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Toy Enthusiast Made It His Mission to Rescue The Toys From Failing Toys Shops
Mar 11, 2014Toy enthusiast made it his mission to rescue the toys from failing toys shops or broken stock departments of factories as a child. A collection of over 2,000 vintage tin plate toys saved from struggling shops and factories is tipped to ...
Tags: Vintage Toys, Auction, Toys
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Pork Board Honored Maynard Hogberg, PH.D., as Recipient of Distinguished Service Award
Mar 11, 2014The National Pork Board honored Maynard Hogberg, Ph.D., as the recipient of its Distinguished Service Award on March 8. Hogberg is professor and chair of the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University. The award was presented ...
Tags: Pork Industry, Pork, Agriculture, Food
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Lammily Doll Surpassed Its Kickstarter Goal of $95,000 in One Day
Mar 11, 2014Lammily doll surpassed its Kickstarter goal of $95,000 in one day. A 'realistic' doll depicting the dimensions of an average woman has raised enough money through Kickstarter to hit retail. Nickolay Lamm's Lammily doll launched on the ...
Tags: average, BeautifulDoll
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Promising News From Front on Efforts to Produce Fuels Through Artificial Photosynthesis
Mar 11, 2014There's promising news from the front on efforts to produce fuels through artificial photosynthesis. A new study by Berkeley Lab researchers at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) shows that nearly 90-percent of the ...
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Soybeans Were Sharply Lower on Fund and Commercial Selling
Mar 11, 2014Soybeans were sharply lower on fund and commercial selling. Ending stocks were down on the month at 145 million bushels, but that was still larger than expected. Additionally, it looks like traders are more focused on planting and quarterly ...
Tags: Soybeans, Agriculture, Food
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Expansion Will See The Addition of Eight New Categories to Its Retail Stores
Mar 11, 2014Expansion will see the addition of eight new categories to its retail stores. Staples has revealed its plans to expand its product offering into gifts, early education toys and learning aids across the US and online. As part of its new ...
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The U.S. Manufacturing Sector Is in The Midst of a Technology Renaissance
Mar 11, 2014The U.S. manufacturing sector is in the midst of a technology renaissance that has the potential to bring manufacturing work back to North America for years, according to Manufacturing Engineering's annual trends report released with its ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Manufacturing
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Leekes Saw an Overall Sales Growth in Its Winter Sale of Nearly 15%
Mar 11, 2014A particularly mild winter has aided sales at family-owned home department stores Leekes, which has reported a strong performance over Christmas and the new year. The retail business saw an overall 20% increase in visitor numbers across ...
Tags: Bumper Winter, Leekes, sales
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Kingstown Furniture's Brand New Show Van Has Set off on Its Long Expedition Across The UK
Mar 11, 2014Kingstown Furniture's brand new show van has set off on its long expedition across the UK. The van will cover both the north and the south of the country and will display the company's latest and greatest ranges of furniture. It offers a ...
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Costco Has Reported Its Sales and Earnings for The Second Quarter of Its Fiscal Year
Mar 11, 2014Big box warehouse retailer Costco's US parent company, Costco Wholesale Corporation, has reported its sales and earnings for the second quarter of its fiscal year (ending 31 August 2014) and for the half year to 16 February 2014. Net ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Nike Has Taken a Minority Investment in California-Based Start-up Reflektion
Mar 11, 2014Nike, Inc., hrough its strategic partnerships team, has taken a minority investment in California-based start-up Reflektion, an innovator in online retail predictive analytics. Reflektion announced this week it has secured Series B round ...
Tags: Nike, online, Minority Stake
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CST of Hamilton, Scotland, UK Will Supply Grown Gallium Arsenide Wafers
Mar 11, 2014Packet optical networking system maker Optelian of Ottawa, ON, Canada says that optoelectronics device foundry Compound Semiconductor Technologies (CST) of Hamilton, Scotland, UK will supply grown gallium arsenide (GaAs) wafers to its ...
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What Is Epoxy Flooring?
Mar 11, 2014What is epoxy flooring? Epoxy is a thermosetting hard plastic polymer created from a combination of liquid polymer resins and a hardening agent. The two main ingredients in the creation of epoxy are the resin known as epoxide and the ...
Tags: Epoxy Flooring, Chemical Industry
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The Cell Efficiency of HCPV Systems, Currently at 40-42%, Will Exceed 45% by 2017
Mar 11, 2014Consistent improvements in technology and gradually lower costs will drive high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) systems to superior efficiencies, making HCPV an increasingly viable rival to conventional solar-generating solutions, ...
Tags: Solar PV Systems, HCPV systems
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Aleo Is as Competitive as China-Based Makers in Terms of Production Cost in The Europe
Mar 11, 2014Germany-based PV module maker Aleo Solar AG is as competitive as China-based makers in terms of production cost in the Europe, Japan and US markets, MK Lu, chairman for Taiwan-based solar wafer supplier Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS), ...
Tags: PV Module, solar wafer
