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Pro Activ • Renewing Cleanser • Skincare - Face
(82 reviews)
Average Rating. | 3.7 |
Would buy this product again. | 62% |
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akazian on 8/3/2014 2:40:00 PM more reviews by akazian
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Olive Hair: Brunette Eyes: Hazel
My HG cleanser. I have used this product for almost 15 years and constantly get compliments on how beautiful my skin is.
I only use the cleanser and have ZERO acne on my highly acne prone skin. If I ever stop using it, or try using something else, my skin starts breaking out or getting those little clogged pores that you can see in the sunlight.
I pray they never stop making this, as the new proactiv plus doesn't work for me
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123jasmine4 on 4/6/2014 4:57:00 PM more reviews by 123jasmine4
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium Hair: Brunette Eyes: Brown
I'm really acne prone and I have dry/combo/normal skin, my skin type changes a lot honestly haha but it's mostly normal now.
This cleanser, has saved my freaking life. It literally keeps my face break out free 24/7, unless it's that lovely time of the month where i sometimes get one pimple but is always gone a few days after.
It clears and prevents breakouts, doesn't dry me out/add extra oil. This cleanser is my babaaaaayyyy. <3
If you can ever buy this cleanser seperate from the lotion and toner, do it! even if you don't want it send it to me hahaha.
Oh and if anyone knows where I can buy this separately instore or online, please say except for amazon & ebay. :-)
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LizzyBerry on 4/3/2014 5:20:00 PM more reviews by LizzyBerry
Age: 19-24 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Blue
Proactive served me well throughout high school, I really only used this cleanser and cover girl foundation and that's all that was on my face for years. I'm 24 now though and I'd say around 19 or so I started having large, painful cystic acne on my chin and sides of my chin every month. I know it's hormonal and adult acne which sucks. I am on ortho tri cyclen birth control too which has helped some but not cleared up everything. Proactiv was good throughout high school because I guess all my pimples were surface level? So the BP in the product could work on those but BP never gets deep down into the skin like AHA acid cleansers will. BP also dries your skin out like crazy, so as you get older and your face decreases oil production you just find yourself super dried out. This is what started happening to me.
Right now I'm on Dermadoctor's Ain't Misbehaving line (their AHA cleanser and acne serum) and so far I really like it. It's suppose to be great for adult and hormonal acne and doesn't dry my skin out at all! Also I find proactiv to be kind of expensive for the quality. The large renewing cleanser is like $30 and my Ain't Misbehaving cleanser is $27 and you get more product. I buy at Sephora too so whatever doesn't work for my face gets returned and I get my money back. I'd definitely suggest Dermadoctor if anyone has had similar experience with their skin.
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DrizzyRissy on 12/22/2013 10:26:00 PM more reviews by DrizzyRissy
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium Hair: Brunette Eyes: Brown
I have never had "acne" before just a pimple once in a while but they were BAD. I would get an inflamed pimple that would last forever. I tried prescriptions and OTC acne washes but they didn't help and my pimples were just as bad. I had seen so many proactiv commercials but I never ordered it bc I didn't want to sign up for anything.
I finally noticed that they sold it at kiosks in the mall and I picked up my first kit and from what I can remember, I had no drying or peeling (my skin is normal to oily) and my pimples went away after a few weeks. I did not like the toner or repairing lotion and just used the cleanser. For over 2 years I have never gotten another pimple of any type and if I did it was bc I ran out for a few days or forgot it somewhere. It gave me my skin back and I was so confident!!
Recently I had a rash from a sketchy face wash pad I used when I left my proactiv at school and treating it like a breakout, I over used the cleanser and ended up making my skin extremely dry to the point where my forehead looked like plastic! I ended up having contact dermatitis and not breakouts so using so much proactiv cleanser and globs of repairing lotion (which I rarely use) made my face a nightmare. I ended up getting breakouts from the irritation but I didn't give up on proactiv just eased off of it.
I currently only use it at night to keep my breakouts away but BEWARE if you use too much of the cleanser you will do more harm than good. People with dry sensitive skin should use it with products with moisturizers and emollients. I use Boscia Soothing Cleasing Cream in the morning and I love it! The combination of the two makes my skin clear and hydrated. I recommend proactiv to people suffering from bad breakouts but those with very dry skin should probably stay away.
For anyone saying the ingredients are harsh clearly doesn't know what they are talking about. I took time out to look up each ingredient and none were harmful or irritating. You can find out for yourself on Paula's Choice website where they rate ingredients from poor, average, good and best. The cleanser's ingredients were in the best and good categories.
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beth2009 on 11/6/2013 8:08:00 AM more reviews by beth2009
Age: 25-29 Skin: Very Oily, Medium Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
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Memoriesin on 10/12/2013 12:28:00 PM more reviews by Memoriesin
Age: 19-24 Skin: Acne-prone, Medium Hair: Black Eyes: Black
This is good, using this alone is already enough to control acne. Dont use the 3 step system, the toner is too strong and the repairing lotion is very comedogenic, it can cause cystic acne.
Using the renewing cleanser is already enough, after you wash your face with this, you dont have to put on anything else, the cleanser's BP will protect your face throughout the day.
Great product but hard to get this bottle alone, many places do not sell the cleanser alone...
Dont be afraid that your skin will get hooked onto proactiv, your skin will get hooked on to literally any acne fighting ingredients, such as salicylic acid and BP.
UPDATE (3 months): never been happier with this cleanser ever!! It has completely cleared my face dramatically and left my face a radiant glow all the time. So awesome!
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Pay17 on 8/18/2013 5:49:00 PM more reviews by Pay17
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Acne-prone, Fair Hair: Other Eyes: Blue
Very good, I like how's it's got these little scratchy things in it that totally make my skin feel cleaner. I do like this product.
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Cosmetics4Ever on 12/19/2012 4:46:00 AM more reviews by Cosmetics4Ever
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Fair Hair: Brunette Eyes: Blue
This is my all time favorite cleanser.
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Rebecca753 on 12/4/2012 12:17:00 PM more reviews by Rebecca753
Age: 30-35 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
I used this for years and it worked great when I was younger. Now I prefer to separate my benzyl peroxide and mechanical exfoliating products, I use neutrogena acne cream and simple face scrub and I get the same benefits with less irritation and a lower price. It also doesn't make sense to put benzyl peroxide into a product that you only have on your face for a minute or two, then rinse off. I know pro activ has a benzyl peroxide cream as well, but it seems redundant. I also use alpha hydrox lotion for the glycolic acid component and I feel like it is a better version of proactive.
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Charligurl7 on 10/11/2012 10:42:00 PM more reviews by Charligurl7
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
All I have to say is..... Thank you PROACTIV! I have been going through hormonal acne for about 5-6 months now, and I have tried everything to get rid of it, with no avail. Finally, after much debate- I decided to try Proactiv. I wasn't a huge fan at first because I was concerned on what I had read on how your skin can get "addicted" to this product. I dont even care if my skin gets addicted now, because its something that actually works!!!! I do not use the 3-step system though, because my personal opinion is that there are better products to use with this cleanser. (I use DermaDoctor Aint mis behavin' acne serum, and Philosophy Take a Deep Breathe moisterizer- MORNING. and Juice beauty Blemish Serum with St Ives Colagen Moisterizer @ Night. SPOT TREATMENT is Kate Somerville Eradikate and its the best ever.) Its WORKING!!! Just my opinion... and I've tried nearly everything!
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Update: You can do this in the console in SCSM 2010 SP1 now.
Background information for this post: Groups are typically collections of Configuration Items (although technically it can be groups of any kind of object). Queues are collections of a certain kind of work item – like a queue of incidents. Groups and Queues can be based on dynamic inclusion criteria like 'All Windows Computers where the Domain property contains 'Redmond''. Groups (only) can also have static membership like 'include Computer1, Computer2, Computer3… Groups (only) can also exclude objects and include other Groups. Groups and Queues are used for role based security scoping, notification subscription criteria, and for report filtering (and eventually for view criteria – that was unfortunately cut for SCSM 2010 due to lack of time). The idea is to define a group of things, use it many places, and any time you need to change the definition of that group of things you can do it in one place and have it immediately apply to all the places where that definition is being used.
More information on type projections:
In the Group and Queue wizard you can create criteria based on properties of the selected Configuration Item or Work Item class like this:
We are often asked how you can create groups or queues using properties of related objects in the criteria. Here are just a few examples we've heard:
And on and on…
You can't do this in the wizard in the console unfortunately, but you can do this in the MP XML if you know what you are doing. That's what this blog post is about. For the purposes of this blog post we'll implement the three highlighted examples from above. From there, you'll get the idea and can really do anything.
First of all you need to define the Group or Queue as a new singleton ClassType. Groups should derive from Microsoft.SystemCenter.ConfigItemGroup and Queues should derive from System.WorkItemGroup.
Next, for Queues (only) you'll need to define a RelationshipType which tells Service Manager what kind of work items will be contained in the Queue. The RelationshipType should derive from System.WorkItemGroupContainsWorkItems. The Source Type attribute should point to the ClassType ID from above. The Target Type attribute should point to the Work Item ClassType that you will be containing.
Next you need to define a Discovery for each Group\Queue.
Next you just need to specify the criteria. Let's take this apart a piece at a time…
First we have a simple expression which is just going to look at a certain property of a related object and compare it using a LIKE operator and look for a certain string to be somewhere in the property value. It's the equivalent of doing a T-SQL Like %<search term>% query in SQL Server. The tricky bit here is the Property expression syntax so we'll take this one piece at a time…
First – always start with $Context/ …
The specify the RelationshipType ID that you want to traverse over…
Then, optionally specify if you only want to look at objects of a specific class by specifying a TypeConstraint…
The specify which class the property you want to look at is defined on…
And lastly specify the property ID…
So – it looks like this when completed:
$Context/Path[Relationship='Windows!Microsoft.Windows.ComputerHostsOperatingSystem' TypeConstraint='Windows!Microsoft.Windows.OperatingSystem']/Property[Type='Windows!Microsoft.Windows.OperatingSystem']/OSVersionDisplayName$
For more information on constructing Criteria XML please see this blog post:
Here is the complete management pack with all of these examples in it:
Important Note: Queues/Groups created in this way cannot be edited in the SCSM console in any way. Even editing it to change the name or something like that will cause the SCSM console to remove the criteria part of the queue/group definition. All edits to groups/queues that use this kind of criteria must be done in XML. To ensure that users dont try to edit these queues/groups in the console and also to ensure upgradeability from one version of the MP to the next you can seal the MP following these instructions:
Hi Travis,
Can we create Queues based on your example on SP1? Or still we need to stick on the XML?
Like: Incidents where the affected user is in company 'Contoso'
@Ozge -
You can do this in the UI in SP1 now.
Is it possible to create the queue for the items assigned to [me]


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If you weren't born looking like the little mustachioed guy in the top hat from the Monopoly game, perhaps the best way to get a sit-down audience with your representative or senator in Congress, along with their attention, is to go as part of a group focused on making change happen. Which is why every spring, the National Pest Management Association hosts an annual NPMA Legislative Day in Washington. This year's three-day session took place March 17-19. Clark Pest Control participated in the event by sending two executives, Technical Director Darren Van Steenwyk and Marketing Director Nicole Keefe.
A number of at-large events took place – hosted luncheons and presentations with legislators and industry people, along with various meetings and breakout sessions. However, the event was structured so that participants could set up appointments on one of the days to meet with senators or representatives from their home states. Seven of the nine California representatives who participated in the event hail from districts that Clark Pest Control services. Van Steenwyk and Keefe met with some of them, or their staffers, to talk about issues pertinent to business in general and pest management in particular.
"The legislators were receptive to us – a lot more than in the past," Van Steenwyk says.
Keefe agrees with Van Steenwyk, in that the event was a success. "I don't know if attitudes are changing," she says, "but no matter which side of the fence we were talking to, they were receptive, they were engaged, they were listening, they seemed like they knew what we were talking about, and I haven't had that experience the last couple of years."
The game plan was to focus on three issues of importance to Californians, and California pest control operators (PCOs), that the NPMA had identified.
One issue has to do with how information is passed on to consumers; the language used in consumer-affairs laws in some states, California included, mandates that pesticide disclosure notices, service records and certain other pieces of information must be delivered to every consumer via hard copy. Many companies and customers are working hard to manage resources better and reduce waste, and would prefer to receive that information as, say, a PDF sent via e-mail instead. If the requirement was changed, companies like Clark Pest Control – which has embraced S.M.A.R.T. (Sustainable Methods and Responsible Treatments) business practices to better serve its customers and meet their needs – could cut back on paper use by notifying customers electronically.
"That's an example of where consumer attitudes are far ahead of our industry's ability to meet consumer attitudes," Keefe says. "The other thing we have to do is hold on to records, like termite inspections, for three years. It becomes quite cumbersome and expensive for a company when you have to find space to hold all of that, rather than sticking it on a server that could occupy one tidy little spot." Instead of pushing to get legislation passed state by state, Keefe says the NPMA is advocating an amendment to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, or FIFRA, which would supersede current state laws.
Another issue arises from the way a 1987 law that authorizes the Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services program to manage nuisance birds and mammals in non-agricultural settings has been interpreted in the years since. While the law may have been written to give government employees the authority to manage bird problems at airports and deal with other wildlife-related issues, its broadly scoped language allows government agencies to compete with private-sector businesses, such as pest control companies, to control rats, mice and other vertebrate pests. The bipartisan Pest Elimination Services Transparency & Terminology (PESTT) Act (H.R. 730) defines the term "urban rodent control," and directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to write a report that not only identifies actions that the Wildlife Services program performs that could be handled by the private sector, but makes recommendations on how to avoid competition in the future.
"What has happened, and we understand it's through budget cuts, is that the Wildlife Services program has been supplementing its budget by actually doing pest control work that directly competes with us in the private sector," Keefe says. "This last year, they did around $71 million of pest control work that could have been done by the private sector. That wasn't the intention when it was formed."
The third issue centers around the use of the gas sulfuryl fluoride, or SF, a broad-spectrum fumigant that had been championed by the EPA as a replacement for methyl bromide, which was phased out globally after being identified as an ozone-depleting chemical in the 1990s. In January 2011, the EPA issued a proposed order to revoke the use of SF to treat food items – various bulk commodities such as rice, dried fruit, cocoa, peanuts, walnuts and other items – and as a fumigant in grain mills and food-processing facilities, largely to avoid lawsuits from anti-fluoridation groups, even though, according to the EPA, the fluoride present in SF fumigations represents a tiny fraction of fluoride exposure to the public. What the EPA then did was it lumped naturally occurring fluoride in drinking water systems, a non-pesticide, in with SF fumigants when evaluating risk assessment for SF per Sec. 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA); the EPA already regulates drinking-water fluoride with the Safe Drinking Water Act. The problem arises when drinking-water fluoride, especially in places where it occurs naturally in excess, maxes out the "risk cup" for the aggregate exposure assessment for SF, which removes the fumigant from consideration for use. A legislative fix would remove drinking-water fluoride from the "risk cup" for sulfuryl fluoride.
"That's actually a really scary development that could cost a lot of jobs in our area," Keefe says, "when you think of all the almonds, all the rice – those are all commodities that are treated with sulfuryl fluoride, because [the EPA] took away methyl bromide. Without sulfuryl fluoride, there's nothing; all that industry, that processing, would go overseas."
Clark Pest Control has created a new tv commercial for 2013 which will start airing April 15th. If you like our newest commercial, let us know by liking and sharing our commercial on FaceBook and Twitter!
The people who work at Clark Pest Control have long been encouraged to provide "A.C.E.," or an Amazing Customer Experience, to every person this company serves. That's been a guiding principle at our company since the beginning. But by putting new methods of gathering, filtering and routing information into action, our goal of keeping our customers consistently happy becomes easier to attain.
Over this past year, the Net Promoter System, or NPS, has been rolled out to all of Clark Pest Control's 21 branch offices. NPS works by organizing information and feedback from customers into a roadmap that provides a much sharper picture of how effectively the people who work at Clark Pest Control are meeting our customers' wants and needs. Then, that information can be targeted to the right person, or people, within the company, so they can ensure that each customer's experience will be more satisfying –amazing, even.
The specific way each of Clark Pest Control's 21 local service centers puts the A.C.E. concept into action may vary from branch to branch, depending on the creative ingenuity of our employees. At the "Reno, Nevada Clark Pest Control office, Branch Manager Steve Adams asked his team members to each come up with one year-end idea they thought could improve business, and then follow through on whatever they decided. Office Manager Wendy Wright, who has been working at the Reno office for almost three years, figured that focusing on people who already are Clark Pest Control customers made the best sense, so she started methodically following up with every customer who has called her office for additional service, after that requested service had been performed. "My thought was, let's retain the customers that we already have. Let's make sure that they're happy. How can we do that?"
The answer she came up with was to become proactive. Wright begins her process by running a report to find customers who have called her office for an additional service, or to report a pest problem. Whether the target pests were ants, mice, spiders or something else, she then will give the customers a couple of weeks for whatever treatment was performed to take effect. Then, she will get on the phone. "I ask them, 'How was everything? Did we address your concerns?'" Wright explains. "I've found a few, not many, where they'll say, 'Not quite sure; is it possible to get someone back out here?'"
According to Wright, some customers just don't want to bother her office, or call back if they have any kind of problem. So she takes the initiative and makes a quality-assurance call to them instead. "This branch QA calling program has really helped us to identify those customers and address their concerns," she says, "whether we have to go back out there a couple of times or not. And maybe it's just an issue of educating them – informing them how our products work, or what it is that we do."
Sometimes Wright can't get through to a customer on the phone, so she will send a letter with her business card attached. The point is to get out in front of any customer concerns by addressing them, well before those concerns can turn into something much larger and more troublesome. "I'm finding customers very thankful and very receptive for the follow-up," she says.
Wright's experience has taught her that it's always smart to keep word-of-mouth advertising in mind. "If customers are unhappy, they're going to talk to people about their experiences," she says. "But if we can keep those customers happy, they're going to talk about that, also, so they're becoming promoters for us."
The people at Clark Pest Control can do a lot of wonderful things, like keeping your living space delightfully pest free, but our company generally does not employ mind readers. Like just about everyone else, if we want to find an answer to something, we have to ask the right questions first. Using the NPS system helps us do that. So by finding new ways to ask you how we can serve you better and keep you happy, Clark Pest Control can continue to deliver an Amazing Customer Experience to you, every time.
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Clark Pest Control employees spent a month during the holiday season trying to make one little boy's wish come true. The Lodi-based company's employees donated more than $5,000 to send a 3-year-old boy and his family to Walt Disney World Disney this spring.
Reuben Nazareno of Rancho Cordova was diagnosed with leukemia when he was not yet 1 1/2 years old. Nazareno receives monthly and daily treatments of chemotherapy and other medications.
A group of Clark Pest Control employees worked with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to send Nazareno and his family on a week-long, expense-free trip to Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Nazareno, a Disney fan, was hoping to see dolphins. He will also have the opportunity to meet other children with cancer during the trip.
"We were touched by Reuben's story and are happy that we could do something to help make his dreams come true," said Nicole Keefe, marketing and advertising manager at Clark Pest Control. "Our wish is that this trip gives the Nazareno family memories that will last a lifetime."
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Clark Pest Control's branch office in Yuba City pest control services routes that wind through a wide swath of northern California, spanning the Sacramento Valley and such cities as Woodland, Colusa and Yuba City-Marysville up into the mountain communities of Nevada and Sierra counties – Grass Valley, Nevada City and even Downieville. The territory includes a lot of prime agricultural land, residential areas from urban settings to small towns and, heading east, mountain forests.
Travis Mickel, the Branch Manager, moved to Yuba City from Clark's Salinas branch, about a month and a half after the office moved into new digs on the Garden Highway. According to Mickel, it's a real upgrade that has resulted in much-improved employee morale. The added space has provided room for branch employees to pursue the continuing education they need – to maintain state license requirements, and to keep up on the latest developments in pest management, customer service, and sales. "One thing we've done recently," he says, "is we've opened a library here at the branch with basically everything from sales to service books that guys can check out on the honor system – videos, audio books, even NPS materials. So we've got that as a resource for all our employees now, and it's kind of exciting."
NPS, or Net Promoter System, is what Clark uses to assess customer satisfaction, with feedback that helps the company design and guide efforts to improve service. It's a company-wide effort, and the 21 Clark Pest Control branches in California and Reno, Nevada are where the idea of Amazing Customer Experience gets put into practice. "We're heavily into NPS," Mickel says, "like I think everyone in the company is. I have a fantastic NPS Champion, Brad Braun, who also is my Service Manager. We typically let everyone know what our results are each month, and we've been scoring consistently better than the company average, month in and month out – which I attribute to a lot of really good technicians who deliver great customer service, as well as Brad and Tony [Garcia], the supervisors overseeing that."
According to Mickel, Yuba City's numbers are increasing, both sales and estimates. "So far this year," he says, "we're 40 percent ahead of where we were last year at the same time period for our number of estimates, and our number of sales is 42 percent ahead of where we were last year.
"Team Yuba City pest control takes pride in growing bigger and better," Mickel adds.
Looking ahead, Mickel sees that to grow his 30-year-old branch, which today employs 28 people, he will need others to step up, so he started a leadership class four months ago that's set to graduate its first group this week. "I asked for volunteers, if anyone would be more interested in learning about leadership," he says, "possibly in an existing role as a supervisor, or those who would want to go into that at some point in the future." The result he calls pretty exciting, and kind of a cool thing.
Yuba City also recently hired a new termite inspector. "We're looking for good things to happen there," Mickel says. Lately he says he's really been focusing on sales training for his staff. "I've been taking the whole branch through The Personal Guide to Successful Sales book that I wrote many years ago, and we're seeing results with our creative sales. Lot's of great things are happening."
We are excited to announce that our yearly educational conference will be held tomorrow in Lodi. We would like to extend a warm welcome to all of our employees and vendors. Thank you for being a part of what we are certain will be an exceptional educational conference.
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Jeffrey M. Lipman is a Des Moines, Iowa-based attorney who, among other areas, specializes in bed bug litigation. Last year he was a participant in Clark Pest Control multi-city bed bug tour, where his presentation "Can Ignoring the Bed Bug Problem Put You in Legal Jeopardy?"
wowed audiences with a graphic sequential illustration that spelled out just how quickly and extensively bed bugs can take over two towers of a residential complex, and what kind of issues are raised when their spreading infestation is not addressed. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from University of Arizona, a Juris Doctorate from William Mitchell College of Law, and is a graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College.
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Bill Pursley joined AIB as a field sanitarian in 1975, later becoming program director. He's carried out many special assignments that deal with sanitation problems for food companies throughout the U.S. and Canada, and he also has conducted special seminars in other countries for U.S. Wheat Associates. In 2011 he received the George B. Wagner Award for outstanding contributions to mill sanitation and food safety at the International Association of Operative Millers' 155th annual convention in San Antonio. He holds a Masters Degree in Grain Science from Kansas State University.
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As AIB's Food Defense Specialist, Rod Wheeler assists food processing and manufacturing corporations with development and implementation of food safety and security plans, procedures and guidelines. As former director of the Office of Food Security and Emergency Preparedness with Food Products Association, Wheeler developed a series of
food security and defense programs to support food processing, manufacturing and retail food outlets. Previously, he served as Secretariat of the Food and Agricultural Coordinating Council. He's made over 300 appearances as a law enforcement and security expert on Fox News Channel, Court TV and MSNBC. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice/ Criminology from Ohio
State University and a Key Executive Masters Degree in Public Administration from American University.
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Roger Crawford was born with the kind of physical challenges that would bar almost anyone from succeeding, much less becoming an NCAA Division I athlete and United States Tennis Association-certified champion. Yet he overcame those difficulties to excel in sport at Loyola Marymount University. Crawford later distilled what he learned about maintaining focus to move through adversity and break through limitations, and as "America's Possibility Coach," he communicates those strengths and inspires audiences to reach higher with the Possibility Principles: Purpose, Perspective, Precision and Perseverance. His story was featured in the best-selling book Chicken Soup for the Soul, and was portrayed in the Emmy Award-winning NBC-TV movie In a New Light.
We thank each and every one of you for your continued support of Clark Pest Control.
"Send Coach Sperling down here! I want him to do my pest control!" Robert Sperling, quoting one of his happy customers, says. According to the coach, they half-expect him to show up in a white Ford Ranger to take care of marauding ants. But Sperling, for the past two years a commercial sales representative at Clark Pest Control's Stockton office, only handles the sales part of the transaction, even though he now is licensed by the state of California to treat for pests.
Though Sperling may not wear a service technician's cap, he does wear a few different hats, with his most recent addition being named the head football coach at Lodi High School. Sperling has been coaching football for 16 years; it runs in his family, going back to a grandfather who played under Paul "Bear" Bryant at Alabama and later coached, and a dad who coached, and numerous relatives who also coached.
"It's what we do," Sperling says of his football-enthusiast family. "Years ago, I learned to coach, not for the wins and losses, but to develop kids – because I had really good coaches growing up, and they had a big influence on me and my life. My uncle taught me … a long time ago, he said, 'If you get into it to coach just for football, just for wins and losses, then don't. But if you're going to do it to teach the love of the game, and what the game has to offer young men, to teach them values in life, then do it. And that's why I do it."
Sperling, who played football at Stockton's Lincoln High and then at Sacramento State until he was sidelined by an injury, has coached high school ball in varying capacities over the years, at different levels – freshman, sophomore, junior varsity. He also started the Lodi Junior Flames with another coach, Ken Rhodes, as a youth football team that would act as a feeder system for Lodi High's program.
To pay the bills so he could coach football, Sperling worked at Alpine Meats in Stockton for 18 years; he began by working in the slaughterhouse, and then drove a truck. Drivers would sell what goods were left at the end of the day, and right away, Sperling's bosses recognized his natural ability for sales. He got promoted to a regular selling gig, which led to him landing contracts to supply hot dogs and other meats to a number of sports concessions, including the San Francisco Giants.
After Alpine Meats got sold and dismantled, Sperling moved from selling packaged meats to pest management. Because Alpine Meats and Clark Pest Control were both sponsors of the Lodi Grape Festival, Festival manager Mark Armstrong put Sperling in touch with Clark, which quickly recognized the value of having an active coach making sales.
"Especially with my job, with leads and cold calls, you're constantly meeting new people," Sperling says. "I love meeting new people. I'm a people person. And, I love helping them with their issues. That's probably my favorite part."


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President Barack Obama announced plans today to withdraw the bulk of U.S. forces from Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, and to pull out all remaining troops by the end of 2011, ending the war in Iraq and launching what he called an "era of American leadership and engagement in the Middle East."
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In recognition of Veteranâs Day, traditionally celebrated on Nov. 11, about a hundred people gathered at Joe Chillura Square in downtown Tampa today to honor those, living and dead, who served in the U.S. armed forces.
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Doug Tudor is running as the Democratic congressional candidate for District 12, his opponent is Republican Adam Putnum. Tudor spent 25 years in the Navy before retiring to run in his first campaign against Putnam. Longtime local activist Sidney Potter, asked Tudor about his feelings about the war in Iraq.
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As Barack Obama prepares for his trip overseas, which is now becoming a major event in campaign 2008, the GOP continues to criticize him about it.
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Yeah, look
Let me tell you about a kid named Steven
He's slowly running out of things to believe in
Every couple of months his mom leaves him,
for no good reason his step-dad beats him
Not too many friends, only ever had a few of them,
but recently they don't want anything to do with him
Always eating lunch in the bathroom stall,
he just wants to feel normal and be cool again, yeah
Always feeling like the outcast, he's been going crazy ever since his dad passed
He needs guidance and advice but instead
he only has breakdowns and flashbacks of the car crash uh
It's been getting harder everyday, if he was still around everything would be ok
Cuz his dad was always the light at the end of the tunnel,
but now that same damn tunnel is looking dark and grey
He keeps quiet in the back of the class
and when the bell rings Steven hurries home fast
scared to death the other kids will kick his ass on the long walk home
cuz its happened in the past so
He's getting used to the black eyes and fat lips
but all he's got is a fake smile and cut wrists
Wishin' he could walk right up to them and show them the scars
and say look you're the reason that I've done this
Maybe they would finally understand and go back to how it was before it all began
But he's just a little different so they taunt him and they beat him
Yeah it's all just fun and games, they don't give a damn, yeah
His older brother ain't around, in and out of jail, hanging with the wrong crowd
He's been doing coke, smoking weed, getting drunk all his life he's a shame
no, he's not too proud
Now his habits are rubbing off on his little bro yeah, but guess what?
Little did he know that everytime he did a line,
everytime he lit a joint,
everytime he took a shot he was sippin mode
So Steven's sitting in his room getting high now
Doors locked, music up, with the lights out
He just takes another toke til his room fills with smoke
5-6-7 hours til he knocks out
Now he started stealing pills from his mom
8-9-10 at a time and now they're gone
and maybe for a moment all his problems seem to fade,
but the high fades too after not too long
and that's when it really sinks in and that's when it hits him
that these god damn drugs won't fix him
Curled up on the floor, can't take it anymore
Now he's talking to God cuz he's the only one that gets him
On his knees, looking up, can't stop crying
"God I know we haven't talked in a long time
but this time I really need you. Please God help me, say something
just give me a sign, because now I'm falling apart and
I don't think that I can do it. Please God, give me the strength
to pull through it. Tell me, Should I give up? I could end it all right now.
I just don't know if I'm brave enough to do it.
Cuz there's gotta be a better way than suicide.
Try to wait it out, give it time, you'll be fine.
But it's been so long and I still haven't been able to get rid
of all the thoughts that I feel inside. So sick, so angry, so mad
and to top it off no one even knows that"
That's when he stood up, wiped his tears, walked over to his desk
and got a pen and a notepad
He just couldn't see it getting any better
So on a cold dark night in December, Steven knew exactly what he had to do
But first he sat down and wrote a couple letters
One to his step-dad, one to his mother,
couple to the kids at school, one to his brother
Bringing them the pain that they once brought him
tear drops on the paper one after another
Yeah, I hope that you all feel guilty.
Cuz I'm broken now and you can't heal me
And now you're all an accompliss in murder
each and every one of you has chipped in to kill me
So the reason that I'm writing you this evening,
is to say goodbye and to tell you that I'm leaving
But don't hold your breath cuz I ain't never coming back
Sincerely yours, Steven
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Tue, Mar 16, 10 at 16:55
Just curious if anyone offers incentives for buying their home? |
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The best incentive is a low price. I've seen people offer things like new trucks and cruises - it doesn't work. Price is what sells homes. |
- Posted by mauirealtor (My Page) on Tue, Mar 16, 10 at 17:34
The past year has seen many buyers become creative in how they sell their home. Ultimately it is the price that will be the biggest incentive to a buyer, although many sellers do not (or can not) lower their price any further. One of my neighbors was selling her house and giving away her new corvette. And well, it took almost a year to sell (she ended up lowering the price). |
Here is a link that might be useful: Maui Real Estate Search
- Posted by ncrealestateguy (My Page) on Tue, Mar 16, 10 at 17:42
Mauiagent, Advertising one's business goes against Forum rules. |
- Posted by pamghatten (My Page) on Wed, Mar 17, 10 at 12:21
And very annoying! |
I've heard of people offering extra money or commission to an agent that brings a buyer. |
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A refreshing rum drink named for the coolest pirate ever.
servings1 pint
Dark rumFrangelico
Orange or FRESH Meyer lemon Juice
Crushed ice
Fill glass with crushed icePour in a bunch of rum
Add a healthy splash of Frangelico
Add OJ or FRSH Meyer lemon juice if you have it.
Top off with 7-up for fizzyness
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recipe at a glance
type: Quick & Easy, Condiment/Spread
main ingredients: Fruit
cuisine: Central American/Caribbean
holiday/celebration: Cocktail Party


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Thu, Mar 6, 08 at 15:37
I'm helping out someone - they want to know where they can purchase water chestnuts (eleocharis dulcis, E.tuberosa) to start growing them? Any ideas? Some sites on the web say for purchase in Australia only.
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- Posted by jeannejeanie 7 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 23, 08 at 1:27
is there an asian market near by? i live in new york & can buy water chest nuts at any asian market. you just have to soak them afterwards (like an alvocado pit) & they will root |
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On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
>> I wonder if it's true that it is hard to write a LV2 plugin
It depends on where you are coming from. I've certainly heard
complaints about that.
> IMO, the pro- and non-pro nonsense was introduced, in order to sell
Pro/non-pro distinction is perfectly justified by targeting at groups
of people who have different needs, where customization of UI is
likely to be a nightmare for both developers and users (and as such
customization is often overrated).
>> .. it would we very hard to come up with something
True. But it's hard to become larger when there are still so many
problems with even basic things.
>>> I think having good native VST
Let's see. Right here and right now I'm interested in buying Loomer's
Aspect synth, but it comes in native VST for Linux only which isn't
supported by A3 (yes, I know about Qtractor, and no, I don't use it
for reasons too off-topic to mention). Personally, I have no problem
with proprietary APIs used by free apps as long as I can use whatever
I have. For me music is clearly more important than whatever RMS has
to say about freedom.
The question is: how can you ensure a developer that releasing LV2
version is going to have a nice ROI? I see two ways: 1) buying
specifically native VST to cover porting expenses (and get a free LV2
later), and 2) let developers count the cost and team up with other
users to invest into LV2 version. Given the fact that Pianoteq was
developed on Linux in the first place, you probably don't have to
explain to its core team anything. You only have to somehow make sure
ROI happens the way it should.
But that's just talking. Let's have impressive hosts first :)
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Sun, May 11, 14 at 15:25
Has anyone heard of an "Extended crochet stitch"?? after all these years this is the first I've heard of it on a PBS Knitting today show (K and crocheting) |
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- Posted by acraftylady (My Page) on Sat, May 17, 14 at 12:57
Yes learned that stitch years ago when I first learned crochet. Mary |
This is the first I'd heard of it Mary glad you knew it |
This is the first I'd heard of it Mary glad you knew it |
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Pakistan jets bomb Taliban positions in North Waziristan
Pakistani military aircraft have bombed suspected Taliban positions in North Waziristan, following a wave of attacks against security forces.
A military official said 40 militants had been killed in the air strikes in the tribal area bordering Afghanistan. The figure cannot be confirmed.
On Sunday, at least 20 soldiers were killed in an ambush on an army convoy.
Pakistan's Taliban vowed to step up attacks after a drone strike last year killed their leader Hakimullah Mehsud.
The air strikes started at around 00:30 local time (19:30 GMT on Monday), an official told AFP news agency, adding that helicopter gunships also took part.
The air assault comes after the military attacked militant targets in North Waziristan with artillery fire and helicopter gunships in December.
To many here, the country's political leaders have looked utterly impotent in the face of the Pakistani Taliban threat.
The government's repeated offers of talks with the militant group have so far come to nothing, and in spite of the Taliban's claim that they agreed in principle to negotiations, the attacks kept coming - killing soldiers, police, members of the media and other civilians, including school children.
For some, there was a feeling that the lack of concerted military action meant that Pakistan missed an opportunity to take advantage of divisions within the Pakistani Taliban that appeared to have been exposed in the aftermath of the death of their leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, in early November.
There is now a limited military operation in North Waziristan.
But such action always comes with the worry for Pakistanis that there might be reprisal attacks in the towns and cities. Given the violence there was already, the army has clearly calculated that these are risks ultimately worth taking.
Two residents interviewed by the Associated Press news agency over the telephone said they slept in the open, fearing their homes would be hit.
The army said 40 "terrorists" had been killed and claimed they had all been involved in recent militant attacks - although there is no independent confirmation of this.
Tribal elders and the Taliban put the death toll lower. Some reports said there were civilian casualties, but this is also impossible to verify as there is no media access to the area.
Past army operations have killed civilians, the BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad says, and it is feared this is the case this time too.
But the authorities in Pakistan have been under pressure to take decisive action against the Pakistani Taliban.
The government's repeated offers of talks had come to nothing, and the militants had not refrained from attacks, our correspondent says.
In the past month, the Pakistani Taliban have launched a string of deadly attacks after weeks of relative calm since Hakimullah Mehsud was killed.
On Sunday, soldiers and paramilitary personnel were preparing to leave Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, for Razmak in North Waziristan when their convoy was hit by a bomb.
On Monday, a suicide bomber killed at least 13 people near Pakistan's army headquarters in Rawalpindi, south of the capital Islamabad. Among those who died were eight military personnel.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed both attacks.
Their new leader, Mullah Fazlullah, has vowed to continue attacks against Pakistani forces.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif - under pressure to take a tougher stand on militants - cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos after Sunday's attack.
The two attacks were among the most serious assaults on the military in recent months and have called into question Pakistan's strategy for dealing with militancy.