Live in Nanny- Why You Need to Choose a Live-in Nanny
By Alice SyCareer-driven parents can obtain a lot of benefits in hiring a live in nanny ... to other domestic duties like cooking, cleaning house, and keeping other things in order. Compared ... -time nanny leaves the house when working hours are over, so you may have difficulty contacting [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 23:43:00
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Seismic Activities Made Easy
By Sebastian Guthery Earthquakes can occur more than a thousand times a day ranging from undetected slight movements to violent destructive ones ... structure can be enhanced primarily by investing in proper initial design. This design is best ... % more resistance to earthquake damage compared to a house that has not been retrofitted. Earthquake [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 18:03:34
The Wal-Mart Labor Settlement: A Preemptive Strike Against Unionization?
Wal-Mart’s agreement yesterday to pay a whopping $640 million to settle the vast majority of 76 suits alleging that it routinely underpaid its ... Wal-Mart’s image. wm1 The company, for instance, is in the process of remodeling most ... of their overall strategy to get their labor house in order, and compared to what unionization might cost [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 14:48:45
The Wal-Mart Labor Settlement: A Preemptive Strike Against Unionization?
Wal-Mart’s agreement yesterday to pay a whopping $640 million to settle the vast majority of 76 suits alleging that it routinely underpaid its ... Wal-Mart’s image. wm1 The company, for instance, is in the process of remodeling most ... of their overall strategy to get their labor house in order, and compared to what unionization might cost [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 16:59:00
Greening a giant
Japan’s housing market is an oddity in the world for its obsession with newness. More than half of the country’s homes were built after 1980, and only 13% of existing stock are houses that were pre-owned, compared to 66%, 78%, 89% in France, the US and Britain respectively. The roots of this phenomenon go way back [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 04:14:24
Country Livin' And Creepy-Crawlies
Several of you asked how it's been living out at the cabin, both generally and in terms of the "friends" who share our environs ... total in the entire house? Decidedly so. But when compared to the benefits, those items are (almost [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 21:53:35
Remodeling Fun: Olympic Paint Review by EcoInsomniac
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been helping my parents with a fun remodeling project ... have been pretty high cost compared to the smelly more traditional house paint. After doing a little [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 20:44:19
NASA's top science, exploration, and discovery stories of 2008
From NASA Press release: 08-322 NASA landed on Mars, photographed distant worlds, added to the International Space Station, ... , volume and science capability. The flights also prepared the station to house six crew members for long ... , and its interior volume is more than 25,000 cubic feet, comparable to the size of a five-bedroom house [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 21:42:37
Is McCain Confused?
Is McCain confused about what he has said in the past, ... Security on November 18, 2004 on C-SPAN's Road To The White House "...Without privatization, I don't see ... Policy Center comparing the economic plans of the two candidates. (The report has a graph showing [more...]
Date: 2008-06-13 01:48:00
The MPLS real estate saga begins
DH dragged me out this past Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. to look at Minneapolis real estate options. ( ... that we should just buy a single family for ourselves. Unfortunately, the house DH loved cost $239k ... , but even that monthly payment seemed high compared to buying a duplex.The duplex I'm currently [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 19:48:00
Today’s Science Policy News for December, 12th 2008
A look at today’s science and health policy news: Administration Loosens Species Protections Washington Post–The Interior Department yesterday ... , recently compared the danger of climate change to a problem with electrical wiring in a house. Seasoned ... unknown, and perhaps undecided, about Carol M. Browner’s new position as White House coordinator [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 18:50:34
World's Most Expensive Stadium - $1.5 Billion
The Brits get all the nice things, don't they? ... houses the track and field events, but comparitively that stadium was 'cheap' compared [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 18:33:33
Peter Please Answer - Will I Ever Sell My House?
The current recession is causing a lot of people to ask Peter Answers, “Will I ever sell my house? ... houses on the market then you may need to do some upgrades to offer a better comparable. Remodeling ... return on investment. So too adding a bedroom if needed. You can go fancy if it fits your neighborhood [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 06:15:17
LA TIMES-->Worse Than The NY Times On Gaza
You know you are biased when the NY Times coverage is compared favorably to yours ... facts, such as Israel warned people to get out of the house and the basement of the residence contained ... . He encouraged other leaders to follow suit."He refused to leave his house; he preferred to be a martyr [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 18:50:00
Linkeyes 21st Jan 2009
I love folding bikes especially ones that can fold into a backpack! Compare the old and the new robots.txt at whitehouse.gov. While you’re there check out the new White House blog. Wildly inaccurate time remaining estimate from iMovie. There’s only three things I’m afraid of… Gaming the shortys. Yulia Brodskaya’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 09:21:46
It’s a Professional Career
Date: 2008-11-18 19:07:18
Professor Jenkins Goes to Hollywood
On Monday, I announced to the members of the Comparative Media Studies Community --our graduate and undergraduate students, staff, researchers, ... -- those in my classes and those who live in Senior House, the dorm where I have been housemaster ... and creative community which has been free to explore our current moment of media change from many [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 16:59:47
Recession in Four Colors: Comics and the Economy
As we’ve reported in the past, the economic recession has hit media and publishing companies hard, ... propped up the comparatively-cheap comics industry during most recessions, it makes sense why the layoffs and closings aren’t matching those of newspapers, publishing houses, or Wall Street. [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 21:15:38
Gasp! Most folks OK with Warren!
Did I miss the poll on the status of the other ordained participants in this festival of public-discourse? ... a Democrat took over the White House. Americans of all political stripes expect to watch or listen ... of Democrats plan to make time for the swearing-in, compared with 62 percent of Republicans. One reason [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 13:52:25
Obama and Lincoln -- Keep Hype Alive
A recent Bloomberg article points out the obvious efforts to compare Obama and Lincoln. Politically, I understand the attempt ... , no law school.1837 - First protest against slavery.1846 - Elected to the US House of Representatives.1847 ... - Losing Senate race against Douglas. Makes 'house divided against itself cannot stand' argument.1837 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 07:25:14
Stop building to help housing prices recover?
So many plans and ideas are being floated to repair the country's economic situation. David Reilly of the Wall St ... Test." There is currently more than 10 months of home inventory. Homeowner vacancy rates are at historic highs of about 2.8%, compared with pre-bubble levels of about 1.7%, according to the U.S. Census [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 19:37:46
AT&T Releases New (Still Expensive) Roaming Data Plans
Have an iPhone on AT&T and want to travel internationally without re-mortgaging your house to pay for the data roaming? You’re in luck… mostly. Engadget says the USA’s exclusive iPhone carrier has just released two new plans to help mitigate ... Given the poor marks AT&T’s network received in Wired’s survey when compared to European [more...]
Date: 2008-08-27 14:55:32
Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Ex-Pats
Michelle Hunter and Richard Rainey at The Times-Picayune write: Compared to Katrina, ... but hardly battered Monday, the damage mostly limited to downed utility wires, toppled trees and fallen limbs. Jefferson Parish officials logged no reports of water in houses, and even notoriously flood [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 05:13:05
Twitter On Your BlackBerry
Got a BlackBerry and want to use Twitter on it? In this post the staff at BBGeeks.com follow them at @bbgeeks test and compare the options for you. If you have not heard about Twitter yet, you are missing out on one of the hottest social networking movements of the 2.0 era. Originally conceptualized as an in house messaging tool by the team [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 15:33:03
Old House? New House? Weighing Your Options
by Ada Denis Maybe it has something to do with a childhood home we fondly remember. Many of us long for old homes built with solid construction, quality craftsmanship and beautiful ... of homes we’ve known. On the other hand, how do the old homes we admire compare with newly minted [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 14:45:42
Eastside - A look at “affordable” housing
I need to take a look at “affordable housing” issues after a meeting I had this week on the subject, and in preparation for a meeting I have next week on the subject. I’m primarily looking at Kirkland and comparing Kirkland to places people would move to from there [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 18:25:25
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