Ongoing Repairs

I woke up Saturday morning to frozen water pipes, and knew that my agenda had been set for the day. If you have read my blog for awhile you’ll know that any home repair project usually takes ... or artistry. Even worse, much of the damage and decay that I suffer from was self inflicted [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 20:08:00

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Immigrants ravage U.S. infrastructure

By Chelsea SchillingWorldNetDaily The United States will need $1.6 trillion to repair damage to its infrastructure from a massive influx of immigrants, a new ... and highways, solid waste and trash, and water and sewer systems. Rubenstein, a financial analyst [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 23:50:00

Ike Sights Texas, Gains Strength After Devastating Cuba

HAVANA — Hurricane Ike barreled across the warm, energizing waters of the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday on its way toward the Texas coast after crashing ... , but this one left me nothing," said Olga Atiaga, a 53-year-old housewife. Gustav obliterated her roof ... the damage to her home Tuesday. "We repaired the roof two days ago and this one took the new [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 14:31:57

The Ultimate Multi-Tasking Skin Creme!

The Ultimate Multi-Tasking Skin Creme! By Erin - Friday, November 14th, 2008 at 7:07am ... * Antioxidants to repair damage from daily exposure * Rich in vitamins A, B, C, & E * Super-concentrated, water-free formulation Simplify your skin care regime and eliminate multiple skin care products [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 14:42:08

Immigration creates huge infrastructure costs

The United States will need $1.6 trillion to repair damage to its infrastructure from a massive influx of immigrants, a new report reveals ... and highways, solid waste and trash, and water and sewer systems. Rubenstein, a financial analyst and former [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 00:57:40

Repair Your BlackBerry at BBrepairshop.com

Repair Your BlackBerry at BBrepairshop.com BlackBerry Bold Curve General Hardware and accessories Pearl Problems & Solutions Storm ... won’t click? Water damage? Battery door cracked? Device locked? Previously used device needs IT policy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 05:52:55

Negotiations After the Purchase Contract: Seller's Allowances and Fixing Problems

I had made a request to repair that included $3700 credit for closing costs ... . Primarily, high water pressure in the house (with the dire warnings of damage to pipes and fixtures ... time I looked at the house, (we visited it 5 times), I always saw ants not many usually only [more...]

Date: 2008-08-24 17:16:25

Revealed: The Pros and Cons of Underwater Welding Techniques

Revealed: The Pros and Cons of Underwater Welding Techniques By Sammy L Droste | November 23, ... to need repair often, and must be inspected regularly for damage. It’s an alternative to prematurely ... shipping or structures that are entirely or partially under water. From pipelines, to platforms [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 21:19:49

Levee breaks ease some Mississippi flooding as deluge spreads

Flood waters moved south down the Mississippi River towards St. Louis, Mo., Friday as rural areas and communities upstream prepared to clean up debris and repair damage. [more...]

Date: 2008-06-20 16:56:38

Ithaca swamped

-after sluice door breaks Ithaca residents  suffered major losses when a sluice door broke away and flooded the community yesterday, ... residents were under inches of water following the high tide. Within hours of the swamping the damage ... village slept unawares. Officials in the region rushed to the area to oversee repair works being [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 09:45:33

Brisbane Cleans Up

Credit where it is due, all branches of government have responded with admirable swiftness to the storm damage in The Gap and other parts of south ... further payments … in circumstances of significant damage,” Mr Rudd said. He also pledged the assistance of more Australian Army Troops, who were yesterday deployed to distribute emergency drinking water [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 20:21:53

National Weather Service Says Ike Could Bring “Certain Death” to Those Who Don’t Evacuate Coastal Areas, Barrier Islands

Ike May Nail Galveston/Houston Early Morning Hours Saturday Click Here for Latest National Hurricane Center Public Advisory on Ike    Perry ... WILL BE DESTROYED. WIDESPREAD AND DEVASTATING PERSONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE IS LIKELY ELSEWHERE. VEHICLES LEFT ... BY THE WATER. ENTIRE FLOOD PRONE COASTAL COMMUNITIES WILL BE CUTOFF. WATER LEVELS MAY [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 02:24:42

Seven Healthy Skin Habits to Slow Down the Aging Process

Researchers and scientists have yet to find a way to stop the aging process, but taking good care of your skin can keep you looking younger, longer ... is essential for cellular repair, and helps keep toxin damage at bay. Missing out on solid sleep can leave ... using moisturizers that contain antioxidants; these can reduce free radical damage so you wake [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 17:41:27

Gaza fated by its geography by Olivia Ward

http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/568922Gaza fated by its geography HATEM MOUSSA/AP FILE PHOTO Palestinians line up for food at the United ... prison. A historic jewel in the Mediterranean crown. Gaza has all these labels, depending on whom you ask ... of towns and eight tightly packed refugee camps – not tent cities but enclaves of cement block [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 23:31:00

Saying Farewell To Age Spots With Different Treatments

Call them what you will, but liver spots, solar lentigines or age spots are unattractive blotches that appear on the face, hands, shoulders and arms. Usually they’re accompanied by other telltale signs of skin damage - including lines and wrinkles ... cancer development; so many people simply choose to get a skin treatment to avoid further damage [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 19:22:02

Utilities - Saving Money on Heating

Oil prices have fluctuated as of late, in the midst of the credit crunch this has led to increases in the price of fuel sources such as petrol and ... of your property. This could be anything from the gaps under the doors to checking for damage to windows or fireplaces. Identify and repair areas which feel drafty, whether you purchase a draught [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 03:03:19

US Spies Say Iran Planning To NUKE AMERICA

Based on its putrid venom and constant threats, you would think that Iran's would be rushing to send nukes toward Israel. According to US intelligence, those missile tests were to plan for a nuke bombing mission toward the United States: “The only plausible explanation we can find is that the Iranians are figuring out how to launch a missile from [more...]

Date: 2008-07-30 02:19:58

Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Calls For Action

By Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Financier All of us - countries, corporations and consumers - have neglected basic principles ... the auto industry carry on as usual, who will lend the country the money to repair its bridges, build its power stations, clean its water, fuel its navy? Slow revival Thirty years ago, New York City [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 04:32:05

Global warming and ordinary prudence

Megan McArdle makes a point that should be obvious to anyone who either (1) has studied basic decison analysis or (2) was born with a little bit of common sense: you don't make huge gambles for small gains, or risk big losses to avoid tiny ones. That she should have to make that point at all shows how utterly crazy her conservatarian friends have [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 21:13:50

In Louisiana, flooding has breached levees and swamped several parishes already, with the worst yet to come ... ...SOME MAY BE WASHED AWAY BY THE WATER. ENTIRE FLOOD PRONE COASTAL COMMUNITIES WILL BE CUTOFF...PERHAPS ... FROM BEACH EROSION COULD TAKE YEARS TO REPAIR. ... In Baton Rouge, Mike Hasten of the Gannett [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 19:01:45

Katrina Meets Kucinich

By David Swanson In the back of your head have you ever thought that abandoning an American city and nearby towns to a predictable and predicted natural disaster, and then refusing to repair the damage, ought to be considered unacceptable behavior. On a grander scale, does it strike you that there is something seriously wrong with the Bush [more...]

Date: 2008-06-11 01:06:22

Guest Commentary: If We Don't Learn from History. . .

By Marilyn Barnewall To whom should we listen about banking, the stock market, the economy? There are so many differing analyses right now, it is difficult to know. One opinion is that Wall Street is sitting on $50 plus trillion in leveraged assets and the United States government has a $5 to $6 trillion gross domestic product ( [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 09:15:20

It Is Time To Winterize Your Popup

Winter is just a heartbeat away and it will not be long before there is coating of white fluffy snow on the ground in many parts of the United ... damage. But this annual ritual is also necessary to perform routine maintenance and to be sure ... it. Your winterizing schedule includes performing needed water removal and replacement to the interior water [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 12:33:52

The Secret Deal For Iraq's Oil

Four months before the United States invaded Iraq, the Department of Defense was secretly working with Vice President Dick Cheney's old company, ... award a contract to Kellogg, Brown & Root to extinguish Iraqi oil well fires in addition ... of the Iraq war, when the Bush administration said publicly that it had not been working on war plans [more...]

Date: 2008-08-16 12:00:00

Update: Spacewalks Still On Track

The loss in space today of a briefcase-sized tool bag shouldn't prevent Endeavour astronauts from completing their remaining three spacewalks, ... for disposing of scraped-up debris "pancakes." The astronatus started a two-year effort to repair ... similar guns for repairs of wing leading edges if damage from space junk is discovered after [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 04:18:23

TVA girds for long, litigious cleanup of Kingston ash spill

By Daniel Cusick Greenwire: The Tennessee Valley Authority is bracing for what could be billions of dollars in remediation and liabilities stemming ... , that the freezing and thawing of water in the dike structure, combined with heavy rain, may have weakened the wall ... -Christmas avalanche of 5.4 million cubic yards of ash and water that spread across [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 13:16:08

How to Quit Smoking Naturally

(NaturalNews) In the US today, cigarette smoking causes one-third of all cancer fatalities and one-fourth of all fatal heart attacks. In addition to this, there are many illnesses and diseases that are a direct result of cigarette smoking. This includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, assorted respiratory ailments, angina, peptic ulcers, heartburn, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 07:00:00

PEER: Interior Department needs new brooms to sweep it clean

December 30, 2008 — Brian Ertz Whistleblowers and Reformers Required to Rejuvenate Ravaged Agencies In response to President-elect Obama’s decision to name rancher Ken Salazar Secretary of the Interior, a selection widely celebrated by extractive industry groups and current Bush Interior head Dirk Kempthorne, grass-roots wildlife, public land, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 00:27:37

Why I Love Diggers

I guess, as what Albert Bates terms a ‘post-petroleumologist’, you would imagine that I would be philosophically opposed to diggers, earthmovers, ... I encountered permaculture, I saw them, mostly due to seeing the extraordinary damage that such machines ... s Permaculture, a Designer’s Manual, I was surprised to find that a book on earth repair had an [more...]

Date: 2008-06-16 06:41:47

DrumBeat: December 8, 2008

Oil rises on talk of auto bailout, stimulus NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices rebounded from a nearly 4-year low Monday as U.S. automakers neared a deal that would keep them out of bankruptcy and President-elect Barack Obama pledged to stimulate the economy of the world's largest oil consumer. U.S. crude for January delivery rose $2 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 13:37:28

Thoughts on Israel’s war with Hamas

Cross-posted to American Catholic and Catholic Friends of Israel On December 27th, 2008, Israel launched a series of air strikes on Hamas training camps, headquarters, weapons storehouses, underground missile silos and command-and-control centers in Gaza -- the start of an open-ended offensive to stem the increasing barrage of rocket-attacks that [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 13:04:05

Make-up! Bah Humbug!

Well, for those of you who just want stories and pretty pictures, I am warning you right now that I am getting way up on a soap box here ... water with caustic detergents and bleach, they still looked dirty and hotel clients freak ... that when I have washed a pillow case 12 times with bleach in hot water it is clean.   I can’t justify [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 21:44:23

Targeting the "terrorist infrastructure"

Israel’s extremely well-co-ordinated propaganda effort continues to enjoy an extraordinary level of success in dominating the mainstream media agenda, and is even branching out into new media. Meanwhile, the underlying facts of this conflict remain available - to those who know where, in the labyrinthine back-streets of the Internet, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:10:00

The Quick 10: 10 Hangover Cures

Anyone who has had one too many tequila shots, glasses of wine, Irish Car Bombs—pick your poison—can attest to how horrible a hangover is ... my neighbor passed out in my front yard this morning. After giving him some water and sending him home ... and body from the hangover. 2. Prickly Pear: If you’re hungover in the desert and can’t find water [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 19:24:01

More On Cheap Oil Stock HKN (HKN)

I took a little deeper look at this oil company HKN because it looked like one of the best ones that I dug up recently based on the fact they can ... and certain of our pre-storm production currently remains curtailed. We are continuing to repair damage ... to the Hurricanes both totaling approximately $3.0 million. Total gross direct damage costs to repai [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 00:45:00

Curb Inflammation for Smooth Skin

I’m a huge skincare dork. So much so that I actually read books written by dermatologists. It’s only fair that I share what I’ve learned with you ... ), dermatologist Howard Murad talks about the damage caused by inflammation. Examples of skin inflammation ... and leading to water loss in the skin cells (and eventually, loss of elasticity, wrinkles and [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 10:15:52

How to Replace a Built-in Dishwasher

The under counter appliances in your kitchen are not complicated to install or replace, and can easily be handled by the homeowner ... . If there are no rollers, then using furniture sliders will protect your kitchen floor as you pull the unit ... to the power cord, which you should unplug the washer. At this point, you should turn off the water lines [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 13:53:44

Paprec-Virbac strikes UFO, Desjoyeaux on the Cape Horn straight

Jean-Pierre Dick looks set to give up his battle to stay in the Vendée Globe after a collision during his night which removed ... a repair, and was in sixth position when the cruel blow occurred.He was sailing at around 15 knots ... , and about 1800 miles from New Zealand.The Nicois skipper is unharmed, there is no other damage report [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 20:35:00

Rockets Reach Out to Community

North Americans everywhere watched last week as Hurricane Ike ripped through the city of Houston and much of coastal Texas; ... that will take billions of dollars to repair. Enter the Houston Rockets, an organization ... four tractor-trailers full of food, water, toiletries and other necessities for victims [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 15:22:37

Ethanol Is Dangerous to More Than the Economy

As if we didn't already have enough reasons to abandon the absurd biofuel boondoggle, here's another: ... is water-soluble while petroleum is not … This means you can't use water to put out an ethanol fire ... when set afire, E-85 and other ethanol blends can seriously damage a car's key engine components unless [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 16:46:56

January Lawn & Garden To-Do List

Most of us begin the New Year armed with plans, projects, and resolutions. The January garden provides a stark contrast as it hunkers down to wait out the winter, but there’s still plenty to do when the weather cooperates. The month of January takes its name from Janus—the Roman god of Gateways and Journeys—who is often pictured looking both [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 21:52:16

Disaster Strikes! Now What?

Disaster Strikes! Now What? Look, there are a lot of things someone needs to know to own a house and keep it in good working order ... really dry and eliminate the contaminants which can cause mold and mildew. Sustaining Water Damage ... to be concerned with the lasting effecting of water like black mold and bacteria. This is where the pros really [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 23:46:22

SkinCare Resolutions

Whether or not you believe in resolutions, there are at least two times in the year when it feels like a rebirth a fresh start, ... at night, so you want to put your skin in the best possible condition for its repair. Your nighttime ... the day.” Just walking to your car, even driving in your car will give you unnecessary sun damage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:29:58

Death Trip

“We got so good, we had to die” – Iggy PopRon’s gone. No more riffs. No more fuzz. Ron Asheton died yesterday at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was 60 years old, but had always been the more ’straight edge’ of all The Stooges so it’s ironic that Iggy, who should by rights have died sometime around 1974, outlive him [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 08:58:45

Two Dozen Uses For Toothpaste (Aside From Cleaning Your Teeth)

By Nora Dunn Didn’t you know that toothpaste (despite its name) is for so much more than your teeth? It’s truly handy to have on hand ( ... and rinse with a clean wet cloth. Carpet Cleaning/Stain removal Scrub away with an abrasive brush ... the rest of your carpet is in the process. Cleaning Running Shoes Similar to above, scrub [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 03:23:29

5 Problems to Check for Before Buying a Foreclosed Home

Hundreds of families, and real estate investors, are purchasing more and more foreclosed homes as they can typically be purchased for a fraction of ... problems thanks to Popular Mechanics. 1. MOLD These organisms love water—so they love humid ... by foreclosures after the housing market collapse. When he goes in to inspect those homes, Heaphy [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 22:11:00

How to Repair a Radiator?

This article gives valuable suggestions to repair the radiator without investing into time consuming and tedious mechanical work ... cases, it also causes severe damage of the car. Thus, rather than investing hundreds of dollars in getting your engine back to track, its sensible to repair your radiator, which tends [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 20:41:17

House Hunting

We met up with our realtor on Sunday to check out more properties and basically try again. I had done my research and had a variety of properties that may or may not be available. That’s the one issue I have with the reality website, I can view tons of properties but not all of them are still available. Some are contingent and others are pending [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:55:00

How to File A FEMA Claim

Now that the dust is settling from Hurricane Ike, many people are trying to get back to a normal way of life ... if available. More information about housing rental resources. Repair: Money is available to homeowners to repair damage from the disaster to their primary residence that is not covered by insurance [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 18:18:43

A Guide to Winterizing Your House

Winter is approaching and in much of the United States, that means very cold temperatures, snow, and ice ... an insulation blanket on your hot water heater (if it needs one). Keep blinds and curtains open ... water bottle before bed each night, then dip the temperature. What else? Here are twelve [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 14:00:40

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