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The Advantages of Exfoliation: Part One-Body
As summer fades and fall approaches, dry skin can become a problem. Minnesota winters are approaching and summer weather disappears. As the weather changes your skin changes. A good body scrub can do wonders for your skin this fall! Do you know what a good body scrub can do for your skin? It can do great things! Here are some facts and advantages of a body scrub for exfoliation. Facts:
When dead skin cells build up, you may notice, uneven skin, discoloration, dullness, and acne.
The average woman has 30 layers of dead skin cells on her face. You can prevent this build up with regular...
Number seven of the top ten places to eat and shop in Stonington, Maine: Seasons of Stonington Shop
Ready for a break from Minnesota before the weather hits for another long winter? Head to Maine for sunny skies, clear coastal water and the freshest seafood you'll ever taste this side of anywhere. On a recent trip to Stonington, Maine on Deer Isle, we found the top ten best places to eat and shop.
Number seven is the Seasons of Stonington Wine and Gourmet Foods Shop.
The great thing about Stonington, is that there is something for everyone but not a lot of repetition. There are artists in residence of every shape and kind; restaurants to fit every palate and ...
Number eight of the top ten places to eat and shop in Stonington, Maine: Nervous Nellie's Jams/Jellies
Ready for a break from Minnesota before the weather hits for another long winter? Head to Maine for sunny skies, clear coastal water and the freshest seafood you'll ever taste this side of nowhere. On a recent trip to Stonington, Maine on Deer Isle, we found the top ten best places to eat and shop.
Number eight is Nervous Nellie's Jams and Jellies (chutney and marmalade.) The jams really are made in a tiny, white, clapboard jelly kitchen by hand, with flavors ranging from Wild Maine Preserves, Blackberry Peach Conserve, Hot Tomato Chutney, Strawberry Rhubarb Conserve,...
Lady Gaga, Jennifer Aniston and Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino make top 10 list
Successful Promotions magazine released a Top 10 list of the hottest celebrities hawking everything from bottled water to eyewear in sexy marketing campaigns aimed at worldwide audiences.
Successful Promotions, published by the Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI), uncovered 10 of the sexiest celebrities promoting products like Armani underwear and drumming up business with top-drawer appearances.
ASI's Top 10 sexiest celebrity marketers are:
-- Jennifer Aniston: The former Friends star is promoting her new scent,
Lolavie, and appearing in Smart Water campaigns.
-- Patrick Dempsey: ...
Gael Towey and Stephen Doyle next up in the Design Conversations series at the W Minneapolis
The next installment of the Design Conversations series on Sept. 9, 2010 at the W Minneapolis features Gael Towey and Stephen Doyle in a presentation entitled Branding and Communication in the Digital Age. Towey is the creative and editorial director at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, while Doyle is this year's winner of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for communication. They've collaborated many times on hugely successful projects like the roll out of the Martha Stewart Everyday brand for K-Mart. However, the most impressive result of their partnership is much more...
Number nine of the top ten places to eat and shop in Stonington, Maine: Black Dinah Chocolatiers
Ready for a break from Minnesota before the weather hits for another long winter? Head to Maine for sunny skies, clear coastal water and the freshest seafood you'll ever taste this side of nowhere.
On a recent trip to Stonington, Maine on Deer Isle, we found the top ten best places to eat and shop.
Number nine is Black Dinah Chocolatiers. If you've stopped at every chocolate purveyor in Minnesota, including the Mall of America and beyond and yet, somehow remain just a bit unsatisfied, it's because you subconsciously knew there was something magical out...
Number ten of the top ten places to eat and shop in Stonington, Maine: Boyce's Motel
Ready for a break from Minnesota before the weather hits for another long winter? Head to the islands of Maine for sunny skies, clear coastal water and the freshest seafood you'll ever taste this side of anywhere.
On a recent trip to Stonington, on Deer Island, Maine we found the ten best places to eat and shop. Number Ten is Boyce's Motel. Why mention a motel in a food article? Simple, it's the best place for lobster in town!
The locals rarely eat lobster out, they just pull them out of the water offshore and cook them at home, of course. Luckily for you, if...
Arctic Cat returns from the dead (and some close calls) to make its one millionth snowmobile
Hundreds of beaming employees of Arctic Cat, Inc. gathered at the front of their factory in Thief River Falls last week to take a group shot to celebrate the company’s one millionth snowmobile.
Actually, the company has produced more than 1.7 million sleds, but they chose this week to call it a cool million.
The fact that the company exists at all today is a true-grit tale in corporate survival. The company went bankrupt in 1981 when it was called Arctic Enterprises, Inc. Before that, it had a near death experience in the early 1970s when demand for snowmobiles suddenly plummeted,...
Deputies Investigate Attempted Abduction In Rice
Law enforcement in central Minnesota is looking for a man who tried to abduct an 11-year-old girl.
A Desirable Residence by Madeleine Wickham
Liz and Jonathan have purchased a tutorial college. They move with their fourteen-year-old daughter, Alice, out of the house they love and into the tutorial college. Unfortunately, they cannot sell their house and are drowning in debt.
Marcus, a real estate agent, suggests they rent out their house. While waiting to meet the new renters at the house, Liz and Marcus begin having an affair. Liz falls in love with the idea that Marcus can rescue her from her financial problems. With him, she could live a life of luxury without having to work. Marcus feels guilty about the affair and a bad...
Twins edge Rangers 4-3
The Minnesota Twins pulled out a victory against the Texas Rangers in the first of three game series.
Matt Fox lasted 5 2/3 innings in his major league debut for the Twins, giving up two runs on four hits while Denard Span made a spectacular grab against the wall off the bat of the Rangers David Murphy in the first inning.
Closer Matt Capps came on to finish the eight and shut down the Rangers in the ninth. The two teams match up again today at Target field with a 3:10 start. To read more about the game visit http://www.examiner.com/minnesota-twins-in-minneapolis/twins-vs-rangers.
Super sale for suites at The Venetian in Las Vegas; book by Sept. 30
Planning a fall getaway to Las Vegas? Then why not upgrade your accommodations to the spectacular all-suite Venetian Resort located in the heart of the world-famous Strip? This beautiful, exciting, Italian-themed property is offering suites for as little as $139 nightly when booked by the end of this month. While suite availability is a moving target as always, if you have the flexibility to be in Las Vegas midweek you will find more opportunities for the lowest prices. The $139 price applies to Sunday through Thursday nights, with weekends being more expensive. There are a few blackout...
UPDATE: 15-year-old from Shakopee killed in ATV accident
Updated at 4:20 p.m.
A 15-year-old Shakopee teen is dead after an ATV rollover south of Underwood, Minn. on Friday evening.
The Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office in Fergus Falls reported that at about 6:20 p.m., a triple-passenger ATV rolled over on 312th Avenue, about a quarter-mile south of 185th Street, which is south of Underwood.
Hydraulic hybrid buses from the U of MN
Something has got to be done soon! Oil is running out. A decrease in supply leads to higher prices at the pump. Not only is oil expensive, but it is also a source of environmental pollution. Question: how do we deal with the decreased supply and address the pollution that we ourselves have been responsible for causing? One possible answer: hydraulic hybrid vehicles.
All hybrid vehicles utilize more than one source of fuel. The purpose is to decrease the dependence on conventional internal combustion engines, thus reducing the demand for oil and the...
Style want of the day: PocketToolX's MAKO Bike Tool
With Minneapolis consistently ranking in the top 10 for "bike friendliest cities in America," and recently being awarded the “Bicycle Friendly Community” silver status by the League of American Bicyclists ... is it any wonder that this week's Style want is bike-related?
Multi tools may well be one of this girl's guilty pleasures, and MK7 Design's PocketToolX line of multi tools have long caught our eye and inflamed our heart (and not just our's ....) But there's one in particular that seems to be right up many a Minnesotan man's alley...
Minnetonka woman arrested for burglarizing homes
Several metro media outlets have reported that a 26-year-old Minnetonka woman was charged Friday with second-degree burglary after police tailing her saw her enter a home through a back door.
Labor Day deals and steals in the Twin Cities
Just in time for the cooler temperatures that have blown into our fair state with the changing calendar pages, your favorite retailers have put together some fantastic Labor Day sales to help you warm up your wardrobe.
Best of all, many of these deals are BETTER if you shop online - thus, no need to miss out on the final weekend of the Minnesota State Fair or that friends-and-family cook-out you had planned, just to fight the crowds at the mall.
Minneapolis Men's Style has you covered, so check out some of our favorite deals:
1. Banana Republic's put many of its new fall...
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Bomb scare forces evacuation, closure of Miami International Airport
An emergency was declared at the Miami International Airport on Thursday evening when Transportation Security Administration screeners found a metal canister in the luggage of a 70-year-old traveler. Because the canister resembled a pipe bomb, the airport terminal was evacuated of hundreds of people and four concourses were closed. No explosives were found and the terminal eventually re-opened for business, but not until after the FBI and Miami Dade County Police interviewed the man, who it turns out is a scientist.
In addition to the terminal evacuation and concourse...
City council cnadidates- a glance
By Forrest Adams
On Nov. 2, Chanhassen voters will have three choice for two open slots on the City Council.
The terms of incumbent councilors Bryan Litsey and Vicki Ernst are over at the end of this year. Litsey will not run for re-election Ernst hopes to be re-elected. Also on the council ballot will be Denny Laugenburger and Brad Karels.
