Chinese New Year Snake. Many online Chinese Sign calculators do not account for the non-alignment of the two calendars, using Gregorian-calendar years rather than official Chinese New Year dates. One scheme of continuously numbered Chinese-calendar years assigns 4709 to the year beginning, 2011, but this is not universally accepted; the calendar is traditionally cyclical, not continuously numbered. Although the Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously numbered years, outside China its years are sometimes numbered from the purported reign of the mythical Yellow Emperor in the 3rd millennium BCE. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various scholars,
Tannery of the Year of the Year for 2013. The fourth programme of Tannery of the Year began at the end of calendar year 2013, with Europe the first region to come under scrutiny. From eleven shortlisted European tanneries, two emerged as finalists: Couro Azul, Alcanena, Portugal and Wollsdorf Leather, Wollsdorf, Austria. Detailed reports on both these tanneries featured in the December 2013–January 2014 edition of World Leather magazine. When the programme moved to Asia, excluding China, in the early part of 2014, Packer Leather, from Narangba, Queensland, Australia, and Saigon Tan Tec, Binh Duong Province, Vietnam, emerged as the two finalists for this