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		<title>Is this a turning point for IICRC?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theRugChick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never thought I&#8217;d see the day in my career of IICRC actually seriously getting on a path of cleaning itself up of the conflicts of interest, the petty politics, and the incompetency which have plagued them like a bad cold over these past two decades. A few of the sources of the bigger conflicts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realdirtoncri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14564323&amp;post=327&amp;subd=realdirtoncri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tribute To An Industry Reformer.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theRugChick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best men and women in any industry&#8230; the ones who really get the great things done&#8230; are usually the ones who never ask for the attention or the awards. And they certainly don&#8217;t expect either. They are involved because they want to do what&#8217;s right. They volunteer for the cause, to get the work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realdirtoncri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14564323&amp;post=317&amp;subd=realdirtoncri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>25 bucks buys you &#8220;approval&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://realdirtoncri.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/25-bucks-buys-you-approval/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theRugChick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CRI had a lackluster announcement on adding their 1,000 &#8220;approved&#8221; Service Provider: CRI 1,000th SOA Service Provider So&#8230; what does it really take to be &#8220;approved&#8221;? Well, considering that their &#8220;equipment tests&#8221; used fake soil with no relevancy to actual cleaning performance or protocol, I did not expect a very comprehensive approval process for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realdirtoncri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14564323&amp;post=313&amp;subd=realdirtoncri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Truth About Rug Cleaning.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theRugChick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not many people talk about the fact that &#8220;carpet cleaning&#8221; and &#8220;rug cleaning&#8221; are not the same craft. There&#8217;s the sense of &#8220;hey it&#8217;s all fuzzy, ain&#8217;t it?&#8221; &#8211; and that fuzzy is cleaned the same way. But in fact, they are completely different cleaning specialties, and require different methods, solutions, and techniques. And when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realdirtoncri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14564323&amp;post=308&amp;subd=realdirtoncri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lawsuit impact on our industry.</title>
		<link>http://realdirtoncri.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/lawsuit-impact-on-our-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theRugChick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an ominous trend of lawsuit filings by a company I&#8217;ve never heard of before (Thermapure) regarding using high heat in restoration, mold, and bed bug removal services concerning patent infringement. These lawsuits have been filed against small and large restoration companies, as well as restoration manufacturers. Having a business in California, I can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realdirtoncri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14564323&amp;post=305&amp;subd=realdirtoncri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Rug Disasters presentation by Lisa</title>
		<link>http://realdirtoncri.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/rug-disasters-presentation-by-lisa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theRugChick</dc:creator>
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		<title>Carpet Bureaucrats vs. Carpet Cleaners</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theRugChick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many of you would let DC bureaucrats run your business? Anyone? (**crickets**) Fact is, most bureaucrats when they need more money only know how to TAKE it through fees and regulations, instead of CREATE it like small business owners do &#8211; through delivering value first to customers, and EARNING more revenue. And our industry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realdirtoncri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14564323&amp;post=292&amp;subd=realdirtoncri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An eye for an eye.</title>
		<link>http://realdirtoncri.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/an-eye-for-an-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theRugChick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent post on the Bane-Clene blog hits on a trend that is becoming a reality within the cleaning industry, that of cleaning companies showing their displeasure with the CRI&#8217;s baseless SOA recommendations by referring their customers to carpet retailers who are not actively following CRI&#8217;s horribly flawed and completely irrelevant testing results. The CRI [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realdirtoncri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14564323&amp;post=288&amp;subd=realdirtoncri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solving a problem that isn&#8217;t there.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theRugChick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CRI came onto the scene with their Seal of Approval program as a way to &#8220;solve&#8221; a problem with cleaning their product that simply did not exist. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the latest issue of the Bane-Clene Newsletter (I&#8217;ve uploaded page one of the issue, with permission, but here is the excerpt. My emphasis added.) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realdirtoncri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14564323&amp;post=285&amp;subd=realdirtoncri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scumbags in our industry.</title>
		<link>http://realdirtoncri.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/scumbags-in-our-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theRugChick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this video today via the Baneclene blog&#8230; &#8230;and it infuriated me. Bill is spot on in his post in regards to the biggest harm done to consumers by some cleaners is NOT their equipment and solution choices (and whether or not they are SOA-approved) &#8211; but rather those scumbags like Joe Esposito in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realdirtoncri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14564323&amp;post=282&amp;subd=realdirtoncri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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