Ikea Canada has set Nov. 28 for the grand opening for its new store here, which will also mark the first time the Swedish-owned home furnishings giant has expanded the 11-unit Canadian chain in at least a decade. Over the past year, Ikea ...
Paperlinx chairman Harry Boon and two other non-executive directors of the troubled paper company have announced their resignation, effective 28 September. Boon, Lyndsey Cattermole and Anthony Clarke have stepped down following a ...
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The Volkswagen CC is like buying designer clothes at ready-to-wear prices. It looks really good, and you look good in it. But don't expect it to score aces for practicality. The CC is a "four-door coupe," another way of saying a sedan ...
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Mercedes owners love to brag about how comfortable their cars are. "It's like driving around in a couch," said one friend of ours, who refuses to give us his car so that we can experience it for ourselves, on a full-time basis. (Jerk.) ...
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of 8,400 office chairs sold at Office Depot. The agency said Office Depot has received 78 reports of incidents involving seat plates breaking, ...
Strategic planning is the only option if risk and security leaders want to succeed in a rapidly changing world,the opening session of the Gartner Security&Risk Management Summit 2012 heard in London. According to Gartner,the biggest ...
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Risky driving behavior by teenagers is too often learned through observing their parents, according to a new survey. About 90 percent of the teens report observing their parents talking on a cell phone while driving, while 88 percent said ...
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UK-London's Royal National Theatre has invested in two new eight-channel Kinesys DigiHoist controllers for its Cottesloe Theatre venue. The DigiHoists were specified by the National Theatre's rigging resources supervisor,Matthew Wheeler. ...
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Switzerland-Two Allen&Heath iLive digital mixing systems have been purchased by The Goetheanum in Switzerland,global HQ for the Anthroposophical Movement,as part of an upgrade to its sound system. Located in Dornach,near Basel,the iconic ...
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UK-Entertainment lighting specialist White Light has been involved with what The Guardian newspaper has described as an'innovative art project'-NVA's Speed of Light,running in Edinburgh for the duration of this year's Festival. An ...
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HIGH POINT -- Sitbest Ltd., a division of Norwegian seating specialist Elano AS, is making its U.S. debut at the Oct. 13-18 High Point Market. The Euro-style recliner and sofa source has signed a five-year lease on a 3,000-square-foot ...
Public anxiety over data sharing is in danger of becoming of a major issue of the information age, and businesses and government need to act in order to reduce fears. That's according to The Data Dialogue, a newly launched report from ...
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USA-The Owner's Box Sports Bar and Grill at the new Omni Dallas Hotel has become the hot-spot for both intense game-watching and socializing in this sports-centric city.As the name implies,the concept here is to give fans a privileged seat ...
Tags: Meyer Sound, Omni Dallas Hotel, Walker Engineering of Irving, Tex.
Look up "pressure" in the dictionary and somewhere, a few entries down, you'll see this: "Redesigning the Honda Accord." Not only is the Accord Honda's best-seller here, it also competes against an avalanche of rather competent family ...
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Replace Tiger Stadium? Not a chance. But renovate it? Not a problem. That's what LSU did recently to its nearly 90-year-old, 92,000-seat home, with one particular feature giving a visual pop to the aging edifice: A multicolor, LED ...
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