Videos: Traditional Skills With a Modern Twist Food summit attendees learn traditional skills; how to make bootagan using some modern conveniences Leeanne Root • August 1, 2017 The Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit was about more than food sovereignty; it was also a way to share traditional skills, like making Anishinabe corn and flour mortars, or bootagan, which as Kevin … Read more
The viral story of the K-Mart vacuum cleaner that can outperform a Dyson has prompted more face-offs between brand name appliances and some low cost alternatives. Working mums Heidi and Lauren put a number of appliances to the test for A Current Affair, including kettles, irons, slow cookers and blenders. They found that for the most … Read more
Days before a potentially historic union vote at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, the car company has been accused of running one of the “nastiest anti-union campaigns in the modern history of the American labour movement”. The vote, a fiercely contested effort by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union to represent a foreign automaker’s US … Read more
GE Appliances, a Haier company, informed employees and officials from the IUE-CWA Local 83761 it is moving forward with its plan to return to Appliance Park the Supplier Distribution Center operated by Derby Supply Chain Solutions. It’s a company that manages supplier-owned parts for GEA. Making adequate room for the Derby SDC in Building 2 … Read more
As your business continues growing, you will soon find yourself in need of new office space to accommodate your team and make room for further development. However, finding a home for your organization can be quite challenging, as any business is different and has very different needs and goals. Using a virtual office or working … Read more
P.J. Tucker came into the NBA more than a decade ago and crashed out almost immediately. He was a 6-foot-6 player stuck between positions—too small to be a forward but too big to be a guard. The league had no place for him. After playing only 83 minutes in the NBA, he disappeared to another … Read more
Getty Images Whirlpool clothes dryers on sale in San Francisco. Whirlpool’s stock was falling nearly 7 percent Thursday morning a day after the appliance manufacturer delivered earnings and sales for the second quarter that missed Street estimates. On a call with analysts and investors Thursday morning, the clear elephant in the room was quickly … Read more
For centuries, South Asia has had its own Khawaja Sira or third gender culture. The community, identifying as neither male nor female are believed, by many, to be ‘God’s chosen people,’ with special powers to bless and curse anyone they choose. Player utilities Popout Share 00:00 00:00 download Listen to the Story. The acceptance of Khawaja Sira people in Pakistan has … Read more
When Elvira arrived at Heathrow in 2014, she thought she had escaped the abuse she’d faced as a domestic worker in Qatar. Yet the exploitation the Filipino woman was about to suffer would surpass anything she experienced in the Middle East. The 50-year-old was taken to a luxury flat in Kensington, where her boss, the … Read more
Laing O’Rourke has sold its Bison hollowcore precast concrete flooring business to materials group Forterra for £20m. The deal includes a five-year commercial agreement for Forterra to supply hollowcore and other precast products to Laing O’Rourke. Bison Manufacturing is based around a highly-automated manufacturing facility located at Swadlincote, Derbyshire, which was opened in 2006. But … Read more