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For years, Beijingers have been waiting for a subway station that would carry them directly to Sanlitun, but when, in 2015, plans were finally laid for a station in that downtown neighborhood running through line 3 and line 17, onlookers couldn’t help but question: Why is the station going to be put at Workers’ Stadium and not at Taikoo Li? Well, Sanlitun fans, now there’s good news. No, they haven’t switched up the blueprints and shuffled the station down the road – but they’ve done the next best thing, which is to construct an underground tunnel from the station to...

When I first thought of purchasing an electric bike in 2013, my mind fixed on Tesla's recently released Model S sedan. It represented the promise of electric—a fast, smooth, jaw-dropping machine, one built on innovative ideas to make the impossible possible. This fantasy was dismantled when I stepped foot in my local bike dealer's store. Aside from Vanmoof's 10 Electrified, which had just hit the market, every electric bike on the floor was a parts-bin creation that looked straight out of an episode of "MythBusters." Today, cutting-edge electric bikes finally have me tempted. Industry leaders have grown bold in the...

Pegboards are simple accessories to organize all things especially in the office. If you like keeping things off the floor, visible, and within easy reach, then pegboards provide you with a practical and easy solution. However, they are much more functional than that and pegboard system can be applied to a variety of structures and other functions of your space. Pegboards wardrobe may not be very popular. However, if you need more storage or want something new to arrange your closet, pegboards could be the best choice. They’re flexible, don’t take up much space, and the great thing is that...

Sporting white pants, a blue jean jacket and black ballcap, decathlon champion Damian Warner proudly waved the Maple Leaf as he entered the Olympic Stadium as Canadian flag-bearer. The image was a fitting one to wrap up a very successful Olympics for Canadian athletes, who made 24 trips to the podium while staying clear of COIVD-19 complications. Track cyclist Kelsey Mitchell sent the Canadians out on a high note, winning gold in the women’s sprint competition. That gave Canada seven gold, six silver and 11 bronze medals in Tokyo. Those numbers are significant. The 24 total medals set a new...

Learn how you can be apart of helping people who are in need with our A Thrifty Mom Bag of Rice Campaign. In 2016 we started helping a young man named Ikechukwu from Nigeria. Summer of 2019 we were able to visit his family in Aba, Nigeria. While there we saw widespread poverty and lack of basic needs. We would like to invite you to help meet one of those basic needs, by providing Nigerian families with rice. This gift will feed a large family for a few months, or a single person a year. It also reminds them they...