Three hundred million people suffer from asthma worldwide, and its costs to our kids, families, and society are growing. Today, on World Asthma Day the Global Initiative for Asthma is raising awareness about asthma by launching a campaign to reduce asthma-related hospitalizations by 50 percent in five years. But we also need to reduce exposure to conditions that aggravate asthma and trigger asthma attacks.

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Let’s face it; people are networking online during their workday. And some of those people broadcast work-related gripes or post inappropriate pictures. Search engines index that content, creating a trail of digital dirt that can soil a company’s image for years.

Because the lines between personal and professional sharing are blurred, it’s imperative to develop social media guidelines so everyone who works at your company understands how to represent themselves and the company online.

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State University is firing 191 custodial workers as the university transitions to contract cleaning of its facilities.An ASU official said that as part of its budget reduction commitment, facilities management will be transitioning to contract cleaning of 100 percent of ASU's buildings at the Tempe and West campuses.The move to 100 percent contract cleaning will result in a reduction in force affecting 191 employees -- 181 on the Tempe campus and 10 on the West campus; custodial services on the other campuses are already handled by janitorial services business partners.

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Daimer Industries, Inc., a leader in sanitizing systems, announces it has increased the cleaning capabilities of two steam vacuum cleaner machines in its line of KleenJet® Supreme 3000 equipment. The systems, the 3000CVP and 3000CVGP with gum removal, have been engineered to clean a range of hard surfaces and incorporate industrial-grade vacuum systems.

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(Reuters) - Ecolab Inc's (ECL.N) quarterly profit slightly exceeded Wall Street expectations as sales rose in the United States, the Asia Pacific region and Latin America.

The cleaning services company also raised the lower end of its 2011 earnings forecast range.

Its first-quarter profit amounted to $93.6 million, or 40 cents per share, compared with $95.5 million, or 40 cents per share, a year earlier.

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LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Lohan will soon be carrying a bucket around folks who've just kicked one.

The "Mean Girls" star has one week to enroll in the community service program at the Los Angeles County morgue, a judge ruled Friday.

She must serve 120 hours with the coroner, doing maintenance and janitorial work in areas where dead bodies are a common sight, a spokesman told the Daily News.

"She will empty trash, vacuum, clean restrooms," Asst. Chief Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County Coroner said.

"She won't be in the autopsy area. However, there will be some exposure to bodies. She'll see them but won't touch them."

Lohan completed a much shorter drunken-driving program at the morgue as part of her original sentence for back-to-back DUIs in 2007.

GUAM – Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Marianas, has extended the bidding deadline for an indefinite-length contract to provide janitorial services for all military facilities on Guam.

HUBZone-certified contractors have until May 5 to bid on the contract to "to perform janitorial services for all U.S. Military Activities, Guam," according to an update to solicitation number N4019211R9007. The deadline was extended from the initial date of April 28.

Full article here at the source:Guam Build Up News

STAPLES, Minn., April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- National Joint Powers Alliance® (NJPA) announces that Staples Advantage, the business-to-business division of Staples, Inc., has been awarded a contract for Janitorial Supplies to provide facility solutions to NJPA members. NJPA is member-owned buying cooperative serving public and private schools, K12 through higher education, state and local governments, and non-profit organizations. The facility solutions and services business of Staples Advantage, Staples Facility Solutions, will provide janitorial supplies to all qualified organizations including more than 30,000 NJPA members nationwide.  

Full article at the source: PR Newswire

OTTAWA — A Somali-Canadian single mother who said she was paid under the table to clean the prime minister's residence skipped a news conference Wednesday where she was set to air her complaints.

Zahra Bulle spoke to The Canadian Press the evening before, describing how she had done janitorial work inside 24 Sussex Drive last year. She said she was paid in cash by a contracting company and felt uncomfortable about it.

Full article here at the source:Canadian Press