New findings on ‘toxic mold’ will further debate

Mold toxins in buildings damaged by moisture are much more prevalent and more potent than previously thought, ... concerning toxic mold has broad implications for not only patients with respiratory illnesses but also ... in the university’s medical microbiology lab analyzed dust and material samples from buildings damaged by mold [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 23:06:00

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Support for 'undocumenteds' a slap to citizens

Click title for letter to the editor regarding the prospect of pouring unbudgeted money into the Shuffleboard Court building ... building in the way of mold eradication, installation of an elevator, and other building improvements [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 16:41:06

Hurricane Ike: Clean with Caution

The Mesothelioma Cancer Center sent me this article to help spread awareness for the environment and Mesothelioma ... litter to get rid of excess moisture.· Remove wet wallpaper - damp wallpaper paste is a prime location for mold to grow.· Ask a contractor or building inspector to check for mold damage after a flood [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 03:12:00

Choosing The Company With The Best Mold Removal Technology

Approximately 50% of all buildings contain mold according to the EPA. There are so many strains of mold and bacteria that it seems impossible to keep up with all of them especially when not acted upon immediately. Molds can be detrimental to your health and can cause [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 06:55:05

War on Mold Declared with Product Debut at IBS

Look out, mold! You don't stand a chance now that Syngenta's SPORGARD mold protection is being incorporated into National Gypsum's XP® mold resistant gypsum board. Long a big player in agribusiness, SPORGARD marks Syngenta's move into mold protection in building materials. They have plans to incorporate their mold control chemicals into paints [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:00:00

Can mold grow on brick and hardwood floors?

Q. Hi, I recently moved into an old building in eastern TN built around 1890 ... industrial including a specialization in mold remediation. ... or more in the building. I have been tested positive for moldallergy, however I cannot find any mold [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 16:58:12

Dr. Phil

The cream rises to the top, and when it comes to investigation of buildings Phil Morey, Ph.D ... in the public or private sector Dr. Phil has been involved in many high profile microbial contamination and landmark mold cases such as the TVA Building, the Hubert Humphrey Building, Marion County [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 19:19:52

Building Health Check Mold Sampling Strategy in the Indoor Environment

TAMPA, Fl-(TransWorldNews)-Molds are fungi that can be found both outdoors and indoors. They grow best in warm, damp and humid conditions ... . If you have damp or wet spots in your house, you will probably get mold. Mold can cause health problems. Inhaling or touching mold or mold spores may cause allergic reactions or asthma attacks ... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 20:41:20

Extra profit on almost every job

In a perfect world, technicians would be able to add value to their work and boost their profits at the same time ... is is one that does it. Dust, mold and who knows what else builds up in ventilation and air conditioning ducts over ... you had an allergy cold?) Not only does it simply stink after a while, it can be outright dangerous [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:01:13

“We had nine lawyers, they had nine lawyers”

Foreclosure-endangered TV personality Ed McMahon on why the much-publicized $7 ... -July 2003 (0) “Panel Finds Mold in Buildings Is No Threat to Most People” (0) ... .2 million settlement over mold in his Beverly Hills house didn’t really go that far, once [more...]

Date: 2008-06-07 17:07:56

A roundup of some smart grid links

Lynne Kiesling The Department of Energy has published a new, very user-friendly introduction to smart grid technologies, benefits, and policies ( ... conceivably could put a dent in that. Second, the technology better fits into the VC mold for building companies. Unlike solar or biofuel companies, most smart grid outfits don’t need to build huge [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:04:10

Staph Infection Prevention and MRSA Prevention - What Are My ...

Buildings across the country are under threat from an invisible menace that poses a significant health hazard to all who come into contact with it. Harmful microscopic organisms in the form of staph bacteria, viruses, and mold spores can exist in any building where people live, work, or play. These can include businesses, schools, hospitals [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 11:00:03

Green Opportunities in the Economic Recovery

Old jobs and industries are going to disappear during this economic recovery and new industries will replace them ... for capital improvements; but they are spending it more wisely. Investments to clean living space ... indoor surfaces. Many of our older buildings are full of deadly mold and/or noro-viruses. Cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 04:22:17

HEIRS Research: Another Great Schematic of Nrf2 W/ Assoc Interactions of Proteins

We wanted to make sure we posted a great scematic and a great article that helps to explain how different food chemicals interact with proteins to ... Posts: HEIRS Sick Building Syndrome: Mold Toxins Prevalent and Hazardous HEIRS Health: NRF2, Bones ... Smoking Prevention: Genes Can Increase Risk of Lung Cancer From Component in Cigarettes HEIRS [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:04:07

Favorite Local Vendor - Ductz

There’s some disagreement in the general public about whether cleaning your home’s ducts is actually worthwhile ... cleaning, saying it improves overall circulation and even prevents the build up of microbes and mold ... the ducts during a buyer’s inspection negotiation, or BINSR period. We used Ductz Indoor Air [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 02:26:37

A Cup Of Cha on the Chinese Car Sales Tax Adjustment

In the midst of the Olympics, I missed an interesting story about a car tax that will go into effect September 1 ... , but you should also expect to see foreign competitors building more models that fit the mold. And don’t be surprised if many of them end up in markets outside of China, cleaning the air for those in the rest [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 03:04:29

:308 Crawlspace Ventilation

Take the 1:5:10:365 challenge: Do one thing - for 5 to 10 minutes - 365 days a year to make our home and planet environment better ... their crawlspace. This may not be a good idea. Extra soil moisture can migrate into building materials resulting in mold growth and the lack of ventilation may result in higher radon concentrations [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 08:57:59

Mold in Home ? Identify the Warning Signs

Molds and mildews enter your home or building silently without making a bit of noise or giving out the slightest of clue ... . They appear as black spots on walls, furniture surface, carpets, wood products, leather jackets and other ... your home, if haven?t already. Warning Signs for Mold Growth Humidity Humidity is the prime factor [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 05:39:29

Gross Out: Bio Slime at Cadillac Ranch in Tempe

By Amy Silverman There are certain rites of passage, I've learned, for the Gross Out Girl. Like the first time I read about slimy mold build-up in an ice machine, or my first dead ... inspection report for Cadillac Ranch, at 2000 E. Rio Salado in Tempe, which included the unforgettable [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 02:00:04

Sales Will Remain An Anchor, Not A Lifeboat

The Miami Herald reports from Florida. “The median price of an existing single-family house fell in Miami-Dade and Broward counties by roughly 20 ... and foreclosures in Miami’s real estate market, many high rise buildings now have mold growing inside [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 15:07:09

Kanuun Il Awwal & the Pursuit of Cheaper Heating

First month of the stove. I think this is a record for us, not having turned on the central heat by now. We did start using the soba ( ... the foundation of the building, too). History Buff has a mold allergy as well, which makes it a health ... -by-hibernation). We had the additional problem of mold in the boy’s room, which was made unmaintainable [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 09:59:26

Why ReportingOn Launched on Django

First things first: ReportingOn is live, it's a public beta, and it's built in Django. Whoo-hoo! ... , but I found it to be extremely difficult to mold into the application I was building. Did I need ... realized I needed to build my own content types. And views. And the file system was confusing [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 16:45:29

A Strange and Painful Decline

I happened upon an 1885 History of Berkshire County and discovered a passage relating to farming in New Marlboro, ... and painful decline.  Many homesteads have been sold for for less than the cost of their buildings ... they were then covered with vegetable mold and have since been heaved to the surface by frosts which [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 20:02:45

Air Duct Cleaning: The Right Equipment is Key

by Amy Nutt Nearly every home and industrial building has air ducts ... mold in a home, you can be sure it’s being spread by the heating or cooling system. People in homes with too much dust, mold or bacteria, tend to get sick often and may have lowered immune systems [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 23:05:42

Air Duct Cleaning: The Right Equipment is Key

by Amy Nutt Nearly every home and industrial building has air ducts ... mold in a home, you can be sure it’s being spread by the heating or cooling system. People in homes with too much dust, mold or bacteria, tend to get sick often and may have lowered immune systems [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 15:17:51

Air Duct Cleaning: The Right Equipment is Key

by Amy Nutt Nearly every home and industrial building has air ducts ... mold in a home, you can be sure it’s being spread by the heating or cooling system. People in homes with too much dust, mold or bacteria, tend to get sick often and may have lowered immune systems [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 23:07:26

Air Duct Cleaning: The Right Equipment is Key

by Amy Nutt Nearly every home and industrial building has air ducts ... mold in a home, you can be sure it’s being spread by the heating or cooling system. People in homes with too much dust, mold or bacteria, tend to get sick often and may have lowered immune systems [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 23:05:38

LEGO Wall-E roundup

LEGO fans all over the ‘net love the new Pixar movie Wall-E, ... -small with his super-cute Wall-E built from only 11 pieces: Jordan Schwartz breaks from the mold to build frustrated cleaning robot M-O (”FOREIGN CONTAMINANT!”), along with his own Wall [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 05:44:20

Remembering Veterans: General Douglas MacArthur at West Point

General Douglas MacArthur gave the speech below at West Point when he was 82 years old. His address was delivered without notes ... of mockery and ridicule.But these are some of the things they do. They build your basic character. They mold [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 17:31:00

Beautiful & Strong...... Down, but not OUT!

Why is it, whenever life throws me a curve ball, I think it okay to be a "self hater" ... to build and mold and filled with this toxic foods that leave me tired and more depressed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:27:00

Chinese Carriers and constricted waters

By Fester: Jerome Chen at Foriegn Policy argues that the Chinese aircraft carrier program is aimed at the Taiwanese Straits ... tier opponent in 1983. If the Chinese were to build carriers on this mold, their use in a Taiwanese [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 21:03:15

Does mold make you sick? Doctors seek answers (Reuters)

Does mold make you sick? Doctors seek answers (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com – Reuters - Fungus expert Joan Bennett did not believe in so-called toxic mold -- the cause of "sick building syndrome" and many lawsuits -- until her New Orleans home was flooded during [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 20:11:18

world's most beautiful castles= Château de Chillon

Lake Geneva, Montreaux. Excavations here have turned up evidence of a Bronze Age settlement, ... "The Prisoner of Chillon"; the work refers to the "seven pillars of Gothic mold" that stand in "Chillon's ... buildings to have escaped the iconoclastic zeal of the Reformation. DefensesThe lake side of the castle [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:28:00

Copenhagen Chooses Low-Rise Over Skyskrapers in City Expansion

Photo chad_k @ flickr It only takes five minutes in the city of Copenhagen (especially when arriving by train) to wonder why all cities aren't developing in this same mold - plenty of open streets with wide ... office buildings, to be sure, but the preponderance of low-rise buildings in different styles [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 09:29:58

Old Wood Molded into New Furnishings

Reclaimed wood from demolished buildings, barns or schools don’t necessarily have to be left out as raw materials left to rot ... barns, BED Furniture, decorating, furniture designs, hardwoods, Home Designs, interior-design ... of catchy furniture designs that can really mislead anyone into believing that they are good as new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 22:28:32

Reduce your exposure to indoor air pollution if you work from home.

Have you noticed that they’re now starting to pay a bit more attention to household allergies in over the counter medicine? ... eliminated, but regular cleaning can dramatically reduce their numbers. Use a vacuum with a hepa air ... carpets and building materials within 24 hours if possible to prevent mold and mildew growth [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 14:22:33

The churches of Galveston

The Houston Chronicle covers the beginnings of cleanup efforts in Galveston with an emphasis on the church buildings there, ... that can be wrought by mildew and mold. Among those churches is Trinity Episcopal, which also withstood ... and Trinity Episcopal started the work of cleaning up, flinging doors open to exchange heavy, moist air [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 14:00:06

From a Teacher to an Educational Leader

Luz loved writing about education so much, she decided to give us another nugget of wisdom ... mentors in said building who took me under their wing and helped to mold me. From them, I learned ... which were needed to obtain state certification to be a building leader. Last but not least, we also [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 17:00:56

What is a sick building syndrome?

Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a combination of ailments (a syndrome) associated with an individual's place of work (office building) or residence ... that encourage allergenic, potentially-deadly mold growth.Various fungi including Penicillium and Aspergillus spp. growing in axenic culture. Image source: Wikipedia, Dr. David Midgley Cultures: Dr [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 10:09:00

Construction Part 2 - Princeton, NJ

You may remember my post back at the end of October (almost 3 months ago) about the renovations of our apartment building ... to re-do that wall due to mold.  Yeah not fun when the wind chill is in the negative numbers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 21:33:48

Three Things Every Contractor Should Know Before Signing That Construction Contract for Building Remediation

by G. Trippe Hawthorne and Mark D. Mese In a perfect world, Contractors would only do business with owners, designers, subcontractors, ... , if you are doing remediation, are you going to be paid by the property owner, the building tenant ... you are working? Are those asbestos tiles? Is that mold in the corner? The last thing you need [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 13:20:04

Need...More...Room...In...Head...

Hi. My name is Daphne and I'm losing my mind. Just in case you were wondering, this photo has nothing to do with this post. It's of the quaint old building a block away from our current apartment. The place that is mold ... , we have about 4 kinds of nasty mold. Not benign mold -- no, the nasty mold. Plus, some other kind of bacteria [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 18:33:00

Google News Layered in Google Earth

| Comments: 0 We've launched our first EveryBlock "special report" ... of types of information that don't exactly fit the EveryBlock mold. For example, an architectural group named "Chicago 7 Most Endangered Buildings" in January. That's geographically relevant news (i.e. [more...]

Date: 2008-06-02 19:29:06

A Haunted College –- Part 2

Author’s note: In From the Shadows 54 (October 2007), 88 (July 2008) and 106 (last week) ... in the building after hours into thinking they are there alone – they never are. Mold built up over ... s no one in the basement,” he said. “There were times in the Convergence Lab that the light above me will flicker [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 16:42:00

Strange location for expansion joint

Strange location for... by Jerry Peck Today 08:36 AM ... Inspection femto-TECH Mold, Radon, Lead, Asbestos, IAQ, Termites, Protective Clothing ... 270 2,737 Building Interior: Home Inspection and Commercial Inspection Cost [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 17:12:27

Panel Hears Testimony on Toxic Mold

Panel Hears Testimony on Toxic Mold By Colin Moynihan The New York State Toxic Mold Task Force, which first met in December, convened in an office building in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday for a daylong meeting on the health and economic impacts associated with mold [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 21:15:24

Role-Playing Wargame King Arthur is a PC Exclusive

Hungarian game developer NeocoreGames have announced a new PC-only RPG/strategy game called King Arthur, ... will help you improve your knights and mold them into the bravest men they can be. In turn, they will build ... pleasure. --- Related Articles at Gaming Today:Sonic and the Black Knight Thinks There Weren't Enough [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 20:11:29

The SimCity Box Now in Stores

EA has announced that The SimCity Box collection is now in stores throughout North America ... SimCity Societies: Players construct not only the cities they desire, but mold their cultures, societal tendencies and environments as well. With more than 500 buildings and decorative objects to place [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 01:55:43

LiveWires: The Road To Custom Fitted Headphones. Part II: The Audiologist and the Ear Impressions

Copyright © 2008 dgoldring. Visit the original article at http://justanothermobilemonday ... all, they are not planning to build the headphones directly into my ear. The ear impressions serve as a mold or road map ... , I found myself relaxing in the waiting room of The Hearing Health Center of Manassas, Inc., home [more...]

Date: 2008-06-20 00:51:49

What's old is green

By Lisa Selin Davis Ever since green building was wrested from the hands of hippies and tucked safely in the technology sector -- there are probably ... the impression that the greenest buildings are the newest buildings. Those nifty, skin-thin photovoltaic panels and that high-tech engineered mold-free sheetrock will surely edge you closer to LEED [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 19:27:32

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