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Here are some pics from the region that I've been working on.... all I've done so far are some of the suburbs (downtown will be on the peninsula)... if you have any ideas, please tell me!! Sattelite: Transport: (dots are tunnels)

Well, I have my two of my dad's old yearbooks (circa 1971 and 72), a few large books (Including a 2000 page, 15 pound "Pictoral History of Ontario" ), and some metals from my grandfather who was in the navy during WWII. The "strangest" one though is acctually kind of cool with a long story behind it. It's a ring with a rock embedded in it which has a picture of a tree in a meadow. The rock was found by a worker when he was building the Panama Canal. He gave it to my great-grand-father because he owed him money, and my grandmother had it put in a ring sometime in the 1960's or 70's. It's supposed to be a charm from some sort of bracelet belonging to an ancient Aztec Princess.

I have a Samsung A660 from Bell Mobility... No camera, no mp3's, no movies, but it's only a year and a few months old and I don't plan on getting another one too soon - it does it's job.

@ N_O_Body: I don't know NFCVI is, and the problem will be staying awake in chemistry... our teacher is 100% monotone... we come in, he'll say 4 words, turn his back, and write on the board for the rest of class. My periods are 77 minutes long each, starting starting at 7:58 in the morning. (don't ask why the times are so precise.) I think 4 courses per semester is the ontario standard, but i'm not sure. What do you mean by a long lab? I know we're doing 13 for chemistry and 10 for physics thoughout the year, but they only take an hour to write up (intro, a chart/diagrams, short analysis, maybe 3 questions, conclusion, sources of error... 3 pages max typed double-spaced)

4 words : Hands In My Pockets I think it's CapitalOne who has these commercials now, which has a series of people doing their daily things (playing tennis, jogging, etc.), with an old man with his hand in their back pocket. It ends with some old guy with a cheesy fake-British accent saying what's in your wallet? Two days after I saw the first commercial, everyone at my school was singing it... Oh, and another one that isn't so stupid, but has a very stick-in-your-head slogan... probably just because it's just on so often. Alot of people probably have never heard of it because it's semi-localish... dirk might have heard it before though! It's Apple AutoGlass. And windows too!

@N_O_Body : 41 cm!? 50 cm!? 5-10 cm!?!? Lucky you! Down here (Niagara-area) we only got about 3 cm, and it was gone within minutes. Now we're stuck with random flurries which just gets annoying, and muddy grass. It wouldn't matter though... our school board never cancells school, even if it's freezing rain. The last time they cancelled it was 2 years ago, because they had to close the QEW and half of the teachers couldn't get to school. Of course, 50% of the students (myself included) were already at school, and had to wait an hour for the schoo busses to come back and bring us home I started my second semester today, and it's really, really, really hard. Does anyone have any tips? Here are my courses (in order): Per 1: SCH3U (chemistry) Per 2: Lunch (breakfast... our school only has a small cafeteria, resulting in 3 lunches, the first being at 9:25 am) Per 3: SPH 3U (phsics) Per 4: MCR3U (math) Per 5: FSF3U: (french)

Well... I joined July 25/04, so that would make me....... a NAM Generation! I don't post here much though, so i don't really feel related to any of the memebrs really

@ marryescher: yes I know it's scary... alot of my friends think I'm insane for not drinking water. I mostly drink milk, Iced Tea and juice and things like that... I'm not much of a pop fan. I drink a glass of water every now and then but not too often. They have this new 'flavoured water' which is supposed to be good, though I haven't tried it yet... Another weird thing about me is that I'm allergic to grapes and rasins (I can't help that though...). I also have a friend that puts mayo on french fries...

I've never had a Big Mac either, and I've also never played hockey (and I'm Canadian). I really don't like steak, all pops except orange, and I absolutely DISPISE water. Especially bottled water, which is the worst. The stuff is just so tasteless and ew... it's all And BTW, I'm perfectly healthy

Smarts are amazing... I wouldn't be too worried around SUV's because they sit high up apparently, but around big transport trucks.... They're supposed to be good in the snow though... when they came to Canada all of these tests were put on them and results say they're good in the snow.. as long as you put 4 snow tires on them. As for gas, you can only get diesel ones in Canada and it costs about $18 to fill it up... I'm almost certain that they'd have non-diesel ones, so are the diesel ones common in Europe, or strictly regular gas? Though that yellow one... it's very.... bright...

Hey, it's Binsur! I haven't commented in a really long time, so let's comment... This is still a favourite CJ of mine, but I still don't know why. It's not the prettiest (nor the ugliest), not the most perfect (nor the least), not the flatest terrain (...probably the hilliest!)... I don't know, It's just got that certain je ne sais quoi about it. I really like the dashed-yellow line instead of the 2 solid-yellow lines, it looks MUCH more realistic! However, I think that one of your towns/cities needs some sort of large town-square thing, to make a small and quaint town of sorts.. not big, but with a statue maybe surrounded by small stores... maybe a clock... know what I'm saying? It would probably increase the land value (and tourists maybe?) of the place Oh, and I'm amazed at how all the different parts of your town seem to be in it's own season! Keep up the good work!

We have the famous Go-Trains in the Toronto area, which are green-and-white bi-level trains. It was the first system in the world to use these kinds of trains: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/GOtrain.jpg align=baseline> align=baseline> Here's the map (including the Go bus routes) http://gotransit.com/PUBLICROOT/schedule/web-system-map.gif'>http://gotransit.com/PUBLICROOT/schedule/web-system-map.gif align=baseline> It has pretty good coverage (especially with the busses included), but can start to get expensive the further away from Union Station (where all the train lines connect) you are. More info: http://gotransit.com

(all images less than 800x600) Here are some pictures from my region... The town (my school in the front-left ... just the beige building) http://www.thegrimsbylincolnnews.com/extra/aerial/image01.jpg align=baseline> A small marina: http://www.thegrimsbylincolnnews.com/extra/aerial/image06.jpg align=baseline> Niagara falls: http://www.iaw.com/~falls/image/CTupperriver.jpg align=baseline> An older one of NF Canada before another casino and some hotels were built: http://www.niagarafrontier.com/image/balloonaerialview.jpg align=baseline> Not an aerial, but the view you get ontop of the escarpment throughout almost the whole region (Toronto in the distance): http://img119.exs.cx/img119/3077/toniagara7ac.jpg An finally, what Google maps has: http://maps.google.ca/maps?ll=43.299197,-79.439392&spn=0.674133,1.008476&t=k&hl=en