The Miao nationality pays great attention to etiquette, especially with respect to the treatment of guests. For instance, when a guest visits, the host kills a chicken or a duck to entertain and feed the guest. If the guest comes from afar ...
Tags: Folk Customs, The Miao People, etiquette, Glutinous rice cake
Local engineers have been busy re-engineering the Holden Cruze, which will be heavily upgraded in March 2013 – launching neatly between the VF Commodore's reveal in February and on-sale date in April. A Holden spokesperson confirmed ...
Tags: Transportation, Small Car, Accessories
Market situation of ferroalloys in Japan as of November 15th 2012 is as follows. Summary: Market is watching China to see whether it will decide in December to alter export tax rates on ferroalloys and silicon manganese metals. A rumor is ...
Tags: Japanese, Ferroalloy Market Report
PTI reported that Indian nickel prices gained 0.40% to INR 880.40 per kilogram in futures market after participants enlarged positions, taking positive cues from overseas markets, amid pick up in domestic demand. At the Multi Commodity ...
Tags: Indian Nicke, Futures Price
MANHATTAN, NY (BRAIN) — Who needs electricity to run a bike shop? A handful of Manhattan bike shops re-opened Wednesday following post-tropical storm Sandy, as the city was flooded with bike commuters. Bicycle Habitat opened ...
Tags: electricity, bike shop, New York, bike commuter, bike industry
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA (BRAIN) — Interbike is opening its door to the public next September, but just a crack. Organizers are testing the concept of a restricted consumer day where consumers would pay $50 in advance and register ...
Tags: interbike, restricted consumer day, retail VIP guest, bike retail
CODA Holdings and Great Wall Motors have partnered to jointly develop, build and sell the electric vehicles (EVs) for the North American, Chinese and European auto markets. The new EVs, which will be a mix of CODA's battery technology and ...
Tags: CODA, Great Wall, EVs
Early uptake of Windows 8 appears to be lagging behind that of Windows 7 in the period after the older OS's launch back in 2009. A survey of online activity carried out by marketing intelligence firm NetApplications found that just one ...
Tags: Windows 8, Windows 7, NetApplications, lag behind
A little while ago, the folks from ReBinder reached out to me regarding their zero waste binders and other office supplies, and they were generous enough to send some over to me to review. In this review, we will take a look at some of ...
This Sustainable Earth by Staples® All-Purpose Cleaner and Refill made its way to me via the nice folks at Staples, along with one other item that I will be reviewing in the near future. I thought it would be a good time for a review ...
Tags: Cleaner, All-Purpose Cleaner
UK's insurance price comparison websites comparethemarket.com has teamed up with car insurer Debenhams Car Insurance,with a motive to facilitate the aggregator to provide its customers an even wider selection of great car insurance deals. ...
Sears Canada Inc.announced that Douglas C.Campbell has been appointed Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company effective today.In his new role,Mr.Campbell will oversee retail ...
Tags: Sears Canada, Douglas Campbell, EVP, COO
In its November 2012 Blue Coat Mobility Study,the company surveyed 350 respondents and found that most organizations allow employees access to company email(83 percent)and instant messaging(56 percent)on personal devices,but only a fraction ...
Tags: IT, Blue Coat Mobility Study, BYOD, mobile malware
Sears Canada Inc.announced its unaudited third quarter results.Total revenues for the 13-week period ended October 27,2012 were$1,037.5 million compared to$1,113.2 million for the 13-week period ended October 29,2011,a decrease of 6.8%.Same ...
Network World-Four things are clear from Ciscos better-than-expected Q1 FY 2013 results: Ciscos resolve to become the No.1 vendor in IT Collaboration and TelePresence remain challenging product areas for the company Europe and the public ...