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		<title><![CDATA[Aegis' Q3 Results Report Is a Joke]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's not news that financial disclosure standards for European companies are lax compared to their U.S. counterparts, but the Q3 2009 "results" announcement just issued by British ad agency holding company Aegis (AEGS.L) illustrates just how lousy those low standards are. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:17:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Whitepaper:Intelligent Data Management with Dell Product Group]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data has become increasingly valuable as both a business asset and as a competitive differentiator. Its intrinsic value is being acknowledged in the form of stricter government, industry, and company standards for protecting and preserving it. As a result, organizations are generating and keeping more data than ever before, and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Take the Business Tool Fadaholic Test]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Hereâ€™s a quick quiz. How many of these 10 acronyms do you recognise, and how many can you explain?*  (1) ABC (2) BPR (3) 7S (4) TQM (5) JIT (6) VBM (7) PIMS (8) NPS (9) MBTI (10) QFD  (Answers at the bottom of the post.)...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:48:27 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Strong Growth For Asia, Australia: BNP]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Asia and Australia can look forward to a period of strong growth as infrastructure and other investment spending is funded by cheap money from the US and Europe, says BNP Paribas' chief economist.Inflation in the US and Europe, if it rises, is the only factor that may threaten growth...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:42:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kimco Realty Corporation Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from Craig Schmidt with Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. Craig Schmidt - Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. This should go to Dave. I'm just wondering, the 76 cap rate on the PL transaction, I realize that it may not be total exemplary, but...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:00:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Western Digital F1Q10 (Qtr End 10/2/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from Richard Kugele with Needham & Company. Richard Kugele - Needham & Company A couple of questions, I guess first obviously on the CapEx side, can you talk about just from an industry perspective how linearly you can add the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:35:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[H.B. Fuller Company F3Q09 (Qtr End 08/29/2009) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2462-14049_23-345823.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions  The first question comes from the line of Olga Guteneva with J.P. Morgan. Olga Guteneva &#8211; J.P. Morgan Did you say that your raw material benefits this quarter were 15% year over year? Michele Volpi They were actually 14.9% versus last year and down...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:44:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CarMax, Inc. F2Q10 (Qtr End 08/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2462-14028_23-345177.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Matt Fassler - Goldman Sachs Matt Fassler - Goldman Sachs Congratulations on your performance here, a couple of questions if I could largely on credit, could you just go into a little more color on the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:49:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[McClatchy Back in NYSE's Good Graces]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The McClatchy Company is back in compliance with New York Stock Exchange NYSE standards for continuing listing of its stock price.    Since being notified by the NYSE in February that it no longer qualified for listing, the nation's third-largest newspaper company has been restructuring and repositioning itself...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publish2 Acq-Hires WiredJournalists.com]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Wired Journalists, the social net founded in 2008 by journalists Howard Owens, Ryan Sholin and Zac Echola, is now part of collaborative journalism tools company Publish2. The connector is Sholin, who joined Publish2 earlier this year, and wanted a way to salvage the potential of a 3,000-plus member social...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Do You Meet PCI Data Security Standards? | BTalk Australia]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_1834" align="alignright" width="300" caption="source: Wikimedia"][/caption]    (Episode 310; 11 minutes 38)  The Payment Card Industry PCI is phasing-in more elaborate data security standards.    From September 30th this year large companies must meet compliance, with compulsory security audits and networks scans required to retain...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Official Scrutiny for National Organic Program]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to widespread criticism and growing public distrust, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has ordered an independent audit of the National Organic Program.    Starting in October, the National Institute of Standards and Technology will take a look at existing organic standards and the nearly 100 private...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:24:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xcel Energy Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2462-14034_23-327394.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you very much. Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from? Ben Fowke [Abdullah]? Unidentified Analyst Can you hear me? Ben Fowke Now we can, Abdullah. How are you doing? Unidentified Analyst Couple of things; one, can you remind us the big driving items behind the current...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:23:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is a Green Trade War Looming?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/intercom/?p=2707]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The carbon bill passed in the US House last month contains a "border adjustment" program which could levy tariffs on carbon-intensive goods from countries that aren't controlling CO2 up to US standards.  India and China have protested the provision, which has the US Chamber of Commerce and the National...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:39:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Slower Growth Ahead? Meet the New Normal, Same as the Old Normal]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/investing/blog/against-grain/slower-growth-ahead-meet-the-new-normal-same-as-the-old-normal/244/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The recession's darkest days may be drawing to a close, but that does not assure a bright future. The woes of the financial system and the credit, stock, housing and job markets have traumatized the economy so much, in the view of many economists and market strategists, that the average...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:57:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Global Standards - Priority For All Entities]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1023011]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The integrated nature of capital markets, combined with the mobility of capital itself, highlights the need for a commonly accepted set of accounting standards. The financial crisis has emphasised the relevance of the International Accounting Standards Board's (IASB's) mission towards a global set of standards. More than ever, there is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[They Can't Make Me Work Weekends...Can They?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/stanley-bing/?p=372]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Stanley,      I am working at the trading desk of a big financial institution. Recently, they laid off a bunch of people. Then all of a sudden activity kicked up again when everybody in the world decided to refinance. As a result, I've been working...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:00:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Republicans Successfully Create Climate Legislation Catch-22]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party, as amply noted elsewhere, has been having a tough time uniting against President Obama's policies. The arguments they make are often as not feeble or marred by internal arguing. But GOP efforts are starting to show on one part of the Obama's platform, his energy policies. A...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:19:55 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gains From Using Six Sigma]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1014621]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The major and very glaring difference between any other quality control and management system when compared to the Six Sigma is a direct connection to the financial gains arising out of the processes implemented. Financial gains arising out of the improvements in the process are measured and quantified and are...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[2008 Full Year Traffic]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/travel/1000499/2008-full-year-traffic/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I've already posted December traffic, but now let's look back at the full year 2008 traffic just in time for the first fourth quarter financial results this week.  As you can see, the tremendous capacity drop we saw in the fourth quarter really doesn't show that much...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:37:10 -0800</pubDate>
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