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Reducing Costs While Improving Customer Service Is All in a Day's Work for ArcGIS for Transportation Analytics REDLANDS, Calif., March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Interstate Batteries, a $1 billion, privately held company, has kicked off a project to integrate enterprise routing into its corporate marketing system, Market IQ. Based on Esri's ArcGIS for Transportation Analytics, Market IQ will now provide routing data, sales orders, and marketing information to more than 300 independent...
Reach Out to Regulatory Agencies and Non-governmental Stakeholders for Support WESTBROOK, Maine, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Westbrook and Sappi Fine Paper North America announced today a collaboration to study opportunities for the recreational and economic development of the Saccarappa Falls stretch of the Presumpscot River in downtown Westbrook. Options to be examined include the potential removal of Sappi's hydroelectric dam located at the Falls and to provide...
SHENZHEN, China, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Huntkey Enterprise Group, a global professional power supply provider, announced its Wireless Charging LED Light - a household LED smart emergency lighting solution for your life. We are currently giving out New Year gifts in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Anyone who purchases ten of this can get an extra one for free. Please contact our local distributor for detailed information. The Huntkey wireless charging LED light is available now in...
CORAL GABLES, Fla., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vacationers visiting www.CaribbeanTravel.com can soon register to win a free Caribbean vacation per month, plus the Grand Prize one-week "Caribbean Vacation of a Lifetime" at the conclusion of the year-long promotion. www.CaribbeanTravel.com is the only website that provides one place to experience the Caribbean featuring 33 destinations, hundreds of hotels, attractions, restaurants, shops and local transportation. Consumers who...
Free Upgrade to One-Bedroom Suite for Stays Six Nights or Longer ISLANDS OF LORETO, BAJA, Calif. and SUR, Mexico, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Villa del Palmar at the Islands of Loreto, the newest member of Villa Group Resorts and Baja's first "million-star" resort, today announced an "every third night free" package from Alaska Airlines Vacations, meaning a six-night stay will earn guests two free nights at the resort. And, with Alaska Airlines increasing its flights from Los...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Isthmus of Panama uplifted 2.6 million years ago to form a land bridge connecting North and South America. This bridge has long been thought to be the crucial step in the interchange of animals between the Americas. Armadillos and giant sloths moved up into North America and ancient relatives of modern horses, rabbits, foxes, pigs, cats, dogs and elephants moved down into South America. A new study from the University of Florida...
Nova Southeastern University Professor Jim Thomas leads international expedition in Papua New Guinea that finds new species of sea slugs, feather stars and amphipods, a shrimp-like animal HOLLYWOOD Fla., March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- When Jim Thomas and his global team of researchers returned to the Madang Lagoon in Papua New Guinea, they discovered a treasure trove of new species unknown to science. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130301/FL69290) This is especially...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Grupo Clarin S.A. (LSE: GCLA; BCBA: GCLA) will host a conference call and webcast presentation on Monday, March 11, 2013 at 11:00 am Eastern Time (12:00 pm Buenos Aires time) to discuss its results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. Presentations will be in English, based on the earnings release, which will be distributed on March 11, 2013 at 8:00 am Eastern Time (9:00 am Buenos Aires time). Those...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Facing relentless human encroachment, some endangered primates and large cats will seek sanctuary in the sultry thickets of mangrove and peat swamp forests. These are not inviting places. Instead they are harsh coastal biomes with thick vegetation such as clusters of salt-loving mangrove trees and highly acidic peat soil composed of the waterlogged remains of partially decomposed leaves and wood. Because of these conditions, swamp...
NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- R. Kelly, The Jacksons, the Ojays, Tito Puente, Jr., and Akon will share the stage with renowned international and Saint Lucian artists during the newly renamed Saint Lucia Jazz and Arts Festival, April 30 to May 12, 2013. The Caribbean's premier cultural event is expected to attract thousands to the iconic Pigeon Island National Landmark for the 13 day festival, which will also be held at scenic vistas across the island showcasing a new...
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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...
