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SAVANNAH, Ga., May 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Savannah College of Art and Design honored Isabel and Ruben Toledo, internationally renowned artists in the worlds of high fashion, style and design, with the 2009 Andre Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday, May 16, at the university's annual SCAD Fashion Show. SCAD President Paula Wallace and Vogue Editor-at-Large Andre Leon Talley presented the Toledos with the award. (Photo:...
SAVANNAH, Ga., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The public is encouraged to log onto www.watersmartgardenvote.com and help choose the winner of the waterSmart Landscape Challenge, which will be awarded a $35,000 contract with the City of Savannah to install their garden design in Bryan Square. Three innovative landscape designer firms have created sustainable, water-efficient gardens for Bryan Square on Hutchinson Island as part of an overall effort by the city and state of Georgia to show...
"Follow That Light" Instructs Readers on Myriad Subjects in Order to Achieve Salvation SAVANNAH, Ga., April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- In her debut spiritual guide, "Follow That Light: A Happy Journey" (published by AuthorHouse), Sheryl Patwardhan gives readers the keys to their spiritual well-being, showing them how to grow wise with God and gain salvation through knowledge of the Bible. "We have three keys to success: church, prayer and faith," Patwardhan writes. "They help us to follow the...
SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Founders Club will donate $5 from the sale of its new Believe golf clubs to the Mammography Fund at St. Joseph's/Candler. "The Mammography Fund is a great service to the community. Early detection is crucial in the fight against cancer," Jeff Andrews, CEO of Founders Club, said. The Believe set retails for $399 and will be sold at Edwin Watts Golf stores and specialty golf retail stores across the United States. "St. Joseph's/Candler is...
SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Savannah is seeking proposals for the waterSmart Landscape Challenge to develop a sustainable, water-efficient garden for Bryan Square on Hutchinson Island as part of an overall effort by the city and state of Georgia to show residents how to create and maintain landscapes that use less water. All design proposals must be received by Feb. 27, and all participants must hold a valid Georgia business license in at least one county. The...
NEWS CONFERENCE: 3:30 PM, Wednesday Jan. 21st, 501 West Boundary St., Savannah CALGARY, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ - DIRTT stands for Doing It Right This Time. That now includes setting up a new assembly plant in Savannah, Georgia to build the company's modular, movable walls. The new 81,000-square-foot DIRTT Environmental Solutions (www.dirtt.net) assembly plant is located at 155 Knowlton Way in the Crossroads Business Center. DIRTT will be the first tenant in this state-of-the-art...
SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- WEBPRO International has released another one of its prize domain names to the public before going to auction this February. www.RealWebPages.com can be purchased now for a mere $840k US. This would include .TV, .US, .CC, .INFO, .BIZ, .BZ and MOBI, extensions. Additionally, country domain names are also to include CO.UK, .UK, .EU, .DE, .CN. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090121/CLW064 ) The image depicted on...
SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 6, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Health Discovery Corporation ("HDC") (OTCBB:HDVY) today announced that the RT-PCR assay for the four genes comprising HDC's recently commercialized gene-based molecular diagnostic test for prostate cancer, which is currently available at Clarient Inc.'s (Nasdaq:CLRT) Clinical Laboratory, can be successfully used in urine samples for gene testing. The study, completed in collaboration with MD Anderson Cancer Center, demonstrated that...
SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Entertainment to entertainment entrepreneur Suzanne de Passe Nov. 1. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081101/DC43464 ) R&B singer Kenny Lattimore serenaded de Passe from the award stage, singing the hits "And I Love Her" and "Come Down in Time" from his new album, "Timeless." Fellow...
SAVANNAH, Ga., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The 11th annual Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, presented legendary actor Malcolm McDowell with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution and Dedication to the Art of Filmmaking Oct. 26, 7 p.m., at Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081026/NY41670 ) "I'm extremely honored to be celebrated tonight," said McDowell. "I've been very fortunate to...
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Brahea armata or Mexican Blue Palm is also known as the Blue Hesper Palm and grows in Baja, California and in Savannah, Georgia. An ornamental plant, it grows to 49 feet in height and features a broad trunk, blue tinted leaves measuring 3 - 6.5 feet in width with 3 foot petioles and small brown elliptical fruits measuring 0.7 - 0.9 inches in length. Seeds from these fruits were once a regular part of the Cocopah people's diets. This species can be found growing along riverbeds, arroyos and...
The Savannah is a cross between the Serval, an African wild cat and a domestic cat, typically the Egyptian Mau or another spotted breed. The Savannah, being one of the largest domestic breeds of cat, may weigh 10 to 40 pounds but are typically not much larger than 25 pounds. The coat of the Savannah depends on what breed is used for the domestic cross. Its coat can be tan with black or brownish spots, silver with dark spots, marble, or several other patterns. The wild look of the Savannah...
The bush dog (Speothos venaticus) is a canid found in Central and South America, including Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru (West of the Andes), Ecuador, the Guianas, Paraguay, northeast Argentina (Misiones province), and Brazil. In spite of its extensive range, it is very rare. It was originally discovered as fossils in Brazilian caves and thought to be extinct. It is the only species in its genus, Speothos. The Bush Dog has soft long brownish-tan fur. It has a lighter reddish tinge on...
