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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  Whitehorse, Yukon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whitehorse is a Canadian city, the territorial capital of the Yukon.
Whitehorse is at kilometre 1489 of the Alaska Highway and is the terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway from Skagway, Alaska.
Whitehorse is served by the Whitehorse International Airport and has scheduled service to Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Fairbanks and Frankfurt (summer months).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitehorse,_Yukon   (574 words)

  
 Whitehorse, Yukon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Some of the tourist attractions in Whitehorse include Miles Canyon, the S.S. Klondike sternwheeler, the MacBride Museum, the Beringia Centre, Yukon Gardens, "Log Skyscrapers," the Whitehorse fish ladder, the Yukon Wildlife Preserve and the Takhini Hot Springs.
During the September 11, 2001 attacks, 3 aircraft approaching the United States from Asia were diverted to Whitehorse as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon, including a Korean Air 747 that was feared hijacked but this was not the case — the plane was low on fuel.
Whitehorse experiences annual temperature average daily highs of 21°C in July and average daily lows of -22°C in January.
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Whitehorse,_Yukon   (540 words)

  
 Whitehorse Strategic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Whitehorse Strategic Group Ltd. is a management consulting practice with a well established reputation in Government and industry.
Whitehorse has a broad client base, predominantly from major private companies and the public sector, especially those elements of the public sector undergoing commercialization or other business change processes.
Whitehorse was founded in 1987 by a group of creative individuals who came together with a shared vision to create a new style of strategic consulting.
www.whitehorsestrategic.com   (99 words)

  
 1001 Whitehorse Yukon Territory Canada Information - proudly presented by Kanada News' Canada Vacation Planner The ...
Whitehorse is the capital of the Yukon Territory and by far the largest city of the territory.
Whitehorse is a city of character, colour and contrasts and is often referred to as 'Wilderness City'.
Whitehorse was located on the head of navigation on the Yukon River, past 2 major obstacles on the river, Miles Canyon and the Whitehorse Rapids.
www.kanada-yukon-territory.de /en/whitehorse   (826 words)

  
 Whitehorse The Man
Whitehorse had made his bed near the campfire and pretended to be asleep.
Whitehorse was startled when he looked down and saw the man glaring at him.
After all, he knew Whitehorse couldn't read and would never be able to tell anyone what was in the book, but then Whitehorse remembered all those symbols he saw and thought, maybe it was "witchcraft." He never saw or heard of this man again.
users.adelphia.net /~2whitedove/Whitehorse_The_Man4.html   (862 words)

  
 The History of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
The Whitehorse area was probably part of the seasonal round of the Southern Tutchone and Tagish peoples of the Yukon interior, and Tlingit peoples from the coast were frequent visitors for trade.
Whitehorse developed quickly from a jumble of tents to a sizeable town.
Whitehorse, at the head of river navigation, developed into the centre of transportation for the territory.
www.yukonalaska.com /communities/whitehorsehist.html   (2230 words)

  
 City of Whitehorse Privacy Policy
For example, the City of Whitehorse may collect or use personal information without knowledge or consent if it is clearly in the interests of the individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way, such as when the individual is a minor, seriously ill or mentally incapacitated.
The City of Whitehorse will require customers to consent to the collection, use or disclosure of personal information as a condition of the supply of a service only if such collection, use or disclosure is required to fulfill the identified purposes, or will allow for the better management of that service.
The City of Whitehorse shall maintain reasonable and systematic controls, schedules and practices for information and records retention and destruction, which applies to personal information, that is no longer necessary or relevant for the identified purposes or required by law to be retained.
ww3.whitehorse.ca /Features/Policies/PIP.htm   (3293 words)

  
 Yukon SOE - Whitehorse Urban Area
The pioneering days in Whitehorse are past and the city now is the largest population centre in the territory.
Whitehorse is one of the few monitoring stations in Canada where nitrogen dioxide concentrations sometimes reach unhealthy levels.
Whitehorse has three sewage treatment systems: the Whitehorse and Porter Creek lagoons, which discharge continuously into the Yukon River, and the Crestview system which discharges to the ground.
www.taiga.net /yukonsoe/swurb.html   (1079 words)

  
 Whitehorse Musical Theatre Incorporated - History
Whitehorse Musical Theatre was formed in 1971 as a breakaway group from the Box Hill Musical Comedy Society.
Whitehorse performed its first five shows in the J.H. Charles Memorial Hall at Box Hill High School and then, in 1973, moved to a proper theatre with orchestra pit and fly tower at the then Burwood Teachers' College (now Deakin University, Burwood Campus)
Whitehorse has produced two shows every year since its inception, with the exception of 1980 and 2002.
www.whitehorse.org.au /history.php   (482 words)

  
 Alaska, Yukon & British Columbia Travel Guide [alaskan.com]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Whitehorse is laid out on a level river shelf of land bordering a wide bend in the Yukon River.
Whitehorse's role as a transportation center is as new as the jet age and as old as the Gold Rush of '98.
Whitehorse is a frontier city with all the amenities.
alaskan.com /bells/whitehse.html   (3784 words)

  
 JuneauAlaska.com: Whitehorse
Whitehorse is rooted in the height of the gold rush of 1898.
Whitehorse became the transportation hub and jumping-off point for the gold rush with the completion of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad in 1900, which connected it with the port at Skagway.
Whitehorse has a slew of events and activities to the largest city in Canada's Yukon Territory, home to about 24,000 people.
www.juneaualaska.com /visit/stories/63jun_whitehorse.shtml   (686 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Whitehorse
Whitehorse, city, capital of the Yukon Territory, Canada.
Whitehorse is the center of commerce and transportation in the Yukon Territory and...
Environmental and social concerns have caused uncertainty for the mining industry.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Whitehorse.html   (71 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Whitehorse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Leah Foster Starr is a practicing large animal veterinarian, the mother of a disabled child with cerebral palsy, divorced, and unfortunately, the daughter of a senator.
Whitehorse is the hot and steamy story about childhood lovers who were torn apart by family.
Johnny Whitehorse is a successful actor and model, as well as the owner of Whitehorse Farm, but his success seems to be bittersweet because those who meant the most to him are not there to share it.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0515126780?v=glance   (1381 words)

  
 Whitehorse, Yukon Territory - ExploreNorth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
This large sternwheeler, restored to her 1937 appearance by Parks Canada, is considered one of the top attractions in Whitehorse.
From Whitehorse on the Yukon Quest trail, travel 161 or 483 kilometers as fast as you can, on foot, by bike or ski.
This annual festival, held in Whitehorse each June, brings together dozens of performers from around the world.
www.explorenorth.com /library/communities/canada/whitehorse2.html   (554 words)

  
 Heritage Preservation in Whitehorse - ExploreNorth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The history of Whitehorse as a townsite only goes back to 1900, and until the construction of the Alaska Highway, it was little more than a transportation hub which served the capital (Dawson City), the Klondike gold fields, and in the 1920s and '30s, the Mayo/Keno silver mines.
Interest in heritage issues in Whitehorse, and in the Yukon generally, is shared by a fairly high percentage of the population.
There was no running water for houses in Whitehorse in the Thirties and the nurses at the hospital allowed me to use their bathroom provided that I agreed to wash off the ring after each bath.
www.explorenorth.com /library/yafeatures/bl-MastHouse.htm   (1667 words)

  
 Microsoft places bet on Whitehorse | Tech News on ZDNet
Whitehorse will be part of the forthcoming edition of Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net development tool package, code-named Whidbey, due to launch later this year.
Whitehorse will help developers knit together entire applications using Web services, an important technology underlying Microsoft's product lines, and will complement Longhorn, the company's forthcoming update to Windows.
Whitehorse is intended to ease the process of building applications using prebuilt "services," or application components that can be combined to complete a business process.
news.zdnet.com /2100-3513_22-5163454.html   (1642 words)

  
 Brain.Save() - Whitehorse
The other major feature in Whitehorse is the ability to model the infrastructure requirements of your application and validate them against the infrastructure capabilities of your datacenter.
Whitehorse lets you say “My server has this set of IIS settings, and my app has this set of requirements.
With Whitehorse, Microsoft can now convince enterprises that they need to buy VS not only for their developers, but for their network guys too.
hyperthink.net /blog/CommentView,guid,844e41be-ba33-4e17-b19b-0280e28e7c42.aspx   (563 words)

  
 Whitehorse on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Whitehorse is on the Alaska Highway and was the terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Railway from Skagway, Alaska, which suspended service in 1982.
The city is the center of a copper-mining, hunting, and fur-trapping region that attracts growing numbers of tourists.
CANADA SPECIAL; News from the Ice Age The Yukon is never far from its past - whether it's the gold rush or the Ice Age.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Whitehor.asp   (508 words)

  
 VirtualTourist.com - jamiesno's Whitehorse Nightlife Tips
On arrival in Whitehorse a lady at the rental booth in the airport proceeded to give some local bar advice after being asked and she strongly recommended not going into this bar or a stretch of three or four others on the same small little stretch.
Earlier I recommended the High Country Inn as the place to stay in Whitehorse and one of the main reasons is the character of the hotel and the dining and drinking area with heated deck also called the Yukon Mining Company.
Whitehorse is one of the places I dream of visiting.
members.virtualtourist.com /m/4e22e/dc69c/5   (736 words)

  
 Keith Short's WebLog : Model Based Software Development Tools from Microsoft
Whitehorse includes tools for designing and configuring composable application systems, as well as tools for describing a logical view of a datacenter.
First, for Whitehorse shipping at Whidbey, we could not rely on Indigo being available and therefore are restricted to Web Service technology available today and in the Whidbey timeframe.
When we support Indigo with Whitehorse, I think it's pretty sure that the tools will be extended to support contracts (message schemas and interaction patterns) in some way.
blogs.msdn.com /keith_short/archive/2004/02/12/72006.aspx   (1496 words)

  
 Whitehorse Fishway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Whitehorse Fishway was built in 1959, after completion of the first phase of the Whitehorse Dam.
Two metres (2.2 yards) deep and 366 metres (400 yards) long, the Whitehorse Fishway is the longest wooden fish ladder in the world.
The Whitehorse Fishway is open from June to early September.
www.yukonfga.com /fishway.htm   (273 words)

  
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Whitehorse represents a renaissance in modeling in that it goes beyond the typical documentation-centric view of modeling systems.
With this detailed knowledge of the target environment, and detailed information about the logical software model, Whitehorse allows the software developer to bind services to servers and provide a validation process to make sure that the design will actually deploy successfully in the datacenter.
Whitehorse is a key part of the new Microsoft® Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), a long-term industry initiative to simplify and automate the development, deployment, and operation of connected systems.
msdn.microsoft.com /msdnmag/issues/04/07/whitehorse   (3945 words)

  
 Whitehorse Star Online
Samantha Cayen, left, and Steph Pruner from the Dawson City Emergency Medical Services attend to Terrie Forrest, a "victim", while competing in the EMS Skills Competition Saturday at the High Country Inn.
There were eight teams with 24 people competing in the competition from Whitehorse and Yukon communities.
The Mayo team won the Dorothy Swainson Memorial Cup, placing first in the competition with the Whitehorse team placing second and Faro finishing third.
www.whitehorsestar.com   (202 words)

  
 Canadian Relocation Systems, Whitehorse, Yukon Canada
Whitehorse has had a history of economic growth and decline cycles.
Construction of the Canol Pipeline and the Canol Road, and the establishment of an oil refinery at Whitehorse further increased the level of economic activity for a period of time.
The boom ceased at the end of World War II with the exodus of military personnel, but by this time Whitehorse had become an important communication and transportation centre.
www.relocatecanada.com /whitehorse   (282 words)

  
 Yukon Territory Alaska Northern British Columbia
This sternwheeler greets most visitors as they enter our Whitehorse, and indeed it represents an age when the City of Whitehorse served a major function as the transportation hub of this entire region, taking miners, their families and those who wished to take advantage of the Gold Rush.
Whitehorse has the world’s most northern botanical show gardens.
The rapids were named because the spray resembled the manes of a herd of white horses.
www.yukoninfo.com   (515 words)

  
 The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Whitehorse@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Capital of Yukon Territory, Canada, on the Yukon River; population (2001 est) 19,100 (Whitehorse has 70% of the population of Yukon).
Situated at the junction of the Alaska and Klondike Highways, it is the centre of the region's mining and forestry industries, and an important transport focus, with air links to major Canadian and US cities, and a rail link to Skagway, Alaska.
Whitehorse was founded by prospectors during the Klondike gold rush 1897-98, when it...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100186451&refid=ip_search   (169 words)

  
 Whitehorse Musical Theatre Incorporated - Pegasus, our Newsletter
A couple of our commmittee members have worked very hard to get the City of Whitehorse to support the company, only in a small was so far, but this is more support than we have had from them for a long time.
Whitehorse has a new team of people that are getting involved in Marketing not just 42nd Street, but marketing of Whitehorse for the years to come.
We are also pleased to announce that we have received the support of the City of Whitehorse and we are able to state on all communications that 'Whitehorse Musical Theatre is proudly supported by the City of Whitehorse'.
www.whitehorse.org.au /peg0308.php   (1210 words)

  
 WHITEHORSE TOASTMASTERS CLUB 1060   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Whitehorse Toastmasters Club meets on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursday of the month.
Meetings are held in the Whitehorse City Council buildings at Nunawading, opposite Harvey Norman.
The mission of Whitehorse Toastmasters Club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every member has the opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self confidence and personal growth
www.whitehorse.toastmasters.org.au   (188 words)

  
 Microsoft riding Whitehorse for developers | InfoWorld | News | 2003-10-28 | By Paul Krill
Whitehorse enables visualization of relationships between services, according to Rick LaPlante, a general manager in the Microsoft developer division.
LaPlante showed a three-step demonstration in which information is communicated to an engineering team, a view of the datacenter is presented, and a service is validated to conform to policies.
An audience member said the idea of Whitehorse, to unite network operators and developers, is a good one.
www.infoworld.com /article/03/10/28/HNwhitehorse_1.html   (1405 words)

  
 Whitehorse Attraction and Service Guide
Welcome to Whitehorse, capital of the Yukon, and home to some of the most spectacular scenery in Canada.
Named by some the Wilderness City, Whitehorse nestles on the banks of the famous Yukon River surrounded by mountains and clear mountain lakes.
Whitehorse provides diverse services to all outlying communities.
www.yukoninfo.com /whitehorse   (287 words)

  
 WhiteHorse What's New
WhiteHorse Communications customers continue to be assured of the best service available.
WhiteHorse Communications is the only local or national provider in the El Paso Metropolitan area with a wide variety of 100% fiber-optic connections.
WhiteHorse Communications (WHC.NET) in the El Paso Region is part of USAonline, Inc.(USAONLINE.NET), Midland, Texas, a wholly-owned subsidiary of WhiteHorse Communications, Inc., El Paso, Texas.
www.whc.net /whc/news.shtml   (272 words)

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