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International Supplements and Skin Care Company Offers Flights to New Zealand and Other Prizes to Customers. Christchurch (PRWEB) December 14, 2012 Xtend-Life announced today two promotions to celebrate the upcoming launch of its new Global Headquarters and to show appreciation of the continued support from loyal customers. One promotion offers Xtend-Life customers a chance to win return flights for two to Christchurch, New Zealand from any part of the world to participate in the Global...
Metadata Technology North America awarded contract for the delivery of innovative standards based classification management platform (PRWEB) December 11, 2012 Metadata Technology North America Inc. (MTNA) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract by Statistics New Zealand for the delivery of its next generation classification management system. Classifications, often referred to as code lists or value labels by statisticians, are a fundamental component of statistical...
VANCOUVER, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX: TAO and OTCQX: TAOIF), announces that New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals has awarded TAG Oil Ltd. four onshore exploration blocks offered in New Zealand's 2012 Block Offer. The permits awarded have been assigned the Petroleum Exploration Permit (PEP) numbers 54873, 54876, 54877, 54879 and are all located in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. Key attributes to these awards are: -- 37,253 additional gross acres...
Email users continue to struggle with the daily barrage of distracting email piling up in their inbox. OkInbox, saves users from constant email interruptions, task switching and email overload. Christchurch, New Zealand (PRWEB) December 11, 2012 Email overload and corporate spam is a huge problem for many businesses around the world. The problem is two pronged. First, the sheer volume of email arriving in to users’ inboxes each day is overwhelming and often leads to overwork, user’s...
SYDNEY, AUCKLAND, New Zealand and OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pandora (NYSE: P), the leading internet radio service in the U.S., is now fully live in Australia and New Zealand. The personalized radio service can now be accessed via smartphone apps for iOS and Android devices, in addition to the Web-based player. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110615/SF20192LOGO) Pandora is reinventing how people enjoy music by offering the best...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Maori of New Zealand have been cooking in earth ovens, called hangi or umu, since at least the 1200s. These ovens are fire pits, scooped out of the ground. A fire is built and large volcanic stones are laid over the fire. When the fire burns down, the food is wrapped in leaves, placed in baskets and laid on the rocks with wet fern fronds. A layer of earth is scraped over the food, sealing in the heat and steam. The stones inside...
LONDON, December 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - Travel to Middle Earth in the footsteps of the new movie, The Hobbit; An Unexpected Journey, with Austravel, the leading Australasia Specialist. The well anticipated movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be hitting our cinema screens for the first time on December 13th. From the Academy Award winning filmmaker Peter Jackson, he brings the first of a trilogy of films taken from the popular masterpiece The Hobbit by...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Writers Group Film Corp. (OTCQB:WRIT) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Front Row Networks, Inc., a Los Angeles-based concert production and distribution company, has entered into an agreement with Filmscope Entertainment Pty Ltd ("Filmscope Entertainment"), an Australian production and distribution company to distribute Front Row Networks 2D and 3D concert projects throughout Australia and New Zealand. Filmscope Entertainment is an Australian...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online As a second week of climate talks begin at the Doha Summit in Qatar, the nearly 200 countries gathered there are no closer to a climate deal than when the last summit ended in Durban, South Africa in 2011. In fact, a rift that is continuing between wealthy nations and developing economies has led at least one country to back out of the talks altogether, saying it’s an outdated response to global warming. While New Zealand’s...
PORTLAND, Maine, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WEX Inc. (NYSE: WXS), a leading international provider of physical, digital and virtual corporate card payment solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with CashStar, a leading global digital gifting and incentives company, to offer eGift Card services in Australia and New Zealand. WEX is one of the largest gift card processors in the Australian and New Zealand markets, and this new platform adds to its capabilities customized...
Latest New Zealand Reference Libraries
Evechinus chloroticu, commonly known as kina in the Māori language, is a sea urchin that can be found in New Zealand waters. It resides at depths between 39.3 and 45.9 feet in areas with moderate wave patterns. In northern waters of its range, it is typically found in rocky areas but can be found in sandy areas. In southern waters, it prefers to live in fjords. Evechinus chloroticu can reach an average diameter of up to 6.6 inches. It feeds on plant materials like red algae, large brown...
The Great-winged Petrel or Grey-faced Petrel (Pterodroma macroptera) is a petrel. In New Zealand, it is also known by its Maori name oi and as a muttonbird. The following are the two recognized subspecies of P. macroptera. - P. m. macroptera and P. m gouldi, the latter of the two is endemic to New Zealand, and is often called the Grey-faced Petrel. It breeds in the Southern Hemisphere between 30 and 50 degrees south having colonies on Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, the Crozet Islands,...
The Black Petrel (Procellaria parkinsoni) is also called the Parkinson’s Petrel. It is a large, black petrel, the smallest of the Procellaria. This species is an endemic breeder of New Zealand, breeding only on islands off the North Island, on Great Barrier Island and Little Barrier Island. At sea it scatters as far as Australia and Ecuador. It’s a medium-sized, all black petrel except for pale sections on the bill. The wingspan is 110 cm on average. This bird is usually seen in the...
The New Zealand green-lipped mussel, Perna canalicula known also as the New Zealand mussel, the greenshell mussel, kuku, and kutai, is a bivalve mollusk belonging to the family Mytilidae. This mollusk has great significance as a cultivated species within New Zealand. This mollusk occurs all around New Zealand’s mainland. It’s usually seen below the intertidal zone, but it can be seen in the intertidal zone. It feeds on a variety of phytoplankton. P. canalicula is significant to the...
The largest ray in the world is the giant oceanic manta ray. It is found in the open water of all the major oceans of the world. In the eastern Atlantic it can be seen from New Jersey to Uruguay; in the western Atlantic from the Azores Islands to South Africa; in the eastern Pacific from southern California to Peru and in the western Pacific from Japan to New Zealand. It also can be seen in the entire Indian Ocean. This manta ray will swim in deep water but enter the shallows around reefs for...
