COSTA MESA, Calif. — Orange County interior designer Marc Pridmore has opened Marc Pridmore Designs, a luxury furniture, flooring, lighting and accessories showroom here. The upscale retailer recently welcomed hundreds of consumers ...
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The GuZang Festival is a great occasion for the Miao people to worship their ancestors. They sacrifice bulls, beat drums, and hold other exciting ceremonies. In the Chinese language, the word Gu means a bull, while Zang means viscera of an ...
Upbeat housing forecasts, including a projected 22-percent increase in single-family housing starts for 2013, made for a giddy International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. Our editors and analysts were among the 60,000 or so attendees there ...
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. It's a tough space. You want it sexy, but not a brothel. You want it restful, but not a rest home. You want great light but also the possibility to be as dark as night, so you can sleep as late as you need. When I see home-reno shows ...
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XXXX Island is billed as the ultimate bloke's getaway destination; an island created by a beer company specifically for beer lovers. XXXX Island is 15 kilometres off the Capricorn Coast at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. ...
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Computerworld - The problem: You want to send images into space and you want them to last 5 billion years. The solution: A gold-plated disc. That's the idea behind The Last Pictures project, which is scheduled to blast off in the next few ...
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Microsoft feels that it has the upper hand in its patent battle with Google-owned Motorola Mobility and wants to put an end to the fight, but only as long as a broad agreement is signed, the company said ina blog post on Tuesday. A ...
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It may be hot outside but there's a cool wind blowing at Intertops Casino - in the new Polar Explorer slots game. Players travel to the frozen North Pole in this new 5-reel 25 payline slots game. Meanwhile, in honour of the Games beginning ...
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The population of the Bouyei Nationality is 2,545, 059. Most of the Bouyei people live in Qiannan and Qianxinan Bouyei Miao autonomous prefectures and Duyun, Dushan, Pingtang and Zhenning counties of Guizhou Province. Others live scattered ...
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Liu Zhongchang is a Miao woman. Together with her husband, she is running a store on the banks of Cuihu Lake, in Kunming, where they deal with fabrics of the Miao and of other minorities of China. For them the culture of the minorities is ...
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Storytelling is an art for a select few in Nagqu who ensure the many adventures of the Tibetan hero King Gesar will never be forgotten. Tan Hongkai learns more. In the dimly lit hall of Nagqu Popular Arts Center dozens of Tibetan ...
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Speech by the Governor Being established as a Province and a Special Economic Zone in 1988, Hainan is the youngest province and the largest Special Economic Zone in China, as well as a province rules the largest sea areas. The economic ...
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Regular plumbing service in a new home is always a good thought.Many people forget about this when all things are working well.When these are not working well,one has to spend a great deal of money on repairs.This could be avoided with ...
Speech by the Governor "The abundance of products is stored in Miao Mountains; the elegance of landscape is gathered in Qian (abbreviation of Guizhou)". Guizhou is a hot land waiting for development located on Yungui Plateau, with ...
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Tired of gigantic heating bills and endless complaints from your staff about eye strain and glare? Luminaire-level lighting, a new technology that allows individual lights to sense power needs, might be the answer you're looking for. How ...
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