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Barry Newhart: Hi there, Barry Newhart with Dan Dillon, ShopCleaningSupplies.com. We’re here to talk about a product called Triple Action. It’s a carpet spot reducer, spot eliminator. We’ll see if we can ask Dan some questions and maybe he can fill us in on exactly what Triple Action can do for you. So Dan, tell me something what is Triple Action?
Dan Dillon: Triple Action is a multi-enzyme spotter and odor eliminator. It is a well versed product that will go after protein based stains.
Barry Newhart: And this is for carpets? Do you do complete carpet cleaning with this or is it for spot removal?
Dan Dillon: It’s typically known as a spotter. Coffee spots, pet urine, vomit, feces, milk, red wine, it’s like magic cure for red wine.
Barry Newhart: If you can get that out of carpets it has to be good.
Dan Dillon: Triple Action is awesome. It’s a very important role in any professional carpet cleaner’s job. Even for home, I keep triple Action at home. I mean I have two kids and a dog and they’re always making messes and spilling stuff so I have triple action all the time.
Barry Newhart: So what is it that makes triple Action so good?
Dan Dillon: Triple Action is an enzyme that is continually regenerating itself with the bacteria strains that are in the chemical composition. When it’s released to feed on more bacteria the enzyme strains actually go after that bacteria and begin to digest it. So the soil acts as food for the enzymes that are in the product. So when you have the vomit or the urine or the feces or the red wine or anything like that when you unleash the enzymes they go right to work and start chomping on the protein or the bacteria that’s available for them to feed on.
Barry Newhart: Well that sounds great. Is there anything else triple action can do?
Dan Dillon: Triple Action is awesome for a bunch of different stuff. People will use it as a laundry pre spray, and a lot of food service people will use it for their linens. After special events they’ll pre spray them before they go to the laundry.
Barry Newhart: Oh, so this will work as a pre spray for laundry?
Dan Dillon: Absolutely, if you have kids you can pre spray the grass stains on their knees or the food that they spill on themselves. It’s also used for upholstery cleaning and car cleaning. Auto detail companies love the product. Because the enzymes go after the decomposing bacteria or the bad bacteria it’s also an odor eliminator. People that have odor problems in hotel rooms, cars or people that have smoke in their cars or bars and restaurants are always using Triple Action.
Barry Newhart: Very good. Well you answered most of my questions.
Dan Dillon: I’ll give you another benefit of Triple Action before you let me go. Triple Action also has another product in it called DuPont Zynal. DuPont Zynal is a carpet protector that is left behind and will make the carpet easier to clean the next time around. So it’s almost like putting on Scotch guard - for the most laymen person that understands what Scotch guard is. It’s like putting on Scotch guard, only better, to act as professional grade protection for the carpet fibers as a dye site blocker, so that the carpet can be cleaned easily the next time around. So in addition to cleaning, in addition carpet spotting, laundry pre-spraying, deodorizing, it also leaves behind a carpet protector so the carpet fibers can’t get soiled; if the carpet does get soiled, it will be cleaned easily next time around. Triple Action is offered in two different scents. It’s available in clean and fresh, the greenish bluish label, and also in cherry-almond scent, whichever you prefer. And of course, we offer the product in quart sized bottles and a gallon size bottles for the guys that consume quite a bit more. And that’s Triple Action for you.
Barry Newhart: So Triple Action should be able to take care of my rug spotting needs?
Dan Dillon: Absolutely, got to have Triple Action in your arsenal of cleaning products.
Barry Newhart: Alright, well I appreciate you answering my questions. If you have any more questions and would like to talk to Dan don’t hesitate to pick up the phone to call. He’ll be happy to talk to you, or any one of his trained staff would be happy to answer any of the questions that you might have. Give us a call and happy cleaning!
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Causes of Leg Cellulitis
MRSA infection is caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria — often called "staph." MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It's a strain of staph that's resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it. MRSA can be fatal.
ANYway, she had a boil with the diagnosis of cellulitis. The Doctor had to numb her then slice open the infection to drain out..Needless to say, it was painful for her. We decided to go to the ER when she said after supper that her whole leg was going numb and hurt really bad. My RN cousin in Mississippi said to take her too. Glad we did! She is doing better, went on to school and such. Just have to watch for more redness or swelling or draining.
On the other side now, James' Mom got her cast off two weeks ago Wednesday now. She walked with a walker and a cane for awhile but is doing good. After our Labor Day cookout, My sister-in-law went home. Joy took her back to the doctor last Thursday, got her home and she passed out again but was sitting. She is still doing this. All the tests she had in the hospital came back okay, we do not know what is causing this. James told her that they decided she should not drive at all now. What if she couldn't pull over in time,etc?. Not good.She agreed to that. There are enough of us around to drive her wherever she needs to go. My work schedule is pretty well set, so Thursday mornings I can carry her anywhere. I have to be at work by 12:30 on Thursdays.On her next appointment she will discuss with her doctor some options to see what is going on. It worries us. That's why she had the cast on. She passed out and fell while shopping with my niece, fractured her foot and chipped the bone in her other foot. That's why Joy had been staying with her since July 12th.
Think twice before catching that cold, white snowflake drifting by, on your tongue...
You've heard of acid rain, now there's ...
Study shows bacteria are common in snow
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON - Those beautiful snowflakes drifting out of the sky may have a surprise inside — bacteria. Most snow and rain forms in chilly conditions high in the sky and atmospheric scientists have long known that, under most conditions, the moisture needs something to cling to in order to condense.
Now, a new study shows a surprisingly large share of those so-called nucleators turn out to be bacteria that can affect plants. "Bacteria are by far the most active ice nuclei in nature," said Brent C. Christner, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Louisiana State University. Christner and colleagues sampled snow from Antarctica, France, Montana and the Yukon and they report their findings in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
In some samples as much as 85 percent of the nuclei were bacteria, Christner said in a telephone interview. The bacteria were most common in France, followed by Montana and the Yukon, and was even present to a lesser degree in Antarctica.
The most common bacteria found was Pseudomonas syringae, which can cause disease in several types of plants including tomatoes and beans. The study found it in 20 samples of snow from around the world and subsequent research has also found it in summer rainfall in Louisiana. The focus on Pseudomonas in the past has been to try and eliminate it, Christner said, but now that it turns out to be a major factor in encouraging snow and rain, he wonders if that is a good idea.
Would elimination of this bacteria result in less rain or snow, or would it be replaced by other nuclei such as soot and dust? "The question is, are they a good guy or a bad guy," he said, "and I don't have the answer to that." What is clear is that Pseudomonas is effective at getting moisture in a cloud to condense, he pointed out. Killed bacteria are even used as an additive in snow making at ski resorts.
Which raises the question, Christner said, of whether planting crops known to be infected by Pseudomonas in areas experiencing drought might help increase precipitation there by adding more nuclei to the atmosphere. It has been known that microbes and insects and algae blow around in the atmosphere, Christner added, "but the atmosphere has not been recognized as a place where things are active. That has been changing in the last decade.
In a cloud you've got water, organic carbon," everything necessary to support a microorganism. Virginia K. Walker, a biologist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, said other researchers have found bacteria serving as snow nuclei, but had not identified it as Pseudomonas. "It's one of those great bacteria ... you can find them anywhere," said Walker, who was not part of the research team. "They are really interesting."
Charles Knight, a cloud physics expert at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., wasn't surprised by the finding, however. At relatively warm temperatures of just a few degrees below freezing, bacteria are "remarkably effective" at attracting ice formation, said Knight, who also was not part of the research group.
The study was supported by a Louisiana State University research grant. In a second paper published online by Science, researchers report that the amount of dust blown into the tropical Pacific over the last half-million years has varied widely between warm and cold periods. Dust also has important impacts on weather and climate ranging from serving as nuclei for rain to blocking some incoming radiation from the sun, and it also delivers minerals like iron that increase growth of plankton in ocean areas.
Cores of seafloor sediment were taken from locations across the tropical Pacific covering a period of 500,000 years. Researchers led by Gisela Winckler of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University found that dust deposited in the ocean peaked during cold periods and was less during warm periods. Using isotopes, the scientists traced the dust on the western side to Asia and that on the eastern side to South America.
They say the reasons for the change are complex but in general it tends to be windier in cold periods meaning more dust gets blown around. They found that cold peaks occurred about every 100,000 years, with the last one at 20,000 years ago. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Finally!! An explanation that doesn't include PMS'ing. Ladies!! You're gonna love this one! Men, you might be interested to know about this also.
Scientists explain chocolate cravings
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Fri Oct 12, 4:34 AM ET
WASHINGTON - If that craving for chocolate sometimes feels like it is coming from deep in your gut, that's because maybe it is.
A small study links the type of bacteria living in people's digestive system to a desire for chocolate. Everyone has a vast community of microbes in their guts. But people who crave daily chocolate show signs of having different colonies of bacteria than people who are immune to chocolate's allure.
That may be the case for other foods, too. The idea could eventually lead to treating some types of obesity by changing the composition of the trillions of bacteria occupying the intestines and stomach, said Sunil Kochhar, co-author of the study. It appears Friday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Proteome Research.
Kochhar is in charge of metabolism research at the Nestle Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. The food conglomerate Nestle SA paid for the study. But this isn't part of an effort to convert a few to the dark side (or even milk) side of cocoa, Kocchar said.
In fact, the study was delayed because it took a year for the researchers to find 11 men who don't eat chocolate.
Kochhar compared the blood and urine of those 11 men, who he jokingly called "weird" for their indifference to chocolate, to 11 similar men who ate chocolate daily. They were all healthy, not obese, and were fed the same food for five days.
The researchers examined the byproducts of metabolism in their blood and urine and found that a dozen substances were significantly different between the two groups. For example, the amino acid glycine was higher in chocolate lovers, while taurine (an active ingredient in energy drinks) was higher in people who didn't eat chocolate. Also chocolate lovers had lower levels of the bad cholesterol, LDL.
The levels of several of the specific substances that were different in the two groups are known to be linked to different types of bacteria, Kochhar said.
Still to be determined is if the bacteria cause the craving, or if early in life people's diets changed the bacteria, which then reinforced food choices.
How gut bacteria affect people is a hot field of scientific research.
Past studies have shown that intestinal bacteria change when people lose weight, said Dr. Sam Klein, an obesity expert and professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.
Since bacteria interact with what you eat, it is logical to think that there is a connection between those microbes and desires for certain foods, said Klein, who wasn't part of Kochhar's study.
Kochhar's research makes so much sense that people should have thought of it earlier, said J. Bruce German, professor of food chemistry at the University of California Davis. While five outside scientists thought the study was intriguing, Dr. Richard Bergman at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, had concerns about the accuracy of the initial division of the men into groups that wanted chocolate or were indifferent to it.
What matters to Kochhar is where the research could lead.
Kochhar said the relationship between food, people and what grows in their gut is important for the future: "If we understand the relationship, then we can find ways to nudge it in the right direction."
Doesn't matter, actually. Whether you have a cold or a fever, you should eat normally (unless "normally" constitutes the grease-soaked buffet). The important thing for both is to stay hydrated -- especially if you have a fever. Lots of fluids will help flush your whole body of infection. And rest, rest, rest -- it helps T and B cells (natural bug ousters) prepare for the fight. Now, about the viruses-vs.-bacteria debate . . .
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The most common virus is the cold, which is actually caused by several different families of viruses. The vast majority of viral cold infections do run their course and exit your body via the portholes most associated with blowing, sneezing, and coughing. Antibiotics -- when taken for viral infections like a cold -- can actually have a negative effect by killing only the susceptible bacteria and allowing more dangerous resistant strains to gain a stronger foothold.
Which is why you should stop pestering your doctor for antibiotics if you're told that your condition is a virus.
Originally published on 01/27/2007.
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