How To Hand Wash Clothes So That Your Favourite Pieces Last Learning how to hand wash your clothes is the best way to avoid exposing your most delicate (and expensive!) lingerie, bathing suits, and sweaters to damage. 01/11/2025 - 6:01 pm | View Link
Bay Area fundraisers : Concert, car wash to help L.A. fire victims Bay Area residents are holding fundraisers to help the Southern California fire victims this weekend. There will be a car wash in Oakland on Saturday, Jan. 11 and a concert in San Francisco on Sunday, ... 01/11/2025 - 6:43 am | View Link
UK households urged to boil wash clothes and bedding in January UK households are being urged to boil wash clothing and bedding in January to stave off a contagious sickness bug. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned that cases of norovirus are high ... 01/10/2025 - 12:34 am | View Link
Watch Rhode Island Rams vs. George Wash. Revolutionaries: How to live stream, TV channel, start time for Wednesday's NCAA Basketball game George Wash. and Rhode Island are an even 5-5 against one another since January of 2016, but not for long. Both will face off in an Atlantic 10 battle at 7:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday at Thomas M. Ryan ... 01/7/2025 - 8:09 pm | View Link
Experts Say You Don't Actually Need To Wash This Part Of Your Body In The Shower — Do You Agree? Countless people claimed that because the soap from lathering the upper parts of our bodies trickles down our legs as we bathe, there is no reason to specifically wash our legs. Others argued that ... 01/5/2025 - 10:02 am | View Link
Guidance on WASH and health Safe WASH are not only a prerequisite to health, but contribute to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and help to create resilient communities living in healthy environments. Inadequate or unsafe WASH may cause disease through a range of interrelated transmission pathways, which include among others: 01/10/2025 - 6:04 pm | View Website
Global progress report on WASH in health care facilities: Fundamentals ... Develop capacities of the health workforce to sustain WASH services and promote and practice good hygiene. Integrate WASH into regular health sector planning, budgeting and programming to deliver quality services, including COVID-19 response and recovery efforts. Access here the latest and updated version of this publication. 01/10/2025 - 5:28 pm | View Website
Water Sanitation and Health Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene are crucial to human health and well-being. Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments. 01/10/2025 - 10:40 am | View Website
WASH in health care facilities Fully functioning WASH services are a crucial aspect of preventing infections, reducing AMR, ending preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and responding to outbreaks and emergencies. The United Nations Secretary-General’s global call to action on WASH in health care facilities (2018) brought new awareness of the issue among Member States ... 01/10/2025 - 10:40 am | View Website
New report highlights need for sustained investment in infection ... A large proportion of healthcare associated infections can be prevented with improved IPC practices and basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. This report provides a baseline assessment for policymakers, IPC professionals, health care workers and stakeholders to guide action. 01/9/2025 - 9:40 pm | View Website
Gov. Gavin Newsom posted on social media that California is preventing insurance companies from being able to cancel or not renew the policies of Southern California wildfire victims on Friday. Via GVWire:
On Thursday, the California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has issued a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance cancellations and non-renewals for Southern California homeowners affected by wildfires.
The measure, stemming from Gov.
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Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, and the rocket company is poised for its most defining moment to date: sending a vehicle to orbit for the first time. Via CNN:
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is set to make its inaugural launch attempt as soon as 1 a.m.
The wildfires sweeping through LA are a heartbreaking reminder of our times. I spoke with one of my best friends Adam Roth, who lives in Pasadena, about what it’s been like on the ground. He and his family had to abandon their home, not knowing what they’d return to. Thankfully, as of now, his house is ok.
On this day in 1962 Chubby Checker's song "The Twist" (which is credited with starting the dance craze of the same name) went to #1 in the charts two years after first reaching number one spot.
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driftglass: Orly Taitz Died For Your Sins: Part Two -- Locking Shields.
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Here we go again. CNN's Jake Tapper allows another Republican senator to dance around his questions and lie to his face. This time it was Alabama Sen. Katie Britt. We all remember Britt from her infamous SOTU response which was trolled perfectly by Scarlett Johansson on Saturday Night Live.
Britt was a guest on this Sunday's State of the Union, and was asked by Tapper about her support for corrupt Trump nominee to be Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Britt responded by ignoring Bondi's election denialism, pretending there's any reason to believe she won't politicize the department, and continuing to spreading the lie that the DOJ was politicized under Biden.
TAPPER: You're on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi will testify before your committee later this week.
Last Monday, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a rare “particularly dangerous situation” (PDS) red flag warning to Los Angeles and Ventura counties about incoming strong winds. “This is about as bad as it gets in terms of fire weather,” the warning for Tuesday through Thursday said.
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Over the next three days, fires whipped by gusts of up to 100 m.p.h.