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	<description>Performance Management matters!</description>
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		<title>The business intelligence project assembling line.</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/08/the-business-intelligence-project-assembling-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/?p=5754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Doing a business intelligence project is an enterprise job, no less. But often that is the real value is the hard work of sorting out all the data. The Pareto theory to focuses on 20% of effort to get 80% of the value does not work in business intelligence projects. You need to get 100% of the data right and cleaned up before it can be mapped and reported consistently. 

The value of adding data cleaning to the assembly line actually makes the whole job easier and the secondary benefit it brings gets the business involved. It should also be used to continually sell the value of the process it takes to get that vital work done.]]></description>
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		<title>Is there still a place for the human brain?</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/08/is-there-still-a-place-for-the-human-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/08/is-there-still-a-place-for-the-human-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CapabilityManagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What we are Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brain Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAGE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With much of the world now being connected by intelligent systems, that these days even come down from the clouds, is the human brain soon to be replaced.

Critical human skills expected of the business managers such as foresight. logic, concentration responsiveness, memory and numeracy are now highly sophisticated aspects of our modern systems, 

Be they operational, commercial, logistical or business management systems, the big question is how will these pan out in the long term and how should we approach it and our skills to work in this much flatter span of control?   Take a look at it this more in more practical lighthearted detail.]]></description>
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		<title>If you are not having fun it never gets done.</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/08/if-you-are-not-having-fun-it-never-gets-done/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/08/if-you-are-not-having-fun-it-never-gets-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Effective Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a consultant most is know that much of our work is detailed and exploratory. Making change means we need to study and discuss the gaps in the “what is” position so you can have a discussion about changing that state. This takes planning thought and collaborative skill to get people to dig in to the detail and then go a new way to fix the problems we find. That process can be both continuous and radical. Either way it happens best if the process is fun so people enjoy engaging to get detail information and explore looking for solutions and best practices.]]></description>
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		<title>Getting contracts right and balanced is vital in winning deals.</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/07/getting-contracts-right-and-balanced-is-vital-in-winning-deals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/07/getting-contracts-right-and-balanced-is-vital-in-winning-deals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tendering to Win]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contracting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I want to share with you a recent experience I had negotiating a contract. During this process it struck me that even though we know there are no fairy godmothers, we still believe they will take care of us.

     As a budding recruit learning the commercial ropes, my boss had once warned me about believing in fairies.

You can lose your shirt if you don't get your pricing right. But you will lose your business if you compromise on your terms and conditions. 

As a service providers it is not only for the burden of added cost or the overall success and gets us paid that is at stake if we get sloppy on our terms and conditions.   Doing that can also loose our reputations that keep us in business. Read more on my case experience.]]></description>
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		<title>The Marketing message: So what&#8217;s in it for me?</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/07/the-marketing-message-so-whats-in-it-for-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/07/the-marketing-message-so-whats-in-it-for-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Initiatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gideon Shalwick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Skills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gideon Shalwick, is an experienced and widely known internet marketer and author, who recently shared a confronting lesson he had. This bears reposting here as it has something for everyone. 

He says when you get to a certain level in your profession or calling, you become so “advanced” in your knowledge and experience that you often forget the basics of what it is that makes you truly successful.

After sending some marketing material to his newsletter subscriber list, feedback from a friend quite directly pointed out to him that his message lacked substance with “nothing in it me”. 

From this sobering learning he decided to create a short video to share and discuss how to be more effective, where you actually touch peoples lives in a real way!

His reflections also beg of those who watch to his video, to ask of themselves  “Do I make the same mistake and if so, what can I do to correct it?”

In his typically open and generous style, Gideon also gives excellent tips on how to use video to great effect.  Watch and enjoy!]]></description>
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		<title>CFO X factor as vendors drive for Internet Cloud Power.</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/07/cfo-x-factor-as-vendors-drive-for-internet-cloud-power/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/07/cfo-x-factor-as-vendors-drive-for-internet-cloud-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CapabilityManagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Few things are as critical to CFO's and finance professionals as our systems. From core accounting and budgeting platforms to back office infrastructure, ERP and CRM are all moving online, into the "cloud", and an entirely new business model called “Software as a Service”. This represents the largest change in technology for the Finance profession since the internet began. 

The responsibilities that come with this change are a paradigm shift as systems control moves more to the finance roles. Quite ready too are many of the new bread of finance executives who has emerged in the last decade. This has seen then develop from being passive Information Technology users to being savvy technology thinkers and change agent leaders who can related Information management to the business process and understand how to exploit it to get business value.

As cloud based Software as a Service benefits mature and become more and more obvious the questions being asked are not able what is but about how to harnes its power.

The controlling dynamics of the cloud makes this subject even more compelling when we consider who will be controlling our daily lives in the future. 

The bottom line for finance and business strategists is to understand where the investment by vendors is now and the changes going on in the development world as the legacy systems become less important to them.]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand  in Transition: Impacts and what it means to others!!</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/07/thailand-transition-impacts-and-what-it-means-to-others/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/07/thailand-transition-impacts-and-what-it-means-to-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangkok News; Thaland News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the recent political unrest in Thailand the strategic importance of this country in South East Asia and its place as a stable economic base is becoming more understood.

As this remarkable economy rebounds, there remains no doubt that indelible “power of the poor people” can no longer be ignored.

As this remarkable economy rebounds in Thailand, there remains no doubt that the now indelible “power of the poor people” can no longer be ignored. 


In the aftermath of the unrest the powerful people in the political oppositions at the next elections are hell-bent to take back control of the countries riches . But whoever leads, if they cannot deliver the social change and restore harmony, it will be very hard to avoid more unrest. The longer term impact is not only in Thailand, but the region and many in global economies.]]></description>
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		<title>Are we seeing the demise of IT as we know it?</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/07/are-we-seeing-the-demise-of-it-as-we-know-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/07/are-we-seeing-the-demise-of-it-as-we-know-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change Managment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Function]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/?p=5625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is something to ponder. The Corporate Executive Board Company, says five years ago, less than 25% of business leaders rated their IT function’s effective to deliver the capabilities they needed. They go on to say in 2010 the number has not changed.

IT functions have strived tirelessly to understand demand, set priorities, deliver effectively, and capture value, yet the results still disappoint. Business and IT leaders alike feel they should be getting more—more efficiency, more innovation, and more value—from technology.

In their recently published study of the IT role its findings cover  5 levels of shift.]]></description>
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		<title>Parking Inspector Goes Global</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/07/parking-inspector-goes-global/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/07/parking-inspector-goes-global/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community & Social Obligations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Parking Ticket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parking. Unusual Niche Businesses]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/?p=5575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week in Melbourne, I had a great lunch with my son. He talked abut his city based vocation as a building construction manager It is not without hazard when it comes to parking he told me. Later he sent me a very funny letter written to the Melbourne City Council about a parking issue written by one of his aggrieved mates.

I send it to my very good friend, Lawrence Berezin for an opinion, being he is Lawyer in New York. He in turn sought  wider views in his regular web publication “New York Parking Ticket”. In this he very kindly added some great publicity about our National Song Waltzing Matilda. Plus he got some great comments from his readers including some nice ones about us Aussies. Here is his post that included my son’s message. He headed it The-Wacky-World-of-Parking-Tickets.

In this fun site Larry takes what to most is an emotive subject and makes it not only advisory and educational but practical too. Although about New York City Parking it has huge appeal with everyone who parks their car in any city anywhere in the world.  Go and make yourself known to Larry (as he prefers to be called by his mates) and let him know what you think about the things he writes. He always replies so you wont regret it.]]></description>
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		<title>How good are you at listening, even to yourself?</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/06/how-good-are-you-at-listening-even-to-yourself/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/06/how-good-are-you-at-listening-even-to-yourself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business is not all about working, so make sure you get a life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Living]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/06/how-good-are-you-at-listening-even-to-yourself/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently an ulcer in my mouth was quite distressing. I attempted to research it to find some sort of relief. You would think for such a simple thing as an ulcer in the mouth would be easy to find a remedy. But it is not so unless you ask the right questions.   Even so I did manage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who profits from poor data quality?</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/06/who-profits-from-poor-data-quality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/06/who-profits-from-poor-data-quality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Understanding Consumner Behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What we are Reading]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the course of reading I found something that I believe puts a very different perspective on data management. We talk a lot about how real time fast retrieval based analytics reporting can be used to grow the business. The truth it that it is not always so. Modern business systems have high integrity built in and can present  data to you on demand, so you can ask questions that perhaps can be of high impact . That is the real value

But when a system process is broken or poorly designed, aside from fixing the cause, it seems bad data can provide business opportunities for the unscrupulous?

The question posed in the research material I read  asked, Who profits from poor data quality?  

Well apparently, the retail industry does—sometimes.]]></description>
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		<title>Is it the name or the alias that matters?</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/06/is-it-the-name-or-the-alias-that-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/06/is-it-the-name-or-the-alias-that-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/?p=5322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Business people, not IT, make technology work to focus the business. The IT role is more strategic to maintain and improve competitive positions of the business infrastructure to make people’s lives easier, It is not the other way around. Ask any CIO, he knows that.]]></description>
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		<title>Can &#8220;Drive&#8221; itself be a motivator more than money?</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/06/can-drive-itself-be-a-motivator-more-than-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/06/can-drive-itself-be-a-motivator-more-than-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change Managment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Incentiviszation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Pink;]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/?p=5504</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This may be the best 10 minutes of essential information you can get to help you understand and pass your next creative leadership challenge.  A question put by Dan Pink is, "if you reward something do you get more of the behavior you want and if you punish do you get something you get less." 

A popular myth in business and life is that it is only money that motivates. For routine work this may be true but even with just rudimentary cognitive skills it may be worse. Then the profit motive gets unhinged from purpose and bad things start to happen. 

This is discussed in this Royal Society for encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) Animate Video - “Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us”   Read more and enjoy this excellent video…]]></description>
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		<title>Plugging the gap on data value</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/05/plugging-the-gap-on-data-value/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/05/plugging-the-gap-on-data-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Cleansing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Mining]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/?p=5453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had some interesting exchanges recently that took me to a UK firm who specialize in data cleansing, I was reminded of a survey we did some time ago that asked the question, How do Business Intelligence solutions provide value?

Of the 86 replies the answers varied in weight but it was clear Sales Growth and Operating Performance are the top issues. 

In my discussion with Chris Johnson at CMN in the UK he said "Companies waste so much money and cause harm to the environment by not regularly cleansing their data. Data is one of our biggest assets. You wouldn’t drive around in your Ferrari or work in your high rise office block without getting it cleaned once in a while would you?"

This was very sound advice which I was looking for to help me in my work in Business Intelligence that relies so much on clean data.

As I looked through the impressive product list at CMN, (Yes it is one of those coveted TLA names) it seemed to focus on these needs so well so I decided to keep it as a reference list of issues that people in business face.]]></description>
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		<title>Bangkok recovery is now encouraging</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/05/bangkok-recovery-is-now-encouraging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/05/bangkok-recovery-is-now-encouraging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 11:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangkok News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangkok Rioting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Curfew still remains in force in Bangkok as clean up operations continue and order in the city and provinces is resorted. Even so headlines of last 2 days still show dangers are still present.

The Bangkok CentralWorld management just sent me by our office provider SERVCORP gives some good news about our office in there. In it they advise the extent of the fire damage generally to the Centralworld complex on the 19th May 2010.]]></description>
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		<title>Do you sell using a Mattress Test?</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/05/do-you-sell-using-a-mattress-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/05/do-you-sell-using-a-mattress-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salesmanship. Intelligent selling.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is some advice I got as a student. To make ends meet, I took a job selling wedding chest products. (Those old enough to remember may recall Carrigans, a boutique firm that sold a quality product range by referral based selling. 

My sales coach at the time told me.

 “Don’t try to sell products, show solutions to real problems” and something practical that goes with that is a mattress test”  

“What is a mattress test?” I quizzed.

It is a simple concept that alerts or disturbs a prospect unexpectedly that he or she has a problem, But the skill is to do it in a way you and your product or service are seen as part of the solution.  Most rookie sales people learn this but rarely apply it.  If you do, you will sell well”

He went on to explain the metaphor:]]></description>
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		<title>Bangkok Ignites:The City of Angels is on Fire</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/05/bangkok-ignitesthe-city-of-angels-is-on-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tonight there is an eerie yellow feel in the city of angels with Bangkok now under a curfew . The only people on the streets are the army, police, authorized people and emergency services. The events of today that saw the protest rallies ended and leaders arrested then transformed into lawless rioting and burning. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bangkok is a tinderbox right now</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 11:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangkok News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bangkok riots]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I post this I am getting live reports via my Skype 

I just heard that in in Rama 4  in Bangkok, four people have just been shot.  

One is dead and three injured.

Since my post on Saturday I have been keeping it updated in the comments section as events occur,

Tonight as tensions seem to be heightening I have included this as a separate post too. 

Here is an update on events in Bangkok before to 6PM., Sine then a critical meeting between the opposing sides has been cancelled. The casualty count as reported is 60 dead and 1000 hurt.

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		<title>Being on the spot in Bangkok is not a good scene.</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/05/being-on-the-spot-in-bangkok-is-not-a-good-scene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 07:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangkok News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangkok Protest Rallies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following last nights violence as I went for some breakfast nearby this morning, I was most disturbed at hearing a motor bike rider say he had just seen three people lying dead on the road near the rally zone. He said  they been left unattended because no-one wanted to risk their life to remove the bodies.

This morning when I awoke in Bangkok 16 more people are dead including some foreigners with scores more injured as the government tries to end the two month long protest rallies. 

Tthe 2 Km stretch from my home to our Bangkok office is not an option as it stands in epicenter of the troubles. On that stretch all business there is now closed. 

All around the city in the last few days the sight of army and flak jacketed police tells the tail of the tensions here. To visit one of our clients in the east of the city means I have to go past the Prime Ministers home which since the trouble began has been heavily guarded.]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Parking Ticket goes international</title>
		<link>http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/05/nyc-parking-ticket-goes-international/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 03:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Effective Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Parking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parking. Unusual Niche Businesses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In any business there is always demand and supply.  But how does a New York Lawyer make any money out of handling mundane commodity service issues like parking. Yes you have to wonder? Read more about one that is ..http://www.performancecontroller.com/blog/2010/05/nyc-parking-ticket-goes-international/]]></description>
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