Most of us never think about cleaning our office cubicles, beyond giving the desk area an occasional swipe with a damp cloth. But when you think about the fact that we’re sitting at our desks for 40-plus hours a week, dropping food ...
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South Africa - Netcare hosted their 13th Night of the Stars Awards at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand at the end of last year. "From the beginning our pitch to Netcare (a private hospital network), was to celebrate a caring ...
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Owners and developers looking to build or upgrade self-storage facilities are deluged with details, decisions, permits and many other concerns. To be successful they are rethinking their operation and overall facility design, and looking ...
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Over the past 20 years, sandwich panels have increasingly come to serve as the backbone of flooring, wall, and partition manufacturing for aircraft design. Fabricated by sandwiching a relatively thick sheet of honeycomb core between two ...
Where would the world be without awnings? Folks would get soaked trying to get into their homes in a rain storm. Front rooms would get hot due to the unforgiving sun pouring right in. Some building facades would look ...
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The Sly Cooper game series from Sony Computer Entertainment is set in a fun, cartoony world of anthropomorphic animals. It centers on Sly, a raccoon and a thief. Thieves in Time is the fourth installment and the first new Sly Cooper game ...
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We are just thawing out after spending a few days testing tires at Jay Peak Resort in northern Vermont. No, we weren't skiing. We were measuring snow-traction performance in severe conditions to provide expert insights for our upcoming ...
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The Lincoln brand has been in trouble for years. Lincoln models have been too similar to their Ford counterparts to make it as credible luxury cars, and no amount of cosmetics and feature enhancements have made them feel all that special. ...
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A woman’s underwear drawer costs three times more than a man’s. The average woman’s knicker drawer holds a jaw dropping £836 worth of lingerie, whereas, the price of a man’s underwear drawer is a cheaper ...
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The Holden VF Commodore is being pitched as offering two sides of the same coin – sport-luxury or luxury-sport, with as-yet unreleased Commodore SS V-Series and just-unveiled Calais V-Series forming the respective heads and tails ...
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With the Holden VF Commodore exterior design “sculptural” has replaced “geometrical” as the design team set out to replace the previous car’s blocky appearance with a more curvature look. Two looks have been ...
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In the Holden VF Commodore cabin there are just two parts leftover from its Commodore predecessor – the centre console lid and the rear air vents. Everything else is all-new, with Holden designers using “sophisticated” and ...
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Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates recently took part in a question-and-answer session on popular message board site Reddit. Gates’ Ask Me Anything (AMA) session garnering more than 18,000 comments shortly after it ended. ...
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Kids can have nice furniture too Like your kids, wood furniture benefits from loving care and feeding. Nothing ages and wears better than wood - that's why antiques are so expensive - but why rush things? Follow these easy tips to keep ...
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When you think of a porch swing you may imagine a romantic place to sit with your sweetheart. Others might imagine a scene from a movie with fiddle playing and banjo strumming with the neighbors and friends. Whether in a movie or real life, ...
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