward position vis-a-vis Vichy). And it originally had a context - - it was meant to overlook a recessed conversation pit, sort of a squared-off amphitheater. This clearly didn't get too far along; the one axonometric published in the Oeuvre Complete would have visitors arriving by a path coming from nowhere, in order to sit on tiers of seating which have been arranged in the worst possible way, with one tier facing the side of the other tier. Who knows where this would have gone; Corbu simply claims "This 'Pit of Contemplation' is provided for debates on public affairs."
But remember that the Open Hand was actually intended to be one of several monuments punctuating the vast space between the High Court and the Assembly. What's now a flat and desolate plain (sometimes terminated by reflecting pools) was to have been a multi-layered ground. The documentation is sketchy, but based on model photos and a few scant sections, there was to have been a full story's worth of sectional difference (or more), allowing the road to the Governor's Palace to pass under, and also giving honorific pits (?) for an elusive "Monument to the Martyr," a fidgety De Stijl approach to the Governor's Palace, a pair of parabolic arches representing "The Course of the Sun," and a "Pit of Consideration," acting as the diagonal opposite to the "Pit of Contemplation." The Pit of Consideration's key feature, a somewhat mysterious, faceted building, was (sort of) realized as a ramping knoll, labeled on Google as the "Geometric Hill."
Short version - there were a lot of ideas bouncing around for this esplanade, but the only ones that made it were a dramatically reduced approach to the reflecting ponds, and the Open Hand. As such, it's an archetypally overscaled example of Modernist death-march space. The Open Hand reminds us that this was all meant in rather more optimistically.
But why take my word for it? Here's a filmed interview with Corbu on the topic of the Open Hand. (No joke, click on it!)
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September 2018: River Don bridge near Dyce for AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass dual carriageway
Construction of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) / Aberdeen Bypass between Craibstone & North Kingswells
August 2017: Work on the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass near Milltimber junction overbridge looking south from Culter House Road
December 2018: River Don bridge nearing completion for AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass dual carriageway
Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route AWPR Aberdeen Bypass under construction at Cleanhill roundabout where fastlink joins main bypass
May 2018: Panorama of River Don bridge for the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass dual carriageway
Montreal officially Montréal, French is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary",it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is situated 196 km (122 mi) east of the national capital Ottawa, and 258 km (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City.
As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949] and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732making it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language and in 2016 was the only home language of 53.7% of the population, while 18.2% spoke only English and 18.7% spoke neither French nor English at home 9.4% spoke a mix of French, English and a foreign language at home. In the larger Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, 71.2% of the population spoke at least French at home, compared to 19.0% who spoke English. Still in 2016, 87.4% of the population of the city of Montreal considered themselves fluent in French while 91.4% could speak it in the metropolitan area. Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 57.4% of the population able to speak both English and French. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the developed world, after Paris
Historically the commercial capital of Canada, Montreal was surpassed in population and in economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, transport, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, art, culture, tourism, food, fashion, video game development, film, and world affairs. Montreal has the second-highest number of consulates in North America,[30] serves as the location of the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and was named a UNESCO City of Design in 2006. In 2017, Montreal was ranked the 12th-most liveable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit in its annual Global Liveability Ranking,[ although it slipped to rank 40 in the 2021 index, primarily due to stress on the healthcare system from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is regularly ranked as a top ten city in the world to be a university student in the QS World University Rankings.[35]
Montreal has hosted multiple international conferences and events, including the 1967 International and Universal Exposition and the 1976 Summer Olympics. It is the only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics. In 2018, Montreal was ranked as a global city. The city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One since 1978, as well as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the largest jazz festival in the world the Just for Laughs festival, the largest comedy festival in the world, nd Les Francos de Montréal, which is the largest event devoted exclusively to French-language music anywhere in the world. It is also home to ice hockey team Montreal Canadiens, the franchise with the most Stanley Cup wins.
Etymology
See also: Name of Montreal
In the Mohawk language, the island is called Tiohtià:ke tsi ionhwéntsare. This name refers to the Lachine Rapids to the island's southwest or Ka-wé-no-te. It means "a place where nations and rivers unite and divide]
In the Ojibwe language, the land is called Mooniyaang which served as "the first stopping place" in the Ojibwe migration story as related in the seven fires prophecy.
European settlers from La Flèche in the Loire valley first named their new town, founded in 1642, Ville Marie ("City of Mary"),[14] named for the Virgin Mary. Its current name comes from Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. According to one theory, the name derives from mont Réal, (Mont Royal in modern French, although in 16th-century French the forms réal and royal were used interchangeably); Cartier's 1535 diary entry, naming the mountain, refers to le mont Royal.[46] One of Cartier's officers was Claude de Pontbriand, lord of the Château de Montréal,[47] in the Occitan-speaking part of France. The toponym Montréal and its reversed form Réalmont, the direct Occitan translation of French mont royal (or royal mont), are common in southern France. One possibility, noted by the government of Canada on its website concerning Canadian place names, speculates that the name as it is currently written originated when an early map of 1556 used the Italian name of the mountain, Monte Real;[48] the Commission de toponymie du Québec has dismissed this idea as a misconception.[46]
History[
Main article: History of Montreal
See also: Timeline of Montreal history
Pre-European contact
Archaeological evidence in the region indicate that First Nations native people occupied the island of Montreal as early as 4,000 years ago. By the year AD 1000, they had started to cultivate maize. Within a few hundred years, they had built fortified villages. The Saint Lawrence Iroquoians, an ethnically and culturally distinct group from the Iroquois nations of the Haudenosaunee (then based in present-day New York), established the village of Hochelaga at the foot of Mount Royal two centuries before the French arrived. Archeologists have found evidence of their habitation there and at other locations in the valley since at least the 14th century. The French explorer Jacques Cartier visited Hochelaga on October 2, 1535, and estimated the population of the native people at Hochelaga to be "over a thousand people".[51] Evidence of earlier occupation of the island, such as those uncovered in 1642 during the construction of Fort Ville-Marie, have effectively been removed.
Early European settlement (1600–1760)[edit]
In 1603, French explorer Samuel de Champlain reported that the St Lawrence Iroquoians and their settlements had disappeared altogether from the St Lawrence valley. This is believed to be due to outmigration, epidemics of European diseases, or intertribal wars.[51][52] In 1611, Champlain established a fur trading post on the Island of Montreal on a site initially named La Place Royale. At the confluence of Petite Riviere and St. Lawrence River, it is where present-day Pointe-à-Callière stands.[53] On his 1616 map, Champlain named the island Lille de Villemenon in honour of the sieur de Villemenon, a French dignitary who was seeking the viceroyship of New France In 1639, Jérôme Le Royer de La Dauversière obtained the Seigneurial title to the Island of Montreal in the name of the Notre Dame Society of Montreal to establish a Roman Catholic mission to evangelize natives.
Dauversiere hired Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, then age 30, to lead a group of colonists to build a mission on his new seigneury. The colonists left France in 1641 for Quebec and arrived on the island the following year. On May 17, 1642, Ville-Marie was founded on the southern shore of Montreal island, with Maisonneuve as its first governor. The settlement included a chapel and a hospital, under the command of Jeanne Mance.[55] By 1643, Ville-Marie had come under Iroquois raids. In 1652, Maisonneuve returned to France to raise 100 volunteers to bolster the colonial population. If the effort had failed, Montreal was to be abandoned and the survivors re-located downriver to Quebec City. Before these 100 arrived in the fall of 1653, the population of Montreal was barely 50 people.
By 1685, Ville-Marie was home to some 600 colonists, most of them living in modest wooden houses. Ville-Marie became a centre for the fur trade and a base for further exploration. In 1689, the English-allied Iroquois attacked Lachine on the Island of Montreal, committing the worst massacre in the history of New France.[56] By the early 18th century, the Sulpician Order was established there. To encourage French settlement, it wanted the Mohawk to move away from the fur trading post at Ville-Marie. It had a mission village, known as Kahnewake, south of the St Lawrence River. The fathers persuaded some Mohawk to make a new settlement at their former hunting grounds north of the Ottawa River. This became Kanesatake In 1745, several Mohawk families moved upriver to create another settlement, known as Akwesasne. All three are now Mohawk reserves in Canada. The Canadian territory was ruled as a French colony until 1760, when Montreal fell to a British offensive during the Seven Years' War. The colony then surrendered to Great Britain.
Ville-Marie was the name for the settlement that appeared in all official documents until 1705, when Montreal appeared for the first time, although people referred to the "Island of Montreal" long before then.
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New business parks next to Aberdeen Airport (ABZ) with A96 towards Inverurie and construction ongoing for Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) bypass
The low winter sun catches the picture on my wall calendar at an oblique angle, the effect is interesting, a reminder that memories can fade and change.
September 2018: Still a gap in River Don bridge near Dyce for AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass dual carriageway
Construction of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) / Aberdeen Bypass between Craibstone & North Kingswells
Microscopic photo showing occlusive cholestrol emboli (between yellow arrows). H & E stain. 20x. Jian-Hua Qiao, MD, FCAP, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Construction of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) / Aberdeen Bypass between Craibstone & North Kingswells
September 2017: Foveran to Tipperty (Bridgend) stretch now open on one carriageway of AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Balmedie to Tipperty section looking north
Stem cells are collected from Rasmus' blood as a preparation for High-dose chemotherapy with stem cell support (HDT with SCS).
January 2018: Work on the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass dual carriageway bridge over River Don near Dyce
Black and white photomicrograph in dark field illumination to reveal mu opioid receptor distribution in a horizontal brain section from the rat. White areas show intricate pattern of opioid receptor distribution in well-defined brain areas including the olfactory bulb, cerebral cortex, hippocampus, striatum, thalamus, and tectum. Receptors are marked by [³H]naloxone binding and subsequent and autoradiographic visualization in emulsion-coated brain sections.
National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health/ Photo: Miles Herkenham, NIH/NIMH
Apple Thunderbolt to ethernet adapter.
More information about the Thunderbolt interface: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
Construction of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) / Aberdeen Bypass looking north towards Craibstone junction with A96
Microchip announced an expansion of its 8-bit PIC® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio, with the peripheral-rich, low pin count PIC16(L)F161X family. These new MCUs expand the offering of Microchip’s Core Independent Peripherals (CIP), which offload timing-critical and core-intensive tasks from the CPU, allowing it to focus on other application tasks. Additionally, this family integrates fault-detecting hardware features to assist engineers in developing safety-critical applications. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/VLDM
Montreal officially Montréal, French is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary",it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is situated 196 km (122 mi) east of the national capital Ottawa, and 258 km (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City.
As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949] and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732making it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language and in 2016 was the only home language of 53.7% of the population, while 18.2% spoke only English and 18.7% spoke neither French nor English at home 9.4% spoke a mix of French, English and a foreign language at home. In the larger Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, 71.2% of the population spoke at least French at home, compared to 19.0% who spoke English. Still in 2016, 87.4% of the population of the city of Montreal considered themselves fluent in French while 91.4% could speak it in the metropolitan area. Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 57.4% of the population able to speak both English and French. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the developed world, after Paris
Historically the commercial capital of Canada, Montreal was surpassed in population and in economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, transport, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, art, culture, tourism, food, fashion, video game development, film, and world affairs. Montreal has the second-highest number of consulates in North America,[30] serves as the location of the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and was named a UNESCO City of Design in 2006. In 2017, Montreal was ranked the 12th-most liveable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit in its annual Global Liveability Ranking,[ although it slipped to rank 40 in the 2021 index, primarily due to stress on the healthcare system from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is regularly ranked as a top ten city in the world to be a university student in the QS World University Rankings.[35]
Montreal has hosted multiple international conferences and events, including the 1967 International and Universal Exposition and the 1976 Summer Olympics. It is the only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics. In 2018, Montreal was ranked as a global city. The city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One since 1978, as well as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the largest jazz festival in the world the Just for Laughs festival, the largest comedy festival in the world, nd Les Francos de Montréal, which is the largest event devoted exclusively to French-language music anywhere in the world. It is also home to ice hockey team Montreal Canadiens, the franchise with the most Stanley Cup wins.
Etymology
See also: Name of Montreal
In the Mohawk language, the island is called Tiohtià:ke tsi ionhwéntsare. This name refers to the Lachine Rapids to the island's southwest or Ka-wé-no-te. It means "a place where nations and rivers unite and divide]
In the Ojibwe language, the land is called Mooniyaang which served as "the first stopping place" in the Ojibwe migration story as related in the seven fires prophecy.
European settlers from La Flèche in the Loire valley first named their new town, founded in 1642, Ville Marie ("City of Mary"),[14] named for the Virgin Mary. Its current name comes from Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. According to one theory, the name derives from mont Réal, (Mont Royal in modern French, although in 16th-century French the forms réal and royal were used interchangeably); Cartier's 1535 diary entry, naming the mountain, refers to le mont Royal.[46] One of Cartier's officers was Claude de Pontbriand, lord of the Château de Montréal,[47] in the Occitan-speaking part of France. The toponym Montréal and its reversed form Réalmont, the direct Occitan translation of French mont royal (or royal mont), are common in southern France. One possibility, noted by the government of Canada on its website concerning Canadian place names, speculates that the name as it is currently written originated when an early map of 1556 used the Italian name of the mountain, Monte Real;[48] the Commission de toponymie du Québec has dismissed this idea as a misconception.[46]
History[
Main article: History of Montreal
See also: Timeline of Montreal history
Pre-European contact
Archaeological evidence in the region indicate that First Nations native people occupied the island of Montreal as early as 4,000 years ago. By the year AD 1000, they had started to cultivate maize. Within a few hundred years, they had built fortified villages. The Saint Lawrence Iroquoians, an ethnically and culturally distinct group from the Iroquois nations of the Haudenosaunee (then based in present-day New York), established the village of Hochelaga at the foot of Mount Royal two centuries before the French arrived. Archeologists have found evidence of their habitation there and at other locations in the valley since at least the 14th century. The French explorer Jacques Cartier visited Hochelaga on October 2, 1535, and estimated the population of the native people at Hochelaga to be "over a thousand people".[51] Evidence of earlier occupation of the island, such as those uncovered in 1642 during the construction of Fort Ville-Marie, have effectively been removed.
Early European settlement (1600–1760)[edit]
In 1603, French explorer Samuel de Champlain reported that the St Lawrence Iroquoians and their settlements had disappeared altogether from the St Lawrence valley. This is believed to be due to outmigration, epidemics of European diseases, or intertribal wars.[51][52] In 1611, Champlain established a fur trading post on the Island of Montreal on a site initially named La Place Royale. At the confluence of Petite Riviere and St. Lawrence River, it is where present-day Pointe-à-Callière stands.[53] On his 1616 map, Champlain named the island Lille de Villemenon in honour of the sieur de Villemenon, a French dignitary who was seeking the viceroyship of New France In 1639, Jérôme Le Royer de La Dauversière obtained the Seigneurial title to the Island of Montreal in the name of the Notre Dame Society of Montreal to establish a Roman Catholic mission to evangelize natives.
Dauversiere hired Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, then age 30, to lead a group of colonists to build a mission on his new seigneury. The colonists left France in 1641 for Quebec and arrived on the island the following year. On May 17, 1642, Ville-Marie was founded on the southern shore of Montreal island, with Maisonneuve as its first governor. The settlement included a chapel and a hospital, under the command of Jeanne Mance.[55] By 1643, Ville-Marie had come under Iroquois raids. In 1652, Maisonneuve returned to France to raise 100 volunteers to bolster the colonial population. If the effort had failed, Montreal was to be abandoned and the survivors re-located downriver to Quebec City. Before these 100 arrived in the fall of 1653, the population of Montreal was barely 50 people.
By 1685, Ville-Marie was home to some 600 colonists, most of them living in modest wooden houses. Ville-Marie became a centre for the fur trade and a base for further exploration. In 1689, the English-allied Iroquois attacked Lachine on the Island of Montreal, committing the worst massacre in the history of New France.[56] By the early 18th century, the Sulpician Order was established there. To encourage French settlement, it wanted the Mohawk to move away from the fur trading post at Ville-Marie. It had a mission village, known as Kahnewake, south of the St Lawrence River. The fathers persuaded some Mohawk to make a new settlement at their former hunting grounds north of the Ottawa River. This became Kanesatake In 1745, several Mohawk families moved upriver to create another settlement, known as Akwesasne. All three are now Mohawk reserves in Canada. The Canadian territory was ruled as a French colony until 1760, when Montreal fell to a British offensive during the Seven Years' War. The colony then surrendered to Great Britain.
Ville-Marie was the name for the settlement that appeared in all official documents until 1705, when Montreal appeared for the first time, although people referred to the "Island of Montreal" long before then.
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This cross-section through a peripheral nerve, photographed with a Zeiss Nomarski Interference Contrast Microscope at low magnification, has an extraterrestrial look -- even though it's from a terrestrial mammal. Photo by: DT Moran and JC Rowley
April 2016: Work on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) road bypass at Brimmond Hill between Kingswells North junction and Craibstone Junction (Aberdeen Airport)
72/365. November 15, 2021.
Our short vacation trip to BC/AB Rockies was not photography-centric - we went to unplug, unwind, and forget about life at home/work for a few days. The photos I took were captured quickly, and in-between focal activities. They capture the atmosphere of the trip in a peripheral sort of way.
The trip also coincided with historical and devastating flooding in British Columbia. We were lucky to escape back to Alberta via the only available detour before the heavy rains and washed-out highways were compounded by a winter storm.