| Buy safe furniture | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:59:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | For a place that's supposed to be our safe harbor, home can be a dangerous place. Smart furniture choices and precautions can reduce the likelihood of accidents. Here are some tips from the American Home Furnishings Alliance: - When buying tall pieces, look for furniture that meets the tip-over standards of either ASTM International or Underwriters Laboratories. - Anchor potentially unstable furniture to the wall. - Follow manufacturers' guidelines when selecting furniture to house televisions. - Look for the gold UFAC tag on upholstered furniture to ensure it meets the Upholstered Furniture Action Council's fire-resistance criteria. Keep candles far away from upholstered furniture and draperies. - Don't let children play or climb on recliners, particularly when the chair is open.... | |
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| | | Children perish in blaze at home | | Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 2:58:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | A working smoke detector might have saved Annie and Kyle Bienh. But their grandmother's home in south Sacramento, where the brother and sister often spent weekends, didn't have one. The youngsters were in the bedrooms Saturday morning when a fast-moving fire broke out in the living room. They had little way of knowing there was trouble -- until it was too late. The blaze swiftly reduced the small, one-story rental home on Wallace Avenue to a charred shell. .... | |
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| | | 7 million drive to improve vulnerable children's homes | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:10:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | ABOUT £7 million is to be spent improving the homes of vulnerable children in care and on fostering, the Scottish Executive has announced. Residential units and schools across the country will share £5 million to improve decor and provide better facilities in an effort to encourage a learning environment. Meanwhile, foster carers and kinship carers can apply for a share of £2 million to make it easier to look after the children in their care. Carers can use the extra cash to buy essentials such as beds, a washing machine or additional bedroom furniture. Robert Brown, the deputy education minister, will announce the funding later today at the Children in Care Conference in Edinburgh. This article: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1676132006 Last updated: 13-Nov-06 01:12 GMT .... | |
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| | | Rep.-Elect Charlie Wilson (D Ohio) | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:03:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | 6th District Residence: St. Clairsville Born: January 18, 1943; Martins Ferry, Ohio Religion: Roman Catholic Family: Divorced; four children Education: Ohio U., B.G.S. 1980 (general studies) Military Service: None Career: Real estate company owner; funeral home and furniture company owner; auto worker Political Highlights: Ohio House, 1997-2004 (assistant minority leader, 2000-04); Ohio Senate, 2005-present .... | |
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| | | Keep safety in mind when furnishing home | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 1:06:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | With today's lifestyles inspiring Americans to spend more and more time at home, it's only natural that there would be an increase in home-related accidents and injuries. Indeed, statistics show that we're as likely to be injured at home as anywhere else. HELPFUL TIPS The American Home Furnishings Alliance offers these tips for furnishing your home with safety in mind. * Furniture tipover. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people are injured by falling furniture each year. A majority of the victims are children. ASTM International has a tipover standard for chests, armoires and dressers, and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has one for TV stands. To guard against furniture tipover, consumers should: Purchase products that meet the voluntary tipover standards; anchor any potentially unstable furniture to the wall, and always follow manufacturers' guidelines when selecting furniture to house televisions, especially today's popular large screen models.... | |
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| | | Furniture boost for Serdang school | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:10:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | SJK (C) Serdang Baru 1 in Seri Kembangan will be able to accept more students at the school, now that it has received 382 sets of desks and chairs from SP Setia Foundation. The furniture worth RM23,700 would be able to equip eight classrooms, said fund-raising committee president Lisa Fong. The school, which runs on two sessions, has 2,430 students and is preparing to accept more students at its new block. Fong said the new four-storey block required 810 sets of desks and chairs to equip all 18 classrooms. Foundation chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye in presenting the desks and chairs to School Board of Governors chairman Ho Kwong Fock on Wednesday said furniture was the basic facility a school needed to carry out its educational role effectively as it would enable students to better absorb knowledge in a comfortable setting. With this brand new furniture, I believe teachers will be able to conduct classes in a conducive environment, he said, adding that a sound education was a wise investment for the future. .... | |
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| | | Here's what every turkey needs: a table for 16 | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:11:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | Forget about a separate table for children at holiday dinners. Own this splendid 17-foot-long banquet table - introduced as part of Century Furniture's Bordeaux Collection - and all Thanksgiving guests on Turkey Day will be sitting down together. Can you imagine a table this lengthy in your dining room or great room? Talk about pressure on the cook to produce a fine meal, worthy of royal banquets in drafty, old castles. Banquet tables have always been a focus of furniture fascination for us moderns who know more about bitty bistro tables-for-two. Witness the jaw-dropping banquet table in a room with a stone fireplace opening higher than a man's head at Biltmore in Asheville, N.C. This was America's largest private home, now a house-museum where the dining room always fascinates visitors, especially at the holidays when all the greenery and baubles around the room, the dim lights and candles, evoke the lush Victorian repasts of George Vanderbilt and family.... | |
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| | | Students start classes at Ray Bjork | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:08:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | The furniture should arrive at Ray Bjork sometime today as Hawthorne Elementary holds school at the temporary location.Phone lines are supposed to be up and running by the end of the day too, principal Deb Jacobsen said at a well attended community meeting held Monday night.A recent analysis of Hawthorne Elementary - one of the district's oldest schools - found cracks in some structural columns that likely occurred during an earthquake last year in Dillon, according to Tom Beaudette, engineer with Beaudette Consulting Engineers of Missoula.Beaudette added that some of the damage has occurred as a result of time and the fact the building is made out of heavy concrete.The main portion of the work is adding concrete walls and filling in some windows on the second floor. This would better distribute weight during a potential earthquake."The work needs to be done now to meet present standards and make it safe to occupy," Beaudette said.... | |
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| | | Furniture shopping tips | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:07:17 AM by Blog57 Team | | 1. Identify your personal style. Is it casual, contemporary, country, traditional or eclectic? If unsure, click on www.findyourfurniture.com, then the site's Style Finder, and look at the items around you to see how they reflect your personality -- your wardrobe, your car, your magazines and favorite movies. 2. Examine your preferences. Make a list of your favorite colors, textures and patterns. Do you prefer bold colors or pastels? Solids, stripes or plaids? Soft, light fabric covers or rich tapestries? 3. Consider your lifestyle. Do you plan to have a family or already have children? Pets? Are you planning to move soon? 4. Prioritize your purchases. Decide which items of furniture you want or need most, and buy those first. Then build around them.... | |
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| | | Benefit the disabled by donating clothing | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:58:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | Courage Center will accept clothing donations of any size, toys, knick-knacks, small appliances and other household items during "Clean Out Your Closet For Courage" from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. Courage Center is a nonprofit rehabilitation and resource center for people with disabilities, brain injuries, speech or vision impairments and hearing loss. Items can be dropped off at Courage Center Pediatric & Adolescent Center, 100 Cobblestone Lane. The center will not accept large furniture items. For more information, visit www.courage.org or call 952-898-5700. apple valley Public hearing: Members of the Vermillion River Watershed Joint Powers Organization will hold a public hearing on Vermillion watershed plan standards at 1 p.m. today at the Dakota County Western Service Center.... | |
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