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Colleges and Universities Orientations
Universities and colleges are having orientations across the nations keeping scholars, administration and faculty staffs focus ready for the academic 2014-2015 school year to start on a positive note.
This is usually the best time to get school supplies such as textbooks, laptops, notebooks, pencils compass sets and backpacks at overstock prices. With the ability to shop online, the probabilities are always high to bargain for a lesser price keeping Business-to-Business competitive with new markets bursting here and there.
At this time of the year, summer temperatures are at their peak.
Most states will start expecting cool temperatures as we approach September.
This is also the period where apple harvesting starts in the Midwest, piggy banking from other Western states such as Seattle, Washington etc., making sure we have apples, nectarine and peaches around the year in pour grocery stores. This period chocolate factories are full of caramel apples and apricots covered with caramel or chocolates flavor of your choice.
MINNESOTA
Map of Minnesota, USA
Minnesota is located in the North Central (or Midwest Region) of the United States of America – a part of North America – Minnesota is bordered by the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin, the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario, and by Lake Superior.
Capital City: Saint Paul
Location: 44º 57′ N, 93º 06′ W
Largest City: Minneapolis
Location: 44º 59′ N, 93º 16′ W
Minnesota geographical area and extent:
The total area of Minnesota is 84,402 sq mi (218,601 sq km), of which land accounts for 79,548 sq mi (206,029 sq km) and inland water 4,854 sq mi (12,572 sq km). Minnesota extends 406 mi (653 km) N-S; its extreme E-W extension is 358 mi (576 km).
Minnesota is bordered on the N by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario (with the line passing through the Lake of the Woods, Rainy River, Rainy Lake, a succession of smaller lakes, the Pigeon River, and Lake Superior); on the E by Michigan and Wisconsin (with the line passing through Lake Superior and the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers); on the S by Iowa; and on the W by South Dakota and North Dakota (with the line passing through Big Stone Lake, Lake Traverse, the Bois de Sioux River, and the Red River of the North).
The length of Minnesota’s boundaries totals 1,783 mi (2,870 km). The state’s geographic center is in Crow Wing County, 10 mi (16 km) SW of Brainerd.
MN Downtown – City Mill Museum
Rochester MN – Skycam view
Plymouth MN – Home garden
MN – Lyndale Tap house
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Minneapolis MN – minnehaha-falls
Minneapolis MN – Lake Calhoun
Minneapolis Downtown
Groupon Getaways
Groupon website advertises air and hotel fares for everyone depending on when you plan to travel and your destination as such. The prices are competitive to other online marketers such as TravelVelocity.com which carries similar packages.
Some of their destinations takes you to remote areas where you can have a great time, spend family vacation or carryout business meetings with fellow team members. Most hotels are equip with internet outlets and promote free connectivity to online services.
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Minnesota – Mill City Museum located downtown Minneapolis
This touristic site has a bridge connecting the East and West frontage roads from Mill city to West Island Rd. where cafés, gift shops and night live entertainment are located. The area is full with guests, students and tourists throughout the week, especially during weekends.
The Guthrie theater is located on the same street as the City Mill with a packing ramp on the opposite side of the street, two bocks from S. Washington Ave.
What a magnificent look of the Mill City Museum from W. Island Rd. over the Mississippi river! Great attraction for children, family and tourists. The Stone Arch Bridge is a landmark span for pedestrians, cyclists and two-wheelers stand-up electric scooters. Restaurants, cafés and boutiqués or gift shops are located in the building and close nearby streets.
During Summer and Fall, there is an open farmer’s market on this district during the weekend, attracting celebrities, entertainers, and popular crowd to shop fresh produce.
If you are lucky, you can catch some of them just leaving performances and comic theaters dropping by to pick up fresh flowers, mints and fruits for the week. The popular woven craft men and women bring in their tools and gargets to demonstrate their creativity and sell finish products to buyers.
2013 Fall Fashion trends
This fall we are experiencing a mixture of spring and summer weather and it’s having an impact on fall fashion. Light career vests and suits for both ladies and men are a hit during this time of the year. We are still seeing flats worn by ladies, coordinating their colors with similar colored outfits. These trendy outfits are found in malls and plaza stores like The Limited, Eddie Bauer, Target, Lands End, Polo and Gap
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Latest newsbreak on the essence of salts consumption
English: The waves at Porto Covo, west coast of Portugal. Stitch of four photos. Français : Des vagues à Porto Covo, côte Ouest du Portugal. Panorama composé de 4 photos. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Delta Airlines – Boeing 767 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lately, more and more people are noticing the difference in the consumption of seafood such as lobsters, crabs, oysters, sardines, fishes, mussels and large sea mammals to be very essential in the development of healthy teeth and bones especially with early childhood age children through their adulthood. Most retired people in the age of 90’s, have discovered that nutrients like this are very important in rejuvenating their appearance and memories. New studies like this have tremendously exploded the tourism markets along the Atlantic Oceans and other Seas.
The exposure to sunny beaches helps to tune the human bodies, leaving a silky and glittering look. Most vacations and travels can be booked through local travel agencies or through online sites such as travelvelocity, Groupon, Fortune Travels, and Delta Airlines.
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Golfing in Alabama
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Marriot hotel
Experience a stunning AAA Four Diamond beach resort in Point Clear, Alabama, the exquisite Grand Hotel Marriott Resort, Golf Club & Spa, one of the most stunning hotels the Gulf Coast has to offer. A dramatic departure from standard Gulf Coast hotels, this grand resort boasts two challenging golf courses as part of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, a luxurious 20,000-square-foot European-style spa, 10 tennis courts, a fabulous array of exceptional dining options, and a sizeable marina for sailboats, yachts and fishing boats. The delightful beaches and extraordinary pool complex are distinct among Alabama resorts, offering plenty of entertainment for the whole family. Overlooking scenic Mobile Bay, we are a proud member of Historic Hotels of America and boast 37,000 square feet of elegant meeting and event space. Outstanding among hotels on the Gulf Coast, we have been recognized by Conde Nast Magazine as one of the “Top 125 Golf Resorts” and “Top 500 Hotels in the World” by Travel & Leisure.
Alabama – Popular attractions
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Alabama – Marriot Hotel
Northern Flicker
Northern flickers are commonly found in the Southern part of the U.S. but lately, due to warm temperatures experienced around Canada, they are getting to be very popular all over the U.S. and especially in the Midwest. Because of the warmer temperatures, these species of birds are present throughout the seasons. They travel distances to the South when it starts getting cold to avoid the winter snowy weather.
Northern flickers turn to have their off springs twice a year and the number of off springs ranges from 4 to 6 at a time. They feed on wood chips, barks of wood, nuts and dried bread crumbs.
Their nests are made of dried sticks, petals and sods with feathers and cotton to add a layer of cushion to protect their off springs as well as keeping them comfortable and save when its cold or rainy. They are early risers and I can hear them chipping, chipping, chipping on wood barks making wreaky, wreaky, wreaky sounds attracting other birds to their location such as bluebirds, cardinals and yellow birds from the back of my bathroom window. They are drawn and attracted to areas where River birch trees are common and you can see them from a distance flying and landing, creating beautiful colorful sceneries.
Monarch butterfly
The Life Cycle(s) of a Monarch Butterfly
Monarch butterflies go through four stages during one life cycle, and through four generations in one year. It’s a little confusing but keep reading and you will understand. The four stages of the monarch butterfly life cycle are the egg, the larvae (caterpillar), the pupa (chrysalis), and the adult butterfly. The four generations are actually four different butterflies going through these four stages during one year until it is time to start over again with stage one and generation one.
In February and March, the final generation of hibernating monarch butterflies comes out of hibernation to find a mate. They then migrate north and east in order to find a place to lay their eggs. This starts stage one and generation one of the new year for the monarch butterfly
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In March and April the eggs are laid on milkweed plants. They hatch into baby caterpillars, also called the larvae. It takes about four days for the eggs to hatch. Then the baby caterpillar doesn’t do much more than eat the milkweed in order to grow. After about two weeks, the caterpillar will be fully-grown and find a place to attach itself so that it can start the process of metamorphosis.
It will attach itself to a stem or a leaf using silk and transform into a chrysalis. Although, from the outside, the 10 days of the chrysalis phase seems to be a time when nothing is happening, it is really a time of rapid change. Within the chrysalis the old body parts of the caterpillar are undergoing a remarkable transformation, called metamorphosis, to become the beautiful parts that make up the butterfly that will emerge.
Monarch: Larvae (caterpillar) turning into Pupa (Chrysalis) Cocoons
Monarch: Pupa (Chrysalis) turning into Adult Butterfly
The monarch butterfly will emerge from the pupa and fly away, feeding on flowers and just enjoying the short life it has left, which is only about two to six weeks. This first generation monarch butterfly will then die after laying eggs for generation number two.
The second generation of monarch butterflies are born in May and June, and then the third generation will be born in July and August. These monarch butterflies will go through exactly the same four stage life cycle as the first generation did, dying two to six weeks after it becomes a beautiful monarch butterfly.
The fourth generation of monarch butterflies are a little bit different than the first three generations. The fourth generation are born in September and October and goes through exactly the same process as the first, second and third generations except for one part. The fourth generation of monarch butterflies does not die after two to six weeks. Instead, this generation of monarch butterflies migrates to warmer climates like Mexico and California and will live for six to eight months until it is time to start the whole process over again.
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Wedding dress
Bodice detail of 1760s gown made from very fine silk (lustring). The small flower pattern in off-white woven into the pale vanilla cream background suggests a date of around 1755 for the fabric, though the gown was made possibly a decade later. Alabama 
Spring Cherry Blossoms
Cherry ornament plants are shaded trees to have in the yard and around the neighborhood. These trees bears colorful flowered blossoms during spring depending on the weather. Some may blossom towards the end of May in the Midwest of the United States, keeping a beautiful, delightful and attractive atmosphere in the neighborhood. Their scent is very soothing and pleasant that they can be use for Interior design decorating center tables or hall ways.
The origination of these trees are dated back in the 18th century during the arrival of pilgrims from the Atlantic Oceanic Islands. They had a passion of tasteful and soft scents, and love to admire colorful blooming ornament shaded trees. Their petals are use for making perfumes, body wash, soaps, shampoos and other toiletry products. Fragrances of numerous purposes eventually are manufactured using these flowers blooming petals.
Famous site of Cherry blossoms is the Capital city, Washington D.C.
The blooming of the cherry trees around the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. has come to symbolize the natural beauty of our nation’s capital city. The famous trees, a gift of Japan in 1912, signal Washington’s beginning of spring with an explosion of life and color that surrounds the Tidal Basin in a sea of pale pink and white blossoms.
Each year, the National Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates spring in Washington, DC, the gift of the cherry blossom trees, and the enduring friendship between the people of the United States and Japan. The Festival produces and coordinates daily events featuring diverse and creative programming promoting traditional and contemporary arts and culture, natural beauty, and community spirit. Events are primarily free and open to the public.
Winter traffic
Automobile corporations are coming up with swift, steady, durable and compact utility smart sport cars to handle the weather and road conditions during Winter season. The content of their bodywork are made of metallic alloys which have been greatly improve to reduce damages caused from snow and defreezing sands used on highways and roads for melting snow.
Dodge Journey is one of many car brands which is perfect for weather conditions during Winter. It is made of many features such as rare object detection to avoid close contact when performing rare tunes, warm seats, built-in compass and extract adjustable rare seats for large size number of families.
This is a perfect car for families traveling by road during the holidays. These size cars are highly in-demand through rental companies during the holidays, and it’s advisable to book one well in advance when planning a trip out of town.
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Code of ETHICS and Business CONDUCTS
Dear Colleagues:
With the confidence and trust we have for each other, our companies thrive to maintain and exceed our customers expectation every given day making sure the dignity of both our corporations and customers are met.
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