Two of the best are " Ice Lights", a light-installation at Vancouver City Hall that looks like ice framing the historic building, and " The Birds", a pair of larger-than-life bird sculptures that once stood sentry at the site of the Olympic Village and now roost at the Southeast False Creek Plaza.
To get their fix, Xbox 360 gamers with room for one more carry-on will want to turn to GAEMS. The company is showing off its G155 Sentry "personal gaming and entertainment environment" at E3 this year -- a so-called PGE.
Beyond the camp, at each point of the compass, Nepalese Gurkhas hired by DynCorp maintained sentry positions in foxholes and in sandbagged machine-gun nests on the roofs of trucks.
It might have looked like a smart risk-management move, but it seems like investors in Fairfield Sentry are almost destined to endure catastrophic investment management.