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2 unusual facts about Cleaner


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The 2000 film Bread and Roses by British director Ken Loach depicted the struggle of cleaners in Los Angeles, California to fight for better pay and working conditions, and the right to join a union.

In an interview with the BBC in 2001, Loach stated that thousands of cleaners from around 30 countries have since contacted him with tales similar to the one told in the film.


40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row

The tracks "Into Another", "My Enemy" and "Breakin' Down" were remixed for this album with more tender, slightly cleaner mixes, presumably so they fit more suitingly with the other tracks.

Amancio D'Silva

He worked as a cleaner, and also as a musician at the "Prospect of Whitby" pub and at the Spanish Garden Club in the West End, and began living in Ealing.

Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals

Division III - cosmetics and home products, namely Cantharidine Hair Oil, Disinfectant Fluid (Lamp Brand Pheneol), Moth Repellant (Naphthalene Ball), Aguru (Perfume), Floor Cleanser (White Tiger) and Toilet Cleaner (Klin Toilet).

Cape Wind

A 2007 Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) survey of 600 state residents found that 93% Massachusetts residents agree that the state should be "a national leader in using cleaner and renewable energy on a large scale by moving ahead with offshore wind power" and other clean energy initiatives.

Chip tuning

Chip tuning refers to changing or modifying an erasable programmable read only memory chip in an automobile's or other vehicle's electronic control unit (ECU) to achieve superior performance, whether it be more power, cleaner emissions, or better Fuel efficiency.

Cleaner shrimp

In this behaviour cleaner shrimps resemble cleaner fish, and sometimes actually may be seen to join cleaner wrasse and other cleaner fish attending to client fishes.

Dead Clean

A Greek window cleaner (Sachs) is mistaken for a Greek hitman (Richie) and employed by Tony Judd (Mark Chapman) to murder business partner Frazer Morton (David Weller).

Duke Vin

After travelling to England in 1954 as a stowaway on a boat from Kingston, he found work as an engine cleaner for British Rail, becoming an electrician two years later.

Dust-Off

Dust-Off is a brand of dust cleaner (refrigerant-based propellant cleaner, which is not compressed air and incorrectly called "canned air") containing difluoroethane; it is used to remove particulates and dust from computers and electronic equipment.

Eileen Grimshaw

Following Jason and Candice Stowe (Nikki Sanderson) placing an ad for her in a lonely hearts column, she dates cleaner Harry Flagg (Iain Rogerson) for a while but they eventually decide to remain friends.

Electrolux Trilobite

The prototype cleaner was first seen on the BBC television programme, "Tomorrow's World", in 1996; when it was demonstrated by presenter Philippa Forrester.

Goblin Vacuum Cleaners

Popular models included the 1970s "Housemaid" cleaner (featuring an advertising campaign by Jenny Tomasin of Upstairs, Downstairs fame) and the compact "Rio" cleaner of the 1980s.

The managing director was Hubert Cecil Booth who the company claimed had in fact invented the vacuum cleaner in about 1900, and which was subsequently copied in the USA and elsewhere.

HM Prison Channings Wood

The prison provides educational courses to prisoners, include Barbering, Business Studies, Catering, Industrial Cleaning, Creative Media Studies, Customer Services, Driving Theory, Dry-Lining, Electrical Installation, ESOL, Food Hygiene, Fork Lift Driving, Horticulture, Information Technology, Painting and Decorating, Physical Education and Yoga.

HM Prison Guys Marsh

Guys Marsh offers workshops to prisoners including Farms and Estates Management, Laundry, Industrial Cleaning, Bricklaying and a number of contract production workshops.

Latino hip hop

Jakpot soon began to notice the exploitation his dad went through because he was an immigrant, but, “Jakpot's first brush with the reality of hate crimes against immigrants occurred after his family moved to Patchogue, New York. It was in that Long Island town that Marcelo Lucero, a dry cleaner employee from Ecuador, was murdered simply for being Hispanic” (Latinrapper.com).

Menelik Watson

Watson was born into a single-parent family of four brothers raised on the Anson Estate in Longsight, Greater Manchester, England; his mother worked as an office cleaner to support the family.

Oh! My Lady

A spunky 35-year-old housewife, Yoon Gae Hwa (Chae Rim), takes on the job of house cleaner to prickly top star Sung Min Woo (Choi Si -won) in order to earn enough money to regain custody of her child from her ex-husband.

Parmjit Dhanda

Born in London to Indian immigrants of Sikh Punjabi background; his mother was a cleaner at a local hospital, whilst his father was a lorry driver.

Peter Tobin

She was staying at the presbytery of St Patrick's Church, where she worked as a cleaner to help finance her Scandinavian Studies course at University of Gdańsk.

Retire Your Ride

On June 4, 2008 the Government of Canada announced the "National Vehicle Scrappage Program", which would create incentives for residents of Canada to trade in their old, higher-polluting vehicles to promote cleaner alternatives resulting in cleaner air and a healthier environment.

Richard Gosling

He now works as a window cleaner and part-time security at Asda, Cannock.

Richard Kelliher

While working as a cleaner at Brisbane City Hall he applied for, but failed to get, a taxi driver's licence and the family moved to Melbourne where he got a job as a gardener.

Rick Spleen

For example, when Spleen has an argument with Michael, the café owner, or with Magda, his Eastern-European cleaner, Marty defends them rather than backing Spleen, which appears to wind him up even more.

Rodney Blackstock

He took various jobs ranging from a solar panel salesman to a window cleaner and eventually found permanent employment at Home Farm, working for the King brothers, Matthew King, Jimmy King and Carl King.

Scania L113

In 1997, Scania introduced its 4-series range of buses, which utilised smaller and cleaner engines in order to comply with Euro2 emission limits.

Space Twins

Initially, the band was a small project in which the two would dress up in Star Trek style outfits with pipe-cleaner antennae, playing silly songs at kids' birthday parties.

Squeegee

According to Guinness World Records, the world's fastest window cleaner is Terry Burrows of South Ockendon, Essex, England, who cleaned three standard 45-inch × 45-inch office windows set in a frame in 9.24 seconds at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in March 2005.

Tanja Lorentzon

In her youth, Lorentzon worked as an engineer in the Ericsson, Inc., a cleaner and a teacher before entering the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in 1994.

The Big Salad

The man is later suspected in the murder of a dry cleaner, and Kramer helps the man to see his pet fish by driving in his white Ford Bronco in a low speed chase down the New Jersey Turnpike.

The Checks

He joins under the name of Tania, the name Patty Hearst took after she was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army; upset, George says to the head cult cleaner, "Him you brainwashed?? What's he got that I don't have?!" and the cleaner simply shrugs his shoulders.

Thermal oxidation

Thermal oxidation of any variety produces a higher-quality oxide, with a much cleaner interface, than chemical vapor deposition of oxide resulting in Low Temperature Oxide layer (reaction of TEOS at about 600 °C).

Timo Kahlen

His installation at the Aviation Museum in Amberg in 2010 was disrupted when a cleaner mistakenly vacuumed up the two dead hornets he had placed on a loudspeaker: the installation was titled Tanz für Insekten (dance for insects) and the intention was for the dead insects to "dance" as a result of the vibrations.

United Kingdom's emergency towing vessel fleet

The first vessels of the UK's ETV fleet were introduced in 1994 following the recommendations of Lord Donaldson's report 'Safer Ships, Cleaner Seas' published in May 1994 following the MV Braer oil spill of off the coast of Shetland, Scotland.

White Square

In addition, the street level offers amenities such as banks, a dry cleaner, and a L'Occitane en Provence cosmetics shop.

Worcester Shrub Hill railway station

Wojtczak writes that in 1873 there was Ladies’ Waiting Room Attendant called Mrs Dale who earned 10s and that this was the same rate of pay as a Mrs Spencer who was the office cleaner.


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