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NASSAU, Bahamas, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Islands Of The Bahamas will showcase the destination in a new multi-million dollar advertising campaign designed to showcase some of the islands' most compelling features - turquoise water, stunning beaches, friendly people and the laid-back lifestyle that transports vacationers millions of miles from their everyday cares. The ad, the first in a series, will feature several celebrities associated with The Bahamas including former...
Venetian Builders, Inc., Miami, Fla., expanded sales of sunrooms, patio covers, patio enclosures and screen pool enclosures into Miami Gardens in 2012, making the Miami suburb its third-best market in 2012, end of year figures showed. Company President Christopher Noe attributed the popularity of Venetian Builders aluminum additions in Miami Gardens to a need for more space in Miami Gardens’ smaller, older homes. Miami, FL (PRWEB) January 16, 2013 Installation of Miami Gardens sunrooms,...
Travel Services just negotiated a new deal to get better prices on all inclusive resorts and increase travel for members to the amazing Sugar Beach in St. Lucia. Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) January 14, 2013 Travel Services just negotiated a new deal to get lower prices on all inclusive resorts for their members of their private travel clubs all throughout the United States. Travel Services, or MyTSOnline, is the travel agent behind numerous travel clubs where members pay a fee for the right to...
BOSTON, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloudant today announced that it has joined the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international consortium that serves as a forum for collaboration on the development of geospatial interoperability standards. By joining the OGC, Cloudant aims to integrate geospatial standards into the Cloudant NoSQL database as a service (DBaaS) so Web, mobile and proprietary app developers can more easily introduce new geospatial features and analytics into...
TULSA, Okla., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MMP) plans to announce financial results for fourth quarter 2012 before the market opens on Tues., Feb. 5. Management will discuss 2012 earnings and 2013 guidance during a conference call with analysts at 1:30 p.m. Eastern the same day. To participate in the conference call, dial (888) 389-5988 and provide code 1041722. Investors also may listen to the call via the partnership's website at...
Berkeley Lab research could lead to a better understanding of the Arctic ecosystem’s impact on the planet's climate What does pulling a radar-equipped sled across the Arctic tundra have to do with improving our understanding of climate change? It’s part of a new way to explore the little-known world of permafrost soils, which store almost as much carbon as the rest of the world’s soils and about twice as much as is in the atmosphere. The new approach combines several...
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Families from throughout Orange County can expect their kids to come home with dirty hands after a day at one of the Orange County Great Park's Children's Gardening Workshops. The free monthly workshop series at the Great Park's Farm + Food Lab provides hands-on gardening activities for children ages 3-to-11. The year-round series of Children's Gardening Workshops is set to begin Sunday, January 13. Kids can participate in creative...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SUMMIT ON THE SUMMIT (www.summitonthesummit.com) today officially kicked off its ambitious expedition to Mt. Kilimanjaro in an effort to drive awareness and change to the global clean water crisis. Cultural influencers Justin Chatwin, Mark Foster, Chase Jarvis and Bryn Mooser join Grammy-nominated singer and philanthropist Kenna on the second ascent of Africa's tallest peak. SUMMIT's grueling seven-day, fifty-mile climb up Kilimanjaro is...
Finding a tour guide in Miami is easy; however it can also be stressful as there are so many to choose from. Miami Adventures created their new website with the idea of relieving the stress of the seemingly never ending search for the perfect guided tours in Miami and the surrounding areas. Miami Florida (PRWEB) January 01, 2013 With Miami being such a popular destination for family vacations and getaways there are endless ways to plan your trip. Finding a tour guide in Miami is easy;...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Filmmaker David Breashears has created a spectacular, two-billion pixel zoom image of Mount Everest to show the effects of climate change in the Himalayas. The interactive photograph reveals stunning details of the world’s highest peak, allowing viewers to ‘navigate’ around base camp and the mountain. Breashears captured 477 individual images to compose the gigapixel panorama of the Khumbu glacier from the Pumori...
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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...
