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The quick thinking of a 12-year-old Dunbar Township girl may have saved the life of her baby brother when she wrapped him in blankets and helped to hand him out the window of her family's burning home. Shortly after midnight Friday, Robert Gratson, of Dunbar Township, awoke to the smell of wood burning, but in the mountainous area of Dunbar Township, he was used to the smell and fell back to sleep. Five minutes later, the smoke odor was stronger, and he heard popping and crackling noises. When Gratson got up to investigate, he saw that the front porch of his modular home was on fire. A volunteer firefighter for years, Gratson was surprised by the ferocity of the blaze. He ran to grab his keys and wake up his family. .
Real estate developer Gordon Group Holdings LLC, design firm Studio V Partners and other collaborators expect to launch a concept they say is an alternative to department stores within a year. At Trex, a retail trade show in New York on Thursday, architect Jay Valgora, who founded Studio V in New York, said the concept, called "Epicenter," combines bricks and mortar, Internet and catalog retail services. "Epicenters draw on high tech and low tech," Valgora said. They are meant to inhabit spaces in malls left vacant as traditional department stores increasingly close and consolidate. Spaces will offer customizable modular pods to a variety of retailers with shorter leases than traditional mall stores. Consumers will receive an electronic device to browse with. When they go into a store, they can scan products to purchase the items and have them shipped directly to their homes.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Martinez, California-based Altamont Homes, Inc. is introducing custom modular homes created by award-winning architect Douglas Cutler, AIA, to the California market. The "Cutler Series" provides 25 exquisite modular-homes choices. Cutler is based in Wilton, Ct. and is excited to be able to team up with Altamont Homes and to introduce his award-winning designs to the West Coast. "Cutler is one of the finest and best-known architects in the field," Eric Peterson, president, said. "And, in the modular home industry he truly stands alone." Cutler has often been recognized by the media for his outstanding work in this field. On six separate occasions, he has appeared in "Better Homes and Gardens" and has been lauded by several industry periodicals, most recently -- the September issue of "Automated Builder." He is also in an upcoming edition of Business Week.
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EVERYBODY has pictures on their walls. Even if it is only posters stuck with Blu-Tack, art is part of the furniture in every home. But if you bought Nathan Coley's Lamp of Sacrifice, 286 Places of Worship, you would have to move out to make room for it. Cardboard scale models of all the places of worship listed in the Edinburgh Yellow Pages for 2004, all jumbled together, completely fill the floor in two large rooms at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA). Yinka Shonibare's Sun, Sea and Sand, several hundred paper plates decorated with brightly coloured patterns from African textiles, fills the floor of another room. It leaves only a narrow passage, but Martin Creed's Work no 370, Balls - several hundred balls of conceivable, kind, size and pattern scattered across the floor - fills the big central room so completely, you have to walk through the middle of it.
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