...Using Green Cleaning Products—Facts and Myths Why should I use green cleaning products? There are a variety of reasons families should consider using green cleaning products in their homes, from health to environmental impacts. Regular household chemicals used in cleaning supplies can be harmful to your health. Consider these statistics: A 15 year study in Oregon, comparing women who didn't work outside the home with women who did, found a 54% higher death rate from cancer in the women who stayed at home. The study suggested that chronic exposure to cleaning products played a role. (The Seventh Generation Guide to a Toxin Free Home) EPA studies of human exposure to air pollutants indicate that indoor air levels of many pollutants may be 2-5 times, and occasionally, more than 100 times higher than outdoor levels. Cleaning products and other household products are among the culprits (Environmental Protection Agency-EPA). Approximately 85,000 chemicals are in use today. According to the Breast Cancer Fund, complete toxicological screening data is available for only 7% of these chemicals, and more than 90% have never been tested for their effects on human health. (Breast Cancer Fund) Household cleaning products rank among the most toxic everyday substances to which people are exposed. Most chemical brands are not safe. Some especially toxic household cleaners include ammonia, chlorine bleach, aerosol propellants, detergents, petroleum distillates and toluene. Many of these substances...
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...infantrymen climbing up on the fire step, and readied themselves to guard against a dawn raid by the enemy. Both sides carried out their respective ‘stand to' and despite the knowledge that each had prepared itself for raids or attacks timed at dawn, it was at this time that many of the planned attacks were carried out. As the light grew, this daily ritual was accompanied by the ‘morning hate'. This was when both sides relieved the tension of the early hours with indiscriminate machine gun fire, shelling and small arms fire into the mist to their front, which made doubly sure of safety at dawn. Breakfast and Weapon Cleaning Following stand to the men would have their breakfast and clean their weapons. Breakfast would be brought up in containers from the field kitchens and the weapon cleaning would be done in shifts, with only a portion of the men cleaning their weapons at any one time. Inspection Breakfast would be followed by the daily inspection by the Platoon Officer and Sergeant. Weapons would be checked to ensure that they were clean and serviceable as would the men's clothing. Often this inspection would include a ‘foot inspection' looking for signs of ‘trench foot'. Trench Foot was a medical condition peculiar to trench life. It was a fungal infection of the feet caused by cold, wet and unsanitary trench conditions. It could turn gangrenous and result in amputation. Some 20,000 casualties...
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...Office Use Only: What Service(s) ________________ What Price(s) ________________ Taxes: ________________ Sub-Total Price: ________________ Deposit: ________________ Total: ________________ 20 % Discount off Rental Trucks. Ask for details from JBPK WWW.JBPACKNKLEAN.BIZ 678-499-9123 SHERRI ALL CLIENTS PLEASE READ EVERYTHING CLOSELY. Half of Depot Client - Please return this contract within 48hrs If our company does not receive the contract within 48hrs your move will be cancelled with no notice The time starts when JB Packing and Kleaning (JBPK) signs client into the log, time ends when JBPK crews are done with everything that client requests for them to do and client signs them out on the log. Travel time from the beginning address to ending address is included in the time. JBPK requires a minimum of 2 hours. If the next hour starts the client is responsible for full payment. Call for the rates and hear if JBPK has any current promotions. Please note: JBPK is only responsible for the workers that JB Packing and Kleaning hires. JBPK is not responsible for anybody outside of JB Packing and Kleaning. Client may hire extra help if he or she desires but JBPK will not be responsible for other parties actions. Any questions please feel free to email JBPK at JBPK2014@yahoo.com or contact by phone at 800-516-7720 Ext 2. Visit JSMS Website at www.jbpacknklean.biz. To swiftly contract a date with JSMS, fax 866-574-2238 or email at JBPK2014@yahoo.com. Schedule your...
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...150 rooms, and 5 elevators. This hotel is famous for its services that the hotel offers in the Housekeeping department. The following housekeeping areas in the hotel are: the front desk area, lobby area, game rooms, exercise area, management offices, and public restrooms.The duties in the hotel for the housekeeping department are room inspection,training for the entire staff, inventory control ( linens, cleaning supplies,furniture, ),housekeeping reports and in-house and out-house laundry. In each room, every maid has a 30 minutes for cleaning the room, and there are 3 shifts / day in which the maids has to clean the room. (every floor has at least 10 maids). The laundry in the hotel is one in-house, and one of the reasons why the hotel is dotated with a in-house laundry is that the GM provides greater control of where the inventory will be laundred. What housekeeping meaning? Housekeeping is the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a home. It is one of the many chores included in the term housework. Housecleaning includes activities such as disposing of rubbish, cleaning dirty surfaces, dusting and vacuuming. It may also involve some outdoor chores, such as removing leaves from rain gutters, washing windows and sweeping doormats. The term is often used also figuratively in politics and business, for the removal of unwanted personnel, methods or policies in an effort at reform or improvement. Housecleaning is done to make the home look better and be safer and easier to...
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...Cleaning Solution- are substances, usually liquids, powders, sprays, or granules, that are used to remove dirt, including dust, stains, bad smells, and clutter on surfaces. Purposes of cleaning agents include health, beauty, absence of offensive odor, avoidance of shame, and avoiding the spreading of dirt and contaminants to oneself and others. Some cleaning agents can kill bacteria and clean at the same time. Scrubbig foam- Scrubs away that are hard to remove such as bugs, tar, and sap. Also used as a more aggressive deoxidizer. Dishpan-a large pan in which dishes, pots, etc., are washed. Dish Cloth-A dishcloth is used in the kitchen to clean dishes and other surfaces. Typically they are made of cotton or other cloth, such as microfiber. Pan with hot water-it is a pan to place hot water on it to prevent the hot water from boiling it to your body. Rolled Newspaper-Newspaper has just the right properties to start a fire. It comes in big sheets. There is most often too much of it around. It bunches up easily. It lights easily and burns without leaving much ash. Plus plain newspaper doesn't produce a lot of toxins when it burns like some other paper products do. Cleaning Rags-Cleaning with rags is the ultimate in fabric recycling. The older the fabric the better it is because it will be soft and very absorbent. I only recycle 100% cotton or linen fabric, again because it's so absorbent. Poly fabric and poly/cotton blends won't wipe spills as well and will never reach that soft...
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...Commercial segment of the Cleaning industry since 1986. In 2005, a residential cleaning division was opened to meet a growing demand. Mr. Knox, ABC’s shareholder, is now looking for ways to improve future profitability of the company and is wondering if the new department is profitable to remain operational. In order to address the issues, a Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis is required to evaluate the current financial situation which will allow management to make critical decisions such as, setting service fees, determining the service mix, and maximizing productivity. Also, an analysis of the current standard costs will be done to determine if the standards are adequately established for both divisions. Finally, the company’s present workforce will be reviewed to determine if any adjustments can be implemented in order to increase value and profitability. Situational Analysis A. Current mission and vision Mission: To provide customers with high-quality cleaning services at a competitive price. Vision: To be the leader in the cleaning services industry, capturing 50% of Commercial market share and 20% of Residential market share in three years, by improving efficiency and minimizing resources B. External Analysis 1. Industry Analysis The cleaning service industry can be divided into two main segments, Residential and Commercial. Residential services involve general home cleaning and more specialized services, such as window and carpet cleaning. In contrast, the Commercial...
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...family to take breakfast and go to the fields for work. After that she starts cleaning her home and then go to the fields to help her male members of the family in the fields, never getting any-mid break, she returns home to prepare lunch and send it for the males to the fields and receive her children from school and feed them. Then she get a little time to do the chores of meeting and asking about her neighbors and relatives. She uses her rest time between noon and evening in sewing, and stitching and doing embroidery work to help her family economically. And then making the evening tea and the dinner for her family and serving it ,is all an urban woman do, after making sure all her family members are well-fed and sleeping, she goes to bed to exhausted to have some sleep ,so to get up early next morning and perform her daily exhausting chores. Meanwhile, the women of urban areas also work hard and perform many works. Her daily routine also starts with getting up early in the morning and preparing breakfast and helping her children and husband to get ready for school and office, and take breakfast. Women in urban areas are mostly working woman, so after helping her family to take breakfast and go to school and office, she get ready to go to office and perform her job. After that when she returns home, preparing lunch and serving it is also her daily routine. Then looking after her home, cleaning and decorating it, looking...
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...than my father. Since we had a housekeeper from morning to early evening hours from Monday to Friday she did most of the housekeeping chores. However my mother would always prepare breakfast and dinner for the family, according to her tribe it was her responsibility and as a wife and a mother we all expected her to do that. Over the weekends she would clean, wash cloths with her hands and prepare meals. My father would spend his time out with his friend or in the house drinking beer. As a grown up today I am in a egalitarian marriage, my husband and I share most of the house chores. If I cook then he will wash the dishes (we don’t use a dishwasher) or vise-versa. We usually do house cleaning together on Wednesday we would have light house cleaning and on Saturday we would have heavy house cleaning. I’m the one who cleans the toilet and the bathroom I don’t like it but I like clean toilets and bathrooms so I clean them twice in a day, in the morning before I take shower and in the evening right before I take my warm beautiful shower, my husband barely cleans the toilet. Our chore distribution isn’t based on gendered lines, we have a rule which goes ‘if its not in it’s normal state someone has to do something’ Said all that you can see that we are both responsible for our house, light now we don’t have a child but my step son usually visits us on weekends. Having this kind of relationship has enable both of us to work, go back to school and manage our small company with less tress...
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...Great Writing 4: Great Essays, 4ed Answer Key UNIT 1 Activity 1, pages 5–8 Preview Answers will vary. Post-Reading 1. The story of Cinderella, her cleaning tasks, and how she felt about them 2. Answers will vary. 3. Ironing clothes, washing dishes, and cleaning the bathroom 4. 5 paragraphs; paragraph 1 (introduction); paragraph 5 (conclusion); paragraphs 2, 3, 4 (body) 5. Unpleasant household chores 6. “The top three of these unpopular tasks often include ironing clothes, washing dishes, and cleaning the bathroom.” 7. Why people don’t like to iron clothes; “One of the most hated chores for many people is ironing clothes because it is not a task that can be completed quickly or thoughtlessly.” 8. Paragraph 3: “Another household chore that many people dislike is washing dishes.” Paragraph 4: “Although ironing clothes and washing dishes are not the most pleasant household chores, perhaps the most dreaded chore is cleaning the bathroom.” 9. Two possible supporting sentences: “Each piece of clothing must be handled individually, so ironing a basket of laundry can take hours!” “After ironing a piece of clothing meticulously, which entails smoothing out the fabric, following the seams, and getting the creases just right, it needs to be put on a hanger as soon as possible. 10. “Because the bathroom is full of germs, a quick wiping of the surfaces is often not enough.” 11. “Maintaining a house means doing a wide variety of unpleasant chores...
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...Children Doing Chores: Are Chores Beneficial to a Child’s Development? Melissa K. Engebretsen Liberty University ENGL 101 Author Note 1928 Cypress Lane, Newton, Kansas Abstract Children doing chores has almost become a pastime in some families. In my family it is a building block for life. I use chores in our household to teach life lessons and to strengthen integrity and work performance. I also, believe that it builds a strong character and a work ethic that businesses are desperate to have out of is employees. Teaching our children the value of a dollar and the hardships that come with not earning a dollar is something all parents need to focus more of their time on. Life is not about how much money you can make or how much stuff you can have. It is about whose life you can impact. Children that lending helping hands to do chores for money or no money are children that will grow into adults that are valued in a place of business or in a firm. Children should take pleasure and enjoyment out of chores, because they need to learn that sense of accomplishment that is derived from a job well done, a chore completed and a project finished. In my paper I will touch on key points such as building character, work ethic, incentives and the value of the Spend, Save and Give system. Keywords: household, chores, character, ethic, incentives Children Doing Chores: Are Chores Beneficial to a Child’s Development? It has always been pondered by parents, grandparents, and children...
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...Thinking Dr. Charles Osborne Getting the kids to help out around the house with the daily task of cleaning, laundry and doing the dishes was a nightmare. We would fight with them to the point that they would get grounded or even worse spanked. So one day my wife and I were sitting around the house talking about this and decided to true multiple different ways to get the kids involved, but without the hassle. After many attempts at all of those ways we came up with the “Hat Game”. This game proved to be a godsend and after five years we still do this every Sunday. As we were getting tired of all the uneccessary fighting and arguing with them to help us out, we slow down our yelling and showing frustration. We started to be very observant of them in what exactly made them do things without being told. As we watched we could see that they were very competitive kids. They always wanted to win at everything they did, especially between each other. We tried to figure out how to use this natural competiveness to our advantage and try to overcome this controversy. As we continued to define and evaluate the problem of the kids helping out with the chores, we failed lots of times. The kids would start fighting and then nothing would get done, except for me getting mad and just telling them to go to their rooms, leaving my wife and I to do all the cleaning. Some of the questions we asked each other were; how do we get them to enjoy and understand why we need to clean...
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...1978, “Girl” teaches the lessons of a typical Caribbean woman in her short literary pieces. Kincaid’s story explicitly defining the roles of a woman in a manner to Kincaid’s may appear sexiest and seem to limit what a woman cannot do. However, Kincaid’s piece empowered allots various degrees of power, freedom and control to woman. In the story, a mother was giving her daughter advice about life, cooking, cleaning, men, and keeping up her reputation. Firstly, the mother stressed on woman and ferminity. She said “ this is how you iron your father’s Khaki pants so that they don’t have crease; this is how grow okra-far from the house, this is how you sweep a corner; this is how you sweep a whole house, this is how you sweep a yard” (14). Here the she meant that ferminity means hard work but not just makeup and high heels but rather cleaning the house; keeping the house nice and neat. Accoording the mother being a woman synonymous with keeping a house clean and wants to pass it from generation to generation. Although ironing, preparing food, and house cleaning are traditional feminine roles and may seem insignificant, it should be not be forgotten that these roles cannot be ignored as a woman in Caribbean culture and some part of the world. The mother seems to be serious on telling her daughter on how to do those house chores which is a good behavior. Because a typical Caribbean woman will think a household will not flourish if a woman will think is not there...
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...We live in a world where we are constantly being watched and judged by others. From the clothes you are wear to the car you drive can say a lot about you. Samuel Gosling, a Psychologist from University of Texas at Austin examines the physical environment of individuals to get access to their personalities. After reading Gosling’s “A Room with a Cue: Personality Judgments Based on Offices and Bedrooms” I learned that people can perceive our personality from our workspace and bedrooms. Simple things such as pictures or even memorabilia can give an excerpt of what your personality is like. Several mechanisms can link individuals to their very environment they interact in. Internal Behavioral Residue is evidence that an individual's behavior are...
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...the daily routine and list of chores that Jessica’s father had assigned for her and her siblings. Everyday Jessica had to make sure the calves were fed; the stalls were clean while her older brothers and sisters milked the cows. As Jessica got old older she learned how to manage her time well enough to get involved in school activities and keep up on her daily chores. Jessica was able to play sports, be involved in musicals and plays, and even become class president. Jessica states that every day she reflects on her family and the daily routines of working on the farm, and now that she is older she understands the lesson her father taught her. Jessica wasn’t just bottle feeding the calves, she was learning responsibility. When she was cleaning the stalls, she was learning to work hard, and when Jessica decided to get involved in school activities she acquired time management skills. Responsibility, time management, and the satisfaction of doing a good job are all very important in society. Jessica has impressed many people around her with all that she takes on and her ability to handle it. Her boss even asked her one day, “Where can I get more workers like you?” With thoughts of gratitude toward her upbringing, she answers, “Try hiring...
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...MAXIMO OLIVEROS 1. Why is the movie entitled “Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros?” The movie was entitled Ang Pagdadalaga ang Maximo Oliveros because the concept of the runs in the life of Maximo. In which it views different kinds of problems which Maximo experienced and made him a strong person. This movie shows on how Maximo become nature of everything despites of many challenges to his life. Eventhough he has a heart of a girl he still prove to his self that he is brave and he can do everything. Maximo Oliveros is a great example to all the gays that feels loosing of confidents in facing trials in life. 2. Describe the main character. Maximo Oliveros is strong in terms of facing different challenges. He is industrious in terms of cleaning their house and helping household chores like cooking, washing the plates and washing their clothes. He is also helpful in terms of helping other people. Maximo is courteous, he respect all the people around him. 3. Discuss the theme of the film. when we say pagdadalaga these term defines the maturity of a girl or acquiring another stage of her personality. In connection to this, the theme was all about a life of a gay that didn’t give up despite of everything that happened to his life. From the word itself it means being mature of a person or a transformation from being childish to become mature and thinks more broad and because of being mature it helps him to conquer all of those trials. Even though he grow up different in the eyes...
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