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		<title>CFTC panel to review high-frequency trading (Reuters)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Gomez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott O&#8217;Malia, a Republican CFTC commissioner, has proposed the formation of a subcommittee that would be tasked with defining and identifying high-frequency trading in futures, swaps and options. So far there is little consensus as to what is algorithmic or high-frequency trading and how various trading patterns affect the markets. The subcommittee would be part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know how to innovate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As our world moves quickly away from the Industrial Age into this Technology/Idea Age &#8212; we&#8217;re being called upon to build something very different than our parents or grandparents did. Our generation is being asked to create ideas, technologies, new solutions to age old problems &#8212; all of which require us to be innovative. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Partnerships help Mich. cranberry farming grow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Gomez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Farming Grow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a handful of tenacious farmers, add some innovation and a smidge of cooperation, and you have the secret to Michigan&#8217;s small yet growing cranberry industry. While the state remains a niche player, family farms are capitalizing on opportunities to boost business. Consumer interest in healthy foods as well as in buying from Michigan companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing inflation seen in agriculture snapshot</title>
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		<comments>http://business-markets.info/financial-information/growing-inflation-seen-in-agriculture-snapshot#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times tracks several quarterly commodity prices to give consumers a snapshot in time of the agriculture industry. Included are milk, hay, potatoes and oats. Minnesota has a strong dairy presence, and hay is an important factor in the operation of any farm with animals. Potatoes are a staple of the food industry, and oats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battersea Power Station Up for Sale</title>
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		<comments>http://business-markets.info/small-business-resources/battersea-power-station-up-for-sale#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Long</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battersea Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battersea Power Station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Station]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An iconic London landmark, the Battersea Power Station, is now up for sale after Real Estate Opportunities the Irish developers were forced by investors after admitting they couldn’t repay over £502 million of debt on the project. Ernst and Young were appointed last December to recoup monies to repay investors, which include the Irish super [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JD Wetherspoon warns expansion may be scaled back amid tax hikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pub chain JD Wetherspoon enjoyed some Christmas sales cheer but its chairman warned expansion plans may be scaled back in the face of more tax hikes. The chain, which operates some 850 pubs, is on track to open 50 sites in the year to July but future openings may slow drastically if the Chancellor presses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positioning Is King!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Long</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business Resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Online and off, one the most important services I am often engaged to perform is the development of a positioning strategy for small to medium size businesses. A positioning strategy is not simply a cleaver slogan but a powerful and dynamic stand that your brand takes in your category. Right now as you read this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timken workers reject new labor deal; $225 million plant expansion near Canton may not happen</title>
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		<comments>http://business-markets.info/business-news/timken-workers-reject-new-labor-deal-225-million-plant-expansion-near-canton-may-not-happen#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Gomez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Workers on Sunday rejected a new contract that would have guaranteed a $225 million expansion at Timken Co.&#8217;s Faircrest steel plant in Canton. CLEVELAND, Ohio &#8212; The United Steelworkers union in Canton has rejected a new contract with industrial supplier Timken Co. that would have guaranteed a $225 million expansion of that company&#8217;s Faircrest steel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Predictions For 2012</title>
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		<comments>http://business-markets.info/small-business-resources/predictions-for-2012#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Long</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Richards’s Predictions for 2012 Since our previous predictions have proved fairly accurate, I am going to stick my neck out and give some fairly specific best-guesses for the next year. I must give the health warning that these are only extrapolations of present trends, and do not take account of currently unforeseeable events – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McDonald&#8217;s close to new Olympic deal, IOC says (Reuters)</title>
		<link>http://business-markets.info/business-news/mcdonalds-close-to-new-olympic-deal-ioc-says-reuters</link>
		<comments>http://business-markets.info/business-news/mcdonalds-close-to-new-olympic-deal-ioc-says-reuters#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Gomez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ioc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ioc Says]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[McDonald&#8217;s, whose contract runs out after this year&#8217;s London Olympics, and IOC officials will meet in Austria during the Innsbruck Youth Olympics starting Friday to finalize details. &#8220;The situation is positive and I don&#8217;t see any obstacle. We are very close,&#8221; IOC marketing commission chairman Gerhard Heiberg told Reuters. &#8220;We will meet in Innsbruck and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Access reviews and analyzes serious risks facing global civil society</title>
		<link>http://business-markets.info/financial-information/access-reviews-and-analyzes-serious-risks-facing-global-civil-society</link>
		<comments>http://business-markets.info/financial-information/access-reviews-and-analyzes-serious-risks-facing-global-civil-society#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Foster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Information]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[« Facebook is Good, but Personal Face Time is Better, Say MIT Sloan MBAs By razavi &#124; January 3, 2012 From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movements, 2011 witnessed an incredible expansion of the use of the internet for social activism and change. But less frequently reported are the increasing cyber-attacks on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Tips for effective business cards design</title>
		<link>http://business-markets.info/small-business-resources/6-tips-for-effective-business-cards-design</link>
		<comments>http://business-markets.info/small-business-resources/6-tips-for-effective-business-cards-design#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Long</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Effective Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Effective Business Cards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear readers, I wanted to share these tips I saw in Tom “Big Al” Schreiter’s Fortune Now newsletter. With a few extra additions on effective business cards from me. 6 Tips for effective business cards design 1. Put your picture on your business card. People will remember you more easily. And you appear more approachable. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metro Detroit holiday shoppers pick up momentum</title>
		<link>http://business-markets.info/business-news/metro-detroit-holiday-shoppers-pick-up-momentum</link>
		<comments>http://business-markets.info/business-news/metro-detroit-holiday-shoppers-pick-up-momentum#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Gomez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Shoppers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Holiday shopping traffic may be light so far this year, but purchases are up, says one retail developer. And the shift is now turning from self purchases to holiday gift shopping. &#8220;People are getting more serious about their shopping,&#8221; said Karen MacDonald, spokeswoman for the Taubman Group, which owns 25 shopping centers around the country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Unemployment Lowest Since ‘08</title>
		<link>http://business-markets.info/financial-information/mass-unemployment-lowest-since-%e2%80%9808</link>
		<comments>http://business-markets.info/financial-information/mass-unemployment-lowest-since-%e2%80%9808#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts added 5,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate fell to 7 percent, according to the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. Unemployment, which stood at 7.3 percent the previous month, is now the lowest it&#8217;s been since December 2008. It&#8217;s also well below the national rate of 8.6 percent. The biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What will 2012 bring?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Long</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business Resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In December you can count on snow, nostalgic looks back over the year and the inevitable predictions for the future.  One of the more interesting trends that seems to be garnering quite a bit of chatter is the notion of screen time and how touch screens are going mainstream. Check out this video by Corning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atos boss Breton proposes email ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Long</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Atos Boss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology giant Atos boss, Thierry Breton, plans ban internal emails by 2014. These surprisingly bold plans have met with applause and derision in equal measure by business and technology commentators. But Breton, former French minister of economy, finance and industry, claims banning internal email would be a massive step in the right technological direction and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;It&#8217;s a gift from God&#8217;: Cybermation tele-health venture makes it easier to monitor activity, medications</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLD SPRING After complications from shoulder surgery made it difficult for 69-year-old Ed Thelen to sleep in a bed at night, hes taken to dozing in a giant easy chair in the living room of his third-floor home at John Paul Apartments.That discomfort isnt his only concern. He also has a pacemaker, battles diabetes, struggles [...]]]></description>
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