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The man who stopped a bar shooting incident by hitting the suspected gunman with a chair was hailed as a hero on Monday by the mayor of the small northeastern Minnesota town of Chisholm. The Saturday night shootings at Jim's Sports Club Bar and Grill left one man dead, another critically wounded and a third with a less serious wound. Authorities said the suspect had gone to the bar to confront his ex-wife, who was sitting at the victims' table. Ryan Simonson, 27, of Chisholm, confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday that he was the patron who smashed a...

Beijing Loves IKEA -- But Not For Shopping

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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Customers hop into display beds and nap, pose for snapshots with the decor and enjoy the air conditioning and free soda refills. They just don't buy much. With no plans one Saturday, Zhang Xin told his wife, son and mother to wear something smart and hop into the family sedan. He could have taken them to the Forbidden City or the Great Wall, but he decided on another popular destination -- IKEA. Riding an escalator past a man lying on a display bed with a book opened on his belly, the clan sauntered into the crush of visitors squeezing onto...

Elizabeth Edwards opens furniture store in N.C. (John's stuff?)

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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Elizabeth Edwards opens furniture store in N.C.Associated Press Last Modified: Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 10:33 p.m. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) – The wife of a former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate has opened a furniture store. Multiple media outlets report that Elizabeth Edwards opened the store called Red Window in downtown Chapel Hill Saturday. Edwards says the store will have styles similar to The Red Door, a charity store her mother managed in Japan. Edwards’ husband, former Sen. John Edwards, also attended the opening. **SNIP** Elizabeth Edwards says she’s trying to ignore tabloid reports that her husband fathered...

Wanted, advice for Small Claims Court regarding defective Lane furniture.

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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Wanted, advice for Small Claims Court regarding defective Lane furniture. Hoping to solicit some advice regarding a small claims court filing I am considering… Two years ago I purchased an Ashley leather Sofa and Recliner from a local furniture store. Immediately after the furniture was delivered I discovered a slit on the side were the seat reclines and notified the store. On the phone, they said that this is easily repairable and sent out a technician. I agreed to the repair because the damage was small and located in an inconspicuous place. However, after the technician evaluated the slit, he...

Ikea furnishes 'copycat' site with lawsuit

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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Home furnishing giant Ikea has launched legal proceedings over the rights to the domain name iloveikea.se, a site which currently specializes in selling used Ikea furniture. The site, which is modeled after the popular Swedish buy-and-sell site blocket.se, has been operating for about a month. Ikea has now asked the Internet Infrastructure Foundation (Stiftelsen för internetinfrastruktur), the body responsible for registering domain names ending in ‘.se’, to help resolve the dispute over iloveikea.se, claiming the site infringes on the Ikea brand. “It’s obvious that a visitor to a homepage with the description iloveikea as the impression that it is the...

Furniture craftsman Maloof dies at 93

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. (AP) -- Sam Maloof, whose simple, practical handmade wooden furniture sits in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the White House, has died. He was 93. Maloof died Thursday at his Southern California home, his business manager Boz Bock told the Los Angeles Times. No further details were given. Maloof was praised for putting usefulness before artistry in the chairs, cradles, hutches and other pieces he designed and crafted by hand. Maloof's signature piece was a rocking chair with elongated rockers jutting backward.

Legislator raps controller for furniture buy (CA)

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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State Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria (Santa Barbara County) blasted state Controller John Chiang on Wednesday for spending nearly $2 million since July on new furniture for his staff as the state teeters on insolvency. "It's waste because we don't need new furniture today," said Maldonado. "It's fraud to not send the people of California their tax refunds, and it's abuse of power ... to buy furniture when we don't have the resources and we don't have the cash flow."

Renovator, Car Man or Poonce??

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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Is there a problem with enjoying modern stylish fashionable furniture as a hobby? I have been advised that talking about cars around the office is far more acceptable and manly than talking about the modern sleek lines of furniture or the leather interior of a car is far tougher than talking about soft Italian leather from a perfectly handcrafted Italian leather Sofa / Masterpiece that sits in my loungeroom for me to admire that I purchased from Home Concepts in Melbourne. I would much prefer to go to a site like www.fivekings.com.au than carsales.com and does this mean I’m a...

IKEA opens first U.S. manufacturing facility

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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Swedish furniture maker Ikea celebrated the opening of its first factory in the United States on Wednesday. Swedwood, a subsidiary of home furnishings giant, has 40 plants worldwide. The $281 million plant in Danville, Virginia will employ 300 people by the end of 2009, said Swedwood North America president Bengt Danielsson. Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine was at Wednesday's ceremony to hail the economic boost to the ailing region along the North Carolina border, formerly a stronghold for the tobacco industry. Swedwood received $12 million in incentives from in state and local authorities, as well as the Virginia Tobacco Commission...

Local woman pulls gun on deliverymen for not taking off shoes

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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Two furniture deliverymen fled a home after a customer produced a gun because they wouldn't take their shoes off, according to police reports. Two employees of Howell's Furniture Gallery were making a delivery to a house in the 5300 of Downs Road last Friday afternoon, the report stated. The homeowner, who was not identified, asked the deliverymen to take off their shoes. They replied removing their shoes was against company policy and pointed out they were wearing protective covers so as not to damage her carpet, the report stated. An argument ensued, which expanded to cover other problems the woman...

Agency passes measure to require nonflammable home furniture

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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WASHINGTON - A government safety agency is pushing to require all home furnishings sold in the U.S. to be nonflammable. The Consumer Product Safety Commission advanced a proposal Friday that would require consumer upholstered furniture to be smolder- and flame-resistant, which is not required now, said Julie Vallese, a spokeswoman for the agency. The agency has been trying to advance the measure for more than 10 years, she said.(snip) Russell Long, vice president of environmental group Friends of the Earth, called the proposal "a tremendous victory for both fire safety as well as the protection of public health."

Ethan Allen CEO Describes Challenges of Running a Global Organization

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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Globalization has had varying effects on countries and economies throughout the world. In the first of a series of conversations, NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman talks to Farooq Kathwari, CEO of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PAUL SOLMAN, NewsHour Economics Correspondent: Ethan Allen furniture, how much more American can you get? The green mountain boy himself was a hero of the American Revolution. For decades, the colonial facade and furniture named after him were, for Ethan Allen's customers, early Americana incarnate. And the company is still the state of Vermont's biggest employer. And, yet, Ethan Allen is about as global a...

Illegal immigrants arrested at furniture store protest

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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MESA, Ariz. (AP) - Eight illegal immigrants were arrested during a protest outside of a Phoenix furniture store that had hired sheriff's deputies to keep day laborers away. Protesters have been demonstrating for the past six Saturdays at Pruitt's furniture store in east Phoenix against the arrests of illegal immigrants in the area. Maricopa County sheriff's deputies had arrested 24 illegal immigrants in the area after stopping them for traffic violations. The eight people arrested yesterday on suspicion of violating immigration laws were the first illegal immigrants taken into custody during the actual protests. Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the protesters...

Iraqi Furniture Factory Fills First Order in Two Years

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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Navy Capt. John Dillender (right), economics and industrial advisor for Baghdad 5 Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team, which operates north of the Iraqi capital with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, mimics the sanding technique used by a furniture factory worker near Taji, Iraq Nov. 11. The Henning, Tenn. native helped facilitate (200) pieces of furniture purchased from the State Company for Furniture Industry-Baghdad to be delivered to area schools. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Shejal Pulivarti, 1st BCT, 1st Cav. Div. PAO. CAMP TAJI â€” The State Company for Furniture Industry-Baghdad, located near Taji, recently filled its first...

Bauhaus Home Design (Vanity)

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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A vanity discussion of Bauhaus design in the home.

Tale of last 90 minutes of woman's life [Los Angeles' King Hospital ignores patient to death]

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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In the emergency room at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, Edith Isabel Rodriguez was seen as a complainer. "Thanks a lot, officers," an emergency room nurse told Los Angeles County police who brought in Rodriguez early May 9 after finding her in front of the Willowbrook hospital yelling for help. "This is her third time here." The 43-year-old mother of three had been released from the emergency room hours earlier, her third visit in three days for abdominal pain. She'd been given prescription medication and a doctor's appointment. Turning to Rodriguez, the nurse said, "You have already been seen, and...

Cardi’s Furniture Company Supports Guard, Reserve Employees

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2006 – Cardi’s Furniture Superstores in New England is one of 15 recipients of this year’s Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award for outstanding support of employees in the Guard and Reserve. “Cardi's Furniture Superstores is proud to receive this incredible honor,” said Benjamin DeCastro, the company’s promotions director. Rhode Island National Guardsman Sgt. Gerald Pincins, a Cardi’s employee, nominated the company for the award. “We are proud of Sergeant Pincins for his bravery while on his tours of duty,” DeCastro said. “We’re also proud of our staff who work hard every day to ensure that...

Life After Hitchcock (Chair Co., Riverton, CT)

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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BARKHAMSTED -- Riverton's center is just a quarter-mile smattering of quaint buildings on three streets by the Farmington River. Yet for decades, this tiny village in northern Barkhamsted was a real tourist destination because of the Hitchcock Chair Co., founded here in 1826 by Lambert Hitchcock, whose sturdy painted wooden chairs with gold stenciling became American classics. Hitchcock closed April 26, done in, company officials said, by cheaper products from overseas. Its flagship store in the original riverside factory and the adjacent Lambert house are vacant, their parking lots empty. The shoppers and history buffs no longer visit. Bob Wysocki,...

Fruits of their American labor

Thursday 24th of May 2012 10:47:11 PM
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BOYE, Mexico -- Clementina Arellano grew up with her six brothers in a shack in this dusty Mexican hamlet. Now 42, she's raising her sons in a spacious, 10-room mansion with Roman-style pillars at the doorway and a garden full of flowers and singing birds. How did she transform her fortunes so dramatically? By waiting tables and sweating in a furniture factory for about 10 years in Hickory, N.C., and sending home up to $500 a month. A couple of doors down, Berta Olgin, lives under a leaky roof, with skinny sheep gnawing at sparse patches of grass in her...