Posted: Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:42 pm | Updated: 12:45 pm, Thu Jun 14, 2012.
ONTARIO — The Ontario Municipal Airport will host a group of special visitors Saturday as the Montana Antique Aircraft Association has scheduled Ontario as a stopover during its annual “hop,” which is a tour by members of other antique aircraft enthusiasts and other aviation sites in other states.
Estimated time of arrival at Ontario is 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. MDT. Twenty-two aircraft — 40 people — will be on the ground for a short period of time, Tom Frazier, Frazier Aviation, Ontario Airport fixed base operator, said.
Posted in News on Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:42 pm. Updated: 12:45 pm.
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Cardi’s Furniture is Pleased to Introduce The Dr. Breus Bed™ - YAHOO!
Cardi’s Furniture Stores in MA and RI Announce the Addition of the Dr.Breus Bed to Their Product Line
Swansea, MA (PRWEB) June 14, 2012
Cardi's, the legendary Rhode Island and Massachusetts furniture and mattress provider, is proud to announce the addition of the unique and innovative Dr. Breus Bed to its line of top-quality furniture and bedding.Developed by sleep specialist Dr. Michael Breus, The Dr. Breus Bed™ has been specially designed to give you a perfect night of sleep, every time. The Dr. Breus Bed™ utilizes an exclusive proprietary layering system to achieve unbeatable comfort that leads to an ideal night of sleep. Up to 13 separate layers of pure Talalay latex and luxurious polyfoams are installed by hand into the beds by expert artisans during the sophisticated manufacturing process.
These exceptional beds are now available at all Cardi's Mattresses and Cardi's Furniture locations.
The unique system designed by Dr. Breus relies on his ingenious "Sleep Assessment" feature, which is based on his four tenets of better sleep: thermo-neutrality, a feeling of zero gravity that comes from superior pressure relief, complete relaxation and tranquil sleep that results from reduced movement.
In addition to The Dr. Breus Bed™, prospective buyers can experiment with the SleepMatch™ sleep assessment system to help you find the perfect bed for your body type. Thousands of volunteers of various body types assisted in the creation of this special SleepMatch™ system. Entering your SleepMatch™ information on the Cardi’s website will help Dr. Breus guide you to the right mattress for you: http://www.cardis.com/main/bodymatch.php
Dr. Breus is a sleep expert, best-selling author, clinical psychologist, Diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Dr. Oz Show, the Today Show and many other national TV programs and publications. He is a widely recognized leader in the field of sleep study.
The premier furniture and mattress store in MA and RI, Cardi's traces the roots of its operation back to the year 1901 in the town of Itri, Italy, with the first Cardi's in America opening as a general store in 1928. After undergoing several stages of expansion through the years, Cardi's now has multiple furniture, mattress, clearance and design locations throughout RI and MA, including Cape Cod. With an emphasis on flawless customer service, the Cardi's family is proud to guarantee the best furniture and mattress shopping experience in the business.
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As New England's leading home-grown furniture provider, Cardi's has been devoted to providing premium home furnishing for families across Southern New England for over 80 years. Cardi brothers Ron, Pete and Nick developed their famous "NiRoPe" philosophy around guaranteeing rock-bottom prices, sky-high quality and limitless customer service.
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Paralyzed California teen walks at high school graduation - msnbc.com
A California teen paralyzed nearly all his life lived up to his big promise this week and walked on stage to accept his high school diploma.
For the last three years, 17-year-old Patrick Ivison of San Diego has been going through intensive training for Tuesday’s ceremony, enduring six hours per day of physical therapy, according to KGTV in San Diego.
He vowed to everyone he knew that he was going to walk on stage during commencement.
"There's always that like, oh, I've got, you know, all of America expecting me to get through this," Ivison told KGTV.
The Scripps Ranch High School student suffered a spinal cord injury in a car accident when he was only 14 months old.
When Ivison appeared on stage during commencement ceremonies, cheers and a standing ovation greeted him, encouraging him every step of the way. With the help of his trainer, a custom walker and his service dog, Ivison accepted his diploma. He graduated with a 4.0 grade-point average, according to KGTV.
"Graduation was fantastic and it was like I was in another time zone," Janice Kyler, Ivison's grandmother, told msnbc.com on Thursday. "He walked slow and it was the best walking he has ever done."
"We’re thrilled, proud and words can’t express the emotions. He's worked so hard to get to this point. He's a sweetheart,” Kyler said.
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She said the injury has done little to stop her spirited grandson.
Ivison was inspired to surf when he was 8 years old after seeing an adaptive surfer in the documentary "Step into Liquid," according to NBCSanDiego.com. By 13, he was competing in the U.S. Open of Surfing and Life Rolls On, a non-profit organization created to improve the lives of young people with spinal cord injuries, has been with all the way.
"We couldn’t be more proud of Patrick Ivison," said Kris Nakamura, executive director of Life Rolls On, in a statement. "Serving as an ambassador for Life Rolls On Foundation since he began surfing with us at 8-years-old, he has grown into an incredible young man who continues to be a shining example of how life truly rolls on after spinal cord injury. His first steps are just an example of even greater things to come."
These days, the teen is busy with college plans.
Ivison was unavailable for comment on Thursday because he was attending orientation at the University of Southern California, which he plans to attend in the fall to study film.
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World's first 'tax' on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 - BBC News
The Australian online retailer Kogan.com has introduced the world's first "tax" on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser.
Customers who use IE7 will have to pay an extra surcharge on online purchases made through the firm's site.
Chief executive Ruslan Kogan told the BBC he wanted to recoup the time and costs involved in "rendering the website into a antique browser".
The charge is set to 6.8% - 0.1% for every month since the IE7 launch.
Too much effortAccording to Mr Kogan the idea was born when the company started working on a site relaunch.
Mr Kogan said that even though only 3% of his customers used the old version of the browser, his IT team had become pre-occupied with making adaptations to make pages display properly on IE 7.
"I was constantly on the line to my web team. The amount of work and effort involved in making our website look normal on IE7 equalled the combined time of designing for Chrome, Safari and Firefox."
Mr Kogan said it was unlikely that anyone would actually pay the charges. His goal is to encourage users to download a more up-to-date version of Internet Explorer or a different browser.
Mr Kogan told the BBC his customers were very happy and he had received a lot of praise for his efforts.
"Love your IE7 tax. I hope it becomes effective" was one of the messages posted to Kogan on Twitter.
IE7 was launched in 2006, but since then Microsoft has released two major updates to the software.
The launch of Internet Explorer 10 is due in the autumn.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Tractor, power show entices enthusiasts in Brush - Fort Morgan Times
More than 500 farmers, motorcycle riders and all-around tractor and antique enthusiasts gathered from from Northeastern Colorado to the Front Range and even some from various states throughout the country to experience the sites and sounds.
From vendor booths and entertainment to corn threshing demos, a parade, tractor games and even a pedal tractor pull for the kids, there was a little something for all ages and creeds to enjoy at the 2012 event.
Not only could folks in attendance come face-to-face with historical machines, but
a number of personal stories and adventures could also be found in meeting with tractor owners and families.For instance, Stratton farmer turned Apache Junction, Ariz. resident Chuck Cure and his family brought along his personal collection of gadgets and gizmos that wowed the crowd including some 1850s to 1920s antique apple peelers and a portable corn sheller and grinder and corn sheller that Cure had restored in fine fashion.
Cure said this is the second year in a row he's brought the family to the Morgan County Tractor Show after doing several such events at his regular residence in Arizona. Cure has been refurbishing and collecting such contraptions for nearly six years now and enjoys his new hobby in retirement.
Fort Morgan resident Larry Cage brought along his 1948 Super D 2-cylinder Gibson that he has owned since 1984. Although it was Cage's first time showing at the Morgan County event, he's taken his old girl out to ride in the Brush Fourth of July parade for the past 15 to 20 years. In 1996 Cage restored the tractor with a fresh paint job and in 1998, on the 50th anniversary of his Gibson, he took the machine to show off in a Longmont, Colorado event.
Bill Pitt of Weldona brought along his Gibson,
a 1949 edition manufactured by Western American Industries, Inc. as the original sticker proclaims. Purchasing the the tractor from the original owner's grandson nearly 10 years ago, Pitt has totally rewired the show item.Pitt said he uses his Gibson regularly for mowing job,s and folks often tease him that the lawnmower he hooks up to the tractor has more power. Pitt has brought his Gibson to the Morgan County show for the past two years and even showed at the show's predecessor when it was formerly known as the Cottonwood Forge Antique Tractor and Power Show.
The wheat threshing demo was a crowd favorite for many fans, featuring an Oliver RedRiver Special thresher manufactured in 1939 in Battle Creek, Mich. It was purchased new
at an Oliver dealership, straight from the factory, by dairy farmers Charles and Martha Nelson from the small farming community of Dousman, Wisconsin.After losing their previous year's crop of oats to the weather and having to wait many days for the custom threshing crew in 1955, Charles and his wife said, "Never again." It sat stored in their barn for 56 years until it was purchased from David Nelson, the original owner's son, on Jan. 22, 2011 by current owner Robert Gates.
The machine, along with the original owner's manual, left the Wisconsin farm and made the 1,012 mile journey to southwest of Otis. Gates is just the second owner of the machine, and after restorations that included having a professional old-fashioned sign painter out of Canada paint the original Red River details, Gates brought the thresher out to Brush at the Morgan County Tractor show for its very first time in exhibition.
Gates' friend, tractor owner and country music singer Sally Goerner, who also provided entertainment for the day, also lent a hand in restorations.
A 1949 John Deere D 2-cylinder with 30.8 drawbar horsepower, 38.2 belt pulley horsepower, four-speed tractor, owned and restored by Roger and Barb Holter, chairpersons of the Morgan County Antique Tractor and Power show, helped pulley the wheat thresher.
Festivities began with an opening ceremony at the AMA complex east of Brush and continued with a parade of tractors that slowly made its way through downtown Brush.
The parade featured 69 tractors, down from 83 last year, that ranged from historical antiques to new and used and refurbished models complete with the owners families who took obvious care and pride in their machines.
A poker run had bikers from near and far stopping at local businesses to pick up playing cards for the contest and also to take part in savings and discounts. Results from the poker run saw first place honors to go John Lapp of Holyoke. Second went to Daniel Harmon of Otis and third place went to Cliff Henry of Yuma.
The children's pedal tractor pull featured 22 contestants aged 12 and under from as far away as Louisiana, as was the case for 6-year-old puller Isabella Ricks, who was in the area visiting her grandparents Sam and Melody Romero.
The top three placers in each age division qualified to go on to the state pedal pull at the Old Threshers Show in Yuma on Sept. 9.The Whittington family, including Dale, Maureen and daughter Lauren, will direct this year's state event and were on hand in Brush to organize results, with a little help from pedal-pull aide Shorty Edwards.
Lauren boasts of holding the state championship title from the 2011 Old Threshers pull in the 12-year-old division and will move on to defend her title this year. Results and qualifiers were as:
3 and under: 1. Tasha Barron.
4 year-olds: 1. Thatcher Queen, 2. Payson Poland.
6 year-olds: (Boys) 1. Blake Emmerling, 2. Jacob Wilkenson (Girls) 1. Isabella Ricks, 2. Kaylee Mendoza.
7 year-olds: 1. Brady Gibson, 2. Matthew Krening, 3. Jackson Barron.
8 year-olds: (Boys) 1. Harley Queen. (Girls) 1. Deanna Harmon, 2. Jessie Bond, 3. Kyla Schilken, 4. Jamie Bond.
9 year-olds: 1. Jonah Gleason, 2. Jayce Kreegar.
10 year-olds: 1. Adam Krening.
11 year-olds: 1. Kenzie Cure, 2. Carter Mortensen.
12 year-olds: 1. Lauren Whittington, 2. Alayna Kreegar.
Tractor games included a slow race, pole race and 4-wheel trailer backing contest. Results from those events were:
Slow Race: 1. Don Flagstrom, Merino. 2. Tim Sharp, Woodrow. 3. Kent Bauer, Brush.
Pole Race: 1. Doug Dill, Fort Morgan. 2. Tim Sharp, Woodrow. 3. Larry Kage, Fort Morgan.
4-wheel backing: 1. Brad Buehler, 2. Doug Dill, 3. Darick Schneider.
The 2012 show also featured an auction where items for sale included John Deere toy tractors from 21st Century Equipment, a John Deere metal tin bank from All About U, Rockies tickets from the Bank of Colorado and KSIR Radio, dog food from Draegert Feed-N-Supply, tractor t-shirts from Donna Goeken, a denim tractor photo album from Meladee Hagamann, a gift certificate from Hodgson Media, five-piece wrenches and a 128 piece mechanic tool set from Hometown Auto and Hardware, a 12V inflator from Mr D's Ace Home Center, decorative horseshoe flower ornaments from Dave Musgrave, a cordless workstation light from Part Smart Carquest, toy tractors from S&S Service, Wickham Tractor Co. and tractor plates from Deb Schehrer.
The 2012 Morgan County Antique Tractor and Power Show committee members, volunteers and participants give huge thanks to the 56 area businesses that provided sponsorships to make this year's event a success.
Photographers from near and far could also be seen on the grounds of the tractor show as Morgan Community College's Center for Arts and Community Enrichment (CACE) program presented a photo contest for pictures snapped at the tractor show. The contest is open to all ages and pictures must be submitted by June 30 to Katie.Barron@Morgancc.edu or by mail to Katie Barron, 920 Barlow Road, Fort Morgan, CO 80701.
The best entries will be put on display at the CACE Gallery of Fine Art at MCC beginning July 13. For more information call (970) 542-3108.
Source: www.fortmorgantimes.com
Furniture retailers get boost from Pier 1 report - Yahoo Finance
A number of furniture retailers are sitting pretty Thursday after their stocks surged on a strong quarterly report and a raised 2013 forecast from Pier 1 Imports Inc.
Pier 1 said its first-quarter profit rose 26 percent with shoppers more willing to pay full price for its home furnishings. The results beat market expectations.
The results bode well for other furniture sellers, which have spent the past few years marking down a lot of their big-ticket items to draw cost-conscious consumers in tough economic times.
Pier 1 said its revenue from stores open at least a year increased 7.2 percent. This is a closely watched indicator of a retailer's financial health because it excludes stores that recently opened or closed. That gives investors some assurance the earnings increase is more than an anomaly tied to new stores opening.
Jefferies & Co. analyst John Marrin said he believes the company's stronger guidance may be based on share repurchases that weren't reflected in its earlier forecast, but he still sees the company's earnings report as positive.
Here's how selected furniture sellers' shares were doing by mid-afternoon:
— Pier 1, up 27 cents, at $15.81.
— Kirkland's Inc., up 75 cents, 6.8 percent, trading at $11.83.
— Haverty Furniture Companies Inc., up 16 cents, at $10.73.
— Ethan Allen Interiors Inc., up 41 cents, at $21.76.
Source: finance.yahoo.com
Furniture and Floor Coverings Retailing in United Arab Emirates: Databook to 2016 - new market research report - Transworld News
Furniture and Floor Coverings Retailing in United Arab Emirates: Databook to 2016 - new market research report
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Old nappies turned into furniture under new recycling scheme - BBC News
Used nappies will be turned into garden furniture, roof tiles and railway sleepers under a new recycling scheme being trialled in Scotland.
Each year some 160 million nappies are sent to Scottish rubbish dumps.
But four councils are to trial a kerbside collection scheme for 36,000 homes across Fife, Stirling, Perth and Kinross and North Lanarkshire.
The pilot will run for an initial six months to establish whether it can be rolled out nationwide in the future.
As well as disposable nappies, incontinence products and other related items - like wet wipes, nappy sacks and cotton wool - will also be suitable for the recycling collection.
Jenny Sim of Zero Waste Scotland said babies used an average of 4.16 nappies per day, with more than 90% using disposables.
Reusable nappiesShe added: "The average child in Scotland goes through 4,000 nappies before they're potty trained, which is an awful lot going to landfill.
"The local authorities in the pilot areas will be collecting the waste, they'll send it to a big treatment unit where the waste is heated up to 125 degrees to sterilise it and clean it.
"The human waste is put to sewage, and the plastics and celluloids are then converted into useable products such as park benches, road signage, railway sleepers and decking.
"It does make it so much easier for parents in these trial areas to do their bit and help the environment and help recycling in Scotland."
Sheila Sangster, who has been a childminder in Stirling for 27 years, said it was "frightening" to think how many thousands of nappies she had sent to landfill over that period.
Mrs Sangster said she believed the recycling scheme could change the way people viewed the debate between disposable and reusable nappies.
'Step forward'"To use disposable nappies is so much more convenient for mums, so to have a scheme like this where they know that their nappies are not just going to lie in a landfill for hundreds of years - I think people will take up the opportunity to recycle them.
"You've got all these (recycling) boxes already, so one more is not going to make any difference.
"Also, it's going to be picked up weekly instead of lying in your bin for two weeks. As you can imagine, in the summertime that's not pleasant."
Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead said: "Disposable nappies, although convenient, do have a huge impact on the environment with a staggering 450,000 ending up in landfill each day in Scotland.
"This innovative new scheme is a fantastic step forward for recycling and makes it easier for parents to do their bit for the environment.
"It's great that new technologies allow us to recycle even more materials. In this way, we can reuse our waste and treat it as a valuable resource with the potential to boost our economy."
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
California home sales, prices jump in May - msnbc.com
Demand for more expensive properties lifted California home prices to a nearly two-year high in May as sales across all pricing categories showed healthy gains, a research firm said Thursday. The median price for new and existing houses and condos reached $270,000 last month, up 8.4 percent from $249,000 in the same period last year and matching the highest level since June 2010, DataQuick said. The median price is still well below a peak of $484,000 in early 2007 but up from $221,000 in April 2009. The median price has risen three straight months from year-ago levels. The number of homes sold in May rose 17.6 percent from last year to 41,790, the highest tally for that month since 2006, the San Diego-based research firm said. Foreclosed homes, which tend to sell at a discount, made up a smaller part of overall sales, lifting the median price. DataQuick said properties that had been foreclosed upon in the previous year accounted for 28.3 percent of existing-home sales, down from 35.3 percent a year earlier and 58.5 percent in February 2009. The San Francisco Bay area's median sales price was $400,000, up 7.5 percent from $372,000 a year earlier, DataQuick said. The median is still well below a peak of $665,000 reached in 2007 but up from $290,000 in March 2009. Sales in the nine-county Bay area soared 26.1 percent from last year to 8,810, with the most significant gains in pricier categories. Sales of homes between $400,000 and $800,000 jumped 26.2 percent, while sales of homes less than $300,000 rose a more modest 12.5 percent. "It's not exactly a stampede, but people are starting to move off the housing market sidelines in numbers we haven't seen in quite a while. And it's not just first-time buyers and investors," said DataQuick President John Walsh. The lowest-priced homes, particularly foreclosed properties, have long been driving sales in California, but the latest figures show that all pricing categories are drawing more interest from buyers. DataQuick reported Wednesday that the median sales price in Southern California reached $295,000 in May, up 5.4 percent from $280,000 the same period last year. It marked the second straight month that the prices increased from a year earlier in the six-county region, following 13 straight year-on-year declines. It was also the highest since September 2010. The number of homes sold in Southern California jumped 20.6 percent from last year to 22,192. More expensive coastal regions accounted for a larger part of overall sales. Alex Feliciano, 46, was saving for a house with his wife since 2005 and living in a rented apartment. They noticed prices climb in the San Francisco Bay area during April. "When I saw that, it kind of scared me. I had a sense of urgency," said Feliciano, who delivers juice to supermarkets and whose wife works as a hospital lab technician. They bought a three-bedroom home in Hayward for $315,000 last month.
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