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Brooms - In Religious and Cultural Tradition
9/10/2010
An African American wedding tradition incorporates the use of the broom. The custom is called "jumping the broom". During the years of slavery in the United States, some slave owners would not let their slaves marry in a church ceremony. Instead a broom was placed across a doorway. The bride and groom jumped over it into their new life as a married couple. Today the custom incorpo..Our Holidays for Mid-Autumn Festival
9/6/2010
Dear All Esteemed Customers,
Please be kindly informed that we'll enjoy 3-day holidays for the Mid-Autumn Festival, starting from Sep.22, 2010 to Sep.24, 2010, and will be back to the office on Sep.25, 2010.
If you'd like to visit us during holidays, pls contact us now to confirm your schedule.
If you'd l..Chinese banks profits rise on stimulus boost
8/29/2010
Two of China's biggest banks have reported big increases in profits for the first half of the year.
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, currently the world's biggest bank, said net profits totalled 84.6bn yuan ($12.4bn; £8bn), up 27% on last year.
State-owned Bank of China als..SME Machinery Exhibition 2010
8/22/2010
"Technology for Rural, Micro and SME Development"
Date : August 27th, 28th , 29th , 2010 Time : From 10.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m. Venue : Sirimavo Bandaranaike Exhibition Centre (BMICH)
Colombo. Sri Lanka ..Other uses for brooms
8/16/2010
In baseball, when the home team is close to accomplishing a sweep (having won the first two games of a three-game series or first three games of a four-game series), some fans will bring brooms to the ballpark and brandish them as a way of taunting the visiting team.
During World War Two, American submarine crews would hoist a broom onto their boat's foretruck when returning to..UK industrial production hit by oil work
8/9/2010
A big fall in oil and gas extraction contributed to a surprise fall in UK industrial output in June.
The decline in oil and gas extraction was due to maintenance work being carried out in June, rather than in August when it is normally done.
Industrial production fell 0.5% from May, the Office for National Statistics said, but was up 1.3% on the year.
..Classification of Machine Tools (4)
7/30/2010
Single-Purpose Machine Tools
These machine tools are those which are desinged specifically for doing single operation on a class of jobs or on a single job.
They have the highest amount of automation and are used for high rates of production.
These machine tools are used specifically for one product only and thus have the least flexibility. However t..About Brooms
7/19/2010
Engaged in the field of broom making industry? You might be interested to read the information about brooms as below:
A broom is a cleaning tool consisting of stiff fibres attached to, and roughly parallel to, a cylindrical handle, the broomstick. It is commonly used in combination with a dustpan.
In the context of witchcraft, "broomstick" is likely to re..
