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No cuts were announced, but most of those who played in the rookie game are expected to be headed to Hartford and/or junior teams tomorrow. Those who survive the first cut will have a complete day off Friday.
Some lockerroom reax:
John Tortorella:
"I thought it was a good game. I thought we had really good energy in all the periods. There was time in each period when we had some little lulls. But we were able to put guys in some spots and see how they react. It was a good first game for us, just to see people play in different situations."
On Derek Stepan:
"I don't think he gets too uptight about who he's playing with there. I thought he did a pretty good job. We moved him out and I wanted to give Erik (Christensen) some time there. We have to be really careful as we maneuver through this with our young players, not to forget about some other guys, and to also give them a chance.
"But that's what I like about (Stepan). I think he can handle these situations and not really get blown away by it."
On whether Brian Boyle is looking at the numbers at center, or just wants to be a better player:
"I think a little bit of both. I think Brian Boyle wants to improve. I think he improved last year throughout the year. And I think he has looked at the people who are here and knows where he's at. He's had a very good camp. So it's a little bit of both, himself wanting to improve and seeing where he's at as far as the numbers at that position."
On the fourth line's energy, starting with the first shift:
"You hope so. You hope they can bring that to you. With Weise on the right side, he has shown this year that he can get there and create some forecheck. So, yeah, we're looking for that. That's a pretty effective line if they're able to get there and bang a little bit and change momentum."
On why Derek Boogaard got the misconduct:
"Because, I think, he was the biggest guy on the ice.
"They were challenging Prust all night long, Mills and Leblond. And Boogey was basically answering and wanting to fight Leblond. And Chris (Rooney, the referee) felt that Boogey was the only one talking. It was all night long from the other team … I told him you need to see what's going on throughout the game. He said he didn't see what was happening."
On McDonagh:
"I thought he did some good things. There was a little bit of speed coming down his side where at times there was a little bit of a struggle. We expect that. He's got good feet. He just has to understand handling the gap, not lunging, and that'll come. He's going to play some more exhibition games and I think he's going to feel more comfortable along the way. He had some really good shifts and at other times there was a little bit of a struggle coming down the wing. But we expect that. They had some pretty good speed, some even small speed that's even tougher for defensemen. So we'll keep going through the process with him and see where he's at."
On his decisions being more difficult up and down the roster this training camp than last year:
"There's no question. There's more bodies competing for a lot of different spots, where last year we all could just put people in and maybe one or two guys where therre may be a little bit of a fight. But this year, with some of the tryouts, and in all positions really, there's going to be some tough decisions."
On Marty Biron:
"He made some big saves. Zajac's goal, that's a helluva shot. He played well."
On Frolov adding another first-line weapon:
"And it's not just his goal scoring. He's strong on the puck, too. He's strong in the corners and he's a smart player away from the puck. He can kill penalties. … I think he may be able to help us in that area. So it's a guy who, we're going to keep him with Gabby a little bit and see if they can compliment each other and try to figure out the center. So it's another step in offense for us, also with a guy may who's well-schooled away from the puck. I think that's a good signinf for us."
I mentioned how, adding a first liner knocks everyone else down a notch and into better positions.
"It chips it down, and you have a guy that has played first-line minutes and scored goals, maybe in the right spot, and it puts guys back into different spots and they're going to fight in those areas for their positions."


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The Superficial's Top 25 Moments of 2011
"Suck it, tall people."
The Best of 2011 posts are great and everything, but let's be honest, they're purely dominated by tits, ass and somehow Lindsay Lohan because you people make me sick. Anyway, what falls through the cracks are the tender moments that truly reflect the human condition, but mostly involve Derek Jeter banging chicks and thanking them with sports memorabilia. So here are our favorite moments of 2011 that readers didn't repeatedly click on because you're too homophobic to appreciate the rich, sexual thunder of Alexander Skarsgard that thrusts its way into you and awakens a lust you yourself never knew existed.. is how Photo Boy described it. I've never seen those words before in my life. My diary's a liar!
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I have a function which has some decorators attached to it. But when I call the pydoc to create the HTML docs, the docs does not get created for the function which has the decorators. And docs gets created successfully for the function without decorator.
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A DANGEROUS cache of more than 20 World War Two grenades were discovered by workmen in Swanage town centre on Monday afternoon.
Two of the devices - known as number 76 special incendiary, or 'sip' grenades - ignited after their protective glass bottles were shattered by a mechanical digger, causing a fire.
Emergency services placed a 50-metre cordon around Shore Road, where the explosives were discovered during excavation work at 3pm.
They were thought to be releasing phosphine gas, which is highly flammable and toxic.
Dorset Fire and Rescue's district commander for Purbeck, Mike Cox, said workmen had been carrying out ground-levelling when they uncovered four of the devices.
However, officers from the Royal Logistics Corps' Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment discovered at least 16 more, which were then dealt with in a controlled explosion.
The grenades consisted of bottles containing phosphorus, which is exposed to the air when the bottles are smashed.
Staff Sergeant Andrew Blacker said: "We have a tried and tested method for dealing with these sip grenades.
"They were used by the Home Guard during World War Two in case of a German invasion. They come in batches of 12 and 24, and they ignite in contact with oxygen, so we're going to go carefully."
Smoke from the controlled explosions seen drifting across the bay. Picture by Andy Lyons
The specially-trained officers worked for more than an hour to carefully excavate the grenades before transferring them to a skip.
Edward and Betty Dickson, who are holidaying in Swanage, said: "We didn't know what was going on.
"It's scary to think about what might have happened."
Paul Dunesby, 47, who has lived in Swanage throughout his life, said: "I can't get along the seafront, there are police everywhere.
"You wouldn't normally get that in Swanage."
Paramedics were called to the scene to check over workers at the site as a precaution after the two bottles broke.
A spokesperson from South Western Ambulance service said three people who were exposed to the gas were treated at the scene.
Grenades uncovered as part of ongoing work over landslip fears
THE grenades were uncovered as part of ongoing work to move Swanage War Memorial over landslip fears.
Ground surveys ahead of the £2.1 million stabilisation scheme initially found the war memorial area required no attention.
However, when work began following last winter's rainfall, engineers realised the area is at risk of slippage.
The Swanage Town Council funded project also includes the construction of two tiers of beach huts, new public toilets and a permanent kiosk on the corner of Shore Road and Victoria Avenue.


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Hi Guys,
Having some issues with my tab slider on the site.
It simply doesnt work but if I just use the slider itself it works like I constructed it then put it into the page but it doesn't work now for some reason. As well as my arrow doesnt show up but it did when it was isolated and not put into the page.
Here is the page...
Please let me know what is going on and how I can fix it to work.
Looking at the page, it's not clear what you are expecting to happen, or how this is meant to work. Is it using jQuery? I notice that you have two links to jQuery in the source code, which can make your scripts stop working, so that's worth sorting out, either way.
I took out the extra jQuery still doesnt work. What its suppose to do is say you click on The Fresh Feed in the tab slider it has new image and theres suppose to be an arrow that indicates where you are but its not working at all, but works fine outside of when I put it into the website.
Here it is not in the website, same code just outside the site...
Cool, it's good to have a working example. The first thing I notice is that you have some jQuery scripts on your page (including the one in question) above the actual library link. Make sure the library link sits above any other scripts that need to call upon it. Otherwise they can't function.
Perfect!!! Works great now, working in Wordpress I totally forgot should put my jQuery scripts in the footer rather than the header.
Cool, glad it was that easy. It's fine to put them in the head, too, but not before the link to the library. Still, I prefer to put them just before the </body> tag anyway. It does seem to help the page load more quickly.


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CES Preview - Micron's RealSSD C300 - The First 6Gbps SATA SSDby Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/7/2010 12:00 AM EST
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jwilliams4200 - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkAnand:
Do you have a C300 for review yet?
Other sites have had them for more than a week...
minime - Sunday, January 10, 2010 - linkCould somebody enlighten me? Thanks! Reply
Chimel - Friday, February 19, 2010 - linkI second that, this graph is the most confusing of all and what it represents is not explained at all.
I assume it refers to the fact that SSD disks become less efficient the more data is being written, but it's really not clear, especially all the acronyms, that "FOB" concept was not introduced in the previous SSD articles and benchmarks I read, Google does not even know what it is, unless Anand is ripping all albums from Fall Out Boy...
I also cannot understand why SSD drivers or firmware are not improved to fully solve this problem of loss of performance after usage. There are surely tons of technical solutions for it, like making use of disk idle times to defragment blocks and pages and spread the usage load, maybe even regularly move system or program files that are never modified to blocks of previously heavily written user data instead of aging the hidden spare space prematurely, etc.
SSD technology just doesn't look very mature yet, early adopters pay more than just the extra cost: $680 for 256GB is 27 times the price per GB of normal platters disks ($100/1TB). I'll wait for Windows 8 to benefit from the 25nm die and from cheaper, bigger, better and more stable hardware and software support and integration (and maybe faster SATA by that time!) Reply
butrus ghali - Sunday, June 13, 2010 - linkFOB means Fresh Out of the Box.
what raises a question though is why it is written that the C300 has never been used before when it is anyhow stated that the two drives at that graph are FOBs?!
:hmm: Reply
butrus ghali - Sunday, June 13, 2010 - linkFOB means Fresh Out of the Box.
what raises a question though is why it is written that the C300 has never been used before when it is anyhow stated that the two drives at that graph are FOBs?!
seems like anand is not the same guy who has made these graphs as stated that the next was provided by micron, and so probably don't know the answer to that as well himself :). Reply
chizow - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkAnand,
I'm sure you'll be extremely busy at CES over the next few days and may never read this, but if you do come across it and haven't done so already, could you do some comparisons in your next SSD round-up on SATA 6G Controllers for older 3G SSD drives?
Its been pretty well established in some of your reviews that current SATA 3G drives are fully saturating SATA 3G controller bandwidth, I'm wondering if there's any gain if those drives are paired with a SATA 6 controller.
I'd also be interested to see if essentially the same drives without any modification other than SATA 6G support would automatically scale beyond SATA 3G limitations if it is indeed a 3G spec/bandwidth limitation.
It really seems to me Intel is holding back performance of their drives in numerous ways, starting with SATA 3G limitations because their chipsets don't support SATA 6G yet (calculated business decision, imo), but also because they don't want their X25-M parts competing too closely with their X25-E parts.
They've already demonstrated significant speed increases on their 160GB X25-M with a simple firmware update boosting Seq. writes from 80MB/s to 110MB/s. From your dissection of their 160GB drive, there's even more room to improve on Seq. Write speed if they populate the other 10 NAND solder points for a 320GB drive, which should also boost Seq. Write speeds significantly. Reply
529th - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkBe sure to post which controller is being used. I think there are two. The SF1500? & SF1200?
cool, thanks :) Reply
Ptosio - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkLet's forget about SATA6 for a moment.
Could anyone explain me what's wrong with PCI Express for the SSDs? Where does all that fuss over SATA6 come from? I mean, PCIe has a bigger bandwidth than SATA3 (or doesn't it?) and is pretty much universal. SATA and 3.5/2.5 bays are specifically designed to support mechanical hard drives which quite obviously have different needs than regular chips containing no moving-parts...but isn't an SSD just that, a piece of logic? Can't it be treated as just another add-on card?
There are PCIe based SSD, but they're usually considered enterprise models. What prevents the PCI entering into regular consumer products? In other words, why we all rely solely on SATA when it obviously fails us?
(It's not a manifesto and I'm not pretending to be a smart guy, I'm just curious what's so great in SATA) Reply
strikeback03 - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkI'd imagine partly because it is easy to add more of them. Most motherboards have 6 SATA connectors and more can be added via PCIe cards, while motherboards tend to offer 2-4 PCIe connectors of all sizes, with 1 or more often already used by a GPU in an enthusiast system. They still want to be able to sell expensive SSDs to the people willing to spend for a 3way SLI or CF setup. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - link(1) Could someone explain why 6Gb/s is seeing a performance increase over 3Gb/s?
From my understanding, although SSDs were approaching the theoretical limit, they were still ~50MB/s away, which is a considerable amount (~17%).
Based on the facts here, it seems the only thing that would really be improving performance is the faster NAND.
(2) Do you think it's good marketing to charge $399 and $799? If that's the prices, could you please do another review of the SSDs in a RAID configuration (RAID-0 preferably). When I move to SSDs it will be on a 6Gbps channel at a minimal. I'd like to see 2 or 3 SSDs in RAID, including Intel's, OCZs, and this Micron (possibly even a Colossus for good measure).
(3) Please see my comment on page 9 of the Vertex Pro article (accidentally a double post). The overprovisioning units in the tables were wrong, throwing off your numbers, the Vertex is also using 6-7% spare area for consumers, not 13%.
supremelaw - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - link> From my understanding, although SSDs were approaching the theoretical limit, they were still ~50MB/s away, which is a considerable amount (~17%).
50/300 = 16.7%
Let me try to explain this in reverse:
If an SSD were cable of perfectly saturating a 300 MB/second
interface, that would imply that there is absolutely no
computational / controller overhead in that device.
Although this "mode" may be easy to conceptualize,
it's impossible in realistic, practical terms.
But, your comments raise a very important point:
when Micron's C300 is cabled to a SATA/6G controller
at the other end of the data cable, the maximum
data rates do NOT scale up by a factor of 2-to-1.
My conclusion -- from this lack of scaling --
is that the real limiting factors are the
raw bandwidth of Nand Flash chips themselves and/or
the efficiency of controller(s) imbedded in the SSD device.
Both of the latter "latencies" are additive,
because that imbedded controller must wait
while Nand Flash chips cycle, then the
imbedded controller(s) must do its own computations.
Also, if an SSD has a DRAM cache, that memory
also has its own latencies and access times
which add further overhead to the device's
normal operation.
Finally, imbedded controller(s) must turn around
and handle I/O across the data cable i.e.
by communicating with another controller
at the other end of that data cable
(add-on controller or on-board the motherboard).
> When I move to SSDs it will be on a 6Gbps channel at a minimal. I'd like to see 2 or 3 SSDs in RAID, including Intel's, OCZs, and this Micron (possibly even a Colossus for good measure).
I agree with this latter statement 1000% -- very well said!
yyrkoon - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkExcept that 3Gbit actually equates to 384MB/s theoretical. take the 8b/10b encoding into consideration then we're talking 300MB/s for data ( or 307.2MB/s if my math, and understanding of 8b/10b encoding is correct).
Then, outside of this you have the typical protocol/hardware vs "outside world" issue to contend with. And not unlike GbE ethernet, you have many other factors come into play. Such as data block sizes/conversions, controller bandwidth capabilities ( which is probably why Micron chose dual ARM9 Microprocessors ), and the "controlling" host CPU/Operating systems ability to keep up with the flow of data( the spice . . . err data must flow ). In other words, operating systems, and CPUs being general purpose, are not going to be 100% optimized for a specific set of hardware / tasks.
So, then the obvious occurs . . . you get what you get. Reply
yyrkoon - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkAnd oh, the 6Gbit/SATAIII spec is not all about the drive. You *can* have more than one drive hooked into a single SATA port. "Port multipliers" are an example of possibly running up to 16 (15 plus the controller, not unlike SCSI ) devices into one SATA port. Although, the most drives I have personally seen connected to a Port Multiplier is 5. Because the makers of said PM's limit it to that number. Possibly for Max bandwidth considerations, or ease /cost of manufacturing. Reply
supremelaw - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a...82E16813...
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supremelaw - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkAnd, as long as the SATA protocol is being adopted here,
there is a 10/8 overhead that is the nature of the beast:
serial protocols have historically used 1 start bit,
8 data bits and 1 stop bit for every logical byte transmitted.
Thus, even before hardware overheads are considered,
SATA 3G really tops out at 240 MB/second of user data
(300 x (8/10) = 240).
Therefore, SATA 6G will likewise top out at 480 MB/second
of user data (600 x .8) .
SSDs should take clues from Western Digital's decision
to drop all the check bits on each sector, and migrate
ASAP to a full "4K sector" with much less data overhead:
"Western Digital's Advanced Format:
The 4K Sector Transition Begins," by Ryan Smith
See the drawing of the "Advanced Format 4K".
supremelaw - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkI need to correct myself (again):
please forgive me for this:
3G / 10 = 300 MB/sec. of user data (excluding start & stop bits)
6G / 10 = 600 MB/sec. of user data (excluding start & stop bits)
What I started to say (but got sidetracked) is that 3G goes to 375
and 6G goes to 750 MB/sec. of user data withOUT the start and stop bits,
and effective bandwidth will increase in proportion to a
reduction in extra protocol bits.
The SATA protocol uses 10 bits per byte,
whereas ASCII is a 7-bit code with one extra
bit that is not defined by ASCII.
vol7ron - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkThank you for your response. I also thought that the 4K size was going to change. I may be wrong in that statement, but I thought there was a movement to make it smaller/bigger?
Thanks, volt Reply
supremelaw - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkThere's a video of their RealSSD C300 at Micron's blog
which reported a lot of measurements of "4K IOPs"
(4,096-byte input-output operations per second):
That seems to be the new "chunk" standard, if you will.
And, it makes total sense, now that WD is moving towards
their "Advanced Format" (4K bytes + ~100 ECC bytes per "sector").
That "100" is still a best guess, from what I read:
whatever the ECC uses, there is a lot of storage to be gained
from this new Advanced Format.
MRFS Reply
lensman0419 - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkReason you are seeing the improvement is, considerable amount of the SATA bandwidth is consumed by the protocol itself. The theoretical useful data bandwith is around 270 mb/sec. The SATA 6GB offers up more useful bandwidth for the system.
No comment on the pricing, doesn't make sense to me either :) Reply
supremelaw - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkWe're watching and still waiting for SATA/6G
to be integrated into motherboards.
A few add-on controllers are available, but
some suffer from a ceiling of 500 MB/second
(read "not true 6G"):
(see "PCIe x1 Gen2")
Then, there are the Intel and LSI "enterprise-class"
RAID controllers that now support 6G ports:
Those are pretty steep premiums to get 6G support
at the other end of the SATA cable!
We need motherboards with 4 x SATA/6G ports
like this GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7:
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supremelaw - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a...82E16813...
OOPS! My mistake:
I thought those 4 x white SATA ports were all 6G.
On close examination, I now see:
GSATA2_8 <--- SATA/3G (300 MB/second)
GSATA2_9 <--- SATA/3G (300 MB/second)
In line with the published specs,
GSATA2 = Gigabyte SATA-II
GSATA3 = Gigabyte SATA-III (6G).
itsjustausername - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - link
I'm considering the GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 myself.
So I'm curious, when you say,
"We need motherboards ... like this GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7"
ss your emphasis on improvements in price or features?
Except for the cost, how do you feel about the UD7? Reply
tygrus - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkJust think what another 4 or 8 channels of Flash could achieve? saturate 6Gbps SATA.
Still good to buffer writes to fill whole block accross all channels at once instead of repeated writes. May be we need better IO driver in OS to buffer small writes ? Reply
tygrus - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkI hear some OCZ employees nearly cried when they saw the random write performance of the new Micron based RealSSD C300 compared to the hard work put into the "Vertex 2 Pro".
Will we have one SSD to rule them all ? Reply
lensman0419 - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkI'm pretty sure OCZ didn't develop any of the Sandforce based firmware. They are a re-brand and sell kind of operation, they can always re-brand a Micron C300 as OCZ C300 heheh Reply
nerdtalker - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkLooks like Intel seriously needs to bring its A game to the table to reclaim dominance in the SSD realm.
Considering how soundly it "Conroe'd" the market with the X-25 G1, I would've expected a bit more out of its market lead with the G2 and incremental firmware updates for both than what's currently going on.
So much of the performance increase seems to be from algorithmic changes on the controller, stuff that really doesn't seem so computationally intensive that it requires new architecture or ASIC (since they're just using straight ARM) but rather entirely procedural.
I have no allegiance to intel SSDs, but here's to hoping intel figures something special and intrinsic about leveraging NAND to speed up its drives before it gets left behind. Reply
semo - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkI think Intel's main aim is to satisfy OEMs. Performance is nice but it doesn't make them much profit if only enthusiasts buy it. Its hard enough explaining the benefits of SSDs to some anandtech and dailytech readers (SSDs are for performance not for mass storage!) let alone the average consumer. The best you can do is educate people that HDD == Bad, SSD == Good. Information such as reliability, performance figures under varying usage patterns, firmware upgrades, TRIM and interface is completely ignored.
OEMs are looking for something robust (which the boring samsung drives are) and i imagine that's what Intel wants to appear as. Sure they had some data corruption issues but it seems sorted now, plus the average consumer wouldn't be doing firmware updates for their storage device. Reply
yyrkoon - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkThat, and the fact that Microns drives are the using the newer SATAIII spec, where the Intel drives are not. Not only this, but Microns claims are unsubstantiated at this point in time.
Having dealt with Crucial/ Micron for many years, I do not necessarily doubt their claims. I tend to trust their products first, until proved otherwise. But the same could be said for Intel as well.
So the Op on this subject is jumping the gun a bit. We will see when things actually come into the light. Reply
yyrkoon - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkThat, and the fact that Microns drives are the using the newer SATAIII spec, where the Intel drives are not. Not only this, but Microns claims are unsubstantiated at this point in time.
Having dealt with Crucial/ Micron for many years, I do not necessarily doubt their claims. I tend to trust their products first, until proved otherwise. But the same could be said for Intel as well.
So the Op on this subject is jumping the gun a bit. We will see when things actually come into the light. Reply
Makaveli - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkCan't wait to see that review. Hopefully the numbers stay this good it might force intel to release a refresh sooner than Q4. I was expecting a bigger boost in read speed on SATA 6 Gpbs, guess we will have to see what the successor to ICH10R can do.
therealnickdanger - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkI'm a little confused about SATA 6Gbps. Theoretically, it is twice the bandwidth of SATA 3Gbps. We all know that due to overhead, 3Gbps really is limited to around 260MB/s. So I guess I would expect the overhead of 6Gbps to be comparitive, allowing for speeds up to 520MB/s. Is the NAND just not quick enough in all these drive or is the overhead of 6Gbps just that much more? Reply
KikassAssassin - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkThe drives just aren't fast enough to saturate 6Gb SATA yet. We just reached the point in the last generation of SSDs where drives have started to saturate 3Gb SATA. Reply
Calin - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkA drive refresh from Intel soon, or a price drop - anyway, competition is good and consumers are happy Reply


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'Steer by the inn," says Captain Ane Emberley, at my shoulder as I take a brief turn at the wheel of his tour boat, the Ketanja. I line up the prow with the Fogo Island Inn. It's easy to navigate by; its intersecting white rectangles rear from a jut of granite on the treeless shore.
Whale Watching in Newfoundland28 Jul 2011
Once a home base for commercial whalers, the Canadian province is now a popular locale for spotting the massive creatures...
Orca Whales Sighted off Point Amour Lighthouse29 Jun 2011
If icebergs and whlaes are in your vacation plans this week, head over to Point Amour lighthouse in the Labrador Straits or Battle Harbour National Historic District.
A dramatic community project is transforming a windswept island of fishermen off Canada's Newfoundland coast into a cutting edge artists' haven
Festival Season with Springfest14 May 2011
Join us in Western Newfoundland to celebrate the arrival of spring through a series of festivals that capture the essence of what is truly unique in each part of the region at this beautiful time of year.
Each festival aims to take advantage of the fresh spring weather in the great outdoors. By day, join us on the many planned walks and hikes, interspersed with a program of informative talks and other learning opportunities. At the end of the day, relax with friends and family in the presence of the best local artists, musicians, and entertainers at the many social evenings and kitchen parties.
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If you happen to be near the beautiful Codroy Valley region between May 27th and June 5th, be sure to visit the Feather & Folk Festival. Enjoy expertly guided interpretative activities, then relax in the evenings with traditional food and local entertainment.
Manx Shearwaters' Home now Protected10 Jan 2011
The only known North American colony of Manx Shearwaters, a nocturnal seabird, has been declared a Provisional Ecological Reserve. The colony, about 100 birds on Middle Island off the coast of the Burin Peninsula near Lawn, now falls under the protection of the Lawn Islands Archipelago Provisional Ecological Reserve.
The birds live in burrows four feet deep and can live for 50 years. Consultations on making the reserve permanent will be held in the near future. Thousands of seabirds nest on Middle Island, Offer Island, and Columbier Islands, including Arctic terns, great black-backed gulls and black-legged kittiwakes.
Birding Along the New Trans-Labrador Highway10 Jan 2011
Be there a birder in temperate North America that has not dreamed of a visit to Labrador much like J.J. Audubon did. Well dream no more! You may not be able to follow in the footsteps of J.J., but you can now drive into and across the Labrador Peninsula.
In 1987, Route 389 from Baie-Comeau, PQ, was opened, allowing one to drive the 375 miles northward through Quebec and into western Labrador. In 1991, Highway 500 was pushed through 300 miles of wilderness to Goose Bay in central Labrador. Finally, at the end of 2009, the Trans-Labrador Highway made the 230-mile connection to Cartwright on coastal Labrador then onward 200 miles to the lower north shore of Quebec.
The love keeps pouring in for St. John's and NL. This travel feature appeared in Britain's widely read Daily Mail newspaper. It highlights some of the similarities between Newfoundlanders and their friends across the pond... most notably, an affinity for the longest running TV soap in the world...
Newfoundland one colourful character11 Jul 2010
"When a humpback whale surfaces, then dives, not four metres from my kayak, I'm terrified, then delighted." Read this colourful account of one Toronto Sun journalist's trip to Newfoundland and Labrador, including a close encounter with our local giants of the deep and some adorable puffins.
Newfoundland and Labrador's vast, unspoiled wilderness offers glimpse back to Viking times24 Mar 2010
"Newfoundland and Labrador may lie in the Atlantic a time zone ahead of the rest of North America, but visiting Canada's easternmost province is like taking a step back in time…" Read about the province's Viking heritage in this NY Daily News article.


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GlobalMed, worldwide leader in real-time healthcare delivery systems, announced it has been chosen as a finalist for the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Business Ethics Award for 2013. This is the first time the company has applied for and been named a finalist for the award, which was established in 2002.
"As a business owner who values highly the community in which I live and work, I am thrilled to be considered a finalist for this award," stated Joel E. Barthelemy, GlobalMed Founder and Managing Director. "There is no doubt that ethics are vital to running any business successfully. As a leader in our industry, we have an obligation to our customers, our vendors, our employees and to the community at large to conduct ourselves with honesty and integrity in all aspects of our business."
In February, GlobalMed was announced as one of 15 Arizona companies named as finalists for the award. In April, GlobalMed representatives Brad Schmidt, Director of Global Marketing Development; and Neal Schoenbach, Director of North American Business Development, participated in a video interview to discuss the significance of the nomination.
"For a company where the core is integrity — walking the walk is what we do — it's just exciting to be a part of it," said Schoenbach.
GlobalMed develops integrated telemedicine solutions for healthcare providers and corporate health programs that lower costs, increase access, enhance the quality of care and improve patient satisfaction. From a broad array of connected medical devices to patient data workflow systems, GlobalMed's solutions enable complete patient encounters, from the patient location to the doctor, via the cloud, to anywhere around the world, across a full range of healthcare specialties.


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Black and White Embroidered Handkerchief by cajunstitchery on Etsy
This handkerchief is approximately 10.5 inches square. It is made from white cotton with black leopard-ish spots. The edges are serged. One corner is an embroidered, black on white, floral motif, attached separately. The entire handkerchief is handmade. The cotton fabric has been pre-shrunk. To clean, simply to wash and dry. A very unique, kitsch kind of handkerchief that would also qualify as heirloom. Tie this hanky to your black or white purse for a stunning effect or let the edge hang out of a pocket on a black or white jacket. The hanky would also make a lovely gift.