New App Streamlines Laundry Process

LaundryView, an online application that allows users to see which washer and dryer machines are currently in use on campus, went live for all machines Tuesday, November 13.

The program features three-dimensional digital renderings of each laundry room — red, vibrating machines are in use, while white machines are unoccupied. The program also indicates how much time is remaining on each load of laundry.

The site offers an option to receive a text message or email when a load of laundry is finished.

Brown has joined peer institutions such as Harvard, Tufts University, Columbia, Cornell and Wesleyan University in bringing LaundryView to campus.

The site received 1,333 hits between when Morning Mail announced the launch at 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. Tuesday morning, said Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential and dining services.
Bringing LaundryView to Brown has been under discussion since the previous Undergraduate Council of Students’ administration, Bova said.

The launch of LaundryView was a “natural kind of outcrop” of the Bear Bucks system, said Abby Braiman ’15, chair of the UCS Admissions and Student Services committee.

The University’s laundry contract expired over the summer, so it was renegotiated and completely digitized to coincide with the Bear Bucks upgrades, Braiman said. It was not viable to launch LaundryView under the old machine infrastructure, she added.

But between the new digital controller mechanism for Bear Bucks and the new laundry contract with the commercial laundry service Mac-Gray, which provides Ethernet connections, LaundryView was a natural development, Bova said. There was no extra cost associated with the program.

Braiman said she had hoped for the launch to occur just after Thanksgiving, but the transition went so smoothly that LaundryView went online early.

So far, there have not been any reported glitches in the system, Bova said.

“Students are finding it much more convenient,” Bova said of the move toward a more digitized system.

Yongha Kim ’15 said he did laundry just after he found out about the website. As a top floor resident of Vartan Gregorian Quad B, it can be a hassle to take laundry downstairs only to find all the machines occupied, he said.

He described it as a “necessity” because Brown does not have many laundry machines to begin with. Additionally, many residential halls are not equipped with elevators, Kim said, increasing the inconvenience of walking down a flight of stairs to do laundry without being certain of machine availability.

“I think they should have had it before,” he said.

Kim said he appreciated that the program shows exactly how much time remains on a load, unlike similar programs he had heard of at other schools.

Simone Kurial ’15 said she first heard about LaundryView “via an ecstatic Facebook message.” She was particularly impressed by the 3-D rendering — “I almost felt like I was in the room,” she said.
“This weekend, I have big plans for the laundry room,” Kurial said.

Article Courtesy of BrownHerald.com

Jailed and Jailers Pitched In Help After Storm

There are plenty of unsung heroes in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, but the story of how those at New York’s least desirable address lent their muscle and might is perhaps among the most compelling.

Inmates at Riker's Island load clothes and linens into a giant industrial washing and drying machine.

On the night that the storm roared into the city, Dora B. Schriro, the correction commissioner, slept on a couch in her office at the Rikers Island jail, bracing for flooding and reassuring inmates and employees that the island would weather the storm.

The next morning, the vast jailhouse complex was mostly unscathed, but Ms. Schriro was stunned by the devastation the storm had wrought elsewhere.

So she decided to put her jail, and those who call it home, to work. Inmates did 6,600 pounds of laundry for people in emergency shelters. The jail supplied generators and gas to fuel them to neighborhoods in the dark, and donated long underwear usually given to inmates. And officers with medical training provided emergency care to victims.

“There was a lot of loss,” said Ms. Schriro, who personally pitched in at food lines on the Rockaway Peninsula, in Queens. “It was our responsibility and opportunity to jump in and help.”
Ms. Schriro, a Staten Island native who lives on City Island in the Bronx, and her deputies started strategizing how they would tap Rikers’s enormous resources even as the storm was still raging. Ms. Schriro had already reminded the Bloomberg administration of all that Rikers had to offer should the storm prove to be as catastrophic as predicted.

But Ms. Schriro felt a greater sense of urgency after seeing firsthand what the storm had done to the Rockaways, a place that is home to some of the jail’s inmates as well as to some of the guards who watch over them. She mobilized a group of correction officers to deliver truckloads of canned and dried goods from the island’s food supply and to use emergency relief supplies from the jail’s warehouses, including bottled water and blankets. The agency also delivered clothing to relief centers in the city, including jackets kept for inmates.

Officers took generators and backup lights from various jails to Breezy Point, Queens, and other locations. Correction Department buses and vans transported evacuees on Staten Island and shuttled recovery workers in Brooklyn.

Capt. Richard Polak, who helps oversee the laundry at Rikers, accompanied other correction officers to pick up sheets, blankets, towels and clothes from a dozen shelters in storm-struck parts of the city. The items were returned laundered within hours. It was the first time Rikers’s laundry was used to help in a citywide emergency, the correction agency said.

The laundry, on the north side of Rikers, serves the island and most of the city’s other jails. It already handles enormous loads and, in what turned out to be a stroke of good timing, a huge new washing machine was installed there in July. The machine, a long tube that looks like a rocket lying on its side, can do 2,000 pounds of wash every 90 minutes. The jail’s inmates were able to add extra loads from the shelters during their shifts, for which they are paid 39 cents per hour.
“With this thing, we can tackle anything,” Darrell Jennings, the superintendent of laundries at Rikers, said recently as he watched inmates load sheets and pillowcases into the machine, as well as thin wool blankets and inmate jumpsuits.

Of the city’s institutions, Rikers — which houses 11,000 inmates and has 8,500 employees — was uniquely equipped to play its unheralded role in the recovery effort. It is more than a jail complex. It is a minicity that is often referred to as New York’s sixth borough. Spread out over 400 acres, the jail has its own schools, infirmary, power plant, auto shop (with carwash), chapels, commissary stores, barbershops, bakery, tailor, print shop, and athletic fields and gyms.
The jail continues to contribute in ways small and large. On Wednesday, a shipment of food and clothing was made to a women’s shelter in the Bronx where more than 100 storm evacuees are living. And on Thursday, an association of black correction workers is delivering Thanksgiving dinner to a public-housing project in Far Rockaway.

Other correction officers have also played key roles. Some have provided security for relief centers. Others have helped unload incoming supplies at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn for distribution. Some have helped to staff a medical triage center at a church in the Rockaways, while others have protected a senior residence on the peninsula whose lobby was opened as a warming center.
The jail laundry may still be used to do some shelter laundry, but it has largely returned to its normal routine of handling the department’s wash, as well as linens for the Homeless Services Department and uniforms for the Parks and Recreation Department. Jail officials did not make inmates available for interviews about the role they played in helping storm victims, but Ms. Schriro said, “I’m confident they knew what they were doing.”

While she was in the Rockaways, arranging the services that Rikers provided, Ms. Schriro heard the stories of storm victims whose lives had been upended. One of those was Tommy Corbett, a Rikers Island guard who, after the storm, divided his time among trying to fix his badly damaged house, getting his children assigned to schools that were not closed by the storm and helping other neighbors.

“His house and life was eviscerated but he was smiling and cheerful and trying to find a decent pair of boots so he could come back to work,” she said. “He was a symbol of the kind of professionals we have here.”

Article and Image Courtesy of Corey Kilgannon – The New York Times

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New Facebook Settings May Impact Your Business Page

Do you have a Facebook account for your business? If so, you may or may not have noticed that a number of your fans aren’t as interactive as they once were. Don’t worry, it isn’t you – Facebook now limits fan page updates to 10-20% of its fan base.

If you want to ensure that your updates will show up in your fans’ news feed, kindly ask them to mouse over the “Liked” button on your page and select “Show in News Feed.” Also, they can select “Add to Interest Lists.” This will ensure that they will get your updates!

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How to Maintain Your Huebsch Machines

Are you looking for information on how to maintain your Huebsch washers and dryers? If you are, look no further!  We have all the info you’ll need to keep them running like new.

For Frontload Washers:

• Leave the loading door open during extended periods of non-use to allow the wash drum to dry out and avoid a musty smell.
• Check the filter screens in the fill hoses for debris or damage annually. Clean or replace them if necessary.
• Check all hoses on a monthly basis for any visible signs of deterioration such as cracks, blisters or material wear. Replace immediately any hoses showing these signs.

For Dryers:

• Thoroughly clean the dryer every year. Have an authorized service representative perform this maintenance.
• Clean the lint filter before drying each load. The lint filter may be washed if needed. Annually remove lint filter and screw to vacuum the duct under it.
• Inspect the exhaust duct for lint build-up after one year of service. Clean if necessary. Inspect every one to two years as required thereafter.
• Inspect the outside weather hood frequently to make sure dampers move freely, dampers are not pushed in and that nothing has been set against them.

For Tumble Dryers:

• Thoroughly clean the tumbler every year. Have an authorized service representative perform this maintenance.
• Clean any lint from the lint compartment and screen daily to maintain proper airflow and avoid overheating.
• Check cylinder daily for foreign objects to avoid damage to clothing and equipment.
• Remove lint and debris from inside the exhaust duct monthly to maintain proper airflow and avoid overheating.

For Stacked Washer/Dryers:

• Leave the loading door open during extended periods of non-use to allow the wash drum to dry out and avoid a musty smell.
• Check the filter screens in the fill hoses for debris or damage annually. Clean or replace them if necessary.
• Check all hoses on a monthly basis for any visible signs of deterioration such as cracks, blisters or material wear. Replace immediately any hoses showing these signs.
• Thoroughly clean the dryer every year. Have an authorized service representative perform this maintenance.
• Clean the lint filter before drying each load. The lint filter may be washed if needed. Annually remove lint filter and screw to vacuum the duct under it.
• Inspect the exhaust duct for lint build-up after one year of service. Clean if necessary. Inspect every one to two years as required thereafter.
• Inspect the outside weather hood frequently to make sure dampers move freely, dampers are not pushed in and that nothing has been set against them.

Did we miss your machine in this post?  Visit Huebsch’s Customer Support for more maintenance tips.

Hang-drying laundry inside your home may trigger allergies

For people who suffer from asthma, hay fever, and allergies, hang-drying laundry indoors may put your health at risk, according to a new study.

Researchers from the Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit in Glasgow, Scotland, reported last week that drying your laundry indoors causes enough moisture in the air to contribute to the development of mold and dust mites. The small study, which examined 100 homes, found that the air in many homes was too moist, with up to a third of that caused by drying clothes indoors due to cold weather. Hanging laundry around the house to dry can emit two liters of water into the air from just one load, head researcher Rosalie Menon said.
Article Courtesy of NYDailyNews.com

CDC Says, Laundry Detergent Pods an ‘Emerging Public Health Hazard’ Among Kids

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There’s a new warning for parents who use laundry pods about how kids are mistaking them for bright, colorful candy and eating them.

There were 1,008 cases of detergent poisoning among kids during a 30-day period this summer, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday. Of those reported cases, 486 were linked to pods. Poison centers across the country were seeing an average of 10 cases a day, the CDC reported in May.

Ninety-four percent of poisonings from laundry detergent are among kids younger than 6, according to the CDC report, and in these children, those who consumed pods were usually sicker than those who ingested other forms of laundry detergent.

The CDC says that exposure to the detergent pods is “an emerging public health hazard in the United States.”

Parents are learning just how dangerous the bite-sized, single-dose of laundry detergent pods really can be. The concentrated packet of detergent sent 1-year-old Isabella Sutton to the hospital after she ate one.

“I just figured they got into candy, and they were eating candy,” Jessica Sutton, Isabella’s mom, told ABC News earlier this year.

Minutes later, Isabella had severe vomiting and diarrhea before being rushed to the emergency room. Similar reactions have been reported across the country with many children also experiencing drowsiness, nausea and potentially life-threatening symptoms such as difficulty breathing.
“You don’t think about safety-proofing laundry detergent,” Sutton said.

The makers of Tide detergent – Proctor & Gamble – told ABC News in May they planned to unveil new childproof packaging by the summer. The new packaging features a double-latch lid and a larger warning label on the container that some critics say looks like a candy jar.

Proctor & Gamble has distributed the new containers but never recalled the old ones. ABC News visited four stores this week and found the old easy-to-open plastic containers on shelves.
Proctor & Gamble told ABC News that it is adding an over-the-lid resealable sticker that will “gradually be available as of December in stores.”

Consumers who would like to use the resealable sticker earlier can do so by calling 1-877-751-7227, beginning Nov. 1.

Henkel — the maker of Purex Ultra Packs — told ABC News that, since May, is has “updated the packaging with clearer labels to warn parents about the risks and to provide more specific instructions in the event of ingestion.”

Other detergent manufacturers who previously told ABC News in May that they were reviewing the safety packaging did not respond to requests for an update.

Until changes are made, poison control experts say, the onus falls on the parents to keep the detergent packets locked up and out of the reach of children.

Article Courtesy of ABC News

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