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CALGARY, April 18, 2013 /CNW/ - Bengal Energy (TSX: BNG) ("Bengal", or the "Company") announces that it has agreed with the holders of Bengal's $1,750,000 aggregate principal amount of non-convertible notes ("Non-Convertible Notes") to extend the term of the Non-Convertible Notes from July 24, 2013 to January 24, 2014. As consideration for the extension of the maturity date, Bengal and the holders have also agreed that the interest rate payable under the Non-Convertible Notes will...
Partiestogrow.com is celebrating Earth day and will include 12 additional seed packets with every flower party favor order placed in April for a total of 24 packets with each kit! That's an extra 12 seed packets to plant in the garden or on the deck and patio. Lebanon NJ (PRWEB) April 16, 2013 In celebration of Earth Day this month, PartiesToGrow.com is giving away an extra 12 seed packets with every order! Order the flower party favor pack in the month of April and receive extra...
The new Tanger Outlet Center will be located in Clarksburg, Maryland and will serve the Washington, D.C. metro market GREENSBORO, N.C., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc., (NYSE:SKT) and Peterson Companies announced today plans to develop an upscale outlet center in Clarksburg, Maryland. This announcement follows the two companies' successful groundbreaking and ongoing development of Tanger Outlets National Harbor scheduled to open for Holiday 2013....
New York-based architects partner with Legends and The Hettema Group for One World Observatory NEW YORK, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Montroy Andersen DeMarco (MADGI) is pleased to announce that it has been selected to help design the observation deck at the World Trade Center in New York City, the One World Observatory. Along with partners, Legends and California-based experience designers The Hettema Group, MADGI has been tasked with working to bring an interactive design for...
LONDON, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- We've had our first glimpse of warmer weather, so it won't be long before we're dining alfresco, holding family BBQs and having outdoor parties. If you're planning on entertaining in your garden this year, now's the time to get your gardening gloves on and start making your outdoor space the perfect spot for relaxing with friends. Online garden centre Plant Me Now has put together their top 10 tips to get your garden summer-ready:...
MIAMI, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Miami based General Contractor, MCM, has begun work on the Site 1 Impoundment Completion Contract awarded to them in January by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. This civil works project, valued at approximately $48 Million, has a projected completion date of January 2015, lasting 22 months. The scope of work to be completed by MCM consists of almost 3 miles of earthwork modifications to an existing levee, construction of a 6-acre...
Association of American Geographers Recognizes Dr. Dawn Wright for Advancing the Geography Discipline REDLANDS, Calif., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Esri's chief scientist, Dawn J. Wright, PhD, has received the Distinguished Teaching Honors of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), the highest award offered by the association. Esri provides more than 7,000 universities worldwide with GIS software for teaching and research. (Photo:...
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Reliable information on the depth and floor structure of the Southern Ocean has so far been available for only few coastal regions of the Antarctic. An international team of scientists under the leadership of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, has for the first time succeeded in creating a digital map of the entire Antarctic seafloor. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean...
VANCOUVER, April 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - China Gold International Resources Corp. Ltd. (TSX: CGG; HKEx: 2099) (the "Company" or "China Gold International Resources") reports that on April 5, 2013, Beijing time, the commanding center for the rescue team for the landslide occurred in Ze Ri Mountain, Pu Lang Valley, Si Bu Village, Zha Xi Gang Town, Mozhugongka County, Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China (the "Site") released conclusions on the causes...
Grow Up! Hydrogarden™ eliminates back breaking weeding, tilling, daily watering and many of the costs of traditional gardening. GrowUp LLC partners with RW Advertising to launch the unique Grow Up Hydro Garden system designed to allow beautiful fresh produce to be grown almost anywhere. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 05, 2013 Hydroponic gardening has been around for decades and is being used throughout the country including in some 5 star hotels to bring the freshest produce to the table....
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The dusky pademelon (Thylogale brunii), also known as the dusky wallaby, is a marsupial that can be found on the Kai and Aru islands, Papua New Guinea, and in the Trans Fly savanna and grasslands ecoregion in Papua Province in Indonesia. It prefers a habitat in both arid and tropical savannahs, forests, shrublands, lowlands, and grasslands. This species was named after its discoverer, Cornelis de Bruijn, and was once commonly known as philander, or “friend of man,” and the Aru Island...
The Central and Southern mixed grasslands are a prairie ecoregion of the central United States, a portion of the North American Great Plains. This is a vast grassland area with few trees running north to south from central Nebraska through central Kansas and western Oklahoma to north central Texas, covering about 282,000 square kilometers. This is a transition zone between the Central tall grasslands and Central forest-grasslands transition ecoregions towards the east and the Western short...
The Northern short grasslands is only 1 of 867 terrestrial ecoregions defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. This ecoregion includes portions of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the American Great Plains states of Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. The Northern short grasslands have a semi-arid climate, with the annual average precipitation ranging from 270mm to 450mm. The winters here are cold, with an average temperature of 14 degrees...
The Northern tall grasslands is only 1 of 867 terrestrial ecoregions defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. This ecoregion largely follows the Red River Valley in the Canadian province of Manitoba and the American states of Minnesota and North Dakota. The grasslands have a humid continental climate with moderate precipitation, normally between 450 and 700 mm. The winters are very cold, with an average temperature of 9.5 degrees Fahrenheit, and the summer are warm with the mean...
The Semi-arid Pampas, alternatively known as the Dry Pampas, is a temperate grassland ecoregion located in central Argentina. The Semi-arid Pampas cover an area of 126,000 square miles, including western Buenos Aires Province, southern Cordoba and San Luis Provinces and most of La Pampa Province. The area is, in all, a home to no more than a million people, who normally enjoy some of the nation’s lowest poverty rates. Not dissimilar to the more humid pampas to the east, the area is...
