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Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths and mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, due to the evolution and arrival of the wildly adaptive human species, among other factors. Many more of the world's biggest and baddest creatures - including the black rhino, the dodo, giant tortoises, and the great auk - have vanished since our world became truly global. Last of the Giants chronicles those giant animals and apex predators who have been pushed to extinction in the modern era.
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Speed Cleaning was written by Jeff Campbell, owner of The Clean Team (cleaning service) in San Francisco, California.
The Clean Team started as a three-person housecleaning company in San Francisco in 1979. At what the founder Jeff Campbell calls, "dirt university," where more than 300,000 house cleanings have now been completed. He and his cleaning teams have learned a lot on the subject of speedy, thorough housecleaning. That knowledge "his company's trade secret" was the impetus for his five best selling books.
The Clean Team Catalog is now called SPEED CLEANING (www.SpeedCleaning.com) , and offers a free resource website for answers to cleaning problems and ONLINE shopping e-Commerce site of the cleaning products and tools found to be the best, fastest, greenest, and most personally safe.
The Invention of Speed Cleaning
In 1979, Jeff Campbell came to a crossroads in his life. He felt it was time to leave the sheltered life of a corporate executive and strike out into a business of his own. After researching options, Jeff decided that he wanted to create San Francisco's finest housecleaning service and besides, he couldn't afford a Bed and Breakfast on Maui.
Jeff purchased supplies, hired some good people, and named his new business The Clean Team. However, it didn't take long for The Clean Team to discover that they needed to improve their cleaning skills taking hours and hours to successfully clean a single house was no way to prosper, or even survive, in their new business.
So Jeff and The Clean Team started some serious on-the-job experimenting and training. They set out to discover the absolutely best way to tackle every housecleaning task:
What was the ideal approach to countertops?
What was the best way to tackle a dirty shower?
What was the smartest way to dust?
And, above all, what was the ideal system to tie together all these cleaning tasks so a person could move through a house quickly and efficiently without sacrificing high quality results?
A Painstaking Process
The Clean Team researched a myriad of cleaning products and tools; they ventured beyond the aisles of the grocery store into the vast scientific world of professional cleaning products. Unlike the corporate giants, The Clean Team didn't have big test labs and scientists in white coats. Instead, they worked in the trenches, dealing not with the theory of cleaning but with the actual practice. Each day the Team saw the consequences of every product they tried and everything that they did.
The Clean Team experimented with different cleaning techniques and timed each method; they tested different cleaning sequences and products; they analyzed and experimented with each cleaning task; they kept notes and held regular meetings to review their findings.
Speed Cleaning is Born
