Give-a-way's will be given out and raffled off every hour on the hour! GlassRenu are giving away a $2195 machine! Everybody should at least get $100 of goodies for just showing up! The show & seminars are free! The food is free! Just get yourself over to the MidWest Window Cleaning Conference - that's all you have to do.
Window cleaner survives 30,000-volt shock: A window cleaner is recovering in a hospital after he was zapped by a high voltage line yesterday (Weds). The 27-year-old from Wels was thrown out of his work platform after it touched a 30,000-volt power connection running close to the Sattledt company headquarters where he was cleaning the outside second-floor windows. Passers-by said the man was conscious when they found him lying in the grass. He was hospitalised in Wels. Doctors did not give out information about the extent of his injuries.
Quiet and humble in manner, short and plump in stature, Robert Farquharson is a man who seems innocuous and inoffensive. With a worried expression like a little boy lost at his Supreme Court retrial for 11 weeks, the scale of his terrible crime - murdering his three sons - felt incomprehensible. The events of Father's Day five years ago instantly made the then window cleaner from Winchelsea one of the most gossiped about men in Australia. But after deliberating since Monday, a jury has found the 41-year-old guilty of murdering Jai, 10, Tyler, 7, and Bailey, 2.
Environment protection and development with the minimal risk of deleterious impact on our people and their surroundings is our first priority. According to the latest assessment of quarry and crusher activity and their environmental impact by the Ministry of Environment and water (MOEW), the quarries and crushers in Ras Al Khaimah have been graded green, which implies 100 per cent implementation of the recommended protection measures, including ambient air dust levels.
The photographs published in your news report showing the presence of dust on the window glass and in the vacuum cleaner collection bag is a normal and natural outcome of arid atmospheric conditions, which is observed regularly even in the houses located in the city area without any industrial activity in the surroundings.
The complaints about the health problems, particularly asthma and allergy may be due to other well-known causative factors such as bacterial and viral diseases associated with seasonal changes, dust storms, indoor pollution, smoking, exposure to oud fumes and unhygienic living conditions.
Windsor, Ontario parking garage collapse demonstrates need for shoring: The collapse of a Windsor parking garage this month is an object lesson in the need to shore up the roofs of such structures before significant extra weight is placed on the surface above. Dr. Gina Cody, president of Construction Control Inc. of Woodbridge, Ont., said that whenever a heavy vehicle such as an articulated boom truck for maintenance or window washing is wheeled on to the surface, strengthening the roof below should be done as “a rule of thumb, unless the parking garage is really really heavily reinforced and it was designed for excessive loading, which is uncommon.”
Cody was speaking in the wake of a small parking garage collapse in Windsor July 8, apparently caused by excess weight from a zoom boom truck. This was in addition to an extra layer of asphalt applied to the street level surface of the garage at some point in the past, which had weakened it. There were no deaths though the boom operator, who was washing windows on an adjacent building, suffered injuries and was taken to hospital when the surface collapsed below his vehicle and he fell to the garage’s underground parking level. The 140-foot by 109-foot structure near downtown Windsor was a paved surface lot with one underground floor.
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$150 Million Multiple Award Task Order Contract: ECC-RMA, LLC was also awarded the first task order under the contract, a $5 million design-build project for the USACE Los Angeles District with four options valued at $996,770. The team will replace roofs on Buildings 1, 2, and 14 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Diego, CA with the option to design and build a photovoltaic system and window washing system on Building 1. The project is currently underway and scheduled for completion in September 2011.
Troubled Paul Gascoigne poses with a shopgirl who says he groped her - after falling off the wagon while in rehab. Rowena Ross, 22, said the England football legend smelled of booze when he popped into her chemist's near the clinic where he was having treatment. She added: "He seemed quite merry. He hugged me and then put his hand on my breast. He was giggling. I didn't say anything." Sam Bishop, 24, who lives near the Bournemouth clinic, bought Gazza some lager after bumping into him in the street.The window cleaner said: "He asked me to buy him two cans of Stella and put them in a bag behind the wall of an empty house. When I'd done it I had to give him a thumbs-up to let him know it was there. I didn't know he was in rehab or I wouldn't have bought them."Other Semi-related Window Cleaning News..
Medford, Ore. – A new campaign called the Graffiti Eradication Program is cleaning up Medford neighborhoods. The program takes youth offenders from the Jackson County Juvenile Division and volunteer groups from local high schools, to help paint over tagged homes or businesses. Lieutenant Bob Hansen from Medford Police says their just trying to take care of what they call the broken window effect. “If you have a broken window in a house and it stays that way or a business, they tend to more and more broken windows, said Hansen. “People see that and think it’s to go ahead and damage another window.”
Most of the supplies have been donated from local businesses like Ace Hubbard’s Hardware, Rodda Paint and Cleaning Solutions. Community Officer, Todd Sales scouted different neighborhoods to see what areas had the most graffiti. So far, more than thirty properties have been repainted. “We want to make sure that the youth get an opportunity to make restitution when do things they shouldn't,” said Sales.
Boffins develop greenhouse invisible to night-vision goggles: Boffins in the States say they have designed a "glass cloak" which renders objects within it invisible in the infrared spectrum. Prof Elena Semouchkina and her colleagues developed the "cloak", which reportedly bends micron wavelengths around its interior. Micron-length waves are in the near infrared, the part of the electromagnetic spectrum used by ordinary night-vision goggles. Previous invisibility cloak research has tended to focus on metallic "metamaterials", but Semouchkina and her colleagues' design calls for magnetic resonator metamaterial made of chalcogenide dielectric glass.
Regular metallic "cloaks", according to heavyweight invisibility prof Sir John Pendry, are not - or rather, will not be when visible-light versions are developed - actually flexible cloaks. Rather, they would be hefty rigid structures or cladding, more like a shed than any type of garment. It appears that Semouchkina's chalcogenide glass is pretty rigid, too, so in fact here we're talking more about an invisible greenhouse or glass house than a cloak. The invisible glass dwelling - doubtless featuring a glass ceiling of the type known to impede upwardly-mobile lady biz execs - would of course be perfectly perceptible to the naked eye. However it would be an ideal hiding place for people needing to elude enemies wearing regular near-infrared night-vision goggles, whether passive or active.
Sadly more up-to-date opponents using thermal imagers working in longer infrared wavelengths could detect it without too much difficulty: though one should note that human body heat can't normally penetrate glass, so the thermal-imager user would need to distinguish the invisible greenhouse by differentiating it from its background. For now, though, the disappearing glass abode doesn't exist in the real world. Semouchkina and her colleagues verified the theory of in vitro vanishment in silico - that is, they ran some computer simulations rather than actually building their machine.
Chicago hoarding cleanup service: Compassion is the key - Dan Reynolds cringes whenever he watches Hoarders, on A&E, or Hoarding: Buried Alive on TLC. The cleanup crews on those shows have it all wrong, he says. Reynolds should know. He, along with partner Mike Frakes, owns Minooka, Ill.-based Chicago Crime Scene Cleanup. While the company specializes, as its name suggests, in cleaning up crime scenes, it also works with hoarders throughout the Chicago area, helping them clean the mounds of newspapers, trash bags, empty cans, battered furniture and ancient clothes from their houses. Cleanup crews should never throw children's toys from an attic onto a front lawn, something Reynolds has seen happen on both Hoarders and Hoarding. That might make for good TV, Reynolds says, but it's bad for the family living in that house.
"People need their dignity. Throwing their possessions out a window isn't helping them keep their dignity," Reynolds said. "These people are not slobs. They are not lazy. They have a disorder." I'd been thinking about hoarding ever since my wife brought home a book from our local public library, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things. The book, by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee is filled with interviews of hoarders, people who can only travel from one room to the next by fashioning tunnels that snake between towers of paper, books, magazines and boxes of clothing. Frost and Steketee came to this conclusion: Hoarders assign the same value to every possession they have. They can't separate what's important from what's not. Reynolds has seen this. Not only does he help hoarders throughout the Chicago area clean their homes, he has two family members who struggle with their own hoarding disorders. Chicago Crime Scene Cleanup also cleans some of the several Chicago-area homes that have fallen into foreclosure.
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Wouldn't make a good window cleaner: Wang Jun is addicted to eating light bulbs. The 52-year-old, from China, has munched his way through more than 1,000 of the glass bulbs, since biting into his first one as a child for a dare. He has even made a career out of the strange habit — starring in a circus as the world's only light bulb eating man. So far, his unusual diet hasn't had any serious health side effects. But Wang's family are becoming increasingly alarmed by his bizarre antics, which cost him his marriage. They have asked doctors, at a hospital near Wang's home in Sichuan Province, to help. Medics were sceptical at first, but now admit he has an addiction.
They took Wang in for observation and have watched him munch his way through 18 light bulbs in the last two weeks with no visible side-effects. Wang said he usually gets through about 25 a month and gets nervous and edgy if he can't get his regular light bulb fix. He said: "It's probably like withdrawal symptoms that any addict gets I suppose. "I remember eating my first light bulb when I was 12. I did it as a dare with my friends and actually had quite a nice feeling afterwards. It was very satisfying. "If I don't eat one for several days, I get very nervous.
"My wife actually left me because of it. She said it was too weird. I admit I didn't tell her at first when we got married and I used to munch the light bulbs in secret, but then she caught me and a short while later we separated. "The light bulbs taste best with porridge, but they are also quite nice with bread. I would recommend it to anybody, although I must admit I haven't heard of anybody trying any of my recipes yet." Doctors who examined Wang found no sign of any injuries, but they warned he needs to crack down or all the shattered glass may cause him serious harm in the future.
Unlucky lottery ticket thief wins hearing before judge: Stealing a winning lottery ticket does not make you lucky. That’s what San Mateo County prosecutors said after a suspected serial burglar nabbed four rolls of lottery tickets at a Burlingame store in April and was later caught on camera trying to cash in his winnings. The alleged crook and his buddy carried out multiple window-smashing burglaries in Peninsula cities, mostly snagging cash from registers. But he made the mistake of trying his luck at lottery tickets, prosecutors said.
The “winner” was spotted on camera cashing in the tickets at three different stores, and he and his accomplice were eventually tracked down and caught fleeing a dry cleaning business they burglarized, they said. The accused, Danny Hamilton, 25, and Shawn Reilly, 24, both South San Francisco residents, were set to face a judge on a host of charges Thursday afternoon.
