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My great grandfather, who is 94, gave me his ding room set. I feel so special!

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Unlike many other furniture stores, most of our Country Furniture is hand made. Many pieces in our vast collection, like this beautiful huntboard, are handcrafted in our on-site workshop! We have the capability of customizing pieces to match your needs in size and color. Chances are, we can even build you an affordable piece of furniture based off a picture or drawing.

NASA’s about to get into the moving business.

Over the next five days, astronauts are scheduled to shift a giant power pylon from the top of the International Space Station to the station’s outermost tip. It’s among the most complex jobs NASA has attempted as it builds the station, a scientific laboratory orbiting about 200 miles overhead.

The pylon is a tower twice as tall as a football goal post and, at 35,000 pounds on Earth, as massive as a city bus. It supports solar panels to help generate electricity. Read more

HOUSTON ? The crew aboard the international space station greeted Discovery?s seven astronauts with hugs and handshakes on Thursday after the shuttle arrived at the orbiting outpost to begin an ambitious construction mission.

It was an extra special moment for Discovery commander Pamela Melroy and station commander Peggy Whitson, the first women to simultaneously manage two spacecraft in the 50-year history of spaceflight. They warmly embraced one another when Melroy floated into the station. Read more

Space Shuttle Discovery Docks With Space Station for Challenging Construction Mission

The crew aboard the international space station greeted Discovery’s seven astronauts with hugs and handshakes on Thursday after the shuttle arrived at the orbiting outpost to begin an ambitious construction mission.

It was an extra special moment for Discovery commander Pamela Melroy and station commander Peggy Whitson, the first women to simultaneously manage two spacecraft in the 50-year history of spaceflight. They warmly embraced one another when Melroy floated into the station. Read more

Astronauts stepped outside the International Space Station Friday morning for a little stroll in space, the first of five planned spacewalks over the next few days.

The pair of astronauts, Scott Parazynski and Doug Wheelock, are working on removing the ISS “Harmony” module from the Discovery shuttle’s cargo bays, and attaching it to the space station. The Italian-built module will serve as a connecting passageway between components built by the U.S., Europe and Japan. Read more

The pace of U.S. commercial-construction activity — which had remained strong despite a sharp contraction in housing — is showing signs of slowing and could drop next year for the first time since the early part of the decade, the latest sign that companies are turning cautious about the economy’s prospects.

In a closely watched report expected to be released today, McGraw-Hill Construction will forecast that spending on commercial and manufacturing buildings, such as offices, warehouses and hotels, will decline 7% next year, in dollar volume, and 10% in the number of square feet of space built. That would be a sharp turnaround from this year, when commercial and manufacturing construction is expected to end the year up 11% in dollar volume. Read more

An overall decline in construction starts in the United States could prove more dire than originally thought. McGraw-Hill Construction, RECORD?s corporate affiliate, estimates that the industry experienced an 8 percent decline in construction starts in 2007 and it forecasts another 2 percent drop in 2008. This forecast was released today during McGraw-Hill Construction?s 2008 Construction Outlook conference in Washington, D.C.

After reaching a record $668.9 billion in total construction starts in 2006, values are expected to hit $626.7 billion for 2007 and $614.1 billion in 2008. Last year, McGraw-Hill Construction predicted that starts in 2007 would drop 1 percent, as the single-family housing market weakened and other sectors, such as institutional work, remained strong. Read more

WARSAW (Thomson Financial) - Poland’s largest homebuilder JW Construction expects to earn 500 mln zlotys between 2010 and 2015 from a new project in the north-western city of Szczecin, the company’s chief executive said.

Earlier JW Construction said it would pay 32.45 mln zlotys to buy land for the property development close to the centre of Szczecin. The deal includes two sites, of 94,586 square meters and 102,528 square meters, which were bought from the administrator of a shipyard in Szczecin. Read more