The laws of gift giving call for making an effort when choosing a gift so a gift card or re-gifting can put a relationship at risk, a British researcher says. Karen Pine, a professor of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Gift Giving
A global leader in the development of rosin and turpentine extracted from pine resin, DRT has announced an increase in capital of its joint-venture with the Indian company Crown Chemicals to the level of 50 %. Specialized in the manufacture ...
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Like any burnt fuel, biomass briquettes produce high calorific energy and heat that is equivalent to any solid black fuel. Bio fuel briquettes are renewable and eco-friendly resource that is produced by processing waste and residues of agro ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Renewable Resource
Often used interchangeably even by seasoned flooring dealers, linoleum and vinyl are very different materials, though they may appear very similar.Though once called outdated, both linoleum (colloquially called 'lino') and vinyl flooring ...
The Canadian sawmill group Canfor is poised to end production at its sawmill in Quesnel, British Columbia in March 2014. Canfor said that this decision was connected to very limited roundwood availability in the Quesnel region as a result ...
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Green flooring options are becoming more and more popular each year. Flooring manufacturers have, understandably, taken a two-pronged approach to green flooring options, developing new products and more aggressively marketing current ...
Laminate flooring used to be considered merely a substitute for hardwood or tile, but now it is a legitimate medium in and of itself. The durability is often what initially interests customers. What started out as a simple laminate flooring ...
Almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts and pistachios are linked to a 20 percent lower death rate, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Dr. Ying Bao of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School ...
For years I have gone into food stores and read labels only to not know what half the ingredients were. I got to thinking, that maybe I'm not alone when it comes to knowing what the rest of them are. So, I've put together what might be a ...
Coconut oil, from the research I have done, is by far the best of the best. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the benefits of coconut oil include hair care, skin care, stress relief, maintaining cholesterol levels, weight loss, ...
With this coming February being American Heart Month and with the holiday gluttony behind us, maybe this is a good time to look at the causes and cure for heart disease. Heart disease is the number one killer in civilized nations with ...
Another member of the labiatae, or mint, family, thyme is an herb native to the Mediterranean basin and comes in many varieties. There is only one plant, thymus vulgaris, but the composition of the oil distilled from the plant shows ...
Juniper has been used in ancient Greece and Egypt to combat the spread of disease and was still being used by hospitals in France during the First World War. The warm, woody-scented essential oil is extracted from juniper berries, as well ...
Tags: Juniper Essential Oil, Scalp Tonic
Norwegian softwood-lumber exports to the EU in the first half-year 2013 were more or less as they had been in the same period of last year. Eurostat data shows that deliveries of rough-sawn and planed softwood lumber amounted to 255,391 m3. ...
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West Fraser Timber is addressing the effects of tight roundwood supply caused by mountain pine beetle infestation in parts of British Columbia by exchanging timber rights, closing mills and making targeted investments in less-affected ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Timber