Vision Statement: Why Mumbai at 1 PM Is the Center of the Business World. Map out how 12 major cities’ workdays overlap and you’ll see that the American workday is a terrible time to try to get the rest of the world on the phone.
The time zone champion is India. Lunchtime in Mumbai spans part of the workdays of most of Europe, Johannesburg, Moscow, the Gulf States, India, and East Asia. In fact, Mumbai’s workday overlaps with the workdays of countries that account for 73% of the world’s GDP, compared with only 33% for New York’s day. Now you know the time to hold a call, but on what day should you hold it? Taking holidays out of the mix eliminates 25% of 2011’s workdays for these 12 cities. Welcome to Voice of the Animals! Worldometers - real time world statistics.
World Book Night UK - Blog. To celebrate World Book Night 2014, we spoke to Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting and all round literary legend about his reading habits, his lifelong love for libraries and which book he'd choose to give away...
I started off reading books about politics and history and was fascinated by that, then got into science and engineering. Novels only started to get a grip on me when I was getting towards my late teens. Quite Interesting. 'The 5 th November is not observed by the populace with nearly so much festive diversion as in former times.’ This was Rev T. F. Thistleton Dyer in 1875, but it could have been written at any time in the past 20 years.
The decline of Bonfire Night – families gathering around a bonfire with sparklers, ginger parkin cake and baked potatoes - is often blamed on over-zealous health and safety regulations. Awesome 50th Anniversary Tribute to James Bond Videos! Brick-by-brick. Imagineer Productions. Olympic Torch Relay - Live Relay. FairFuelUK.