Duluth, Minnesota is the home of Cirrus Design, a corporation that manufactures the popular Cirrus SR Series of private aviation aircraft.
The Cirrus aircraft is best known for its CAPS (Cirrus Aircraft Parachute System), which is a ballistic parachute system that is capable of returning the aircraft safely to the ground in an emergency situation. Cirrus pioneered the system in the mid-1980s.
In addition to its unique parachute system, Cirrus aircraft offer other innovative features not found elsewhere. The Cirrus uses no retractable landing gear system, unlike other similar aircraft. Retractable landing gear failures are common and the Cirrus has eliminated that problem. Cirrus aircraft are all electric and no vacuum systems are employed.
Cirrus has recently released its new private jet aircraft, with a futuristic design and remarkably comfortable cockpit that many private pilots agree is perhaps the best available today. The company has received around four hundred orders for the new jet, which is priced at just under one million dollars per aircraft.
[Take a look at the Cirrus jet website http://www.the-jet.com/infobase.html and you'll be hooked! It only takes $100,000 to reserve one of these..]
The presence of Cirrus Design in Duluth has been a boon to the city and to Saint Louis County. The company employs around 900 workers in the Duluth area and plans to expand, adding one hundred jobs by 2011 and another hundred by 2014. The company also employs about 375 workers in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Cirrus is currently the second largest manufacturer of single-engine, general aviation aircraft in the world, behind Cessna.
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If you're interested in wildlife or bird watching, you might find it fun (and educational) to be able to watch a live webcam from the nest of a Common Loon on a Minnesota lake.
KARE-11 television station in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul area hosts Ron Schara's "Minnesota Bound" program on Saturday and Sunday evenings each week. The program also airs in Duluth, Rochester and in the Fargo - Moorhead area along the North Dakota border.
The "Loon Cam" on Schara's Minnesota Bound website offers a live view of mom & dad Loon taking turns guarding their nest. Right now there are two eggs in the nest and Larry Backlund keeps an online log about the daily goings-on at the nest site.
The gestation period for the Common Loon is about twenty-eight days. So the first hatchling should be due on or around June 8th. Check it out!
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Crave Restaurant in Edina, Minnesota is featuring live Jazz every Friday evening, at 8:30 p.m.
You'll see Jazz pianist Laura Caviani, with guest artists like Debbie Duncan, Patty Peterson and Dorothy Doring performing live at the popular Edina nightclub.
The Laura Caviani Trio has maintained a weekly presence at Crave since the beginning of the year. In February, I saw the Trio (Laura Caviani on keyboard, Tom Lewis on bass and Phil Hey on drums) at Crave with blues stylist Debbie Duncan. Debbie and the Trio delivered their usual powerhouse performance of jazz and blues tunes, including "Blame it on My Youth", "Blue Skies", "Our Love is Here to Stay", "I'm Beginning to See the Light" and "If I Were a Bell, I'd be Ringing (sung by guest vocalist Nancy Harms).
Crave is a little crowded on Friday nights, so I'd call for a reservation and get there early. The best seating for enjoying the Jazz is at the bar, closest to the musicians.
The food at Crave is good, but what really makes the place, in my opinion, is the Jazz!
Midwest composer/producer/songwriter and historian Warren Nelson (of Big Top Chautauqua fame) has written a musical theater production about pioneer life in Minnesota, to be presented at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis, May 10 and 11.
"Old Minnesota: Song of the North Star" is Nelson's musical and historical tour of life in the Gopher State. The show features large screen still photographs of life in the early days of Minnesota statehood.
The performances at Minneapolis' Pantages Theater are part of a Big Top Midwest Tour of Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, with appearances in Glenwood (April 25), Stillwater (May 3rd), Elk River (May 13) and downtown Minneapolis. Wisconsin stops on the tour will include Chippewa Falls and Saint Croix Falls.
Student performances of "Old Minnesota: Song of the North Star" will be sponsored by the St. Anthony Falls Heritage Board.
For ticket information, visit the Hennepin Theater District website or check the Big Top Chautauqua website.
Excelsior's Old Log Theater has put together its own summer concert series!
The Old Log's "Sounds for Summer" concerts begin June 2nd, with an appearance by the Russ Peterson Big Band. On concert evenings, dinner is available in the theater's dining room. All concerts in the summer series begin at 8 p.m.
Here's this summer's concert schedule:
Tickets are $22 per person, with group discount pricing available. Call the Old Log Theater for details, at 952-474-5951.
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We specialize in marketing and selling unique properties, including waterfront, estate and luxury homes, in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metro area and on Madeline Island in Lake Superior.
Broker Eric Kodner founded Madeline Island Realty in 2001 and Wayzata Lakes Realty in 2003. Madeline Island Realty has become a leading luxury property broker in the Apostle Islands area, with record high price luxury property sales and a significant inventory of unique homes and lakeshore estates. Our Twin Cities affiliate, Wayzata Lakes Realty, specializes in marketing luxury properties in communities such as Wayzata, Minnetonka, Minnetrista, Edina and Stillwater. Mr. Kodner has earned the prestigious CRS, ABR and GRI designations and the e-PRO Certification. Recently Eric Kodner became one of the few agents in Minnesota and Wisconsin to attain the CLHMS (Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist) designation.
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Wayzata Lakes Realty and its Wisconsin affiliate, Madeline Island Realty, specialize in luxury waterfront and island properties, estate homes and vacant lakeshore properties. Our relationship with LuxuryRealEstate.com and the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing provides us with a unique opportunity to network with other luxury property agents across the United States and abroad.
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