Where is IRS most feasible?

In Nigeria’s Rivers State the State’s Malaria Control Coordinator reports on “efforts to roll back malaria in Rivers State, (in which) ... to her, plans were already underway to purchase and distribute chemicals that would be used for the house-to-house spraying. She also said that if done every six months in the next three years, Rivers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 07:47:28

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From Our Continental Correspondent - the writing on the (immense) wall

For some reason the following went totally below my radar, and therefore, my apologies: Last year we already reported on BD Comic Strip 2009, ... (the mural takes up one side of the block that also used to house that famous publishing house, along ... like these, has published a quite detailed pictorial on this new addition to the Brussels Comic Route, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 00:02:26

New Property Assessment Rules - What’s Changed?

New Property Assessment Rules - What’s Changed? January 20th, 2009 Categories: Real Estate News, Vancouver Housing Market, ... value.     The variables BCA uses to calculate this value include house type, square footage, age, heating, property classification or use, and additions or demolitions of features such as garages, sheds [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 20:06:55

Vinyl Siding: Built to Last

Because of its flexibility, vinyl siding has become the trendy alternative to use for a house’s outer walls ... ten house remodeling projects all over, if you consider the overall payback. Vinyl siding ... using a hose and some mild detergent. Durable construction means vinyl siding resists dents and damage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 11:41:34

how to take photos of objects at home

taking photos of your goodies - either to sell them online or to feature on your site - takes a bit of getting used to. tips: 1 ... - (drawings in motion shows you how to make a really simple and cheap collapsible light box at home via ... on setting up a mini studio in your house - making use of natural light by using a white backdrop [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 01:00:10

Block House Construction Guidelines for You

Blockhouse is basically a structure of heavy timbers for military defense. It is made up of squared timbers with a projecting upper story ... block house plan. It is useful when building on a narrow block as the house is intended to suit ... . All desire to have house built which may include qualities such as comfort, durability, strength [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 22:00:48

Small House? 10 Big Ideas

My husband and I used to live in a house that looked VERY similar to this (note: that photo is not of my house). I miss it so much, I wish I could get it back. It was the first house we bought when we were young marrieds. That house was love at first sight. I have always adored small houses with fairy tale doors and pointy roofs [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 08:00:18

Where’s best housing market in South County?

Where’s O.C.’s championship housing market? Lansner on Real Estate wants to know what Orange County community you think is 2009’s best O.C ... estate news …. Furniture orders off 12% Only 4% of O.C. buyers using adjustable mortgages House ... highlights $34.5 million house Emerald Bay ’seaside villa’ to have 12,000 square feet New Emerald Bay [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:00:08

Social Media and You - Part 04: The World Wide Whitehouse

As we’re at part 4 of this post series on social media, you may be wondering; “well, that’s all great, but how can it help me? Can I see an example? ... ) the White House has begun making use of Twitter as well (@TheWhiteHouse). In addition to the use ... Obama campaign, as well as the revamped White House website and blog. Yesterday at approximately [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 08:19:00

Gingerbread Competition results are in

(Cross-posted from the SketchUp blog) Having spent some time perusing the entries for the SketchUp Gingerbread House Design Competition, ... ... First Prize Gingerbread House by Skeat An absolutely beautiful use of the base model ... construction. This is a gingerbread house that aficionados – analog and digital alike – can admire. It's also [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 23:23:40

Eco-Bling: Up Close and Personal

Assortment of Glass Tile Much of environmentally conscious, energy efficient design is invisible ... , California home. One of the first design elements that struck me when I entered the house was the color ... with a colorist, the Gottfrieds used 30 different hues throughout the house; some of them are slight [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 03:20:50

Home Sweet Home Holder

THINK-Mrs. Fields Raspberry Chocolate Stix-Think super simple, inexpensive, ... of gift. Here is yet another view-from the roof top of my house box house-wrapper-choice.jpg I had WAY too much fun using the little house image from C.C. Designs upcoming release called Sugarplums [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 02:22:30

Ensign's Senate Floor Speech: How to talk about automobile manufacturing without ever using the word "Worker"

“Senator John Ensign today called on the White House to take the option of using the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) ... the White House-Democrat auto bailout legislation because it took experts out of the process, injected ... House. The Detroit 3 will be backstopped at least until March 31, when the President will be back [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 06:36:00

HousePlans

Looking for the home of your dreams can be a very daunting task ... Plans plans ready for you to purchase and build as is, or to use as a starting point Ranch house ... house Plans. Find a blueprint that fits your style and your budget. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 15:22:00

Story of mixed emotions…

I know the title can refer to a lot of topics… no confessions here … no “guess how i feel” games… This post is actually about a Poet; Rives ... when we were kids we used to make a story from a colleciton of tiny drawings? We used to draw a house and girl and a car and say “once upon a time there was a girl who lived in a big house” … Well…Rives [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 17:28:24

Rebranding

I don't know what is going to happen in today's election. Judging by the most recent polls ( ... for him. Dems also look like they will pick up somewhere between 7-9 Senate seats and 19-29 House ... for a generation to come. Former House Speaker Denny Hastert used to brag about how the only bills [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 16:14:55

Krugman Still Wrong After All These Years

Krugman seems particularly proud of a piece he wrote a decade ago. His new remake, Hangover Theorists, is as wrong now as it was then ... steps, using the housing bubble as our guide.2.A.1. What Goes Into The HouseWhen a house is built a certain number of things go into that house: a refrigerator, stove, microwave, lighting fixtures [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 08:47:00

Repotting Your House Plants

by Thomas Fryd The pot you are using as a transfer pot, needs to be filled about one third of the way up with potting soil ... , this can be just as bad as leaving it in a pot that is to small. An oversize pot will store water for to long and cause root rot, because a smaller plant cannot use all that water properly. With extra large house [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 23:13:57

Like winter and warmth

Hi, friends.I’m writing this from Oklahoma City, from my old bedroom in my mother’s house, where I used to, as a teenager, ... , for example, or your mother’s house in Oklahoma. The fact that our flight even left SeaTac [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 20:46:00

Official Obama White House Web Page Debuts with Partisan Bush Attacks

So much for the example of class and good wishes extended at every opportunity by President Bush! ... by Rahm Emanuel, now White House Chief of Staff, using the phrase “last eight years” as a pretext ... White House Web Site Becomes Partisan Hit Sheet Photobucket side by side comparisons of class vs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:34:25

Going, going, gone

Modern buildings of Singapore as an emerging nation deserve closer look before they go under the wrecker’s ball or replaced quietly EVERY now and ... .’ The beige 1950s-era blocks used to house Havelock Primary School. These nostalgic visitors ... . Unlike colonial-era shophouses, bungalows and stone-columned monoliths, these relatively modest [more...]

Date: 2008-06-07 05:10:48

Calling All Real Men

We had a bit of a home disaster yesterday, born out of our own neglect, mind you, and yet another adventure in home ownership ... to me. We have baseboard heating in our house, but we never use it because we heat with wood. The problem ... down to the basement and shut off the water main, temporarily solving the problem, then we thought [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 11:46:37

So very many things.....

First of all, Congratulations Jennifer Hoyt! You are the winner of my holiday giveaway. please e-mail me elsieflannigan@hotmail ... ; Nickie are so sweet and talented. Here is the first round of designs that we've worked on together.... a handwritten Welcome Home... I put mine on a glass door in my house (if you've never used [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 06:20:55

Ten Top Fashion Trends For 2009

1.  LONG AND LANGUID WATERFALL EARRINGS:  Goodbye reserved earrings, hello big, dramatic, modern styles ... , COMFORTABLE DRESSES: They may have been shorter back in the forties, but ladies used to call them house ... to the beach in them, without raising any eyebrows).  Some people are calling them day gowns, which pretty [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:19:02

He lies like a rug

George Bush has repeatedly praised his decision-making powers concering the choice of a rug when he moved into the White House and used it as an ... you might guess, to first to do the designs, to settle on the designs, to settle on the yarn colors ... : That's right. We'll fly back to Texas, and we'll end up at our ranch with a number of friends [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:51:00

Backyard Shed Turned Home Office [Featured Workspace]

Reader Brian DeHamer needed a home office but lived in a crowded house, so instead he used extra space out behind his garage ... to be difficult to continue working from home in our small 3 bedroom house in San Diego. After debating the merits of either moving or remodeling we decided the simpler solution would simply be to build a separate [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 11:00:00

The Availability of Foreclosed Houses has made Habitat Change its Methods

Till 2009, Habit for Humanity followed its own beaten track of putting deserving families into the right houses. It collected donations to purchase land and then build the house from the foundation by using ... to do some rethinking. It is now planning to refurbish the old abandoned house in addition [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:19:54

Obama’s Transparency Problem

Obama’s Transparency Problem Posted by Oliver Marks @ 11:29 pm Categories: Uncategorized Tags: White House, Obama, Collaboration, Groupware, ... - collaboration tools the superstar Obama team have been using are unacceptable to White House lawyers. The 1978 Presidential Records Act requires White House documents to become publicly available five [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 07:29:42

Bring It Back! Beauty Sleep Saves Money, Energy

Strength doesn’t lie in numbers, strength doesn’t lie in wealth, ... colds, AND use less energy. More time in bed, with house temps low, not using the computer, lights [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 17:36:11

• Weekly Telecommuting News Summary 121508

The forgotten voices are affected by strike Metro Canada - Ottawa, Canada - Dec 15, 2008 Low-wage employees can’t telecommute, ... , enjoys far less vacation than his European counterpart, rotting in a little cell. What does our society ... days, encouraging employees to carpool, use transit or telecommute. … Coffee house [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 23:24:53

Why decorating?

This is an antique German armoire we bought at Carl Moore Antiques in Houston many years ago ... by her regularly.Next, we built our home in Virginia.  I poured over hundreds if not thousands of house plans ... .  We used to keep a television in it but now it is home to many of my old decorating magaizines [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 15:16:00

Products I Swear By

I came across this product by pure accident. You see I was scrubbing down the sidewalks on the front part of the Ching-Chang-Walla-Walla-Bing-Bang house using outdoor bleach. When I reached almost the end of the walkway, I found this bottle ... . Mold, moss, I dunno what it is. . . was. Here you can see where I applied and didn't apply the stuff [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:55:00

The Passive Home - No Heater Required

The idea that ones home needs to be a drafty place with a heater running all winter is being challenged in Germany with ... concern as I cope with asthma is the buildup of mold and overall bad air. This paragraph makes ... failed, because of stagnant air and mold. But new passive houses use an ingenious central ventilation [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 11:39:13

New Year, New Hope

New Year, New Hope As the economy worsens (gets worse), many Americans are having to change their spending habits ( ... they are doing differently now: Cutting (Reducing) Vacation Spending: 59% of those Americans surveyed ... like a refrigerator, stove, or other large machine that you may use in your house. Major simply means [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 08:00:10

Sunny with a Chance of Faux

I decided to focus on Yellow as our Color of the Month after the results of the 2009 Paint Color Trends post ... , designer Meg Braff used a Clarence House wallcovering for a foyer wall.  It would be like walking ... when we can.                ochre-crackle.jpg freeformvine-2.jpg   modern-stripes-2.jpg [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:26:10

Signing

We had a nice weekend in Th*non enjoying the fresh lake and mountain air and dreaming of our plans to eventually have our house back one day as a vacation house. That part was nice. Then there was the difficult part where the scar of leaving ... it is to see him in my house, using my old dishes and my blender and cooking on my old stove [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 09:38:00

Hardie Board Siding

by Dan the Construction Man Did you know that hardie plank siding has the ability to withstand wind, fire, hail, and rain for an extremely long time ... colors to give them a very island beach style home. Planks come in different lengths and heights. James ... . Hardie also comes in a shingle which can be used on the entire house to give it the old cedar [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 10:54:08

Frugal house cleaning

This article is part of an ongoing series called Money Saving Monday. Each Monday, I share tips and techniques you can use to start saving money ... for many different homemade cleaning products.  Vinegar can be used to remove mold, grease ... house cleaning products, so I thought I would share some collective wisdom I’ve gleaned from them [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 15:04:04

I Can Walk on Water!

We (finally!) went fishing last night!For those of you unaware of such things, this means walking (or driving) ... is drawing fish house plans. This is one of his designs, hand built by us in the barn. This is actually what could be considered a combination house. It can be used for fishing (and mostly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:02:00

Sustainable Bark House Style

image via Highland Craftsmen I recently got the book, Bark House Style: Sustainable Designs from Nature from the library, ... as more just a rustic beach house look, but this book was cool; it shows a lot of different ways in which bark ... Foundation, we plant a tree for every job done. Many of our Bark House materials and products use zero [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 18:18:46

Very Cool (Or Is That Warm?)

Very Cool (Or Is That Warm?) This won’t do me much good in Las Vegas, but it’s still pretty neat: a home that stays warm without a heater ... and mold. But new passive houses use an ingenious central ventilation system. The warm air going out passes side by side with clean, cold air coming in, exchanging heat with 90 percent efficiency. “ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 23:06:55

Airstream trailers restored on an old airforce base

Filed under: Business, Transportation Perhaps you've heard that actor Matthew McConaughey has a thing for Airstream trailers ... to mint condition. Hyde has set up shop at an old air force base that used to house B-52 Bombers ... Vehicles' Web site where you can e-mail your vintage restoration questions. There are also several [more...]

Date: 2008-06-28 23:30:00

Romero house / at103

Architects: at103 / Julio Amezcua + Francisco Pardo Location: Queretaro, Mexico Project Team: Jorge Vazquez, Arturo Peniche Constructed Area: ... The proposal responds to an specific program for a 4 members family. The design is developed ... the house, considering the use of materials and the program that each box contains. The stone [more...]

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

Counting Rupees: Korea bangs

Filed under: Culture, FeaturesEach week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: ... went apartment-hunting with a real estate agent, the agent refused to show him any houses ... ... and my cheap, used cell phone has more free games on it than I've played on any phone since I began using [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 10:46:00

Green Jobs Training: Asheville GO!

“My neighborhood’s crazy.” Waylon said, “there’s drugs, alcohol, violence, stolen motor vehicles, robbing, ... watermelon, Delario and Darius put away shovels they were using to build a green house. D, Waylon’s co ... , and ecosystem restoration. The first half of each day is dedicated to introductions and trainings [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 22:24:19

Daily Digest: The Dawn of Day One

As we prepare for today's inauguration festivities, we're presented an abbreviated Daily Digest. We'll be back in full force tomorrow ... . To get into the weeds on this debate, jump into the discussion happening in the Open House Project Google Group ... from this weekend's National Day of Service projects. Look for the Obama White House to make use of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 13:13:03

This Is, Quite Clearly, a Reasonable and Legitimate Business Expense

As an Award-Winning blogger (2008 Bloggie: Very Best and Most Incredibly Handsome Sports Blogger Who Has Ever Lived), I make a lot of money with my blog. For example, I just bought a the house next door, using nothing but what happened to be in my wallet. I plan to tear it (the house, not my wallet) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 06:45:13

The Simple Woman's Daybook

Thanks to Peggy for hosting our Daybooks each week.FOR TODAY: Monday, December 22, 2008Outside my window.. ... at the feeders. I am thinking...how thankful I am for a heated house. My Mother used to get up in the mornings ... but hoping to get that wall paper border up with Honey Bear's help. He is on vacation this entire [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 10:04:00

Hillary wants more power and more money, any questions?

The New Team Jacob J. LewAs he prepares to take office, ... for: A variety of domestic policy jobs. Would bring to the job: Extensive experience in the White House ... be essential partners.” (Statement at the White House in April 1998.)Used to work as: Director [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 18:33:00

Paper Holiday - Advent Calendar

First, thank you Grace for this opportunity! Next, hello out there. I like to make things ... in my hometown of Portland with my husband and two sons, and work in a carriage house type studio a few ... candy encrusted graham cracker houses. For this Advent garland, I used open end envelopes [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 13:00:30

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