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		<title>Gold and realty can be converted into financial assets: McKinsey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indian household investment in gold and real estate has the potential to be converted into financial assets, according to a study by consulting firm McKinsey. The study estimates that by FY16, Rs 3.80 lakh crore will be invested in gold and real estate. Gold-based assets alone could create assets under management of around Rs 2,25,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMU scientist wins Overton Prize for computational biology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Carnegie Mellon University scientist who has developed methods of analyzing complex biological patterns has received a major award from the International Society of Computational Biology. Ziv Bar-Joseph, an associate professor at CMU, is getting the Overton Prize from the society, which promotes the use of computers to unravel how genes, proteins and cells work. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A request users can&#8217;t deny: Facebook to push its Timeline profile format</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Format]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find. Timeline is essentially a scrapbook of your whole life on Facebook. By contrast, Facebooks traditional profile page is more of a snapshot of you today. Although some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rumors Of Obamas Buying Hepburn Estate: &#8216;Absurd&#8217; And &#8216;Not True&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Estate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few hours Friday, it looked like the First Family might be seriously looking at purchasing the newly renovated Katharine Hepburn estate in Connecticut on the Fenwick waterfront. At least that was the rumor reported Friday by Hearst Newspapers, picking up on an earlier report of speculation by venerable gossip columnist Liz Smith — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Zijin says to buy gold and copper project for $227 mln</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese gold and copper miner Zijin Mining Group Co Ltd said on Tuesday that it would acquire 45 percent of Gold Eagle Mining Investment Ltd for 1.44 billion yuan ($226.7 million). Gold Eagle owns a 100 percent interest in Tibet Tian Yuan Minerals Exploration Limited, the owner of the Tibet Xietongmen gold and copper project. - Reuters]]></description>
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		<title>Business news briefs for 12/21/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fed proposes new, tougher rules for big banks The Federal Reserve on Tuesday said the largest U.S. banks and financial companies should hold extra cash on their balance sheets to cushion against financial crises. The proposal will affect banks with over $50 billion in assets. There are even stricter rules for companies with more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State utilities&#8217; report outlines customers frustrations with JCP&amp;L in storm aftermath</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jersey Central Power &#038; Light should immediately review its communications strategies for weather events, and should start communicating with its customers not just through its website, but using social media, state staffers told the Board of Public Utilities yesterday in a report. The BPU staff report is the first action by the state to come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demonstrators To Congress: Renew 99 Weeks Of Unemployment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Ann Marie Virgo was laid off from her parking attendant job, she didn&#8217;t bother to apply for unemployment right away. After all, her two sons had summer jobs in West Hartford, one at a movie theater and one at a grocery store, and she figured she could go to work with one of them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The gold prices currently are unreasonable”, Zijin Mining exec says</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current gold prices are too high to sustain, and high prices will also hamper investment abroad, an executive of Chinas largest gold producer by output, Zijin Mining Group Co. , said Sunday. The gold prices currently are unreasonable, Lan Fusheng, vice chairman of Zijin Mining, said in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires. Prices have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takeover would boost Joy shares</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joy Global Inc., which generated the biggest shareholder returns of any industrial company in America over the past three years, would now be worth about 50 percent more as a takeover target for Komatsu Ltd. or Volvo AB. Joy Global, subject of renewed takeover speculation in the past month, more than quadrupled in value since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal drug regulators revoke Avastin&#8217;s approval as a breast cancer treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blockbuster drug Avastin should no longer be used in advanced breast cancer patients because there&#8217;s no proof that it extends their lives and it presents dangerous side effects, the government said today. The ruling by the Food and Drug Administration was long expected, but it was certain to disappoint women who say they&#8217;ve run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AG: Telecom Firms Should Automatically Credit Customers For Time Without Service; AT&amp;T Agrees</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General George Jepsen said Thursday he is asking all providers of telephone, cable TV, satellite TV and Internet access to waive charges for the days when their Connecticut customers were without service following the October snowstorm. AT&#038;T immediately agreed to the request. Jepsen said the request holds whether the lack of service was due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAIC Roewe E50 versus Nissan Leaf</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE Roewe E50 electric vehicle debuted by SAIC uses the carmakers most advanced green technologies and aims to take on the Nissan Leaf electric car. The nations largest auto group said the subcompact Roewe E50 is powered by a lithium ion battery, which allows a maximum mileage of 190 kilometers with a top speed of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highmark, WPAHS plan acquisition announcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps as early as next week, Highmark and the West Penn Allegheny Health System plan to announce an agreement in which the region&#8217;s largest insurer will acquire the region&#8217;s second-largest health provider network. Friday&#8217;s release of West Penn Allegheny&#8217;s unaudited financial report for this past fiscal year shows the deal can&#8217;t come soon enough for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Popularity of smartphones helps Verizon to double quarterly profit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Profit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Verizon Communications, the second-largest U.S. phone company, reported third-quarter profit doubled as consumers snapped up iPhones and Android devices. Net income rose to $1.38 billion, or 49 cents a share, from $659 million, or 23 cents, a year earlier, New York-based Verizon said today. Earnings, excluding some items, rose to 56 cents a share in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computers Down Amid Anger, Layoffs At The Metropolitan District</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[District]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[jpodsada@courant.com In the same week the Metropolitan District laid off more than a dozen support staff, including IT workers, the agency experienced a week-long shut down of its computer system, angering customers and frustrating customer service representatives who did not know when the system would return. Customers who called the MDC this week with questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Ford Escape</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Basics: First impressions can ring true, but if you&#8217;re betting the 2011 Ford Escape is a trucky, cramped fuel hog, you&#8217;re all wrong. The Escape may look the part of a 7/8-scale Ford Explorer, but its car-based running gear makes it a crossover at heart&#8211;an aging heart, but at heart nonetheless. Blocky looks and [...]]]></description>
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