China Cleans up for the Olympics, but its Citizens Still Suffer

Looking out across the horizon from a tall building in the southeastern part of China on an average day, you won’t see much ... or more is considered unsafe. The authorities monitor air quality hourly, including levels of particulates, carbon ... . The rather startling satellite image below shows a thick layer of polluted air covering a large swath [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 17:49:17

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Metal Shed For the Home

We have a lot of things stored at the garage. The car tools, gardening equipment and cleaning things are all in that area ... are ideal for agricultural, commercial, residential and industrial use. Steel buildings are very [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 13:33:58

Day 111 and Counting

Greetings from Bag Land! Some of you have been wondering how our beloved plastic bag is doing stuck in the tree outside my building. Here you go! [ ... opportunities to try and get the bag out. Once when window washers were cleaning windows, using [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 23:01:44

The building is finished

We have spent about 1 1/2 days of putting together IKEA furniture - having to deal with a few glitches along the way - and now the building is ... out the first time we tried to move it!Now all that's left is cleaning up, moving my stuff into the cupboard [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 06:37:00

Craft Space Revamp

On Friday evening I came to a sobering realization: My craft space was in serious need of some major organization! ... the building is old, and has plaster walls. So anything that goes on the walls has to be extended ... cleaning out all my big plastic boxes of supplies that I have in my craft space and in the coat [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:18:12

Three french hens, two turtle doves and $500 of gasoline

On the lighter side: I got a kick out of this new home promotion featured in today's print edition of Home Front ... . But the deals included $500 in gas money, $500 for grocery money, a year's free cleaning services, a year's free ... Angeles-based KB Home, according to statistics from the North State Building Industry Association." [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:02:39

Looking Back at 2008

I had compiled this list before New Year's on a loose piece of paper (I should have gone digital for green and organizational purposes) ... in order. Switched to green cleaning products Started composting with Bokashi Ken traded ... leave home without them Purchasing nearly exclusively organic products Attended Alternative Build [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:10:30

Goodbye Blue Monday…

…Hello, fellow citizens. Kurt Vonnegut wrote: Another flaw in the human characteris that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. Seems as though it’s time for some maintenance around here.I will be cleaning up owl poop ... to the new USA Service website. And speaking of service to our country?  I think this will be a very happy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 20:23:51

Stimulus Bill on Transit

As being circulated by House Dems. Modernize Roads, Bridges, Transit and Waterways: To build a 21st century economy, ... with investments that lead to long term energy cost savings; · $19 billion for clean water, flood control, and environmental restoration investments; · $10 billion for transit and rail to reduce [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:30:00

To the Indianapolis-Area Readers . . .

I know that this particular post is extremely regional in nature, but I’d still like to make a request of our readers in the Indy area ... cleaning up and taking stock. You see, this location happens to share a wall in common ... lost, and the building was fairly choked today with industrial fan units drying out the environs [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 05:02:38

$94 Million Refinancing Arranged by HFF for Luxury Manhattan Multifamily High-Rise

The New York and Hartford offices of HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.) ... cleaning service. In addition, 86% of the units have balconies or terraces with views of Midtown ... luxury multifamily building in Manhattan. HFF senior managing directors Mike Tepedino, Dana Brome [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 13:04:18

Dreaming of The Q Hotel in Kansas City

http://www.miss604.com/2008/06/dreaming-of-the-q-hotel-in-kansas-city.html ... to some of the oldest buildings in the city (19th century) made of brick and filled with bars, shops ... appliances, bio-friendly cleaning products, water conservation, organic foods and wines, to sending [more...]

Date: 2008-06-13 15:25:37

Win it Wednesday

Everything Up Close- one Envirosax bag Coffee Beans and Kisses -Gymboree Gymbucks Everything Up Close- starter kit of Better Life natural cleaning products Designs by Vanessa- A handbag by GirlyGirlBags Savings Makes Cents- Entertainment Book Reviewin'" It Up!- $25 Build-a-Bear GC Little People Wealth- $80 in Household Supplies! and don't [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:00:03

Twas the....

....night(morning now) before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse(hopefully we got rid of all those!);The stockings were hung by the chimney(how did they possibly build this house without a chimney ... him away!). Although it looks like he already arrived!!! JUST finished last minute shopping, cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 06:50:00

Midnight Reg on ‘Right of Conscience’ for Health Workers Moves Forward

by Christina Jewett , ProPublica - President Bush signs the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, ... against abortion (or any other procedure that rankles their conscience) sailed through final Office ... to a janitor cleaning an operating room. Read more... [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 17:24:34

Melting Ammunition

I’m totally stealing this bullet post style from LeSombre. ⊕ Situation- Situations can change in the blink of an eye ... the fan… so I’ll be spending part of the weekend cleaning it up because next week is a short week ... t have really anywhere to put it. Luckily, all the buildings and streets act as a huge furnace [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 15:37:02

Building a Legal Semi Auto AK-47

It can be down, but it’s annoying.  For starters you need a parts kit.  Ever since the ATF demanded kits have the barrels cut, the cost of building an AK has gone way ... for you).  What is left will be a pile of parts that may need cleaning and refinishing. After [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 05:48:04

Lauderhill (Broward County) Florida Day Care Center Under Investigation After Baby (Robert Porter) Was Scalded / Burned

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that an 8 month old baby, Robert Porter, ... . . ., chemical and cleaning products, medications, and other things that could potentially hard [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 11:00:38

The kitchen

I got a guided tour around a spooky old house the other day. Over the years I have heard all sorts of rumours about this place. The property was recently sold. The new owners was hoping to renovate the building, but after ... . But that is the sad truth. For the last month or so the new owners have been busy cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 10:47:00

Best MoCo Objects This Week

This and last week's picks: ... the Ikea furniture as a starting point, the two build out or on top of to create a variety of geometric ... would normally go down the drain, when washing hands, cleaning the veges, or even the warm up water [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 13:05:18

Wellington Water Meters

Wellington Water Meters November 27th, 2008 at 11:00 am The Dom Post reports: ... s water supply and delay the need to build a proposed $142-million dam for 20 years. An excellent reasons to do it. This part was interesting: Cleaning teeth - five litres per brush. Shower: eight [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 22:00:16

“How Would A Butterfly Inspire Your Next Design?”

“Imagine if buildings were as self-sufficient as living organisms,” says Stacy Malkan with the Biomimicry Institute ... instance, on the topic of self-cleaning: “the wings of many large-winged insects such as butterflies and many plant surfaces remain dirt-free without chemical detergents or expending energy, simply by how [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 08:47:00

Israel’s Message

Ilan Pappe, London Review of Books, 14 January 2009 In 2004, the Israeli army began building a dummy Arab city in the Negev desert ... , when the Strip provided Tel Aviv with people to wash their dishes and clean their streets, Gazans were depicted ... to the first enclosure of Gaza and the construction of an electric fence around it. Even after the 1993 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 18:10:27

Beats by Dr. Dre & Monster Cable Review

Celebrity endorsed products are big business but, while it may sound cynical, ... leather cushioning - and the build quality are all reassuringly good.  In the red and black packaging ... -answer button for use with your cellphone.  There’s also a cleaning cloth: the gloss-finish plastic [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 21:50:08

Moving to India. Step 10: Become an Employer

Working abroad has been a wish of mine for some time now. Xebia offers me the opportunity to live and work in India ... that so far he has been right. In our case we employ a cook, a cleaning lady and a driver. We are very ... with his wive and two children. He was involved in the construction of the building and has been living [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 07:36:00

The Tipping Point: Scrooged in '08?

Each December since 2005, Curbed has jumped into the fray on the subject of holiday tipping for building employees, ... Lousy system or not, you know you'll be forking over some cheddar if you don't want your dry cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 16:37:01

What Toxins Lurk Beneath Your House? (And Do You Want to Know?)

Wendy Bounds writes: cleaners Last week, I wrote about a growing industry of so-called “green dry cleaners” who use alternatives to the cleaning solvent perchloroethylene — or “perc” — which has been labeled a probable human carcinogen. The EPA is currently requiring a phase-out of perc at cleaners located in residential buildings [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 16:51:18

I am Allowance Challenged

I am ashamed to admit what I about to say, but it is the truth, and I hope the truth will keep me from jumping off the building will set me free. Ready..... my kids are spoiled rotten.... like just call me their maid, personal driver, cook ... mess they will no doubt make? Who will get left cleaning it up? Me? Well, crap.... I could have done [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 08:00:00

Tuesday in Gaza

11 am EET: I couldn’t help but feel panicked. I was using the computer on the 7th/ top floor business lounge when the sirens went off in our hotel ... deep blue sea.  Strike two for me, windows are the worst thing to hide behind in an attack.  I cower behind one of the cleaning carts housekeeping uses and a steel elevator door. I can’t hear [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:18:59

Green Eco Real Estate

Building and buying homes that are energy efficient and environmentally conscious is what seems to be on a lot of peoples minds ... variable speed dehumidification controlled, electronic air cleaning, heat pump system * Extra-sealed air conditioning ducts * TVs and other electronics that automatically power down when not in use [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 15:17:22

The Fundamentals of a Gourmet Kitchen

Perhaps you are about to build your dream home, or plan to renovate your present one to a more stylish look ... will do, and if you want to create gourmet meals like a professional in a domestic setting ... assuredly you'll do a lot of cleaning. Installing a stainless steel sink provides an attractive [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 03:10:00

Ahead Of Myself

I keep forgetting that it's the middle of January. That there are three months until Easter, ... are sleeping, I'm going to finish cleaning and preparing for next week's onslaught of activities ... to replace cracking grout? It's behind the kitchen sink and will need to be taken care of pretty soon before [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:38:00

The War on Bed Bugs in NYC

[Editor's Note: Every so often somebody writes something so interesting on our super-secret internal email list that we feel obliged to share it. This time it was a rant on the return of bed bugs of all things. Since Angry Military Man is too busy to post this himself, the duty has fallen to your hombre-in-chief Angry New Mexican [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:03:36

If You Build It Green, They Will Come…

by Eileen Weber Did you know 18% of overall indoor water use and 37% of just the hot water use comes from household showers? ... submitted entries to this web site about the endless possibilities of a “clean, green” future ... paying your mortgage, electricity and water bills. Before construction, those bills are higher [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:25:29

What About My Parents?

I've been laying it all out there lately about receiving annual inheritances and responding to some of the comments one by one. One commenter on my post The Effects of Not Having to Struggle notes: "It sounds like your grandparents are much more successful than your parents. That must have some interesting implications for family dynamics [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 05:58:00

Pet Advice - Pet News - Pet Photos

Bitter Cold Weather Tipsby Mary Bushnell, St. Louis Pets ExaminerThe weather in the Midwest has been about as unpleasant as it can get. As bad as it is for people, think how it affects the thousands of animals left outside.Temperature and wind chill will kill. Here are a few ideas on winterizing your pet accommodations if you have outside pets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:24:00

How to Live With Your Favorite 'Fur-Ball'!

Bitter Cold Weather Tipsby Mary Bushnell, St. Louis Pets ExaminerThe weather in the Midwest has been about as unpleasant as it can get. As bad as it is for people, think how it affects the thousands of animals left outside.Temperature and wind chill will kill. Here are a few ideas on winterizing your pet accommodations if you have outside pets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:06:00

Toronto Janitors Organize for Rights, Respect and Justice

(By John Riddell from The Bullet) As darkness falls in Toronto and tens of thousands of office workers pour out of the downtown skyscrapers, ... the office towers and readies them for the next day’s activity. These buildings house Canada’s richest ... for Janitors” campaign of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2 in Toronto. “In my [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:20:36

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

If the number of posts we put out per day is overwhelming your feed reader, cut out the extras and subscribe to our slimmed-down top stories feed ... Now Available "Windows only: Reader Kaelri—famous for the beautiful and functional Enigma desktop—has packaged ... Windows programs offered by Microsoft, dug from the trenches of Del.icio.us tags."Coke Can [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 01:00:29

A Different Way of Working

Friday night I worked as a drone building a temporary competitive gymnastic facility on a local high school basketball court ... of work hours to be completed.  These hours are mostly spent setting up, cleaning up and staffing ... of carpet velcro-ed together), as well as setting up the uneven parallel bars (stablized [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 19:23:13

Weekly Challenge #143 - Tidal Wave

Welcome to the Weekly Challenge Number One Hundred And Forty-Three where I post a topic and then challenge you to come up with a 100 word story based ... . Edgar figured a Neutrino event horizon would do the trick. He reverse engineered the dry cleaning tank process by setting up tiny collectors in every dry cleaning business on the planet. After 15 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:46:57

Start Green Cleaning Now!

Busby SEO Test Global climate change has become a matter of increased significance among many companies ... cleaning aims to eliminate use of these toxic chemicals entirely. Advancements in chemical technology ... . As a result, products and activities have started to turn “green.” The world of cleaning products [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:21:34

Guest Blogger Charlie Huston Has Had a Lot of Blood on His Hands over the Years

[Ed.: Charlie Huston's latest book, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death (Amazon's pick as Best Book of the Month for January), descends into the grisly underworld of crime scene clean-up, appropriately inscribed with his indelible signatures: hilarious, inappropriate dialogue; outrageous supporting characters; [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 23:53:54

Weekend Report/Training Update!

The weather has been so nice and warm for the past couple of days - without the normal tornado like winds - so I have tried to take full advantage of ... (and the cleaning, and the...). It is hard to get out and do stuff when she is here since GG has to be around ... I train), well, it is obvious! He has been building the race track that "the girls" have [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 04:02:00

Harlen's Saturday night/Sunday morning

When asked how his weekend was..."Weekend was okay. Two o'clock Saturday morning found me, by the light of the nearly full moon, on the roof cleaning my chimney because it had clogged and was filling the house with smoke. (Honest.) The job was on my to-do list because I knew the creosote was building up, but I didn't realize [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 18:31:00

A view of history: New Yorkers' dispatches from D.C. on incoming President Obama's inauguration

President George W. Bush spent his last full day in office Monday on the phone, extending a farewell to several world leaders, including Japanese Pri...New Yorkers heeding Bam's call to service The Rev. Cora Taitt will be cleaning her Bronx church's new annex today to make way for a food pantry. Across the city, New Yorkers are heeding Presid [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:30:00

Legal tip 28. Minor work licenses

These licenses are intended for works that are characterized by their simplicity and low technical and economic and constructive entity, ... , facilities and works. They include grading work, plot cleaning, interior work that does not involve ... , balconies, projections, repainting of shutters, doors; fences changing of doors and windows, re [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 07:06:36

Guest Blogger: Charlie Huston's Unholy Messes, Day One

[Ed.: Those who follow our Best of the Month picks may already know that we want to tell the whole world about Charlie Huston, ... of the room. One building down the street on the wrong side of Broadway, with a lock that worked ... . As one of the four tenants closest to the door, we were central to the building's community [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:55:56

What Passes as Cleaning Up Shipbuilding These Days

Chris Cavas has a report that suggests there may be some contract trading in the works between Bath Iron Works and Ingalls Shipyard.Four years after Congress ripped apart a U.S. Navy winner-take-all scheme for building new DDG ... fabrication of DDG 1000 in February could wind up building that ship and DDG 1001, the Michael [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:37:00

An Answer to Prayer

In April of 2002 I was bored. Not just a little bored either, but mind-numbingly, depressingly, discouragingly bored. Having recently been laid off from a job I had held for several years, I was now working at a new job where I was system administrator at a small company in downtown Oakville [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 13:42:00

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