At last, at last, a mention of our dear city in England’s Halifax. Plus cruising for bargains and making the fiber-optic connection with New York. Full links below.
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
from Halifax, UK
On a quick first skim of this article, I thought I was reading yet another obituary from a certain sleepy local paper. “About 600 mourners attended the funeral of Gordon McLean, the chairman of the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, held at Halifax Parish Church,” the piece starts. “They included health service professionals, local politicians, business people and representatives of many voluntary organisations as well as family and friends.” Then I remembered we don’t have a Halifax Parish Church. And of course Calderdale is in England. With a little more detective work I realized I’d stumbled across the Evening Courier in the original Halifax. And our city got mentioned because dear departed Mr. McLean was “a member of the Halifax Nova Scotia Association.” Ahh yes, the Halifax Nova Scotia Association. An upstanding group, not like those wastrels in the Halifax County North Carolina Association. (full story here)
SHIP SHAPE
from Long Island, NY
New York Newsday is highlighting some travel deals. You could “Visit Madrid In Style” for $856, or “Get Scottish Fever” starting at $729. Or if you’re really on a budget, “Cruise Scenic New England and Canada” for six nights on the Norwegian Spirit. The $549 cruise leaves from New York and stops in Boston, Martha’s Vineyard, Bar Harbor and Canada in the form of…yes, you guessed it. For what it’s worth, I’d be aiming for Madrid. (full story here)CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
from Rochester, NY
Rochester’s Business Journal offers a fine example of business jargon in an article that includes a Halifax reference. I think what’s happening is that one company is going to link North America with Europe, by using use another company’s fiber-optic cable:
The five-year pact calls for Hibernia Atlantic to connect its New York City clients through Fibertech’s Stamford, Conn., fiber-optic network, company officials said. Terms were not disclosed.
Hibernia Atlantic has cable landing stations in Boston; Dublin, Ireland; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Liverpool, England. Its service area extends to Toronto, Halifax, the tri-state metropolitan New York area, Boston and Albany in North America; to Dublin, London, Southport and Manchester in the United Kingdom; and to Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Paris in Europe.
“(The Stamford connection) will increase the speed to market of our dedicated ethernet and optical services in the U.S. Northeast corridor,” Hibernia Atlantic CEO Bjarni Thorvardarson said in a statement. (full story here)
To be fair, for someone who can decode all that mumbo jumbo, the article probably contains some really, really, really boring news.
Find some un-boring Halifax news and send links here.
This article appears in Mar 29 – Apr 4, 2007.