December 5, 2012 - PowerStream has announced its annual charity golf tournament, held this September at the Nottawasaga Inn Resort in Alliston, Ont., raised the largest total amount in the five-year history of the tournament being a charity ...
UK / USA - PLASA's month-long elections to determine positions on its European and North American Regional Boards, together with its central Governing Body, concluded at midnight on Wednesday 31 October. Companies and individuals from ...
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, which offers specialty insurance and insurance-related products and services, has appointed Jean-Paul L Montupet, chairman of Emerson's Industrial Automation business and president of Emerson Europe, to its Board of Directors. ...
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A nearly 20-foot tall ladderback chair known as a local landmark returned here newly rebuilt on Saturday, a story in The Rutland Herald reports. Once known as the "Big Chair," it has been gone for more than a decade. An unveiling drew ...
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Sweden - Covering 1080 acres across four adjacent skiing areas, Sweden's Åre ski resort is not just one of the largest in Scandinavia, but in 2009 was judged the best in the world by Conde Nast Traveller magazine. A recently completed ...
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The American Coatings Association (ACA) has announced that Dr. Dean Webster, chair of the Coatings and Polymeric Materials Department at North Dakota State University (NDSU), will deliver the Mattiello Memorial Lecture at its CoatingsTech ...
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The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme(FHRS),which provides information about hygiene standards in the places where people eat out or do their food shopping,has been launched in London. This national scheme was introduced by the Food Standards ...
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In the Haizhou Region of East China's Jiangsu Province, wedding shoes are known as xi xie or "happy shoes". Before 1949, when a girl was getting married, she usually wore a pair of happy shoes, which were made with red cloth or silk and ...
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Wedding shoes have different names in different places. In ancient times, wedding shoes were also called "Zodiac Shoes", since a propitious date was chosen for the wedding ceremony. When getting on the sedan chair, the bride always ...
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December 4, 2012 - Hubbell Inc. has appointed David G. Nord to the position of president and CEO, and to the company's board of directors. Nord will move into his new roles January 1, 2013. Meantime, current CEO Timothy Powers will continue ...
The Dai nationality used dark-red color cloth as wedding quilt (as well as the waist part of their wedding clothes), for this color symbolized vigorous child-bearing ability of their nation. (For the same reason, their wedding quilts were ...
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A sedan chair is a human or animal-powered transport vehicle for carrying a person, once popular across China. It has different names like "shoulder carriage", "sleeping sedan" and "warm sedan" etc due to the time, location and structural ...
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The Facts: The Lantern Festival began in Han dynasty(A.D. 25 - A.D.220 ) The Lantern Festival was hold every 15th day of the 1st lunar month. The four important festivals in China are the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival, the ...
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Deckers Outdoor Corporation announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2012. Third Quarter Review Net sales were $376.4 million compared to $414.4 million for the same period last year. Gross margin was 42.3% ...
The new couple should bow to the god, the parents and each other. A typical Jiading wedding always includes a complete set of ceremonies. To earn words of good blessing and satisfy the guests, the hosts often start the busy preparation ...
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