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    Sisi Bou Said

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    November 26, 2015
    November 19, 2015. As part of our cultural activites we of the OIF conference toured Sidi Bou Said, the north tip and hill of Carthage. I really appreciated this tour as it was a part of Carthage I hadn't seen at all on my previous visit, and indeed, d...
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    Vernon, Ontario

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    November 26, 2015
    November 25, 2015. This is the scene outside my car window from the parking lot where I took part in a conference call. This was in between getting my health card applied for and my driver's license applied for. Still to do: getting the car registratio...
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    de Gaulle

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    November 26, 2015
    November 22, 2015. It was cold and rainy and windy in Paris, so I wandered through the Aeroville mall for a bit. Then in the morning, it's back to the airport, this time to fly Air Canada to Ottawa. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1PdVdXD
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    Night Light

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    November 26, 2015
    November 24, 2015. Long day. Exhausted. No time to recover after a lot of travel. This is the night light beside my bed - the last thing I thought of today was that I needed to take my photo of the day. Worry about uploading them later; just get the sh...
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    Tunis

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    November 26, 2015
    November 20, 2015. Papa Youga Dieng and I were invited to visit the new ALECSO building in Tunis. No, this isn't it - this is a building we drove by. The new ALECSO building is still being finished. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1jmzhuV
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    Last Day in Carthage

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    November 26, 2015
    November 21, 2015. I was up bright and early - but not so early as I expected, since the Air France flight scheduled for 6:55 was rescheduled to 12:30. This is a quick photo outside my hotel window before departing. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1jmzhuZ
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    Carthage

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    November 26, 2015
    November 18, 2015. Arrived in Carthage, uo first thing in the morning, and in for a full day of meetings today. Didn't really see the outside world at all. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1Hr57CB
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    Trade Show

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    November 26, 2015
    November 13, 2015. After giving my talk in Guayaquil, I wandered downstairs to another part of the complex and crashed a trade show, enjoying samples of delicious coffee and chocolate from, among others, the good people at Maquita. From Flickr http://i...
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    Timmies

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    November 26, 2015
    November 15, 2015. I've settled into my new pattern of commuting from Casselman to Ottawa. It starts in the morning with a coffee at Tim Hortons. This week they had a country display at the drive through - celebrating steak or something, I think. So lo...
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    Practice

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    November 26, 2015
    November 16, 2015. I gave a keynote to a SSHRC conference on imagining the future at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and took some time out to sneak a listen to the orchestra practicing in mid-afternoon. Evening: flight to France. From Flickr http:/...
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    Oscar Romero

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    November 26, 2015
    November 14, 2015. This is a mural inside Oscar Romero airport in San Salvador, El Saalvador. I remember when Romero was assassinated by the junta in 1980. It was the moment, I think, that people recognized the illegitimacy of the government and the ne...
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    Guayaquil

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    November 13, 2015

    November 12, 2015. I tool a walk along the waterfront in central Guayaquil today. Guayaquil strikes me as clean and progressive. It has a unique feel, with the buildings overhanging the sidewalks to provide shade. This is the waterfront, looking toward Barrio Las Peñas. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1RTp30V
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    The Penguin

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    November 13, 2015
    November 11, 2015. A full day on the Galapagos islands. I took a boat over from Santa Cruz to Isla Isabela and from there a smaller boat to Isla Tintorinos to see, among other things, this penguin. First world problem: I was an hour early for my boat t...
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    Galapagos Islands

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    November 12, 2015
    November 10, 2015. The Galapagos Islands are not what we would call beautiful in a conventional sense. They are dry piles of lava with cacti and scrub brush, the shores lines with mangrove swamps. But they are endlessly fascinating, which is why it was...
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    San Salvador

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    November 12, 2015
    November 9, 2015. The photo doesn't do ot justice. This is the scene outside the window over the Caribbean Sea just before landing in El Salvador. It's my first visit to El Salvador, even if it's only an airport. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1NOAdFb
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    Tracks

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    November 8, 2015
    November 8, 2015. Peaceful day, not too busy, a quick trip to Costco, otherwise filling in references on a paper. These are the tracks that run by the house, as seen at dusk, just after returning from the city. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1kE7VkN
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    RedBlacks

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    November 7, 2015
    November 7, 2015. It was a full house at Lansdowne Park for the last game of the regular season, one in which the home team won to claim first place in the eastern division. Not my first game here at Lansdowne park by any means - I spent four years wor...
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    Exit Through the Parking Lot

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    November 7, 2015
    November 6, 2015. The light is fading as I leave the office after a long day attending meetings and solving problems. I have to be careful not to stay too late in the office, because I have a half hour drive each way. It was not unusual for me to leave...
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    Calgary Skyline

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    November 3, 2015
    November 3, 2015. Got a coupl,e documents done this morning, and then got on a plane and flew home to Ottawa (it was *so* nice to arrive before 7 instead of after midnight). This is the Calgary skyline as seen from the airport, the city shrouded in an ...
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    The Bow

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    November 3, 2015
    November 2, 2015. Office work and meetings, including this one up in The Bow, one of Calgary's landmark downton buuldings. Here we are on the 64th floor looking down on Calgary Tower and part of downtown. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1M8FkeF
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    The Bow

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    November 2, 2015
    November 2, 2015. Office work and meetings, including this one up in The Bow, one of Calgary's landmark downton buuldings. Here we are on the 64th floor looking down on Calgary Tower and part of downtown. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1M8FkeF
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    A Lake Louise Classic

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    November 1, 2015
    November 1, 2015. I had to leave Lake Louise this morning but the mountains put on a spectacular show for my departure, the newly fallen snow gleaning in rays of sunlight as bands of clouds wove their way through the mountains. Evening: Calgary, rest d...
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    Snowfall

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    November 1, 2015
    October 31, 2015. Lake Louise, still shrounded in the season's first snowfall. Another dat at the TESL conference; today taking in some sessions and participaating in a panel in the afternoon, then a nice evening with the organizers. From Flickr http:/...
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    Lake Louise

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    October 30, 2015
    October 30, 2015. I'm in one of my favourite places in the whole world, Lake Louise (and even better, staying for the first time ever in the Chateau Lake Louise, which is truly one of the best hotels I've ever been in). I expected to open with the clas...
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    Human Resources

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    October 30, 2015
    October 30, 2015. One of the nicer things about working in a larger office is that there is more varied community and people do things like this. This isthe current state of the door of the HR staff office, just down the hall from me. So cool. From Fli...
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    St. Isadore

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    October 30, 2015
    Octiober 28, 2015. We drove to the nearby town of St. isadore to open our local Caisse Populaire account (the Casselman branch was too busy). This charming witch was on display in the office. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1kh8jWi
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    Montreal Road

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    October 27, 2015
    October 27, 2015. A beautiful blue day without too much work and time for a nice walk up Montreal Road at lunch time, where I spotted this bit of brush around the 1800 block or so. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1O6jtdr
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    Nation River

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    October 26, 2015
    October 26, 2015. Casselman is bordered by farmland on two sides, and a large natural area on the other two,with this river running between them. So in the fall it is host to hundreds of geese as they fly south (I keep yelling at them to come back, tha...
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