Five companies participating in Home Textiles Market Week in New York City were named recipients of Home Textiles Best New Product Awards, with Couture Dreams receiving the “Best of Market” award for its Chichi Throw. All of ...
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It's a common syndrome: you buy a new home, excited about all the possibilities. You take out those gross cabinets in the kitchen, slap down some temporary flooring, install makeshift plywood counters, and pledge to actually do the kitchen ...
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When it comes to feng shui, the ideal office is a square or a rectangle with solid walls, a window for natural light and a door that can be closed. Of course, we know that's not the reality for most offices these days. We're guessing most ...
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Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have produced a "smart" glass coating that can be selectively controlled to block visible light, heat-producing near-infrared (NIR) light, or both, by applying a small electrical ...
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Many column inches have been devoted to CE Marking in recent months in the advent of the mandatory July 1st deadline. But proof that there are still many companies requiring help for compliance is demonstrated in the number of ...
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Increasing demand for antimicrobials from end-user applications such as medical devices boosts the antimicrobial coatings market in Asia-Pacific. The need to minimize infection and in turn, the cost of treatment has spurred the use of ...
Google on Tuesday shipped Chrome 29, patching 25 vulnerabilities and rolling out under-the-hood changes the company said would offer more relevant suggestions when users typed in URLs or search strings. The upgrade also sported a new ...
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An advertisement circulating on Facebook and Twitter for a desktop version of the photo-sharing application Instagram is a scam, according to security vendor Symantec. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, is only available for mobile ...
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Seattle-based Windows, Doors & More announced its co-founder Ken Hall will transition ownership of the business to new owner/operator Rick Locke. The company will mark its 20th year in 2013 and Hall felt the timing was right to take this ...
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Researchers at the Berkeley National Laboratory of the Department of the U.S. Department of Energy (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new material that will make the smart windows more intelligent. This material, which is a thin layer of ...
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The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and McCarthy Building Cos. might soon reach a negotiated settlement in their dispute over the allegedly defective windows the building contractor had installed five years ago. The Federal Reserve Bank ...
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Material scientists have published a study describing how they engineered a spray-on nanocrystal coating that that can control how much light or heat passes through it using electricity. The team, from the US Department of Energy's ...
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This fall, GUESS goes back to its roots with a strong emphasis on denim through innovative designs and new washes in classic and updated silhouettes. To celebrate all things denim, GUESS has partnered with four top fashion bloggers to ...
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Jig Enables Accurate Cutting of Crown Molding New York, NY (August 14, 2013) – The tradition of crown molding, which dates back to ancient Greece and Rome, is still popular today. The challenge for carpenters, builders, cabinet and ...
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Dwayne Bryant said the crash sounded like someone was taking a bat to the glass front door of his Hyde Park home. But there was no intruder. A walk to his bathroom in the wee hours that July morning put Bryant in the company of others ...
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