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		<title>Tips to become a successful weekend entrepreneur</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting a business using just your weekend hours (and maybe even your weekday evenings) can be a challenge&#8211;so we went to Jeff Sloan, co-founder with his brother Rich Sloan of StartupNation LLC, an online outlet for starting and growing a business, and co-author of StartupNation: America&#8217;s Leading Entrepreneurial Experts Reveal the Secrets to Building a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=49&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ingredients of a Marketing Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every how-to book on the market has a different take on the essential elements of a marketing plan. Those geared toward the big corporate crowd communicate in a language few human beings understand. However, the words you use are much less important than how seriously you approach the task. This section outlines the key elements [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=48&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to make you known??</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to define communication. The simplest definition is simply to &#8220;make known.&#8221; Another definition is &#8220;to give or interchange thoughts, feelings, information, or the like, by writing, speaking, signs, etc.&#8221; To me, communication is making connections. Take Helen Keller for instance. She wasn&#8217;t able to communicate until she learned to connect objects [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=47&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to be great!</title>
		<link>http://longscorner.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/how-to-be-great/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What it takes to be great: Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. The secret? Painful and demanding practice and hard work What makes Tiger Woods great? What made Berkshire Hathaway (Charts) Chairman Warren Buffett the world&#8217;s premier investor? We think we know: Each was a natural who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=46&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is/are the secret(s) of success in life? (cont.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How hard that is to change our goal in life? First, we human naturally resist changes. We are built to stay with habits, routines, schedules. We do want to change. Say, every day you wake up at 6am. It is not easy for you to change your routine to wake up at 5am instead. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=45&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of &#8220;success&#8221; ultimately has to be a personal idea. Success means achieving what we aim to get. And &#8220;aim&#8221; or &#8220;goal&#8221; is a very personal thing; ultimately it is always our own aim, our own goal. If your dad wants you to be a doctor (although you don&#8217;t really want it) and you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=44&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pay-Per-Click Tips for Attracting Traffic</title>
		<link>http://longscorner.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/pay-per-click-tips-for-attracting-traffic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cory Rudl &#8211; Entrepreneur.com Pay-per-click (PPC) search engines can be a powerful, instant source of qualified traffic for your website?provided you do your homework and invest a bit of time in managing your campaign. In fact, many website owners who&#8217;ve mastered keyword targeting and know the &#8220;insider&#8221; bidding strategies tell me that more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=43&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google AdWords Optimization Tips</title>
		<link>http://longscorner.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/google-adwords-optimization-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google controls more of the search market than all of its competitors combined. With that being said, Google has a ton of advertising space to sell. If you know how to optimize AdWords better than your competitors you stand to achieve great profit. Google vs Overture: Overture is the main competitor to Google AdWords. Overture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=42&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>stages to achieving great organic listings</title>
		<link>http://longscorner.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/stages-to-achieving-great-organic-listings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many stages to achieving great organic listings. 1. Your site should be about something you are an expert on. 2. A good site plan should be thought out before you begin marketing. 3. Scope out the competition to see how competitive your keyword landscape is. 4. Decide what keywords you want to use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=41&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers&#8217; needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would skyrocket. But in today&#8217;s crowded marketplace, customer loyalty is more elusive than ever. A recent McKinsey study reveals that the annual churn in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=40&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer generated marketing is a fact of life to which all of us will have to adapt. Adaptation means learning how to use CGM to provide one form of input in fashioning product and marketing decisions. Those are the messages from respondents to this month&#8217;s column, who seemed to treat what some might think is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=39&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Balanced Scorecard Approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy customers are good, but profitable customers are much better. In this article, professor and Balanced Scorecard guru Robert S. Kaplan introduces BSC Customer Profitability Metrics. From Balanced Scorecard Report. Find it here: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4938.html<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=38&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Box Office Power of Stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how much do movie stars contribute to box office success? HBS professor Anita Elberse researched the notion of &#8220;star power&#8221; to better understand how A-list players contribute to Hollywood&#8217;s bottom line Find it here: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5025.html<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=37&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Survey-Based Procedure for Measuring Uncertainty or Heterogeneous Preferences in Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who buy retail prescription drugs, invest funds, or participate in auctions rarely have complete information about the product they are buying. Often the only auction information participants have is the number of bidders, observed bids, and product characteristics. If data from an auction, for instance, is a function of bidder behavior, then external survey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=36&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the &#8220;Long Tail&#8221; Work for Hollywood?</title>
		<link>http://longscorner.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/will-the-long-tail-work-for-hollywood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;long-tail phenomenon&#8221; is well documented: Amazon.com makes significant profits selling many low-volume books. But can the long tail work for video sales as well? A new working paper by professors Anita Elberse and Felix Oberholzer-Gee suggests that it may not bring the same benefits to Hollywood. Key concepts include: For video sales, the long-tail [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=35&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Value a &#8220;Free&#8221; Customer?</title>
		<link>http://longscorner.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/how-do-you-value-a-free-customer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a valuable customer may be the person who never buys a thing. In a new research paper, Professor Sunil Gupta discusses how to assess the profitability of a customer in a networked setting—a &#8220;free&#8221; customer who nevertheless influences your bottom line. Key concepts include: In multi-sided markets, some customers contribute to a company&#8217;s bottom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=34&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Customer lifetime value</title>
		<link>http://longscorner.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/customer-lifetime-value/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Lehmann discusses Managing Customers as Investments, a new book in which he and coauthor Sunil Gupta explain how to calculate and apply customer lifetime value. You write that teaching the core marketing course to Columbia MBAs was one of your main inspirations for the book. During the dot-com bubble, I noticed there were a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=32&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defaults make a difference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People sometimes sign up for things and then opt out later. Or they opt out now and opt in later. In both cases, they change their decision. Does it matter? In some cases, no, but in other cases it matters a great deal. Take organ donation: when you renew your driver’s license, you can sign [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=31&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional accounting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In purely rational economic terms, money is fungible. It shouldn’t matter where the $20 in your wallet came from, whether you earned it at a job or found it on the street. But people act as if it does, and in the 1980s the concept of mental accounting emerged. According to this concept, people categorize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=30&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are you looking for in your leader? (3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out Lao Tzu on leadership.  Thirty Whenever you advise a ruler in the way of Tao, Counsel him not to use force to conquer the universe. For this would only cause resistance. Thorn bushes spring up wherever the army has passed. Lean years follow in the wake of a great war. Just do what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=28&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are you looking for in your leader? (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tran Dinh Hoanh A.  First, let start with the most simple common-sense definition of &#8220;leader.&#8221;  Leader is (1) the person who leads (2) a group of people (3) to a destination. So leadership involves you, your people and the goal. 1.  The goal is what we call &#8220;vision,&#8221; some destination in the future to arrive, some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=27&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are you looking for in your leader? (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AD (Andi) Marshall Top Ten Prioritized Leadership Qualities, ver 0.1 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; 00. Wisdom (somewhat ineffable, but likely comprised of the following qualities, several of which overlap or are interdependent) 01. Wit 02. Grace 03. Kindness 04. Resilience 05. Humble Intelligence 06. Open-minded Skepticism 07. Physical, Mental, Spiritual &#38; Economic Fitness 08. Awareness of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=26&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What needs for a career in MR</title>
		<link>http://longscorner.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/skills-experiences-education-for-a-career-in-mr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Communication skills. The first skill set we address is the presence of communication skills. Writing skills appeared most often (44%), whereas oral/verbal communication skills appeared in 34% of the ads. Presentation skills, report preparation skills, and general communication skills were found to be important, as they were mentioned quite frequently: 32%, 30%, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=18&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing research, by AMS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I. Opinion &#38; Marketing Research Industry Marketing &#8211; The act or process of buying and selling in a market; or the commercial functions involved in transferring goods from producer to consumer. Opinion &#8211; A view, judgment or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter; a generally held view; or a belief stronger than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longscorner.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1397540&amp;post=4&amp;subd=longscorner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello world!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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