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  • 09 Nov 2016 10:51 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    Donald Trump has promised that as president he will honour the pledge stitched into his white and red baseball caps: Make America Great Again. 


    The former television entertainer’s campaign has been a roller coaster of triumphs and pitfalls, but his love for hyperbole has never wavered.

    With him in the White House, Mr Trump has said, his supporters are going to "win so big"  they will soon be "sick of winning". 

    More at source: Telegraph

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  • 07 Nov 2016 1:25 PM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

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    Ron Munsey works at Peter Woodbury School and has started vacuuming designs into a carpet at the school.

    Angie Perron Wyand sent WMUR some pictures of Munsey’s work.

    "Every morning, the students and I come in to school and find some amazing design vacuumed into our carpet," said Wyand.

    More at source: WMUR

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  • 02 Nov 2016 7:14 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

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    Liang Zhao Zhang’s job is to clean up BART stations in downtown San Francisco and clean up he does: He swept in $162,000 in overtime pay last year, records show.

    Call Zhang the super janitor, an extraordinarily high earner in a field where the beloved school custodian rarely brings home more than $50,000 a year. 

    Zhang grossed $235,000 in 2015, four times more than his base pay as a janitor. Benefits brought his total cost of employment at the rail agency to more than $270,000. And records show this isn’t the first time he raked in six-figure compensation at BART. Zhang received a combined $682,000 in pay and benefits over the last three years.

    “Where do I sign up?” joked Lionel Hsu, a BART rider on Tuesday.

    More at source: Mercury News

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  • 31 Oct 2016 9:34 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    Not since we first watched Fight Club have we been as interested in soap as we are now. That’s in part thanks to research being carried out at the University of Minnesota — where scientists have created a new soap molecule that promises to be far more environmentally friendly than existing products made by the giant cleaning products industry.

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    “Our research team has invented a new soap molecule that is made from renewable resources and works in a broad range of conditions,” Paul Dauenhauer, associate professor of chemical engineering and materials science, told Digital Trends.

    These “renewable resources” include natural products such as soybeans, coconut, and corn, compared with existing soaps that are made from fossil fuels. Such soaps are regularly mixed with harmful chemicals in order to produce shampoos, hand soaps, and detergents.

    More at source: Digital Trends

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  • 27 Oct 2016 12:19 PM | IJCSA - (Administrator)


    A new cleaning service launched last week is called "My Model Maid," and it's exactly what it sounds like.

    The company is a customized housecleaning service, and all of the "maids" are models, and willing to wear virtually whatever you'd like.

    "You select the maid, her attire (French maid, schoolgirl, cheerleader, Wonder Woman or special requests ) and a time that’s convenient for you," the website advertises.

    More at source: FOX

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  • 24 Oct 2016 8:37 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    It took six years, a 12-day hunger strike, and an unrelenting series of downtown protests, but retail janitors in the Twin Cities have finally formed a union.

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    The 600 janitors who clean the Twin Cities’ shiniest department stores hail from dozens of countries. Many worked in isolation as employees of disconnected cleaning contractors who often took advantage of their immigration status to cut corners on wage laws. 

    More at source: Citypages.com

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  • 18 Oct 2016 6:29 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    A 110-year-old cleaning equipment company has partnered with Carnegie Robotics to bring more intelligence to cleaning machines. Nilfisk, which is based in Denmark, announced a technology and innovation roadmap that includes robotic cleaners, but that's not all.

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    Anton Soerensen, Senior Vice President of R&D at Nilfisk, tells ZDNet, "The Horizon program is kind of a landing page for new innovation within autonomous cleaning, connected products, and intelligent cleaning methodologies. It's not only about autonomous cleaning, it's about the vision to change cleaning as we know it today."

    More at source: ZDNET.com

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  • 13 Oct 2016 9:55 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    SPRINGDALE -- Work release inmates will be replaced with janitors to work in the City Administration Building, a move prompted by alleged misbehavior.


    "We're going to hire employees to take over that role of maintenance and janitorial services," Mayor Doug Sprouse said after Tuesday's City Council meeting.

    The City Council voted approved spending $26,820 to hire janitors to work in the building at 201 Spring St., for the rest of the year. Arkansas Department of Corrections inmates housed at Northwest Arkansas Work Release Center in Springdale had been doing the work for more than 15 years, Melissa Reeves, public relations director for the city, said last week.

    "We're looking to redistribute them to work somewhere else, possibly in another building," Reeves said. "It's part of an overall strategy to increase security in the administration building."

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    More at source: NWA Online




  • 10 Oct 2016 11:04 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    Thousands of Floridians are still without power more three days after Hurrican Mathew skirted up the east coast with 100 mph winds and torrential rain.

    Duke Energy and Florida Power and Light were reporting more than 75,000 customers without power across the state this morning. More than half of those were just in Volusia County — the hardest hit area in Central Florida.

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    Downed trees and power lines, along with localized flooding were a common sight throughout Central Florida. Communities closer to the coast also saw roof and building damage, along with severe beach erosion.

    More at source: Orlando Sentinel

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  • 04 Oct 2016 8:01 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Potentially dangerous chemicals can be found in every room in your home.

    “Any products in your house are a poison,” explains IU Health Dr. Salvatore Migliore.

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    Dr. Migliore says it’s important we know air fresheners, cleaning products and even burning candles can all cause us harm, if we use them too often.

    “The father of toxicology says the dose makes the poison. Therefore, anything that you actually use will be toxic if you take too much of it, get exposed to too much of it,” said Dr. Migliore.

    According to a study by the Environmental Working Group, 53 percent of cleaning products under review contain lung-harming ingredients. Windshield wiper fluid, for example, contains methanol, which can cause blindness. Dryer sheets contain trace amounts of formaldehyde and benzene, which is a known carcinogen.

    More at source: CBS

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