Kosher (also kashrut, kashrus or kashruth) signifies food that meets with Jewish dietary law. Kosher certification plays a very important role in increasing the sales of a food company. The Badatz Igud Rabbonim KIR is one of the largest ...
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MitrAssist Medical has obtained ISO 13485:2003 certification for the design of implantable mitral valve prostheses. By using a minimally invasive procedure, the mitral valve prosthesis is delivered via a small-diameter catheter, thus ...
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Commonly called "the ghost opera" or "the ghost dance", the exorcizing dance is a kind of dance originated from the ancient exorcizing culture. It is honored as "the living fossil of Chinese dance". The exorcizing dance derived from the ...
The shadow puppet play, also called "shadow play", is a drama form in which the player holds the human figures that are engraved by the animal hides with colored paintings, and reflected on the curtain through the light, singing and dancing ...
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The Shaman Dance is a kind of dance performed by Shamanistic sorcerers during sacrificial rituals and activities for driving out evil and disease etc. Shamanism is a primitive religion practiced among ethnic minorities of the Altaic ...
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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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Eating a horse is forbidden territory for Americans.You can tuck into a plate of horseflesh in Tokyo,Paris and Moscow,but it usually won't be found on the menu in Dallas or Little Rock. Maybe it's a recognition of horses as companions,or ...
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STAGE The Christmas Schooner Have yourself a City of Big Shoulders Christmas at the Mercury Theater, the current home of the beloved Chicago musical, “The Christmas Schooner.” Created by John Reeger and Julie Shannon, ...
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Animal behavior consultant Arden Moore can't get away from the questions. "I go all over the country," she says, "and it doesn't matter where I am. ... People seem to be interested or frustrated in why their dog or cat does what they do." ...
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For three weeks per year, Katie Sweeney gets to put aside her duties as Glencoe's dog catcher and play Santa Claus. Sweeney is in her 21st year as the organizer behind a holiday toy and food drive that collects and distributes food and ...
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Brazil has launched a new campaign to convince importers that its beef is free from mad cow disease. A report from Brazil's Agriculture ministry had revealed that the carcass of a cow that died in 2010 in southern Brazil carried ...
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Chicago Argo and US Gulf Coast ethanol markets Wednesday fell to their lowest levels since late September on a combination of a well-supplied market and another drop in corn futures, sources said. Chicago Argo ethanol was assessed down ...
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Russian developer Drimmi LLC,in collaboration with leading international publisher 6waves,announces the launch of the new Facebook platform title,"business tycoon"game,Dynasty.Dynasty is Drimmi's 14th game.The company has previously ...
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Hazard analysis and critical control points, or HACCP, is a systematic preventive approach to food safety and pharmaceutical safety that identifies physical, allergenic, chemical, and biological hazards in production processes that can ...
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Japan has suspended beef imports from Brazil over concerns of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - a fatal neurodegenerative disease commonly known as mad cow disease. The move comes after the South American nation informed the World ...
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