What X-Googlers Are Saying After Leaving
In 2008 Google HR set up a private Google Group to ask former employees why they left the company. We’ve been forwarded what appears to be authentic posts to the thread by a number of ex-Googlers, which we reprint below minus identifying information other than their first names [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 22:39:23
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Helping Your Roof Fight Mother Nature
by Mike Gibson The structures we build today are laughably fragile compared to the past ... it well, but one small leak can let water spread in the ceiling. When it heats up, rot, mold ... your roof. Even if they just sit on the roof, they introduce spots for mold and can scrape back [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 11:29:14
DragonBoard US Announces an Exclusive Distribution Agreement with InterGlobal Forest
NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 19, 2009 — DragonBoard US today announces an exclusive distribution agreement with InterGlobal Forest (IGF) ... construction panel that is mold, fungus, insect, fire and water resistant, with high impact-resistance ... in plywood and other wood products, advancing our growth to a multi-million dollar company. We chose [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 10:00:08
Protecting Indoor Air Quality Required as Homes Go Green
ATLANTA, January 14, 2009 - Just like an old neighborhood as it gentrifies, ... , they may inadvertently contribute to poor indoor air quality (IAQ). “As with commercial buildings ... indoor air for those inside, while protecting the natural resources of our planet outside. Architects [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 22:40:53
Around Mark's House
Around Mark's House Two days after Thanksgiving of 2007, I was in Columbus, ... a full-on removal of mold and possible contamination. Then all efforts turned to reconstruction ... Ohio for the Mid-Ohio Con when my house sitter phoned to say that water was leaking through [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 16:29:51
How To Build Concrete Curb By Hand
Concrete Curb can be done by using precast method, but sometimes contractors might choose to use cast-in-situ method too which is casting the ... up the mold or formwork which is in concrete curb shape. 2) Mixing the concrete in correct mixture. 3) Pouring the concrete into the mold or formwork just now. 4) A few of workers are starting to smoothen [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:32:50
Galveston Pushes Gentrification by Hurricane
Houston Independent Media Center GALVESTON, Texas — Charles Early runs an Internet bookstore from his apartment on the west end of Galveston Island ... from entry even as the threat of toxic mold over-running their homes grew daily. Less than a week after [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 03:05:49
Buying The Roof With The Home
by Mike Gibson People tend to focus on certain components of a home and forget to look at the basics ... inspection done. One of the most important issues to know is what kind of roof should be on the home ... , mold and decay. Try to look for warped shingles as well. The warping will cause the end [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 12:40:09
A Great Way to Avoid Remodeling Project Nightmares
“remodeling and construction” “remodeling project” “diy” “remodeling” When doing any sort of remodeling or construction project, if it’s not a diy project and you’re not the contractor or doing it yourself, you’ll most likely end up hiring a contractor or tradesman to work on your remodeling project [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 17:00:10
Complete Transcript of TNA President Dixie Carter’s Interview with Govt Officials about Steroids (Part One)
Here is the first part of a transcript of an interview government officials conducted with TNA president Dixie Carter on Thursday, December 6, 2007 largely regarding steroid use in her company as well as professional wrestling. Carter also goes into great detail on the behind the scenes aspects of TNA. Mr. Cohen [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 06:19:52
Why Google Employees Quit
In 2008 Google HR set up a private Google Group to ask former employees why they left the company. We’ve been forwarded what appears to be authentic posts to the thread by a number of ex-Googlers, which we reprint below minus identifying information other than their first names [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 11:59:19
Are Manufactured Homes a Good Investment?
Are Manufactured Homes a Good Investment? Manufactured homes tend to have a bad reputation. In general they are considered to be low class, no matter how decked out they might be. Even double-wides are still pretty tacky. While a manufactured home might be cheaper than your average site built home, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 06:25:51
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BACK TO AFGHANISTAN…Months ago, Archis released an issue with a fascinating insert on Kabul based on one of their recent RSVP events that took a few lucky people there to investigate the security and public space dimensions of the capital city’s urban fabric [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 23:46:00
How to prevent basement water damage
Basements are great places to store stuff, to find extra room for projects, bicycles, and much more– if they stay dry. You can often expand your home by upgrading your basement for livability– but check permit requirements in your area before you begin [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 03:20:38
Paints Guide
Introduction This Green by Design buying guide is designed to assist you in choosing eco-friendly paints that reduce the threat of exposure to ... removal and follow specific work practices to prevent lead contamination. Volatile Organic Compounds [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 08:41:35
Gaza
I am not seeing it up yet at PBS' The NewsHour but they have the blurb for it:Gaza Humanitarian CrisisA look at the U.N.'s decision to halt some aid deliveries to Gaza as fighting continues and Israel's view of the humanitarian situation in the region.I am going to be very brief on this topic [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 04:00:00
Can restoration contractors serve customers better than 24 Hour
by 24 Hour Restoration® Can any restoration contractor serve their customers AS GREAT as 24 Hour Restoration after a flood, ... when it's an emergency. How do I contact them after a water damage, flood, mold damage or fire recovery ... fire or mold damage? THAT IS FOR OUR CUSTOMERS TO DECIDE. What kind of customers value 24 Hour [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 08:49:01
Episode #108 - Tom Peter, MS, CIH -A CIH Remediation Contractor
Tom Peter, MS, CIH What is a Certified Industrial Hygienist- Remediation Project Manager? Listen in when IAQ Radio returns with our first show of 2009 Friday at noon. Tom Peter has supervised just about every type of hazardous waste, indoor environmental quality, mold remediation, water [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 18:25:34
Transcript Of Dixie Carter’s Interview With Government Officials
Here is a transcript of an interview government officials conducted with TNA president Dixie Carter on Thursday, December 6, 2007 largely regarding steroid use in her company as well as professional wrestling. Carter also goes into great detail on the behind the scenes aspects of TNA [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 21:46:25
Idiot of the week (Zirin) and more
Friday! It's the weekend. :D And let's get started with Idiot of the Week like I promised last night. Dave Zirin, come on down. Here's the link to Zirin's badly written sports-year-in-review and I normally don't link to idiots but I'll make an exception for Dave and here's the passage that cinched his win: [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 04:00:00
Treating Wet Basement Walls - Six Steps to a Dry Basement
Six Steps to a Dry Basement A dry basement might be its own reward ... age, right?). And a dry basement is inhospitable to toxic black mold, which can eat away at porous ... are completely free of debris. Rain gutters that can’t carry rain away from the house tend to spill [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 07:42:35
Drill, Baby, Drill Cutting Bills and Emissions with Geothermal
Drill, Baby, Drill Cutting Bills and Emissions with Geothermal Filed under Heat Pump News from across the World by admin By Pete Hildebrandt -emagazine.com W hile politicians have been arguing over drilling in the Arctic and along the coasts, an “underground” energy movement has been quietly taking shape [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 12:43:48
Placer County News Roundup - January 18, 2009
Area campaigners and students attending Obama's inauguration - Auburn Journal A chance to be part of history is luring several Auburn-area residents ... charge that is billed to their unsold properties. Helping Keep a City Clean, and Maybe Safer - New [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 15:14:13
Basement Waterproofing In Indiana With ICE Guard
Leaky basements and problems with crawl spaces occur almost in all houses ... always lead to cracked walls and weak foundations, with black mold and carpet mold growing in the crawl ... the basement or crawl space can be done in many ways, some of which are technical and some are manual [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 12:39:56
Is Google an Ethical Employer ? Google Employment the Myth
Lots of people talk about how good it is to work for Google, I have through the interview with google, and due to the NDA I can not write the details,but what I can say that It was not good neither acceptable.I used to work for big names all my life many of them share the same bad things with google , [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 19:58:00
103-TNG Radio - The Norris Group 1-3-09
Bruce Norris is joined once again by Craig Hill (hard money loan officer at The Norris Group) and Greg Norris (full-time property buyer for The Norris Group.Bruce asks Craig about calls from first time investors purchasing homes with structural damage and mold. Craig says he steers newer investors [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 18:47:00
As this list gets started, I do not know how many issues and situations came up today foe me. It seemed like a lot of them though…1 ... if this is mold. (Her coach is the pastor of the church where they are practicing)….ARRRGHHH [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 03:23:04
What to Expect When Offering to Buy a Foreclosure in Murphy NC
When you find a foreclosed home in Murphy NC that you want to buy, ... and all liability and specify how to expect the closing will take place. There will be mold addendums even if the house doesn’t have mold (basically says the bank doesn’t know about any mold and is not liable [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 15:56:48
How To Find Out if Your Contractor is Licensed
How To Find Out if Your Contractor is Licensed “contractor” “contractors” Some of the biggest problems with contractors can be easily avoided by simply checking out the contractor first and making sure that you’re hiring a reputable, well established and professional contractor [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 04:30:23
Most Respected Plumbing and HVAC Contractors in Bucks and Montgomery Counties
For plumbing, heating and cooling, ... and HVAC contractors in the Bucks and Montgomery County areas of Pennsylvania. For All 0f Your Home ... Purification Allergy / Dust / Mold Control Systems Air Quality Assessment / Treatment Bathroom Remodel [more...]
Date: 2008-09-30 14:04:03
Impressions on Galveston after Hurricane Ike
In a modest response effort to assist the Galveston Historical Foundation with recovery efforts post-Hurricane Ike, ... into a huge contractors’ convention. Once I waded through the traffic and landed on Broadway [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 18:32:57
Increase Home Furnace Efficiency And Save A Bundle
by Don Marshall Winter will be here again very soon. Now is the time to start preparing your furnace for winter months ... is running efficiently and circulating clean air. Have your heating ducts cleaned Mold, mildew [more...]
Date: 2008-10-18 17:07:53
Snoqualmie Valley Youth Activity Center still vacant
Not one Boy Scout or Venture Crew member has held a meeting at their usual meeting place — the Snoqualmie Valley Youth Activity Center — since ... . Four days after the sewage spill, the city had an insurance adjustor perform an inspection [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 00:34:54
Can Green Designs Solve A Housing Crisis?
HopiReservation_Cameron.jpg The walls of Elmer Bear Eagle's house are covered in mold. The black intrusion began in the basement ... , creating a mold haven. The homes are also fraught with poor insulation, which Bear Eagle says [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 19:15:33
Can Green Designs Solve A Housing Crisis?
Hopi reservation housing The walls of Elmer Bear Eagle's house are covered in mold. The black intrusion began in the basement ... , creating a mold haven. The homes are also fraught with poor insulation, which Bear Eagle says [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 10:00:00
Eve on stages of poorness
Eve on stages of poorness The economic slow-down has effected many people; some that I know well, some I am merely acquaintances with, ... holdings. The first to go? The niceties. The cleaning lady. The new cabinets or moldings [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 22:56:35
Green Home Building: Smaller Home = Greener Home
Green Home Building: Smaller Home = Greener Home For many years, people longed to have the ultimate home . . . a huge mansion worth millions. These days, the focus is on going green and saving money and that means smaller houses. Green home building is rapidly becoming an art [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 02:37:58
Roofing For New Home Construction
Residential roofing sounds like a boring topic. Except for roofing contractors or other residential roofing specialists, ... resistance, fire resistance, ability to withstand the weight of snow or to allow snow to slide off [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 14:01:54
Roofing For New Home Construction
Residential roofing sounds like a boring topic. Except for roofing contractors or other residential roofing specialists, ... resistance, fire resistance, ability to withstand the weight of snow or to allow snow to slide off [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 14:48:36
Roofing For New Home Construction
Residential roofing sounds like a boring topic. Except for roofing contractors or other residential roofing specialists, ... resistance, fire resistance, ability to withstand the weight of snow or to allow snow to slide off [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 15:41:52
Modular Homes Withstand Hurricane Season
Modular Homes Withstand Hurricane Season With hurricane season fully upon us, ... thrilled they are with their house. 5 Advantages of Modular Homes No mold. The conditions in which modular homes are built mean they are kept dry and the chances of mold forming inside the walls [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 01:53:41
Roofing For New Home Construction
Residential roofing sounds like a boring topic. Except for roofing contractors or other residential roofing specialists, ... the work and checking the contractor’s license, insurance, and whether all aspects of the roofing system [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 17:21:12
Roofing For New Home Construction
Residential roofing sounds like a boring topic. Except for roofing contractors or other residential roofing specialists, ... the work and checking the contractor’s license, insurance, and whether all aspects of the roofing system [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 18:43:01
What Have We Learned?
What Have We Learned? December 31st, 2008 Chimpy and his “conservative” minions have managed to utterly destroy some long-cherished wingtard ... away. From the trigger-happy steroid junkies of Blackwater, to the Halliburton-provided mold [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 23:41:46
Local Business Owner Receives Citation
Local Business Owner Receives Citation from Nassau County Comptroller (Long Island, N.Y.) ... quality, mold remediation and masonry. A.M. Shield Waterproofing takes pride in upholding [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 12:22:14
Interviews with Church Designers
Browsing the various CSS galleries is one way to gauge which industries place value on good design ... is “The Role of Design in Modern Church Marketing” and the feedback has been pretty good. But I didn’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:32:50
Green Home Building is For Everyone
Green Home Building is For Everyone There is really no good reason why anyone would not want to try green home building if they are planning to ... that can be caused by fumes and black mold. There are plenty of great reasons for green home building [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 01:59:55
January 15 - 524,000 new jobless claims - Google sheds 100 - Sanyo cuts 1200 - 2000 less at Delta - 750 lose jobs at Autodesk - 2000 gone in TN? - DOW dumps 500 in TX - GE Aviation downs 1000 - Seagate’s total now 3000 - MeadWestvaco dumps 2000 - Roche swallows 780 - Xerox starts it’s job chop
Mike: Good day to all. Today’s big jobs report is the Jobless Claims numbers, which is released at 8:30 Eastern. The expected results are 500,000 new claims with a range of 442,000 to 700,000. The below graph shows jobless claims over the past two years: [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 13:01:13
Working At Google Is Not As Great As You May Think
TechCrunch as a very interesting post today about why Google employees quit ... of time for someone at that level, and the fact that it’s “quirky” is no mitigation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 17:05:55
Long Live Home Roofs
Long Live Home Roofs By Mike Gibson | November 3, 2008 by Mike Gibson The structures we build today are laughably fragile compared to the past ... for mold and can scrape back and forth in the wind causing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 19:12:32
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