Long Island, New York (PRWEB) February 26, 2014

JM Pressure Washing, a Manorville-based provider of pressure washing and exterior cleaning needs to the Long Island community, is expecting that the harsh winter that the Northeast is currently experiencing will have residual effects on the exterior or properties if they are not cleaned properly.

With three severe storms hitting the Long Island area since the beginning of 2014, the homes and businesses that make up the Nassau and Suffolk Communities have been battered with snow, sleet and wind all combining to cause sub-zero temperatures. Combine precipitation and sub-zero temperatures and ice is the by-product, covering roads and other passageways with ice. Once all the shoveling is done the ice is treated with liberal applications of rock salt and other ice melting chemicals. While these ice melting solutions do eliminate the ice the residue they leave behind can cause damage to cement and other paving surfaces. Foot traffic through these areas and onto wooden porches and decks around residences help to spread these highly corrosive materials where, over time, they will break down the surfaces they are on causing costly damage.

For commercial properties that are close to roadways or have parking lots and loading docks where trucks and cars pass through in high volume, the slush and snow on the ground that rock salt or sand has been spread on can become airborne. While the splashed snow and slush will met, the sand and rock salt will remain on the surfaces of the buildings with the same corrosive effects that they have on pavements and passageways. Left unchecked and un-cleaned, the corrosive nature of rock salt and other ice melting chemicals can break down the integrity of pavements and parking lots causing unsafe conditions for foot traffic. These unsafe conditions could lead to costly personal injury lawsuits that could have been avoided with proper cleaning of the surfaces that are impacted.

For these reasons, the team at JM Pressure Washing is advising that residential and commercial property owners should prepare to have thorough power washing done of the entire exterior surface around their properties once the spring comes. Professional power washing, using the latest in technology and cleaning solutions, can help to remove the dangerous residues left behind from dealing with winter weather issues. Additionally, a professional power washing company like JM Pressure Washing has the experience and knowledge to understand how invasive these corrosive ice treatments can be and the necessity of cleaning every intricate crack and crevice to ensure that they are completely removed.

JM Pressure Washing was founded over 10 years ago as a subsidiary of our well established company, Color Brite Painting. By working in the home construction industry for more than 35 years, we saw the need to create a separate company to tailor to the specific pressure washing needs of commercial and residential properties throughout Long Island. Starting with basic pressure washing of home/business exteriors and deck re-finishing , we have expanded our services to include full service deck restoration, roof and gutter cleaning, concrete cleaning, window cleaning, complete house washing as well as our commercial services including fleet washing, facility cleaning and graffiti removal. Located in Manorville, New York, we are a locally-owned small business serving the entire Long Island Community.

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At Mobile World Congress, a preview of a central way to manage washing machines, parking meters, and glucose sensors.

According to booth-manning reps at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, IBM is announcing an Internet of Things Cloud with free enrollment of the first 10 connected gadgetswhether washing machines or parking meters. Its the kind of teaser more closely associated with, say, file storage on Dropbox. While this IoT Cloud will be for businesses, it will provide tools for those businesses to write apps for ordinary folks, such as for health-monitoring and home-management systems.

Such offerings stand a strong chance of massively accelerating the arrival of the ubiquitous computing era, with examples on display throughout the cavernous conference halls in Barcelona.

The Connected City section gives a visceral sense of what this era will be like, and the deep involvement of major carriers and IT companies in making it happen. City is just part of the story, with systems to tie together emergency reports, infrastructure sensors, and even parking meters. Major automakers from Volvo to GM are showing off connected cars, with the latest systems for avoiding crashes, helping drivers, and delivering information from home and office with platforms such as AT&T Drive. And so on, through a litany of home, health, and educational applications. Korea Telecoms display bristles with the wireless systems enabling it all. Elsewhere a man rode a stationary bike with a wireless glucose sensor taped to his arm and a wireless heart monitor taped to his chest, his vital statistics displayed on a nearby screen. He was doing this in behalf of the telecom Orange, which makes the back-end system.

Such visions have been around for many years. But the displays and talks in Barcelona, and interviews with major technology executives (see Nokia CTO on How the Company Will Reinvent Itself), shows just how fast all this is coming. Sensors and processing power are now extremely cheap, and the wireless infrastructure is increasingly in place. But there are some major barriers from here: making sure these systems stay secure, are easy to adopt, and truly add value. But just as free e-mail services made e-mail ubiquitous and services like Dropbox made cloud storage easy, IBMs Internet of Things Cloud and other such services stand a strong chance of doing the same. Just a few clicks, and youve registered your devices, and started getting analytics and management dashboards and tools for everyday users. As one rep told me, there will be no hurdles for quick startup.

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Its been a busy few months for utility providers in central Indiana. With the recent snowstorms, residents bills have gone up but utility workers have been working hard to help residents save energy and restore any lost power.

Indianapolis Power & Light Company, Duke Energy, Hendricks Power, and Citizens Energy Group have been busy with all of the snow and ice.

January has been a busy month in terms of experiencing extreme temperatures and high winds that left 65,000 of our customers in one of the biggest outages weve had in a long time, Brandi Davis-Handy, director of external communications said. We have had all hands on deck, fully staffed. Weve had linemen working around the clock, doing 16-hour shifts to restore this.

On the big storm from Jan. 5 through 9, IPL had 516 people working around the clock to get customers power restored. Out of those, 330 were employees coming from outside of IPL, such as utility providers from Illinois and Tennessee.

IPL services all of Indianapolis, Carmel and some of Hendricks County.

Duke Energy of Indiana set an all-time mark for winter power use across communities.

The month of January has delivered record cold temperatures across communities served by Duke Energy, Doug Esamann, president of Duke Energy Indiana, said. When temperatures dip especially to historic lows bills are higher. Its important for customers to remember simple steps they can take to save money on their power bills and heat their homes and businesses efficiently.

The company continues to suggest ways to save energy and money on power bills during colder weather.

The thermostat is a real culprit of higher winter bills. To help save energy and money, select the lowest comfortable setting when home, and bump the thermostat down a degree or two when leaving.

During sunny days, leave drapes or blinds open to allow the suns rays to warm the house.

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In February, America celebrates Black History Month. As such, each Monday this month Playboy SFW will re-publish seminal interviews with 1960s civil rights leaders. This week, we feature our November 1969 conversation with Jesse Jackson, who at the time appeared to be the heir apparent to the slain Martin Luther King, Jr. Enjoy the story in its entirety, and to read every article the magazine has ever publishedfrom 1953 until todayvisit the complete archive at iplayboy.com.

In the 19 months since the murder of Martin Luther King, only one man has emerged as a likely heir to the slain leader's pre-eminent position in the civil rights movement: Jesse Louis Jackson, the 27-year-old economic director of King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Reverend Jackson's first national exposure, in fact, came as a result of his closeness to Dr. King. He was talking to King on the porch of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis when the fatal shot was fired and cradled the dying man in his arms. The very next day, at a Chicago City Council meeting, Mayor Richard Daley read a eulogy that pledged a "commitment to the goals for which Dr. King stood." The Reverend Jackson had flown in from Memphis without sleep to attend the ceremony; he stood up in a sweater stained with Dr. King's blood and shouted to the assembled Chicago political establishment, "His blood is on the hands of you who would not have welcomed him here yesterday."

That gesture demonstrated both the militant indignation and the dramatic flair that mark Jackson's charismatic style. The New York Times has written that he "sounds a little like the late Reverend Martin Luther King and a little like a Black Panther." It added that "almost everyone who has seen Mr. Jackson in operation acknowledges that he is probably the most persuasive black leader on the national scene."

Jackson's personality is possibly even more in tune with the present black mood than Dr. King's was, because, as Richard Levine pointed out in Harper's, "Dr. King was middle-class Atlanta, but Jesse Jackson was born in poverty in Greenville, South Carolina." Jackson calls himself a "Country preacher," but he combines his down-home style with a sharp intellect. He attended the University of Illinois for one year but dropped out in 1960 to attend the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina in Greensboro, where the first black sit-in had taken place earlier that year. He was an honor student, quarterbacked the football team and organized civil rights demonstrations. After graduation, Jackson went North to study at the Chicago Theological Seminary, where he devoted most of his extracurricular time to local civil rights work.

It was Dr. King himself who originally spotted Jackson's leadership potential during a massive civil rights drive in Chicago in the summer of 1966 and appointed him to head all of SCLC's economic projects in the North. In the three years since that appointment, Jackson has concentrated most of his efforts on the Chicago-based project called Operation Breadbasket and made that pilot program the most impressive demonstration of black economic and political power in the United States. Breadbasket's organizational methods are now being applied under Jackson's guidance in 15 cities ranging from Los Angeles to Brooklyn.

The project's primary goals are to create jobs for blacks and to encourage them to own and operate businesses. Boycotting, or the threat of it, is Breadbasket's most potent weapon. The effectiveness of this technique was most evident in a breakthrough victory over the huge Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, which operates 40 stores in Chicago's black ghetto. To avoid the financial loss that a boycott would have caused, the A & P signed a pact guaranteeing jobs for blacks and the distribution of black products on A & P shelves. As Business Week reported in a story about Operation Breadbasket, "Nationally, the organization's efforts have resulted in about 5000 jobs and $40,000,000 in annual salaries to Negroes. But the Chicago campaign [against A & P] represents Breadbasket's most significant victory, for it is the biggest settlement with a chain, in a single city, and set a precedent for other food chain negotiations across the country."

The A & P pact was especially significant becausein addition to a guarantee of over 700 jobs for blacks and marketing more black businessmen's productsthe company also agreed to use black owned janitorial and exterminating companies in its ghetto stores, to bank in black-owned banks, to advertise in black media and to have black construction firms build its ghetto stores. Monthly meetings between representatives of A & P and Breadbasket are designed to assure that the company is not shirking. On the personal level, sensitivity seminars attended by A & P executives attempt to awaken management to the existence and effects of prejudice. Similar agreements have been signed with more than half of all the major food distributors in the ghetto.

The Reverend Jackson created an even more far-reaching program last spring, when he initiated the Illinois Hunger Campaign. Believing that hunger is the one issue that could unite the black and white poor, Jackson led a caravan to all of the poverty areas of Illinois, ending with demonstrations at the state capital in Springfield. The pressure this exerted on the Illinois legislature was so great that a planned cut of $125,000,000 in welfare funds was restored at a time when New York and California were making sizable cuts in their welfare payments. An impassioned appeal by Jackson, from the steps of the capitol building, inspired a bill to provide school lunches for all of the needy children in the state. Jackson also extracted a promise from the state legislature to prevail on Washington for special surplus-food allotments for the poor. The Illinois Hunger Campaign was conceived by Jackson as an extension of the Poor Peoples' Campaign begun by Dr. King, and there are plans for similar efforts in other states next year.

No matter what his other commitments may be, Jackson always attends the Saturday-morning meeting of Operation Breadbasket. The location has been changed three times this year, because the congregation continually outgrows its premises, and Breadbasket presently resides in a 6000-seat movie theater on Chicago's South Side. The lobby of the theater is filled with tables displaying black merchandise, and the auditorium itself is hung with signs that exhort the gathering to BUY BLACK PRODUCTS and USE BLACK SERVICES. The first hour of the meeting is devoted to Gospel music by the Operation Breadbasket orchestra and choir, interspersed with the business for the weekeither boycotts or special "buyins." PLAYBOY's Associate Articles Editor, Arthur Kretchmer, who conducted this interview with Jackson, describes the remainder of a recent meeting.

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Scores of trees were brought down and some of the areas busiest road and rail routes were blocked during the evening rush hour as high winds caused chaos across Shropshire and Mid Wales.

Towns and villages suffered power cuts and roof tiles were blown from buildings as the area took a battering from gales.

A driver was taken to hospital after his lorry was hit by a tree at Atcham. The roof at an outbuilding at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital was blown off, causing disruption to traffic trying to leave the site on Mytton Oak Road.

Damage was also caused to the roof at Oswestry Leisure Centre, which was closed while damage was assessed. In Tilstock, near Whitchurch, a tree fell into a nearby graveyard.

Earlier, The Met Office issued a Red Alert alert for coastal areas, which were being battered by 100mph winds.

At Ternhill, the A41 was closed between the A53 an Bletchley Road after a lorry overturned.

In Church Stretton, a tree came down on Sandford Avenue, just off the main A49, this evening partially blocking the road.

At Whitchurch, a tree came down on Sedgeford near John Talbot School.

At Llanymynech, power cables came down on the main A483 North Road near Station Road by the Cross Keys, and at Stanford Bridge a tree fell on the A41 between Hinstock and Newport. A branch from a tree also fell on car in Oswestry School car park

In Whitchurch, a tree came down on the A49 Tarporley Road, near the Hill Valley Hotel; in Boningale, a tree fell on the A464 between Shifnal and Oaken, and a tree came down on the A464 Shifnal to Wolverhampton road, near Hatton.

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