By: Sweta Chhaochharia | 2010-04-04 | International studies There's incredible potential in rural markets. Started in the late 2000, Project Shakti had enabled Hindustan Lever to access 80,000 of India's 638,000 villages. Hindustan Lever was not the only company recognizing the vast marketing potential in rural India. With 12.2% of the world population residing in the villages of India, the country's rural FMCG market had a huge potential. When HLL shifted to the rural India, it faced many problems. read more
By: gaga | 2010-11-12 | Business Mandolin construction F-5-style mandolin (f-holes) A-5-style mandolin (f-holes) Example of an A-4-style mandolin (oval hole) A mandolin's typically hollow wooden body has a neck with a flat (or slight radius) fretted fingerboard, a nut and floating bridge, a tailpiece or pinblock at the edge of the face to which the strings are attached, and mechanical tuning machines, rather than friction pegs, to accommodate metal strings. Like the guitar, the mandolin has relatively poor sustain; that is read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-07 | Business Early life Costello was born Declan Patrick MacManus in St Mary's Hospital, London, the son of Lillian (ne Ablett) and Ross MacManus, a musician and bandleader. He is of Irish heritage. Costello lived in Twickenham, attending what is now St Mark's Catholic Secondary School in neighbouring Hounslow. With a musically inclined father (his father sang with The Joe Loss Orchestra), Costello's first broadcast recording was alongside his dad in a television commercial for R read more
By: Alexander Glaser | 2010-04-03 | News and society On June 24th, 1972 Time Magazine ran an article titled, "Another Ice Age." In this article is reports from the top scientists of the day including Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty read more
By: Robert G Waldvogel | 2011-08-12 | Destinations This article traces the development of Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania, along with the East Broad Top Railroad which created it. It then puts the reader on its rails, as well as those of the Rockhill Trolley Museum. read more
By: gaga | 2010-12-29 | Business Birth to 1959 Shirley Bassey was born to Henry Bassey and his wife Eliza Jane (ne Metcalfe), their seventh and last child, in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales, of paternal Nigerian and maternal English heritage. She grew up in the working-class dockside district of Splott, and sang at an early age in the youth choir of the local Salvation Army. After leaving Moorland School at the age of fifteen read more
By: tianli | 2011-03-30 | Outsourcing www.bingcrosby.com Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 October 14, 1977) was an American popular singer and actor whose career stretched over more than half a century from 1926 until his death read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-21 | Business 20002002 In 1999 the LS debuted as Lincoln's first rear-wheel drive sport luxury sedan for the 2000 model year. The LS was devised to appeal to a younger generation of luxury car buyers not common to Lincoln as well as to those who would have normally chosen auto manufacturers such as BMW or Mercedes-Benz for a luxury sport sedan. Though related to the Jaguar S-Type, which was introduced the same year read more
By: mark brohl | 2010-12-26 | Culture I recently read an article on the Internet entitled "Pets - Sentient Beings or Mere Chattel?" in which the author, Susan Stoltz, tells the dreadful tale of her dog Sharkey, a little Jack Russel Terrier who allegedly suffered an overdose which I assume was the result of a pharmacist error and the dog eventually collapsed. Susan Stoltz then rushed the little dog to a vet and claims that the dog nearly died. Now the poor dog has "suffered liver damage and may never recover." read more
By: gaga | 2011-01-19 | Business Background On 25 July 1961, Clive Sinclair founded Sinclair Radionics to develop and sell electronic devices such as calculators. The failure of the Black Watch wristwatch and the calculator market's move from LEDs to LCDs led to financial problems, and Sinclair approached the National Enterprise Board (NEB) for help. After losing control of the company to the NEB, Sinclair encouraged Chris Curry to leave Radionics and get Science of Cambridge (SoC) up and running. In June 1978 read more
By: Thomas Mahar | 2010-03-29 | Business One of the men destined to join the ranks of Michigan's pioneer sugar barons was John C. Liken. He was nearly 70 years old when the idea struck him and already rich beyond the dreams he probably had when he carved barrel staves for a living as an indigent immigrant in New York more than fifty years earlier. By 1900, he operated a big business in a small town that referred to him as the town father because his enterprise created the jobs that brought people to the town. read more
By: viedy | 2010-10-10 | Other Business Growing season Saskatchewan possesses a continental climate and the seasonal variations in temperature provide a short growing season read more
By: hotxueboy | 2010-09-29 | Home Business Writing and recording "Start Me Up" was first recorded during the 1975 sessions for the Rolling Stones' 1976 album Black and Blue. The song was at first cut as a reggae-rock track read more