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  Outports: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
Outport communities used the space along the shoreline for wharves and drying fish.
Outports on the Burin Peninsula, for example, were able to take part in the lucrative Banks' fishery and had higher per capita income than outports where fishing opportunities were restricted to the inshore fishery.
One should be wary of generalizing from the experience of one outport and assuming this "outport culture" was the same in all communities.
www.heritage.nf.ca /society/outports.html   (1632 words)

  
  Newfoundland outport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An outport is the term given for a small isolated coastal community in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Outports are some of the oldest communities in Canada to this day, many of them having been established by Portuguese, Spanish, Basque, French, and English fishermen and whalers in the 1500s-1800s.
Throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, outports have voluntarily agreed to depopulate as government required a 100% agreement among residents for resettlement, prior to agreeing to close a community.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Outport   (424 words)

  
 Outports of The Honourable Company of Master Mariners
This outport is centred in Cardiff and the Local Honorary Secretary is Captain TC Rooney.
This outport meets at various locations between the Humber and the Tyne and the Local Honorary Secretary is Captain AW Wilford.
This outport is centred in Aberdeen and the Local Honorary Secretary is Captain JE Morinaud.
www.hcmm.org.uk /hcmm/outports.asp   (173 words)

  
 Lobster -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the (The collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island) Maritimes, eating lobster was considered a mark of poverty.
The reputation of lobster changed with the development of the modern transportation industry that allowed live lobsters to be shipped from the (A subsidiary port built in deeper water than the original port (but usually farther from the center of trade)) outports to large urban centres.
Fresh lobster quickly became a luxury food and a tourist attraction for the Maritimes and Maine and an export to Europe and Japan where it is especially expensive.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/lobster.htm   (1037 words)

  
 6.4 Unstructured Communication
Messages sent on any outport are appended to the queue, with the order of messages sent on each outport being preserved and any message sent on an outport eventually appearing in the queue.
The inport and the outports must be of the same type.
A receive statement applied to this port must specify as an argument an integer outport variable into which the incoming port is to be placed.
www-unix.mcs.anl.gov /dbpp/text/node71.html   (888 words)

  
 Outmigration - Weaver
David Blackwood, the brilliant Newfoundland artist, once produced an arresting print, Resettlement, depicting an outport family in a boat piled high with their possessions heading out on a forbidding sea toward some place they did not know and to which they did not wish to go.
The family was among those "resettled" in the brief effort by then premier Joey Smallwood to close tiny outports and relocate people in somewhat larger communities.
Smallwood's "resettlement" program died in the fires of political fury, but the slow voluntary drift of people from outports to urban Newfoundland or to "away" -- that is, the rest of Canada -- did not stop.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Valley/8414/outward.htm   (755 words)

  
 A Gentleman in the Outports: Gobineau and Newfoundland. by Sean Cadigan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A Gentleman in the Outports: Gobineau and Newfoundland.
Anyone interested in understanding the process of English and French settlement on those parts of the Newfoundland coast claimed by the French under treaty rights would be better advised to consult the work of John Mannion in his edited collection, The Peopling of Newfoundland (1977).
The main contribution of A Gentleman in the Outports may be to suggest that French imperial officials could be just as tedious, shallow, and inaccurate as their British counterparts.
www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/762/gentle36.html   (712 words)

  
 The DroidBattles Handbook: Details of devices
If the enemy bot was in the middle of your scan it returns 2, if it was to the leftmost 0 and to the rightmost 4.
outports: first: Radio#_SetReceiver, Set receiver (Sets bot, on your team that should receive msg:s) 255 means all on your freq (incl.you) receives it.
The beam is a short range weapon, you set the exact dir and distance for the aim and an almost immediate hit is issued when you fire.Maximum distance is 8000 units.
www.bluefire.nu /droidbattles/index-9.html   (1016 words)

  
 6.4 Unstructured Communication
Messages sent on any outport are appended to the queue, with the order of messages sent on each outport being preserved and any message sent on an outport eventually appearing in the queue.
The inport and the outports must be of the same type.
A receive statement applied to this port must specify as an argument an integer outport variable into which the incoming port is to be placed.
wotug.ukc.ac.uk /parallel/books/addison-wesley/dbpp/text/node71.html   (888 words)

  
 Mummering In The Outports
Christmas is here and in all the outports the traditional spirit of the festive season takes away.
It's exciting, and without these disquised tramps it would be a dead Christmas in the outports.
This old custom was practised in Newfoundland by the early inhabitants but it faded with the years, taking on local colour and hilarity, until our present manner of mummering lost all shreds of its original play-acting.
www.members.tripod.com /~JHTarrant/mummeringoutports.htm   (475 words)

  
 Bangkok, Thailand - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Bangkok, Thailand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is the economic centre of the country and the hub of the transport system.
The port is accessible to smaller ocean-going ships, but much of its trade now passes through outports, such as Samut Prakan.
Industries such as the manufacture of automobile parts, computers, and textiles have largely overtaken agricultural output.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Bangkok,+Thailand   (678 words)

  
 Strait of Belle Isle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A seasonal ferry service operates at the western part of strait between St.
New road construction for the Trans-Labrador Highway resulted in the removal of ferry services to outports in the northeastern part of the strait in 2002.
The idea of building a fixed link across the strait between Labrador and Newfoundland has been raised numerous times in recent decades following an unsuccessful attempt to build a tunnel carrying electrical wires in the mid-1970s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strait_of_Belle_Isle   (397 words)

  
 Bibliography of Newfoundland and Labrador History
'Bio-cultural implications of outport life: the Anglican parish of Fogo: a case study.' Unpublished PH D thesis, University of Toronto 1981.
Casey, George J. 'Traditions and Neighbourhoods: The Folklore of a Newfoundland Fishing Outport.' Unpublished MA thesis, Memorial University 1971.
The Resilient Outport: Ecology, Economy, and Society in Rural Newfoundland.
www.ucs.mun.ca /~melbaker/20thbib.html   (10366 words)

  
 Current in my area.
Newfoundland women are terrific cooks and one of the reasons is that they do not eat out as often as mainlanders do (Maybe they do in the cities but not in the outports).
Most of the fruits, vegetables and meats are imported so it is easier to obtain in the cities and larger centers rather than in the outports.
Therefore traditional foods are to found on the outport tables, instead of in the city.
www.fortunecity.com /littleitaly/vatican/986/Weather.html   (800 words)

  
 The Rooms Provincial Museum
What was once a "hard place" is now a desirable location, with soaring property prices and designer homes.
This exhibit tells the story of The Battery - a story that echoes the dramatic social, cultural and economic changes occurring in many of our outports.
These exquisite works by Dorothy Black were first used to illustrate Peter Scott's comprehensive and gorgeous guide to the wildflowers, Wildflowers of Newfoundland and Labrador.
www.therooms.ca /museum   (167 words)

  
 Multiple M/M/1 Simulation
First, the outport are declared as an array, so an outport array is actually a collection of almost identical outports, except each of which is assigned a unique index.
Since the number of included sub-servers is controlled by the parameter n_servers, which can only be determined after the component instance has been created, we must allocate the required space right before simulation within the Start() function, and, correspondingly, destroy it when simulation ends within the Stop() function.
As mentioned before, the inport in is actually connected to multiple outports from different FIFO queues.
www.cs.rpi.edu /~cheng3/sense/mmm1.cc.html   (794 words)

  
 Newfoundland Outport
Since we were unfamiliar with chat in general, we set out to find a place for Newfoundlanders to have a "gab" - in the end we created our own.
n outport was traditionally a temporary port used by Newfoundland "shore" fishermen.
Newfoundlanders that live "up along" have managed to retain their heritage, and remain, for all intents and purposes, separate from the melting pot of the Mainland.
www.durham.net /~kburt   (709 words)

  
 Nondeterminism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
, except that it can define multiple outports to be references to its message queue.
Messages are added to the queue as they are sent on outports, with the order of messages from each outport being preserved and all messages eventually appearing in the queue.
An EOC value is added to the queue only after it has been sent on all outports.
www-fp.mcs.anl.gov /fortran-m/fm_prog_v2.0/node59.html   (167 words)

  
 Book - Ben Hansen - One Hundred Outports (Hardcover) by DOWNHOMER
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One Hundred Outports is at once a beautiful pictorial record and a fresh cultural and social comment on outport life.
Of the photography as such there is no need to write; the work of a widely acclaimed, award - winning photographer, it will delight the eye of native Newfoundlanders and outsiders alike.
www.shopdownhomer.com /pgi-ProductSpec?5565,   (291 words)

  
 Canada Western Newfoundland Seacoast Sailing cruise adventure expedition Caledonia Fjords Outports Canadian hiking ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cruising through spectacular fiords and past stunning mountains, visits will be made to many of the outports nestled along the rugged shore.
This captivating seacoast has attracted visitors for centuries, yet retains the same intimate relationship between those who live there, and the breath-taking beauty that surrounds them.
Frozen lakes, waist deep snow, wildlife, the howl of a wolf and the crisp, clear air...
www.adventures.ca /gasnet/1931-2.htm   (598 words)

  
 Dynamic Channel Structures
When requesting a task from the manager, it creates a new channel, sends the outport, and waits for the new task to arrive on the inport.
It closes the channel to the manager and terminates upon receipt of the task descriptor 0.
It repeatedly receives an outport from a worker and uses this to send a task descriptor.
www-fp.mcs.anl.gov /fortran-m/fm_prog_v2.0/node24.html   (387 words)

  
 The Newfoundland population: a unique resource for genetic investigation of complex diseases -- Rahman et al. 12 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The same east and west outports were used to demonstrate persistent
the outport population using allele frequencies derived from
Martin, L.J., Crawford, M.H., Koertvelyessy, T., Keeping, D., Collins, M. and Huntsman, R. (2000) The population structure of ten Newfoundland outports.
hmg.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/12/suppl_2/R167   (3406 words)

  
 Citrix Systems » Cathay Pacific Airways
This thick-client application keeps track of the maintenance requirements of the company’s fleet of aircraft, wherever they are in the world, and is used at 40 outports as well as headquarters for a total of 800 client PCs..
“Many of our outports around the world have only low-bandwidth connections to headquarters, and Ultramain has no Web interface,” explained C.C. Ha, Cathay Pacific’s IT Architecture Consultant.
Since the client outport and the server only transmit mouse clicks and screen updates across the network, remote users can work efficiently with bandwidth as low as 10 to 20 kbps.
www.citrix.com /site/aboutCitrix/caseStudies/caseStudy.asp?storyID=11527   (793 words)

  
 Essential Steps to Building a Hydraulic Model :: Modeling Hydraulic Systems (SimHydraulics)
You can connect Physical Signal ports to Simulink ports through special converter blocks.
Use the Simulink-PS Converter block to connect Simulink outports to Physical Signal inports.
Unlike Simulink signals, which are essentially unitless, Physical Signals can have units associated with them.
www.mathworks.com /access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/physmod/hydro/ug/bp5oi0_-1.html   (686 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Songs of the Newfoundland outports.
Find in a Library: Songs of the Newfoundland outports.
To find a library, type in a postal code, state, province, or country.
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/464c1a4f147d3361.html   (38 words)

  
 Pearformance Selections SSA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tishialuk Girls (No. 1 from “When the Outports Sing”) • Charlie Lloyd / arr.
I’se The B’y (No. 3 from “When the Outports Sing”) — arr.
Petty Harbour Bait Skiff, The (No. 2 from “When the Outports Sing”) — arr.
www.kjos.com /choral/telfer_ssa.html   (146 words)

  
 Why You Should Read the Papers: Improving Reference Service in Public Libraries
A popular daily feature on the op-ed page of The Globe and Mail is a column devoted to less well known aspects of life in various Canadian provinces.
In early May 1998 this column contained an account of efforts in Newfoundland to take stock of the villages, outports, and towns that had to be abandoned for reasons of unsustainability, mostly connected with the vicissitudes of the fishing industry and governmental resettlement policies aimed at economic diversification.
In the past five years, interest in rural Newfoundland life has shown a marked increase across North America, the result, in part, of the success of such best-selling novels as E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News and Howard Norman's The Bird Artist.
www.moyak.com /researcher/resume/papers/newspaper_article.html   (9196 words)

  
 Songs of the Newfoundland Outports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is a Scottish gaelic Milling Song and it appears in one of the three volumes of the book Songs of the Newfoundland Outports.
It is also on the LP of the same name which was released by Pigeon Inlet Records.
Abstract: Kenneth Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland Outports as and still is a landmark collection of Maritime music.
www.mudcat.org /thread.cfm?threadid=3599&messages=22   (6728 words)

  
 Lomond River Lodge, Newfoundland Accommodations, cabins, campsites, RV Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Get a taste of good ole' Newfoundland hospitality and enjoy some of the best scenery in Canada.
Not to mention Newfoundland heritage, which is very much kept alive in the small outports along the wonderful coastline.
On your next visit to Newfoundland, plan at least one night at Lomond River Lodge, you'll be glad you did.
www.lomond-river-lodge.com   (142 words)

  
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Packets are just OutPorts with a pid > type Packet a = > (Pid, -- id of this packet > Int, -- output port number for the signal value > a, -- latch to hold the signal value > Bool, -- need to send it to the left?
where > outs = outports state -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Circuit example -- a register > regs :: Signal a => Int -> Circuit a > regs bits = (size, is, os, states) > where > size = 1+7*bits > is = ("sto",0): zipWith ilabel [0..] [ 7*x+1
www.macs.hw.ac.uk /~gnik/apset/circuit_simulator.lhs   (394 words)

  
 Transport (from South Australia) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Physical and human geography > The economy > Transport
Passenger and freight transport services centre on Adelaide, although substantial export cargoes of grain and minerals are sent directly overseas and interstate from the nine significant outports.
Port Adelaide is the dominant port for seaborne imports together with nearby Port Stanvac, an oil-discharging terminal.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-42529?tocId=42529   (797 words)

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