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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | Labels: links, newsletter | 0 comments »
The 7 Wonders of Russia
Friday, November 13, 2009 | Labels: links, russia, seven wonders | 0 comments »
As a response to Europe’s “Seven Wonders of the World” list, which didn’t include any Russian sights, Russia organized a national contest to select the seven most beautiful destinations the country has to offer. Almost 26 million people went online and voted for their favourites since the contest started in autumn 2007.
http://theoriens.com/the-seven-wonders-of-russia/
Showcase of Some of the Most Inspiring Travel & Tourism Websites
Thursday, November 12, 2009 | Labels: links, tourism, travel | 0 comments »
The travel and tourism industry is a great source of inspiration when it comes to web design. The main goal of any site in this industry is to entice visitors to travel. Imagery plays a huge part in this because any potential customer wants to see exactly where they are travelling to. Here are a few great examples of inspirational travel and tourism websites.
http://inspectelement.com/articles/showcase-of-some-of-the-most-inspiring-travel-and-tourism-websites/
http://inspectelement.com/articles/showcase-of-some-of-the-most-inspiring-travel-and-tourism-websites/
New videos from NewfoundlandLabrador.com
Monday, January 19, 2009 | Labels: labrador, links, newfoundland, tourism, videos | 0 comments »
http://newfoundlandlabrador.com/Media/Videos/vikings.wmv
http://newfoundlandlabrador.com/Media/Videos/grosmorne.wmv
http://newfoundlandlabrador.com/Media/Videos/architecture.wmv
http://newfoundlandlabrador.com/Media/Videos/grosmorne.wmv
http://newfoundlandlabrador.com/Media/Videos/architecture.wmv
Newfoundland’s coming of age
Monday, December 22, 2008 | Labels: canada, economy, labrador, links, newfoundland, oil | 0 comments »
On April 1, 2009, Newfoundland and Labrador will have been a member of the Canadian family for 60 years. Significantly, many Newfoundlanders will view this anniversary as the time to celebrate Canada joining them. Such is the nature of this tumultuous 60-year relationship, where the benefits of union are weighted according to perspective and the tides of economic opportunity.
As this milestone birthday approaches, it is important to examine Newfoundland’s re-emerging nationalism and its impact on the Canadian federation. While Quebec and Ontario possess the population and the political potency of a majority of federal seats in Ottawa and Alberta the wealth, it is Newfoundland that sets the tone of change in the nation.
Newfoundland is redefining the traditional model of federal-provincial relations as it has moved from have-not to have province and demands that the world take notice. Emboldened by an energy-based economy that has finally reached puberty, fuelled by history’s realities and myths, and captained by a new-generation skipper, Canada’s youngest child is coming of age.
Last year, the province collected $1.5 billion in oil royalties, and it is expecting at least another $1.7 billion in 2008 – the kind of money that allowed the government to post a huge $1.4-billion budget surplus this year, an amount equal to five per cent of the province’s GDP. Newfoundland and Labrador was the country’s hottest economy in 2007. Its real GDP growth of 9.1 per cent was more than three times the national average.
As this milestone birthday approaches, it is important to examine Newfoundland’s re-emerging nationalism and its impact on the Canadian federation. While Quebec and Ontario possess the population and the political potency of a majority of federal seats in Ottawa and Alberta the wealth, it is Newfoundland that sets the tone of change in the nation.
Newfoundland is redefining the traditional model of federal-provincial relations as it has moved from have-not to have province and demands that the world take notice. Emboldened by an energy-based economy that has finally reached puberty, fuelled by history’s realities and myths, and captained by a new-generation skipper, Canada’s youngest child is coming of age.
Last year, the province collected $1.5 billion in oil royalties, and it is expecting at least another $1.7 billion in 2008 – the kind of money that allowed the government to post a huge $1.4-billion budget surplus this year, an amount equal to five per cent of the province’s GDP. Newfoundland and Labrador was the country’s hottest economy in 2007. Its real GDP growth of 9.1 per cent was more than three times the national average.
Is the Newfoundland accent disappearing?
| Labels: dialec, labrador, links, newfoundland | 0 comments »
Newfoundlanders, Van Herk points out, speak the most linguistically diverse English on the planet.
"There's more different ways of saying things, or pronouncing things, in Newfoundland English than in any of the other varieties," he says.
People in Petty Harbour, where the accent is a mix of west English and Irish, don't speak like those in Ferryland a few kilometres down the Southern Shore highway, or in Marystown, Corner Brook or La Scie. For that matter, they don't speak like people in the capital, where the accent even varies from one part of the city to another.
"Newfoundlanders are very aware of where people are from. But people from outside Newfoundland have this idea that there is a Newfoundland accent. And you see that famously in The Shipping News, where (the author) takes features from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English and puts them all together in a way that no one person would likely use so by the time she's finished she's got this sort of invented Newfoundland English."
"There's more different ways of saying things, or pronouncing things, in Newfoundland English than in any of the other varieties," he says.
People in Petty Harbour, where the accent is a mix of west English and Irish, don't speak like those in Ferryland a few kilometres down the Southern Shore highway, or in Marystown, Corner Brook or La Scie. For that matter, they don't speak like people in the capital, where the accent even varies from one part of the city to another.
"Newfoundlanders are very aware of where people are from. But people from outside Newfoundland have this idea that there is a Newfoundland accent. And you see that famously in The Shipping News, where (the author) takes features from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English and puts them all together in a way that no one person would likely use so by the time she's finished she's got this sort of invented Newfoundland English."
Overlay EP
Friday, December 19, 2008 | Labels: links, music, overlay | 0 comments »
Check out songs from Overlay's upcoming EP --> www.overlayband.com
'We wish you well': Williams to AbitibiBowater
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | Labels: danny williams, labrador, links, newfoundland | 1 comments »
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams says that if AbitibiBowater wants to start a legal fight, it is welcome to try, but he insists his government has the legislative power to expropriate the company's assets in the province.
"We have full authority to do what we've done. We have full legislative authority," Williams said.
"The legislature in Newfoundland and Labrador is paramount in this jurisdiction and we stand by that. If AbitibiBowater wants to launch any legal challenges, then that is up to them. We have no control over that. I'm sure they will get legal opinions that indicate our legislature has full authority to do what it's done."
Williams was responding to the company threatening to take legal action after the province passed urgent legislation Tuesday to expropriate the company's provincial assets, with the exception of the mill in Grand Falls-Windsor.
The province is taking ownership of all hydroelectricity rights from the generating station at Star Lake, as well as timber rights to forests on Crown land.
"We have full authority to do what we've done. We have full legislative authority," Williams said.
"The legislature in Newfoundland and Labrador is paramount in this jurisdiction and we stand by that. If AbitibiBowater wants to launch any legal challenges, then that is up to them. We have no control over that. I'm sure they will get legal opinions that indicate our legislature has full authority to do what it's done."
Williams was responding to the company threatening to take legal action after the province passed urgent legislation Tuesday to expropriate the company's provincial assets, with the exception of the mill in Grand Falls-Windsor.
The province is taking ownership of all hydroelectricity rights from the generating station at Star Lake, as well as timber rights to forests on Crown land.
Tension Condension: 10 Surefire Stress Busting Sites
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | Labels: interactive, links | 0 comments »
Flush with cash despite oil freefall, N.L. reports
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | Labels: budget, labrador, links, newfoundland, oil, surplus | 0 comments »
Despite a slump in world oil prices, the Newfoundland and Labrador government said Tuesday it expects to finish the fiscal year with more than $1 billion in its pocket.
Finance Minister Jerome Kennedy, however, laid out a set of dire warnings to accompany a fiscal update that projects a $1.27-billion surplus for the current operating year.
That's more than double the $544 million that the government expected as a surplus in a budget brought down in April.
Kennedy said the government is earning significantly more revenue than expected this year because oil prices for most of the year were far higher than expected.
However, Kennedy warned that the Newfoundland and Labrador budget will take a beating if oil prices continue to be flattened by a global economic crisis.
"If oil prices continue at below $60 US per barrel, we could be facing a deficit of several hundred million dollars next year and could potentially be facing deficits in the years to come," Kennedy told reporters at Confederation Building in St. John's.
For instance, if oil trades at $60 US per barrel — a figure the government is expecting to hold over next year — it would incur a deficit of about $200 million in the upcoming year. But if oil stays around the $40 level, that deficit would swell to about $600 million.
'They can call me a Grinch'
Finance Minister Jerome Kennedy, however, laid out a set of dire warnings to accompany a fiscal update that projects a $1.27-billion surplus for the current operating year.
That's more than double the $544 million that the government expected as a surplus in a budget brought down in April.
Kennedy said the government is earning significantly more revenue than expected this year because oil prices for most of the year were far higher than expected.
However, Kennedy warned that the Newfoundland and Labrador budget will take a beating if oil prices continue to be flattened by a global economic crisis.
"If oil prices continue at below $60 US per barrel, we could be facing a deficit of several hundred million dollars next year and could potentially be facing deficits in the years to come," Kennedy told reporters at Confederation Building in St. John's.
For instance, if oil trades at $60 US per barrel — a figure the government is expecting to hold over next year — it would incur a deficit of about $200 million in the upcoming year. But if oil stays around the $40 level, that deficit would swell to about $600 million.
'They can call me a Grinch'
Want to stop climate change? Put a fork in it, advocates say
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 | Labels: farming, links, st. john's | 0 comments »
Good ol' Detroit.. Where the weak are eaten alive
Sunday, December 07, 2008 | Labels: detroit, links, photos | 0 comments »
2008 Targa Newfoundland Highlights
Monday, December 01, 2008 | Labels: links, newfoundland, targa newfoundland, videos | 0 comments »
Alien-like Squid With "Elbows" Filmed at Drilling Site
| Labels: links, squid, videos | 0 comments »
Saudi super-tanker taken to Somali pirate lair A.K.A THE GREATEST HEADLINE EVER
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | Labels: links, pirates | 0 comments »
MOGADISHU (AFP) — A hijacked Saudi super-tanker, carrying 100 million dollars of oil, anchored Tuesday off a notorious Somali pirate port as sea gangs struck again and seized a Hong Kong cargo ship.
The biggest act of piracy yet by the marauding Somali bandits has stunned the international community. The Saudi Arabian foreign minister called piracy a growing "disease" and experts said few ships are now safe in the Indian Ocean.
Bile Mohamoud Qabowsade, an advisor to the president of Somalia's breakaway state of Puntland, said the Sirius Star was now at the pirate lair of Harardhere, some 300 kilometres (180 miles) north of Mogadishu.
"We have been receiving some information and we now know that the ship is anchored near Harardhere," Qabowsade told AFP.
The super-tanker with its crew of 25 -- 19 from the Philippines, two from Britain, two from Poland, one Croatian and one Saudi -- and loaded to capacity with two million barrels of oil was seized on Saturday, according to the US Navy.
The biggest act of piracy yet by the marauding Somali bandits has stunned the international community. The Saudi Arabian foreign minister called piracy a growing "disease" and experts said few ships are now safe in the Indian Ocean.
Bile Mohamoud Qabowsade, an advisor to the president of Somalia's breakaway state of Puntland, said the Sirius Star was now at the pirate lair of Harardhere, some 300 kilometres (180 miles) north of Mogadishu.
"We have been receiving some information and we now know that the ship is anchored near Harardhere," Qabowsade told AFP.
The super-tanker with its crew of 25 -- 19 from the Philippines, two from Britain, two from Poland, one Croatian and one Saudi -- and loaded to capacity with two million barrels of oil was seized on Saturday, according to the US Navy.
Harvest delays Newfoundland refinery expansion
| Labels: come by chance, links, oil, refinery | 1 comments »
CALGARY, Alberta, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Harvest Energy Trust (HTE_u.TO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Thursday it has decided to defer a C$2 billion ($1.6 billion) expansion of its Come By Chance refinery in the Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador until financial conditions improve.
Instead of the 75,000 barrel per day capacity expansion, which would have boosted output to 190,000 barrels per day, the trust will begin working on C$300 million of de-bottlenecking projects at the site, with work beginning next year.
"In light of current market conditions we've elected to defer this (expansion) project to when financial markets are more supportive," John Zahary, Harvest's chief executive, said on a conference call.
The expansion of the 115,000 bpd facility would have seen Harvest add new equipment to allow the plant to process heavier and more sour grades of crude.
Harvest, an integrated oil producer and refiner, has run Canada's easternmost refinery for nearly two years. Zahary said last month that the expansion project was only an option, not a requirement for the company, which had been searching for a partner to pay for the expansion.
Instead of the 75,000 barrel per day capacity expansion, which would have boosted output to 190,000 barrels per day, the trust will begin working on C$300 million of de-bottlenecking projects at the site, with work beginning next year.
"In light of current market conditions we've elected to defer this (expansion) project to when financial markets are more supportive," John Zahary, Harvest's chief executive, said on a conference call.
The expansion of the 115,000 bpd facility would have seen Harvest add new equipment to allow the plant to process heavier and more sour grades of crude.
Harvest, an integrated oil producer and refiner, has run Canada's easternmost refinery for nearly two years. Zahary said last month that the expansion project was only an option, not a requirement for the company, which had been searching for a partner to pay for the expansion.
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