Kamyar Shah asked:


Considering Moving to Miami, Florida?

Miami is a major city in southeastern Florida, and is situated on northern Biscayne Bay between the Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean. The main portion of the city lies on the shores of Biscayne Bay. It contains several hundred barrier islands, the largest of which contains the city of Miami Beach and its famous South Beach real estate district. Miami is the largest city in Miami-Dade County. Because of its city limits, Miami is the second-largest city in Florida, and the 45th largest city in the United States. However, the urban area, which includes, Miami-Dade County, Broward County, and Palm Beach County, makes up the largest metropolitan area in the Southeastern United States, and it is the fifth largest in the United States.

In 1896, the city officially incorporated its real estate and it had a voting population of just over 300. The U.S. Census Bureau estimation of the population of Miami in 2006 was 391,355. You can see that many people are moving to and making Miami the site of their next relocation.

However, if you are thinking about buying real estate in Miami and moving as part of relocation, it’s probably important to know that Miami is also one of the least affordable places to live, with 69 percent of its residents spending at least 42.8 percent of their income on home ownership. The city ranks first among least affordable cities for home ownership. But even with high real estate demands, many are still moving here in relocation. As of 2005, Miami is seeing its largest real estate growth since the 20’s.

However, some of the western edges of the city go into the Everglades real estate, which is a subtropical marshland located in the southern portion of the state. This causes occasional problems with wildlife, such as crocodiles and alligators that sneak into suburban communities.

Still, in recent years, many people have been moving to Miami and finding the real estate a great relocation from other parts of the country. Miami has seen international immigration increase to the area as well. The Greater Miami’s large population is made up of many ethnicities including Latin Americans and Caribbean islanders. Because of this,the city is sometimes called “The Gateway of the Americas.” Today, there are sizable numbersof permanent residents and undocumented populations of the following: Argentineans, Bahamians, Brazilians, Canadians, Colombians, Cubans, Dominicans, French, Haitians, Hondurans, Jamaicans, Indians, Israelis, Italians, Mexicans, Nicaraguans, Russians, Trinidadians, Tobagonians, Turks, South Africans, and Venezuelans, as well as a sizeable Puerto Rican population throughout the metropolitan area. Clearly, people from around the world are moving here and buying real estate for relocation.

Florida’s large Spanish-speaking population and economic ties to Latin America makes the region an important center of the Latino world. While commonly thought of as mainly a city of Hispanic and Caribbean immigrants, the Miami area is also home to one of the largest Israeli and Russian communities in America.

Economy

Miami is one of the country’s most significant financial centers. It is the major center of regional commerce, and has a strong international business community. Because of its closeness to Latin America, it serves as the headquarters of several Latin American operations for over, 400 multinational corporations. They include some of the following: Cisco, Disney, FedEx, Microsoft, Oracle, Exxon, SBC Communications, American Airlines and Sony.

Several huge companies are headquartered in or around Miami, such as Bacardi, Burger King, Carnival Cruise Lines, DHL, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ryder Systems, and Spirit Airlines. In addition, downtown Miami has the largest concentration of international banks in the country. Clearly businesses from around the world are moving here and buying real estate for relocation.

Because of its beautiful beaches, tourism is an important industry to Miami. Also, the Art Deco nightclub district in South Beach is regarded as one of the most sensational in the world and brings in many tourist dollars. So, if you are thinking about the relocation of your hotel business or night club this might be the real estate worth moving to and investing in.

Climate The Gulf Stream, a warm ocean current, runs northward just 15 miles from the coast. This allows the city’s climate to stay warm and mild all year. Another good reason to buy real estate in this area and consider moving here is that Miami is a tropical paradise. Miami has a true tropical climate with humid summers and dry winters. Sometimes the city does experience cold fronts. But the average monthly temperature for any month has never been recorded as being less than 64.4° F. Great weather is the reason many people are moving here and buying real estate for relocation.

In addition, the city gets most of its rain in the summer and it is mainly dry in winter. The hurricane season largely coincides with the wet season. Hurricane season officially runs from June 1 through November 30, although hurricanes can develop beyond those dates. The most likely time for Miami to be hit is during the peak of the Cape Verde season, which is mid-August through the end of September.

Due to its location between two major bodies of water known for tropical activity, Miami is also statistically the most likely major city in the world to be struck by a hurricane. Despite this, the city has been fortunate in not having a direct hit by a hurricane since 1964 with Hurricane Cleo. Don’t let the threat of hurricanes keep you from buying real estate here and moving to it as your relocation.

Media

Two major English-language newspapers serve Miami. The Miami Herald is Miami’s primary newspaper with over a million readers. There is also the South Florida Sun-Sentine. The city has El Nuevo Herald, Diario Las Americas; these are two Spanish newspapers for Miami area readers. Miami has the 12th largest radio market and the 17th largest television market. Education Miami is served by Miami-Dade County Public Schools, which is the largest school district in Florida, and the fourth largest in the United States. The district is the largest minority public school system in the country. Miami also has several private Catholic and Jewish high schools throughout the area.

Colleges and universities in the city proper include Florida International University and Miami-Dade College. And colleges and universities in the county include the following institutes: University of Miami, Barry University, Florida Memorial University, a historically black college, St. Thomas University and Johnson and Wales University. This area has great educational institutions so if you are moving your family here in a relocation, it’s a smart choice.

Transportation

Miami International Airport, one of the busiest international airports in the world, serves more than 35 million passengers a year. Miami is also home to the Port of Miami, the largest cruise ship port in the world. In 2005, the port catered to 3,605,201 passengers. In addition, the Port of Miami is one of the nation’s busiest ports, especially for cargo from South America and the Caribbean.

Local public transportation includes Metrobus, Metromover, and Metrorail, an elevated rapid transit system, each operated by Miami-Dade Transit. Furthermore, Tri-Rail, a suburban rail system, connects the major cities and airports of the South Florida metropolitan area.

Several transit expansion projects are being funded by a transit development sales tax throughout Miami-Dade County. The Metrobus system is also an option for moving to destinations not served by the main transit lines. Also, a new light rail system is proposed and will be called BayLink. It will connect Downtown Miami with the South Beach district of Miami Beach. Accessible transportation is a great reason to be moving and buying real estate in the area.

Lights, Camera Action

There are many television shows that have been based in Miami. The controversial Emmy-winning drama Nip/Tuck and CBS ’s CSI: Miami both take place in Miami. And, The Jackie Gleason Show was taped in Miami Beach from 1964 to 1970. In addition, Miami has acted as the backdrop for several movies, including There’s Something About Mary, Wild Things, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, 2, Fast 2 Furious, Bad Boys and Bad Boys II, Transporter 2, The Birdcage, True Lies, Miami Vice, Cocaine Cowboys, the classic Scarface, and the James Bond films: Goldfinger, Thunderball, and Casino Royale. So, if you want to be discovered, it might be a good career choice to find yourself moving to this real estate as a relocation.

Moving and Relocation Guide

If you are moving your family or business to Miami the following might help with your moving, and keep in mind you could call the Greater Miami Area Chamber of Commerce for more information. Its phone number is 305-350-7700.

The Beacon Council helps with the relocation of your business. It is an organization whose mission is to provide and coordinate available assistance. It is a private/public partnership.



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Delightful asked:


the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, according to BMI. She has also won numerous awards worldwide, including two Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammy Awards, fifteen Billboard Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards and a People’s Choice Award. She is also the only artist from South America to reach the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the Australian ARIA chart, the United World Chart and the UK Singles Chart.

Donald Weatherfield asked:


Shakira is a female celebrity we all know and many of us love. Not necessarily as well know in the states, she’s an international celeb known for her music, great singing ability, and exceptional beauty. Interested in learning more? Then read on.

Born in Barranquilla, Columbia on 2nd February, 1977, Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is one of the world’s most prolific singer and songwriter. Shakira means “thankful” in Arabic.

FAMILY

Her father was an American of Lebanese Italian descent and her mother was Colombian of Spanish-Italian descent. She was multilingual. In other words, she spoke Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian and Arabic with relative ease.

THE START OF HER CAREER

At a tender age of four years, she wrote her first poem and since then never looked back. ‘Tus gafas oscuras’ (Your dark glasses) was the first song written by her in memory of her brother who was killed in a tragic motorcycle accident. The song title was inspired from her father who used to hide his grief over his son’s death by wearing dark glasses. At that time she was 8 years old. Also, during that time she started to learn belly dancing.

When Shakira turned 14 years, she made her first studio album. One thousand copies were sold off the album and she went back to the studio for a second attempt. Even though the second album got better reviews, it didn’t do much to her career.

After graduating from high school, Shakira made her third studio album, Pies Descalzos. This album gave her overwhelming recognition and fame in Latin America. Over 5 million copies were sold off this album. After releasing two more albums, she became a global star.

SHAKIRA GAINS MOMENTUM

Shakira teamed up with Wyclef Jean for her song ‘Hips Don’t Lie’. Needless to say, this song was a tremendous hit in the year 2006. Her fourth cross-over English album, Laundry Service sold over 13 million copies all over the world in the year 2001. Since then, Shakira has become an international icon.

In the year 2005, the Oral Fixation was announced releasing Volumes 1 and 2. These albums were a big hit. Shakira has won 2 Grammy Awards, 8 Latin Grammy Awards, 15 Billboard Music Awards, 3 MTV Music Awards, People’s Choice Award and has also received a Golden Globe nomination.

According to http://www.wallstreetfighter.com, Shakira is one of the top 10 highest earning “hotties”. Shakira, 31, certainly surprised me with the amount of money she earned last year. But when you think about it, it makes perfect sense. She’s dominating the Spanish-speaking world with endorsements, and tours all over South America. And now she’s a household name in the United States. Plus she’s super short and wears skimpy clothing. Therefore, she probably saves a lot of money on wardrobe.

OTHER SHAKIRA DETAILS TO KNOW

Shakira was named #20 in FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006″ in the year 2006.She started dating Argentinean President’s son, Antonio De La Rua in the year 2000. In the year 2001, they got engaged and have made plans to marry in future.

Shakira has done a lot of charity work. Based on reports, Shakira has contributed about $55,000 annually to charity. Also, Shakira is voted #38 in the AskMen. com’s Top 99 Women 2008 Edition. Based on BMI reports, Shakira is the highest selling Columbian artist of all times having sold a whopping 50 million albums globally.

Shakira will be awarded with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She will be the first Columbian to receive such an honor.

So as you can see, she’s a celebrity worthy of the title “celebrity”. She’s a born singer and performer, and has made great strides gaining international recognition. If you don’t know who Shakira was before you read this, you definitely know who she is now.

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moty ricklin asked:

The poem Hips Don’t Lie represents for me some of the highest quality pop poetry:

Hips Don’t Lie

Latin mail order brides up in here tonight

No fighting, no fighting

We got the refugees up in here

No fighting, no fighting

Shakira, Shakira

I never really knew that she could dance like this

She makes a man want to speak Spanish

Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa

Shakira, Shakira

Oh baby when you talk like that

You make a woman go mad

So be wise and keep on

Reading the signs of my body

And I’m on tonight

You know my hips don’t lie

And I’m starting to feel it’s right

All the attraction, the tension

Don’t you see baby, this is perfection

Hey Girl, I can see your body moving

And it’s driving me crazy

And I didn’t have the slightest idea

Until I saw you dancing

And when you walk up on the dance floor

Nobody cannot ignore the way you move

your body, girl

And everything so unexpected – the way

you right and left it

So you can keep on taking it

I never really knew that she could dance like this

She makes a man want to speak Spanish

Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa

Shakira, Shakira

Oh baby when you talk like that

You make a woman go mad

So be wise and keep on

Reading the signs of my body

And I’m on tonight

You know my hips don’t lie

And I am starting to feel you boy

Come on let’s go, real slow

Don’t you see baby asi es perfecto

Oh I know I am on tonight my hips don’t lie

And I’m starting to feel it’s right

All the attraction, the tension

Don’t you see baby, this is perfection

Shakira, Shakira

Oh boy, I can see your body moving

Half animal, half man

I don’t, don’t really know what I’m doing

But you see to have a plan

My will and self restraint

Have come to fail now, fail now

See, I am doing what I can, but I can’t so

you know

That’s a bit too hard to explain

Baila en la calle de noche

Baila en la calle de dia

Baila en la calle de noche

Baila en la calle de dia

I never really knew that she could dance like this

She makes a man want to speak Spanish

Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa

Shakira, Shakira

Oh baby when you talk like that

You know you got me hypnotized

So be wise and keep on

Reading the signs of my body

Seסorita, feel the conga, let me see you

move like you come from Colombia

Mira en Barranquilla se baila asi, say it!

Mira en Barranquilla se baila asi

Yeah

She’s so sexy every man’s fantasy

a refugee like me back with the Fugees

from a 3rd world country

I go back like when ‘pac carried crates for

Humpty Humpty

I need a whole club dizzy

Why the CIA wanna watch us?

Colombians and Haitians

I ain’t guilty, it’s a musical transaction

No more we do snatch ropes

Refugees run the seas ’cause we own our

own boats

I’m on tonight, my hips don’t lie

And I’m starting to feel you boy

Come on let’s go, real slow

Baby, like this is perfecto

Oh, you know I’m on tonight and my

hips don’t lie

And I’m starting to feel it’s right

The attraction, the tension

Baby, like this is perfection

No fighting

No fighting

It is poetry: Even when we hear the poem for the first time, the poetic nature of the title is very clear:

· Not fully understood

· Intriguing

· Unusual

· Metaphoric

· Sensual

· Popistic

The poem seems at a first glance to be a pop song, but actually it is poetry at its best, pop poetry. Shakira did not write a poem full of gaps that is hard to follow. Such a poem would not pass as a pop poem. Shakira’s technique was to plant a key verse that makes it clear that this is poetry, and not a pop song.

If there was only one such verse, it would not have been poetry. Many of the verses are symbolic, even though they seem light. In this essay I will disregard completely Third World elements, such as refugees. I will consider only the dance/show motive. I claim that all dance/show lines have erotic symbolic meaning.

For example the innocent-looking verse: “I’m on tonight”, seemingly meaning “I am performing tonight”, but it might be interpreted as: “I am hot tonight”, or something similar, of an erotic nature. The symbol is not completely clear, but interesting. Again poetry.

Sometimes the erotic nature of the verse is very explicit and clear: “And I’m starting to feel you boy”

The feeling of the poem: The poem constructs a correlative object, which is colorful, popistic, uplifting, stirring, and sensual. A complex feeling, such that exists only in true poetry, and of the utmost quality. Even if we read the poem, without music, it will have a strong impact on us. This special kind of feeling can exist only in pop poetry. Pop poetry can bring into poetry the exciting the rhythmic, the uplifting, and the stirring.

Psychological elements: Shakira is metonymically represented , through the physical: hips, dance, sensuality. Throughout the poem, Shakira does not think. At most: “You make a woman go mad”.

Philosophical elements: The poem praises the physical, the immediate, that is obtained through the senses, rather than through thought. This is exactly how the poem is transferred to the reader, and with it, the feeling.

The poem’s meaning: The poem is Shakira. Shakira singing from her hips. Shakira, physical, and unthinking. Shakira, of dance and sex (and also, Spanish, and Third World).

Martinapp asked:


 



As all real fashion victims know very well, all fashion houses are already announcing new trends for next summer beach fashion and many fashion designers have already presented their new collections.

Nowadays to be fashionable on the beach a plain swimsuit is in no way enough, every year catalogues renew themselves and it’s very important to be always updated. In the last years beach accessories have also taken much importance, as flip-flops, beach towels, but also bracelets and necklaces, and the sarong will still play the lead in beach fashion.

This year beach fashion will also be based on Colombian style, so bikini will be again (but when it was not?) the more fashionable swimsuit. Bright colors, see-through sarongs, and south American patterns: really a wonderful collection.

After winter, also in summer purple and all its nuances will be the most fashionable colors, and then also micro and maxi patterns, safari or jungle prints.

In the bikinis, panties will be bigger, with no or almost no bows. Triangle shaped and push-up bras of course will play the leading role. Around the world of bikini or one-piece swimsuit, which is made with less and less cloth and that now exposes most parts of the body, you can find all beach accessories. Gossamer-like caftans made of chiffon or cotton muslins, hot pants and sarongs.

Beach bags are of great importance, made of canvas or straw, but always enriched by embroidery and appliquéd flowers, rigorously handmade crochet style and rigorously color-matching with the swimsuit.

It’s clear now that you can’t go to the beach just with a traditional swimsuit, but the beach has also become an important runaway for who always want to be cutting-edge style. Besides sarongs and caftans, tracksuits, hot pants and soft chenille pants absolutely don’t have to miss in your bag. Also toweling accessories have appeared: beach towels, ponchos, beach robe with inlays, with ruches. There are really a lot of alternatives, for all tastes and for every kind of body.

About shoes, ballerinas and flip-flops, made of toweling too, still are really ruling the roost, of every different color but always color-matching with the swimsuit or the sarong.

Given that bikini or at least two-piece are spreading everywhere, one-piece also adapt itself and leave uncovered more and more body parts. Plain color swimsuit almost gives way to prints, French lace inserts, some swimsuit are even full covered with myriads of hand sewed prismatic precious stones.

A necessary accessory in your bag is definitely sun cream, there are any kind of sun creams with any level of protection, the most important thing is that your skin have to be always hydrated and you don’t get a sunburn, so in the first days is better to use a bit higher level of protection or you will have to change all your clothes to match with your purple-red skin. It is always better not to overuse of sunbathe, skin is much more fashionable if it is healthy and hydrated even if a bit less tanned.

If you want at all costs an astonishing tan, an always actual trend are sunlamps to do in the city some months before going on vacation. The sunlamps, but used in moderation, will prepare the skin to solar exposition, besides giving you a bit of tan.

After all this preparation, don’t forget to enjoy your holiday at the most, relaxing yourself and having fun as much as you can, after all summer is also all these things!

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from girls swimsuit for any information, please visit bikini shop or for insurance visit women swimwear .