When Dave Termini was 13 years old, he would sweep his father’s wood shop after school. While swirling sawdust choked the budding craftsman, all he could think of was playing with his friends outside.

As he grew older, he began to realize his hands could make things his mind conceived.

Four years later, he left home to repair furniture — he loved his dad, but the two never got along in the workshop. Read more…

The Turner Furniture Holding Co. opened its seventh Ashley Furniture HomeStore in Thomasville, Ga., last week.

Located at 2621 E. Pine Tree Blvd., the new store is set to offer a host of specials and deals to celebrate its grand opening. One special is the coupon rebate program. Customers can go to www.wctv6.com (the Web site of Tallahassee’s CBS affiliate, WCTV) and print a coupon. For every coupon redeemed, Turner will donate $50 to the Boys and Girls Club in Thomasville.

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When Dave Termini was 13 years old, he would sweep his father’s wood shop after school. While swirling sawdust choked the budding craftsman, all he could think of was playing with his friends outside.

As he grew older, he began to realize his hands could make things his mind conceived.

Four years later, he left home to repair furniture — he loved his dad, but the two never got along in the workshop. Read more…

Furniture Row® Linens is pleased to announce the launch of its new classic bedding collection. The collection features both adult and children’s bedding. It includes designer duvet covers, down comforters, bedspreads, coverlets, bed-in-a-bag ensembles, blankets, quilts, sheets, pillows, mattress pads, featherbeds, bed skirts and accessories at affordable prices. Selected ensembles and pieces from the collection are now available for online purchase at www.furniturerowlinens.com

Designer and buyer for Furniture Row Linens, Jodi Visser, has traveled the world to bring the collection to life. Read more…

Every good startup tries to practice a little technological jujitsu. By applying a bit of force in just the right place, a handful of people can knock a large and fast-moving industry sector slightly off balance and open up a new and significant opportunity. That’s just what SiCortex Inc. is attempting to do in the hot area of clustered servers for high-performance computing (HPC).

Today, most of the HPC sector is stacking off-the-shelf X86 processors into powerful piles that rival the most muscular custom-built architectures. The sector has adopted a combination of Linux and the message-passing interface (MPI) as its software platform. “We wanted to slide a new hardware architecture under that API that could be three to 10 times better,” said John Goodhue, VP of marketing for the 30-person company. Read more…

The Durrant Group said William Fredregill, Jon Pugh and Namkee Choi have become principals in the Minneapolis office. … Worrell, a Minneapolis-based product design and development firm, has launched a graphic user-interface design group that will be integrated with its research, industrial design and mechanical engineering teams for product development services to clients.

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Centex Homes-Minnesota promoted Scott Richter to mid-central region executive vice president and Dan Blake to president of the Minnesota division. … Knutson Construction Services, Golden Valley, added Robert Gardner as director of corporate services. Read more…

New eco design advisor service at Waitakere

Waitakere is offering a free eco design advice service for people planning to build or renovate their homes.

Eco design advisor Fred Braxton can give impartial advice on sustainable design topics such as energy, water and materials, for home building or renovation projects within the city’s boundaries.

Clients can make an appointment to meet him for up to two hours at their own site, at their designer’s office, or at the council - Waitakere Central, Henderson.

The position, which is being trialled by Waitakere in association with BRANZ, aims to make better use of resources. Read more…

The office of new Nashville firm Interior Design & Architecture, located in a renovated space within the Bank of America Building downtown, resembles an art gallery more than a cube farm.

The moveable walls and patterned flooring are colorful and dynamic. Natural light permeates the office.

To the untrained eye, the space looks “cool.” But this style has substance behind it, and insiders say this type of design is on the cutting edge of architecture’s evolution.
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The new $5.7 million Whole Foods Cooperative, at 610 E. 4th St. in Duluth, is the first building in the region and just the third in the state to receive LEED certification, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

The nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council awards certification to buildings designed for energy efficiency and low environmental impact.

Duluth Mayor Herb Bergson presented a plaque for the certification to the co-op in an Oct. 18 ceremony. Read more…

Long-term efforts to make UCSB “greener” are paying off, as a national environmental group recently commended one more campus building for its unique, eco-friendly design.

The new Marine Science Research Building just received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization that aims to promote sustainable building design. The structure, which cost $25 million to construct, was awarded the distinction for innovative design in energy and water efficiency.
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