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The Link LonkCHICAGO — David Griggs, general manager of Superior Linen Service’s Healthcare Division in Muskogee, Oklahoma, says two common issues that most laundries face are employee turnover and employee accidents.
“While no program can completely stop either issue, you can go a long way toward solving these issues with a good continual employee training program,” he says.
“Unorganized facilities create employee frustration that usually leads to both turnover and accidents. They also generally produce a poor quality product that gets sent to their customers.”
Add in the COVID-19 pandemic, and training laundry employees can be challenging at best.
American Laundry News communicated about effective laundry employee training today with Griggs; Sylvia Williams, Human Resources Manager for Prudential Overall Supply headquartered in Irvine, California; Tommy Cocanougher, Director-Operations Engineering for Cintas Corp.; and Deana A. Griffin, president of The Griffin Group Inc. in Staunton, Virginia.
This time, the four talk about the effect of the pandemic on training.
WILLIAMS: COVID-19 really put all HR professionals to the test. Not only did we need to make sure that we were in compliance with new and evolving state laws and local ordinances governing work requirements, but we needed to make our employees feel safe in a time where personal safety was a concern.
COCANOUGHER: Training new employees during this pandemic, with social distancing requirements, has impacted the close-up personal training with which the industry is familiar. Training at a distance definitely takes more time, as workstations have limited space and often must be cleaned between users.
Managers must adjust to allotting more time for initial onboarding to assure the training material and tasks are absorbed by the new employee. There is no substitute for the training, so more time must simply be allocated to assure the knowledge transfer is adequate.
GRIFFIN: The world’s response to COVID-19 has resulted in the most rapid transformation in the workplace—digitizing the relationships between firm and customer to digitizing the relationship between employer and employees with virtual meetings. There is limited space in training classes due to space requirements, which increases the number of in-person training classes.
GRIGGS: Employee training is such a vital part of a plant’s continual improvement. The use of online programs such as Zoom is a great way to train field employees or keep different locations connected.
Internal employees should have meetings within their work area in smaller meeting sizes. Having quick 10-minute meetings in their work area usually gets better attention and is safer than trying to get all the employees into a break room or conference room.
WILLIAMS: Prior to the pandemic, we felt that we did an exceptional job at cross-training our staff; however, this pandemic showed us that we could definitely improve, and we have.
Just like in most cases, when an unexpected act of nature occurs, there are disruptions to the community and the businesses affected. We folks in HR like to refer to the way we deal with such events as “crisis management.” The pandemic has shown us that cross-training is needed more than ever to allow us the flexibility to make quick and necessary decisions when crises occur.
With COVID-19 we experienced increased absences and discovered that not only did we lose the folks that did an exceptional job in their role but we lost the tribal knowledge that only they possessed. Cross-training is crucial for a company to not only continue working without disruptions in the workplace but to continue delivering the same quality and service to their customers.
Cross-training is critical to the success of most organizations. As long as an employer is not overstepping on an employee’s physical work restrictions that they may have in place, or going against a clause in a union contract that does not allow an employee to be rotated, then you should do it.
We make sure to follow safety training requirements before someone is placed in a position that they have not worked in before. We want our employees to be able to develop their current skill sets, but, most importantly, we want to make sure we do it in a safe manner.
COCANOUGHER: Cross-training reached a new level of importance with the impact of COVID. During the peak of the pandemic, it was not unusual to have 20% of staff in quarantine. That leaves employees behind to fill positions with which they may have no knowledge. That isn’t the time to cross-train.
The development of a solid cross-training plan across your organization should be a part of the manager’s responsibility to sustain business needs. The plan should include frequent rotation into secondary positions so that skills learned are reinforced over time.
Specialized positions such as wash alley operations, maintenance and delivery present more complicated obstacles when cross-training. Hiring practices should include planning for back-ups to these critical roles.
GRIFFIN: Cross-training is a great strategy for employee growth and development. It maintains productivity, even when there’s a workforce shortage
Cross-training inspires more strategic staffing. While some employees are prone to do well in certain areas not related to their positions, you have the option to either coach them for a permanent switch or only use them for the roles when you need time to search for new talent.
It also reduces the cost of recruiting new talent and boosts employee morale through engagement.
GRIGGS: Cross-training of employees has been a buzzword in our company for several years. Since every job in the laundry uses different sets of muscles, moving employees around can greatly reduce the risk of repetitive motion injuries.
COVID-19 has highlighted the need for this practice since on any day an employee may be forced to quarantine and be off work for several weeks. This has made it imperative to have multiple employees trained on all jobs in the facility.
It is usually better to keep employees trained in a specific area rather than every job in the laundry. Training employees in areas such as dry-fold (washcloths, towels, gowns, etc.), ironers and the soil room is usually easier to do since each area requires a little different skill set.
An employee may do a great job of running a blanket folder but not have the hand skill to feed small pieces into a towel folder or ironer. They should be trained and rotate throughout these work areas. For example, they should work on both the feed side of machines as well as the catch side.
There are some employees who can perform every job in the building; however, there are usually jobs they do not perform well at and do not produce a good number.
If you are wanting to cross-train employees throughout the plant, I like to limit that to two hours a week. They should have the general idea of how other areas work so that they can work there in a pinch, but they are not going to be an expert at it. You can run the risk of cross-training so much that no one is good at anything.
The general concept of every job in the plant should be relatively similar. Some jobs, such as clean linen shippers or continuous tunnel operators, may have more specific skills or knowledge points, but all employees should understand the general concept of what the company is expecting. How items are packed out or put in shipping carts should be relatively close throughout the facility.
WILLIAMS: Currently, the most difficult challenge we face in training laundry employees is retaining employees long enough to fully develop them. With government pandemic stimulus relief and increased unemployment benefits, we, like most employers, are finding it difficult to fill entry-level positions.
Every job is an important job and it takes great talent to make a company successful. In an effort to retain our newly acquired talent and to encourage them to grow and develop their careers with Prudential, we have bumped up our cross-training and career path discussions.
Employees want to hear that there are opportunities for advancement and that they don’t have to wait several years for it to occur. Cross-training occurs early on within the employee’s career cycle and refresher training is done ongoing throughout employment. Cross-training is one method that, along with others, can be used to successfully implement an employee development program.
COCANOUGHER: Allowing adequate time to train, and to check up on the progress while keeping your employees engaged and happy on the job, is perhaps the most challenging obstacle.
Managers and supervisors alike are running with short staffs, increasing customer demands, and obstacles in health and safety. Giving each employee that personal attention every day is getting more difficult but there is no substitute for working to keep your employees happy and safe.
GRIFFIN: Getting employees to embrace innovation and learn new technology and deciding what training programs to implement have been challenging.
GRIGGS: I believe the challenges we have today are the same as we have always faced concerning training plant employees.
Getting supervisor buy-in to taking employees away from their workstations is always tough. Production supervisors have the mindset of feed linen and get the loads out, it is easy to get blinders on to where they are only looking at production numbers.
A good training program will keep employees engaged and help the overall output of the facility.
Check back next Tuesday for the conclusion on effective training methods.
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Good morning. I'm Rachel Martin. Guess what? Astronauts can't do laundry in space. They just throw out their dirty clothes. But do not fret, clean freaks who want to be astronauts. NASA and Procter & Gamble are creating experimental cleaning products for astronauts to try. The first shipment of detergent is going to be sent in December. P&G is also working on a washer-dryer that can operate on the moon and Mars. One small step for man, one giant overdue load of laundry for mankind. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
ORLANDO, Fla., June 25 (UPI) -- A detergent maker and NASA are teaming up to research how astronauts could do laundry in space, especially on Deep Space missions, using minimal energy and water.
Procter & Gamble has signed a pact with NASA, known as a Space Act Agreement. Under the pact, NASA seeks laundry solutions in space, while the detergent, Tide, gains publicity and furthers product development. Both parties pay their own costs.
NASA wants to avoid shipping hundreds of pounds of clothing to astronauts, who wear them for a few days before discarding. The space agency eventually disposes of the worn clothing in a cargo spacecraft that burns up in the atmosphere, researcher Mark Sivik said in an interview.
"We can't continue to send out large quantities of garments, so we're researching ways to clean clothes more effectively," said Sivik, a staff scientist for Ohio-based Procter & Gamble. "NASA is asking, 'Are there ways to actually do laundry in space?'"
The company has taken on the project to gain knowledge and experience by testing potential new products in microgravity, Sivik said. Many firms pay NASA thousands of dollars to conduct such research in space.
Lack of gravity in space means water, clothes and soap don't behave the same as on Earth.
Since shipping water to the orbiting laboratory is expensive, water is recycled and conserved as a precious commodity, Sivik said. That would become nearly impossible on a long trip to Mars, which at a minimum is 34 million miles away.
Astronauts are required to exercise nearly two hours per day to offset the effects of microgravity on their muscles and bones, during which time their clothing gets sweaty, Sivik said.
The project will send to the space station in December a detergent that contains enzymes to break down dirt in clothes naturally -- to see how it behaves after six months in microgravity. Then, in May, a spacecraft will carry spot stain removal pens and wipes to determine their effectiveness in space.
At some point, the space agency hopes to test a washing machine in space, Sivik said.
"We've done a lot of development on the use of cold water and minimal water usage, and we're looking at using a machine that combines the washer and dryer in one unit," he said.
A laundry solution that uses less water in space could have benefits on Earth, as well, Mike Ewert, a NASA life support and thermal systems analyst, said in an email.
"Using less water in space is important for recycling reasons, and using less water on Earth is important as more areas become water stressed in the future," due to population growth and climate change, Ewert said.
Laundry machines for the surface of the moon or Mars may require only minimal alteration, while such machines may have to be drastically altered to function properly in microgravity, he said.
"A washer and dryer may be added to missions when the benefits, such as throwing away less clothing, outweigh the resources needed to clean them," Ewert said.
Laundry. It’s often a dreaded yet necessary task. I assume I’m not the only one who has let the clothes in the hamper pile up until it’s overflowing then groan at the thought of having to fold it all once it’s washed.
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While I’m not sure I can provide any information that will make the process of washing laundry more pleasant, I can share a few tips amended from the American Cleaning Institute that might help clothes last a little longer and save the headache of needing to rewash, as well as dispel some laundry myths.
The first tip is a tedious one — follow instructions. I don’t really enjoy reading the instructions for everything, and I’m probably not alone in that sentiment, but reading and following the instructions for items included in the laundry process like detergent, appliances and fabrics will ultimately save time and money. For example, using too much detergent is money wasted while using too little may leave clothes dirty and needing to be rewashed.
The second tip is to sort the laundry. Maybe this tip is tedious, too … but still important! Several fabrics hold their color well due to the way in which they were dyed, yet dyes can transfer from one piece of clothing to another so it’s a worthwhile practice to sort and wash similar colors and soil levels together. Why risk ruining that favorite shirt when a couple extra steps will help it stay pristine? Also, consider “specialty sorts.” For example, sort by fabric type. Separate out clothing that’s loosely knitted or fabrics that create lots of lint, like fuzzy sweaters.
The third tip is to learn the fabric care symbols. OK, maybe all the tips are tedious, yet each has value. Have you ever looked at the tags in your clothes? These tags contain symbols that show how to care for specific fabrics. By following these guides, clothing should last longer. Find a comprehensive guide for these symbols by doing a quick web search, or locate a downloadable guide at cleaninginstitute.org
Now to dispel some laundry myths. Have you ever wondered how many times you can wear something before washing it? The answer might surprise you. That favorite piece of clothing may not need to be washed or cleaned just yet. Many believe it’s necessary to wash all clothing items after one wear and for some clothing, like most undergarments, that’s the recommended guideline. However, not all clothing needs to be washed after every wear. For example, jeans can be worn three times before washing unless sweaty or visibly stained. A detailed guide of how often to wash certain clothing items can be found at cleaninginstitute.org and a comprehensive stain removal guide by the University of Illinois Extension can be found at extension.illinois.edu/stain
The truth behind this next myth may be surprising as well. Have you heard about freezing rather than washing your jeans? The idea behind this practice is that it will keep jeans from smelling bad and preserve the fit and color. Since it can be difficult to find perfect-fitting jeans, it seems appealing to try about anything that might keep that favorite pair looking great and fitting well. Unfortunately, freezing jeans in your home freezer does not kill bacteria. According to an article highlighting a Q&A session with a Cleveland Clinic dermatologist, killing bacteria typically requires temperatures of 80 degrees below freezing. Our home freezers are usually around zero degrees, which is not cold enough.
The post discusses the types of grime that might be hiding in our clothing like dead skin cells, oils from skin, as well as food and dirt, which help bacteria grow. Washing is the only way to remove these, as laundry detergent will work to get rid of the bacteria. Why does this matter? Because excess bacteria on skin can cause things like rashes or spread of fungal organisms.
So how can we save the look and feel of our favorite jeans while keeping them clean? Remember, those favorite jeans do not necessarily have to be washed after every wear. Instead, wash after wearing about three times unless visibly soiled or sweaty. Wash in cold water to help preserve the fabric and reduce color fade. Jeans can be line-dried rather than in a dryer to help preserve fit, but make sure the fabric dries totally, as bacteria can grow back if clothing is left wet or damp. This tends to happen in humid or warm environments in which the clothing has trouble fully drying.
— Sara Meeks is an OSU Extension Family & Consumer Sciences Program Assistant and may be reached at 330-264-8722.
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Actually, they do not do laundry.
"It is impossible to wash clothes on board the ISS (International Space Station)! Quite simply, it would take too much water," said the Canadian Space Agency. "The astronauts therefore wear their clothes until they are too dirty and then throw them out. All ISS waste burns up in the atmosphere on re-entry."
For Chinese astronauts, that's the same case in space that the water is sacred.
"The most precious resource in orbit is water, and the way we save it is to recycle it," said Liu Weibo, deputy chief designer of astronaut systems of China's manned space project.
He said that the water in the space station will be contaminated by washing detergent or anything that come off human body, making it difficult to be purified again.
Not doing laundry in orbit is also based on cost assessment.
"Compared with washing clothes in space, a disposable clothing system proves to be much more cost efficient," said Liu. "That means changing new clothes and disposing used ones at regular time interval."
The most frequently changed are underwear, followed by gym clothes and socks. Working suits and formal dressed can be worn for over a month.
"We have set different time schedule for different clothing," Liu added.
HUGS: The Valhalla Apartments are having extensive renovations. I want to give a big hug and a huge thank you to all the workers of North Mountain Construction. They are friendly, efficient, helpful, and all-round great workers.
SLUGS: To the parents who are not raising kind humans. Maybe you should also give your kids more hugs so they don’t feel the need to lash out at others. Do better.
SLUGS: To the roach who stole my family’s clothing out of the laundromat’s lost and found. I forgot to unload and went back to get it out of the bin and all of it had been taken.
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The Link LonkDear Amy: I’m confused about how to handle a family situation.
I am a middle-aged, single woman, living alone. I work sporadically but have enough to live comfortably in between jobs.
I have a young relative who visits once or twice per month. I am always happy to see her.
Every time she visits, she brings a large amount of dirty laundry to wash, using my washer and dryer.
I have never had an issue with this in the past, as I remember what it was like to live in an apartment with no washer and dryer. She runs about 4 or 5 loads each visit.
One thing that is starting to annoy me however, is that in addition to using my machines, water and electricity, she also uses my detergent and dryer sheets.
She has a full-time job and travels, so I know that money is not the issue.How hard would it be for her to buy a jug of pods and bring a few over with her?
I’m worried that if I say something, I’ll get branded as cheap. Should I just keep quiet and be glad to see her, laundry or not?
She jokes about the laundry issue, so she knows it’s a bit of a mooch.
Wondering Relative
Dear Wondering: You are a good egg. You accept these visits for what they are – an opportunity for you to provide a considerable service for your younger relative, while using the time together to develop something of a sudsy bond.
She is already joking about this, so she realizes that she is on the verge of an imposition.
Follow up by saying, “There’s a sale on laundry pods at the Dandy Mart. Why don’t you pick up a container of your favorite brand, and we can put your name on it for your own use while you’re here?”
Dear Amy: My mother and my brother keep bringing up trips they want to take with us.
I’ve been on trips with them before, and I’m never going to go again.
Both of them are prone to explosive meltdowns that are excruciating to be part of. I can handle them for a short evening, but that’s it. The idea of traveling with them is very stressful to me.
I also don’t want my 11-year-old daughter to have the stress of traveling with them.
I keep dodging their requests. My response is: “Go ahead and go by yourselves, and report back.” They are not taking the hint.
I see them about twice a month, and the pressure turns any visit with them into a nerve-wracking time for me.
I’m at the point of wanting to avoid them completely.
Telling them straight up that we’re not going to go a trip with them will cause of huge emotional episode, and even then, I don’t think it would sink in.
Any advice on how to have them get the message? Can we recover from this?
Passport Denied
Dear Denied: The way you are behaving (so far) is to avoid stating your own preferences, while you become increasingly annoyed by the consistent efforts of your family members to include you.
Now you are at the point where you are on the verge of avoiding not just the topic but the people raising the topic. That solves nothing.
These relatives might need you as a competent buffer of sorts because they’re so volatile, and that’s why they are pressuring you.
It’s possible that if you provide a consistent answer, they will eventually stop bothering you about it.
You can state your case without blaming these family members, thereby hoping to avoid a meltdown. You just say, “I don’t want to go. I haven’t had a good time in the past. But you two should go ahead.” Repeat as often as necessary.
Consider the fact that by staying home, you might be preserving the shreds of your relationship with these family members. If your declaration causes a meltdown, then take refuge in the fact that the meltdown isn’t happening in a far-away destination.
Dear Amy: Thank you for running so many questions from people facing dilemmas created by DNA testing.
I recently freaked out by discovering that my cousin is my half-sister. When I looked into it, I learned that this is a common issue. Reading the very fine print on the DNA testing contract, I saw that it is to be used “for entertainment purposes, only.”Relieved
Dear Relieved: The cousin/half-sibling connection seems to be the most common source of confusion.
You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.
The Link LonkLester, Iowa — A Lester man was both seen at a hospital and was taken to jail on a laundry list of charges after an accident at Lester on Thursday, June 24th, 2021.
The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office reports that they were advised of a hit-and-run accident at the intersection of Highway 9 and K30 in Lester. They say 51-year-old Korey Nelson of Lester was northbound on K30 in a silver 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan. They say 34-year-old Bruce McDowell Jr of Sioux Falls was westbound on Highway 9 in a 2019 International truck.
The report says Nelson attempted to cross Highway 9 and collided with McDowell. They say Nelson didn’t stop at the accident scene, but rather left the scene southbound on K30. Law enforcement located Nelson on A34 and attempted to stop him. They say Nelson attempted to elude law enforcement and drove to his home in Alvord, where they say Nelson was non-compliant and was taken into custody. He was transported to the Lyon County Jail and was charged with failure to yield upon entering a highway, violation of financial liability coverage (accident-related), leaving the scene of an accident, eluding, interference with official acts, and operating while intoxicated.
Nelson’s minivan was totaled in the collision and McDowells’ truck sustained minor nonreportable damage. Nelson received minor injuries and was later seen at Merrill Pioneer Community Hospital Avera in Rock Rapids.
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The Laundry Project encouraged those in need to share their dirty laundry on Thursday.
Residents of Jackson Heights were treated to quite the shock when they rolled up their dirty clothes to Laundrybee on 71-16 37th Avenue on June 24. Prepared for another slog at the local washateria, they instead found a group of smiling volunteers who offered to pay for both the cleaning and drying.
Maria Acuna travels throughout the United States with fellow volunteers setting up free services that pay for unsuspecting launderette users to enjoy a free wash and dry in low-income neighborhoods.
This service is designed to not only relieve the financial burden that accumulates with heavy loads, but also to promote the good nature of humanity by aiding in what can be a menial and laborious task.
“Today for three hours anybody who comes in, we pay for their laundry, and we also provide soaps for them to use as well,” Acuna began, sharing her enthusiasm.
“I feel like it is a little light during all the craziness of the pandemic. And laundry can be so expensive, especially if it is for a big family,” Acuna added.
According to the Laundry Project, more than 170,000 loads of laundry have been washed for approximately 17,000 families in more than 600 projects nationwide.
As Queens locals began to trickle in, they were left shocked and thankful for the service, even rushing back home to grab more loads. A superintendent of a local apartment building swiftly spread the word, understanding that the service would be a vital one for many in the community.
Jesus Rodriguez said that this initiative is not only so helpful due to the financial alleviation, but also a great relief due to the time it saves.
“I was walking by, and I saw it. I have three bags and I am rushing here there and everywhere,” Rodriguez told amNewYork Metro. “I don’t make much money so this is a big help.”
It is interactions like these that Acuna and her team say makes the whole experience worth it, and continues to inspire her.
Laundry Project prefers not to promote their pop-up events beforehand, instead creating a series of happy accidents for the unaware.
“One time I had a lady come in with two shopping carts and had no idea that she was going to get her laundry done. When we told her, she started crying — it was a beautiful thing,” Acuna said. “She was with a lot of kids, and she said she was debating whether she should do her laundry or go out to eat.”
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NASA is teaming up with the company that makes Tide laundry detergent to tackle a mundane problem in an extraordinary place: dirty clothes in space.
What astronauts do when their clothes get stinky might not be the kind of quandary that keeps Americans up at night, but right now those dirty duds are summarily blasted into space as trash destined to burn up as it reenters Earth’s atmosphere, reports Marcia Dunn for the Associated Press (AP). What’s more, clothes get gross pretty quickly in space because of the two-hour daily exercise regimen that space going humans must complete to stave off the bone and muscle loss caused by micro-gravity.
Leland Melvin, a former NASA astronaut and NFL player, tells the AP that this schedule has each astronaut throwing out their t-shirt, shorts and socks at the end of every week.
“After that, they’re deemed toxic,” Melvin tells the AP. “They like have a life of their own. They’re so stiff from all that sweat.”
Every crewed space mission must pack roughly 150 pounds of clothing per person per year, according to the AP. On longer missions, such as a trip to Mars with an expected three-year transit time, those hundreds of pounds of clean clothes come at the cost of scientific equipment or life sustaining air and water.
"When we’re finally going on future lunar or Martian missions, or one day when we’re even further out, we won’t be able to throw anything away. We’ll have to reuse everything," Melvin tells Neel V. Patel of the MIT Technology Review. "And I think that’s critical for exploration. Washing clothes would seem mundane, but it’s life. It’s a must-have for the future of exploration. Or we’re not going to have enough clothes to exercise and work out in and do our jobs."
Enter: Tide and its parent company Proctor and Gamble (P&G). The company’s collaboration with NASA will entail experiments testing various types of detergents and stain removers that will need to work with very little or no water, which has previously been deemed too precious for use on laundry, Reuters reports.
The first tests will take place on a 2022 cargo flight to the International Space Station (ISS) and will seek to evaluate the impacts of micro-gravity and radiation on the experimental detergent, per Reuters. The same experiments will be conducted in tandem back on Earth to compare results.
“Humanity has reached a pivotal point where on one hand, we’re on the exciting cusp of space colonization, and on the other, facing a critical period where action must be taken now to save the planet we all call home,” says Aga Orlik, a senior vice president at P&G North America Fabric Care, in a statement. “The collaboration with NASA and the ISS National Lab are particularly exciting because it allows us to push the bounds of resource efficiency to its absolute limit, uncovering learnings with practical applications for both the future of laundry in space and here on Earth.”
In addition to the detergents, P&G is also working on a washer-dryer unit designed to function on the moon or Mars and that cleans and dries clothes with tiny amounts of water and detergent, according to the AP. Needless to say, all the water used by such a system would also need to be re-filtered and re-used by the crew for cooking and drinking.
“The best solutions come from the most diverse teams,” Melvin tells the AP, “and how more diverse can you be than Tide and NASA?”
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It happened Wednesday night.
According to the Wayne County Sheriff, Rick Thompson, road patrol deputies searched a residence between Fort Gay and Crum and found Jordan Stamperd trying to hide under laundry. He is facing seven felony charges and 11 misdemeanor charges.
Deputies say he is charged with 1st degree robbery, kidnapping x2, domestic assault, battery, and driving with a DUI among others.
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Executive Summary
Market Landscape
Market Sizing
Five Forces Analysis
Market Segmentation by End-user
Customer Landscape
Geographic Landscape
Vendor Landscape
Vendor Analysis
Appendix
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The prospect of being away from the watchful eyes of their parents seems exciting to college students.
That is until they realize that mom and dad are no longer around to clean up after them, make meals and do their laundry.
Some students will let their laundry pile up until they find a weekend to go home and hand it off to mom. But for others, home is too far to travel for just a weekend and so they must face the prospect of — horror of horrors — doing their own laundry.
But now there is an alternative.
Miami-based Dorm Doctors has sparked the growth of a new industry that caters to the needs of busy students by providing wash and fold laundry pickup and delivery. Not only that, the company is expanding its services by offering housekeeping and storage and moving services.
Starting this fall, it will begin operating in Pennsylvania, making its services available to students at the University of Pittsburgh, Penn State and Villanova.
“No matter how service industries and technology evolve, two things remain true: kids don’t clean their rooms and parents always worry,” said Dorm Doctors CEO Lauren Hillard. “Our goal is to ease the transition to college life so that students can focus on academics and the college experience, and parents can have peace of mind knowing Johnny’s room and underwear are clean.”
Dorm Doctors is offering discounts on laundry and housekeeping bundled service for new customers through Labor Day, Sept. 6.
“Some of the most important lessons college students will learn is how to manage their time and when to ask for help,” Hillard said. “We’re proud to be students’ first call when they realize they could use a little extra help with chores or moving in or out of their dorm or apartment.”
For more information go to www.dormdoctors.com.
Paul Guggenheimer is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Paul at 724-226-7706 or pguggenheimer@triblive.com.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – We continue our series Thursday helping you get rid of the stink and stickiness out of some of your stuff.
Richard tried two tricks to cleaning your grill on Wednesday to see if they work.
On Tuesday, Melanie showed you how to get stains out of the carpet in your car.
And on Monday, we showed you some household hacks to get the stink out of your shoes.
Thursday we’re focusing on getting deodorant stains out of your nice dress clothes and how to get your gym clothes and towels smelling fresh and staying that way.
Do you find you just can’t get the chlorine smell out of your pool towels?
A quick fix can be found in your liquor cabinet. Vodka is a natural deodorizer. Try spritzing your towels with the liquor to immediately neutralize the odor.
If you have more time, borax can help neutralize the chlorine odor.
You can buy a box that costs less than $5 at Target and try adding a half cup before washing your pool towels. It works great.
Now, hot, humid weather added to a good work out can make your gym clothes stinky.
Washing them works at first, but if you find the smell returns after you put them on, Real Simple magazine suggests soaking them in a mix of four parts cold water with one part distilled white vinegar and then washing them.
To keep the odors from settling in right after your workout, another option is to soak them in cool water and half a cup of baking soda for an hour immediately after your workout.
But what about nicer clothes that you don’t feel comfortable submerging in water?
We asked a local cleaning expert how to get deodorant stains out of armpits of a dress. He said first, dab the area with a wet cloth and some laundry detergent and then try using hydrogen peroxide.
He said spray it on. What’s great about hydrogen peroxide is that it breaks down into water, so it shouldn’t damage the fabric at all as long as you remember not to leave it in the sun.
Let the hydrogen peroxide sit for about 20 minutes and most of the white from the stone will disappear from both sides of the material.
Hydrogen peroxide can be used on cotton, polyester and washable clothes.
When it comes to silk, you’re best to leave removing sweat stains to the professionals.
But keep in mind that since perspiration is high in salt, you really need to remove it from the fabric as soon as possible so you’ll want to launder that every time you wear silk.
One other thing, if you use baking powder to help with odor, it can pull color from fabrics, so be careful using it with dark clothing.
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A classic way to keep your delicates in good condition through the wash (besides a full load on the delicate setting) is to throw them in a mesh lingerie bag. Some items—like delicate sweaters, for example—often need to be washed by hand or dry cleaned to keep their softness and shape, so if your sweater requires dry cleaning or whatever, it’s best to follow those instructions; otherwise, though, putting your delicates in a mesh bag will give them a proper cleaning without the normal damage of a machine.
Also, things with velcro or hooks—like bras—often get snagged on other clothes in the washer and dryer. To prevent rips, tangles, and misshapen clothing, put those items in a mesh bag before you throw them in the washer and the dryer.
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As Western U.S. residents wrap up workouts with two-minute Navy showers amid unprecedented drought, they might soon benefit from gadgets geared toward extraterrestrial exercise.
NASA is teaming up with Procter & Gamble Co. to develop a washer-dryer combo that could eventually operate on the moon or even Mars using minimal amounts of water and detergent, the Associated Press reported. Up until this point, astronauts dealt with their tons of dirty laundry each year by throwing it away: launching their garments to burn up in the atmosphere aboard discarded cargo ships, according to the AP.
Because astronauts exercise two hours daily to minimize the muscle- and bone-withering effects of weightlessness, their clothes are left so sweaty and stiff that they take on “a life of their own,” according to Leland Melvin, a former NASA astronaut and NFL player.
It’s also a nice case study in the problem of living in a closed system — like, say, Planet Earth, where we are looking today at how some 80 million people around the world could go hungry by mid-century without — or by this point, perhaps even with — drastic climate action. And we’ll also examine how the Republican Party is tiptoeing into America’s discussion of climate change.
For Equilibrium, we are Saul Elbein, operating out of Washington, D.C., and Sharon Udasin, based in Boulder, Colo. Please send tips or comments to Saul at selbein@thehill.com or Sharon at sudasin@thehill.com. Follow us on Twitter: @saul_elbein and @sharonudasin.
Let’s get to it.
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Climate change will lead to mass starvation — and that’s the best case scenario
Up to 80 million people could face starvation by mid-century and up to 140 million could become climate refugees, according to a leaked U.N. report acquired by the UAE-based English daily newspaper, The National.
"Totally vulnerable”: Among other things, the draft report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that climate will drive massive disruption of freshwater supplies, diminish or even wipe out harvests of key cereal grains like corn and rice across broad swaths of the globe and lead to plunging nutritional content in the food that remains.
“The basis for our health is sustained by three pillars: the food we eat, access to water and shelter,” Maria Neira of the World Health Organization, told The National. “These pillars are totally vulnerable and about to collapse.”
An overwhelming list. Since the IPCC report synthesizes existing scientific literature, none of this is a surprise, Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech, wrote on Twitter. But the results, from drought to wildfire to accelerating sea level rise, “hadn't been pulled together into one overwhelming list."
For most people, Hayhoe noted, seeing that single list highlights just how novel and dangerous our current level of carbon emissions is.
"It's as if we've been driving down the road looking in the rearview mirror: but now we've hit a dangerous curve & our wheels are teetering on the edge," she tweeted.
Dueling definitions of caution: One concern that Hayhoe, like many climate scientists, has noted: The IPCC, by its very nature as a consensus organization, tends to focus on the least controversial, most established science. Doing so can leave it blind to "tail risks," which as we noted Tuesday are unlikely, but pose potentially lethal black holes in our planning.
Back in 2013, climate scientist Naomi Oreskes coined the term "ESLD," for "erring on the side of least drama," to describe the tendency of IPCC reports to be "biased toward ... less rather than more alarming predictions." It’s caution about freaking people out, in other words, rather than caution about avoiding tail risk.
What this means: As scary as the U.N. report sounds, it could actually be lowballing its estimate.
BARRELING BLINDFOLDED TOWARD TIPPING POINTS?
A line of climate dominoes: One reason climate change is so dangerous and hard to plan for, as Radley Horton of Columbia University's Earth Institute told Equilibrium, is that it leads to "cascading systems" of collapse that are very difficult to predict.
For example, as a recent paper in Earth System Dynamics found, the failure of one key "tipping point" of the Earth's climate system — the disintegration of the Greenland or West Antarctic ice sheets, the end of the spinning Atlantic or El Nino currents or a massive dieback of the Amazon rainforest — could lead to the failure of the others, like dominoes in a line.
Takeaway: Climate scientists have long argued that the existence of such tipping points — and our ignorance of precisely when we will reach them — makes immediate carbon emissions reductions a priority. It's one reason why 11,000 scientists signed an open letter in January warning of the "catastrophic threat" of the "climate emergency."
As Hayhoe, the Texas Tech climate scientist noted on Twitter, "Climate change isn't just one more priority on our already over-crowded list. It is a threat multiplier that affects every single other priority already on it." To care about it, "we only have to be one thing," she added, "and that's a human living on this planet."
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Republicans see inaction on climate change as existential threat — to their party
A new group of humans — one that used to want no part in discussions about surviving the climate crisis — is now entering the fray.
House Republicans announced Tuesday that they would be launching a caucus aimed at educating its members about climate change on Wednesday, Rachel Frazin reported in The Hill.
The caucus, spearheaded by Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah), will not be endorsing any specific policies. Instead, it will provide members with information and strategies for talking about climate change, Frazin reported, adding that the caucus’s launch comes while the GOP has been walking back from denying that climate change is occurring.
“Early on, when I was asked in town hall meetings if the climate was changing and man was influencing it, I would not answer that question. I would dodge that question. I don’t think I knew the answer to that question,” Curtis told The Hill on Tuesday.
How did a GOP climate confab come to be? When Curtis first approached fellow Republicans to discuss climate issues at a secret meeting in Utah, he initially hoped that a half dozen people might agree to attend, Lisa Friedman reported in The New York Times. But for two days in February, 24 Republicans gathered in Salt Lake City to brainstorm ways “to engage on a planetary problem it has ignored for decades,” Friedman wrote, adding that for four years under the Trump administration, the phrase “climate change” was verboten.
But today’s Republican Party is increasingly understanding that there must be a shift, as independents, suburban voters and young Republicans call for the government to take action on climate issues, according to the Times piece.
“It’s my hope that any Republican that belongs to this caucus, if asked about climate in a town-hall meeting, will feel very comfortable talking about it,” Curtis told the Times, adding, “I fear that too often Republicans have simply said what they don’t like without adding on ‘but here’s our ideas.’ ”
QUESTIONS FOR REPUBLICANS
Goals of the Conservative Climate Caucus: While the ambitions of the so-called Conservative Climate Caucus remain vague, members say that they intend to contrast their ideas with “radical progressive” climate policies, like pricing carbon or requiring clean electricity use, Josh Siegel reported in the Washington Examiner.
Caucus Republicans — who now number nearly 40 — maintain that fossil fuels can remain “a major part of the global solution,” as long as emitters are using “innovative technologies” to mitigate pollution, the Examiner piece said.
Many Democrats have criticized caucus Republicans for their stance on fossil fuels, arguing that their plans will fail to curb the most damaging impacts of climate change, according to the Examiner.
Other GOP plans to tackle climate change:
Questions remain: John Walke, clean air director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, tweeted several questions regarding the caucus’s plans on Wednesday morning — asking whether members will support the target to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, whether they will submit legislation related to reducing that target and whether they will “protect local communities in a just, safe transition toward that target.”
ROUND-UP
WEIRD WEDNESDAY
A collection of things that aren’t quite as they seem: Freedom for the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, derelict dumps reclaimed as solar sites in New Jersey, a populist insurgent in Idaho and Biden’s public-lands fracking ban.
New York Times, ProPublica surface propaganda videos from repressed Xinjiang region, which is also a critical manufacturing zone for global cleantech
U.S. solar developers looking at post-industrial America as a land of opportunity
Ammon Bundy, opponent of federal jurisdiction of public lands, runs for Idaho governor
Biden reverses plan for “permanent” ban on new fracking on public lands
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Also, don’t miss our latest piece on managed retreat, which dropped Wednesday.
That’s a wrap, folks. Thanks for reading Equilibrium. See you tomorrow evening.
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