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Need to be the perfect lady? India's motivation experts have just the course :: Self-improvement businesses enjoy boom despite national slowdown, as newly rich try to bridge cultural divideIndian economic growth may be slowing up, but there is at least one sector that is ever more successful: self-improvement. Whether it is English language classes for some of the poorest and most disadvantaged communities or Anurag Aggarwal's courses for the middle classes, nothing seems to stop the boom.On a Saturday afternoon in a conference room in a south Delhi suburb, Aggarwal is talking fluently and forcefully. In a three-piece suit with his iPad and a wireless microphone clipped to an ear, he is advising on body language, voice modulation and personality development to an audience of Indian professionals who have paid about £400 for a six-month course of one session a week."T...
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MPs tell football it must reform :: English football is told to introduce reforms within the next year or expect the government to bring in legislation.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21238173

Advisor Confidence Index Increase in December :: NEW YORK, Dec. 24, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Advisor Confidence Index (ACI), a benchmark that gauges advisor views on the U.S. economy and stock market, reports that advisor confidence increased significantly in December, with the index decreasing 18.41% from the November level to close at 100.8. (Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE))
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Electric car startup Coda quietly dealing with lawsuits over unpaid bills :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/UcWMk3QtbqE/story01.htm

BetterDoctor takes on ZocDoc with streamlined doctor discovery app, now on iOS :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/yzy0n639A0g/story01.htm

Square gets chummy with the carriers, selling its card reader at Verizon stores :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/SloA4k99SvM/story01.htm

CES severs ties with CBS over Dish Hopper coverage :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/0-S3Ds4Vb4k/story01.htm

Facebook takes gifts into the realm of plastic with launch of Facebook Gift Card :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/gaG6F9mjwXU/story01.htm

London Market Report :: London's main stock market ends the day down, but ends the month with its strongest January performance since 1998.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11899862#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Political gloom surrounds Italy election :: The poll campaign is becoming fraught with a hung parliament looking likely. Yet, the Milan stock market remains buoyant as investors shrug off instability
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3c3f3572-6b88-11e2-8c62-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

VIDEO: EU is 'a job destruction machine' :: The business world has been debating whether David Cameron's promise to renegotiate the UK's relationship with Europe, and set a date for a referendum - is a good move for Britain.
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Renting and sharing: The business of the future :: Are we outgrowing our obsession with material goods?
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20663919#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

The growing use of motorcycles for commercial transport and traffic safety in Ghana - Agyekum-Boamah P. :: Background The use of motorcycles for commercial transport is an underground economy spreading in Ghana with traffic safety problems.

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UCLA's Richard Jackson wins Heinz Award for his work on healthy design of cities :: Dr. Richard Jackson, a pediatrician, professor and chair of the department of environmental health sciences at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health, has been honored with the prestigious Heinz Award&nbsp;for&nbsp;his environmental and public health research, which has sparked a national conversation about the relationship between the physical design of our communities and rising health risks.
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The annual awards recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to solving some of society's most intractable problems.
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Jackson, who is also a faculty member at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has led a distinguished career calling attention to the high incidence of asthma, cancer, obesity, diabetes a...
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British industrial policy remains plagued by the antidote fallacy :: Policy failures are attributed to incomplete revolution leading to an antidote response. Here is a better way to boost industryNot so long ago, the UK's political classes used to rubbish industrial policy as "picking winners". But these days, things have changed. As Ha Joon Chang, an economist at the University of Cambridge recently observed, with Vince Cable in the lead and the TUC and CBI in the chorus, our policy wonks and politicians are all industrial activists now.But if we are witnessing a change of faith, it's a conversion that rests on the antidote fallacy. Since 1945, the syllogism which justifies every major British policy regime change is that if strategy (a) is a dismal failure, then the opposite strategy (b) will deliver policy objectives. The definition of strategy (b) is al...
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VIDEO: Making the most of Davos with Imax :: Imax chief executive Rich Gelfond, a seasoned veteran of Davos explains how to make the most of the event
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VIDEO: Ukraine and Shell sign shale gas deal :: Ukraine has signed a major shale gas deal with Royal Dutch Shell.
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2012 in America: the year in review :: A Mars rover captured our hearts, Brooklyn got a basketball team, Obama got four more years, and he did it all with Gangnam styleGreg ChenJulian BurgessGuardian US interactive teamErin McCannGabriel Dance (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
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Anti-Prostitution Campaign Picks Up Speed :: In a small dingy room on the edge of a brothel in west Kolkata, capital of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a 42-year-old former sex worker is trying to eke out a living selling cooked food in her neighbourhood, while tending to her sick husband and a paralysed son.
Despite the hardships of everyday life, Rubiya Bibi (not her real name), who was trafficked to India from neighbouring Bangladesh when she was a teenager, knows one thing for sure – she does not want to go back to prostitution.
Recalling the days when pimps and madams would force her to sleep with men even when she was sick, Rubiya Bibi says: "Poverty forced me to prostitution. But once in the trade's vicious cycle, I faced even more atrocities.
"I was never allowed to say 'no' to those who ran the brothels....
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China PMI weighs on Asian markets :: Most markets under pressure after China's manufacturing reading misses estimates, with traders also awaiting US jobs data
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/01bbcc22-6c1d-11e2-a700-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

Asian Stocks Mixed After China Manufacturing Data :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Asian stock markets were mixed Friday as disappointing Chinese manufacturing activity data weighed on the sentiment.</p>
<p>Hong Kong's Hang Seng declined 0.44 percent or 105.01 points to 23,624.52, South Korea's KOSPI Composite fell 0.34 percent or 6.66 points to 1,955.28 and Chinese Shanghai Composite declined 0.02 percent while Japan's benchmark Nikkei gained 0.49 percent or 54.79 points to 11,193.45 and India's BSE Sensex gained 0.23 percent.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/asian-stocks-mixed-after-china-manufacturing-data-1054492

Top After-Market NYSE Movers (Netsuite, Green Dot, Standard Pacific, Tyson Foods, Gramercy, Berry Plastics, Navios Maritime, Cytec, Chesapeake Lodging, Emulex) :: <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The top after-market NYSE gainers Thursday were Netsuite Inc, Green Dot Corp, Standard Pacific Corp, Tyson Foods and Gramercy Capital Corp. The top after-market NYSE losers were Berry Plastics Group, Navios Maritime Partners, Cytec Industries, Chesapeake Lodging Trust and Emulex Corp.</p>
<p><strong>Gainers</strong></p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/top-after-market-nyse-movers-netsuite-green-dot-standard-pacific-tyson-foods-gramercy-berry-plastics

Top After-Market NASDAQ Movers (Audience, Tesco, Gevo, Cavium, Inc Electro Scientific, Tellabs, Oplink Communications, Constant Contact, Astro-Med) :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Thursday were Audience Inc, Tesco Corporation, Gevo Inc and Cavium Inc.</p>
<p>Audience Inc (NASDAQ: ADNC) shares gained 24.47 percent to $15.21 in post-market trading. The stock has a 52-week low of $5.51, a 52-week high of $23.41 and $248.62 million in market capitalization.</p>
<p>Tesco Corporation (NASDAQ: TESO) shares climbed 6.70 percent to $12.90 in post-market trading. The stock has a 52-week low of $8.70, a 52-week high of $16.88 and $468.43 million in market capitalization.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/top-after-market-nasdaq-movers-audience-tesco-gevo-cavium-inc-electro-scientific-tellabs-oplink

Spanish Premier Denies Illicit Payoffs :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p>
<p>The Spanish government was suddenly rocked by scandal Thursday after documents were published that allegedly showed Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy getting €277,000 ($376,000) that had been hidden from tax authorities.</p>
<p>Rajoy denied the allegations after the Madrid newspaper El País published extracts from what it said were secret accounts for his conservative ruling People's Party, the Guardian reported. But opponents demanded his resignation, and ordinary Spaniards asked whether those now imposing draconian austerity had practiced, or tolerated, systematic tax avoidance.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/spanish-premier-denies-illicit-payoffs-1054472

Why Did Steven Tyler Go Drag For 'Dude Looks Like A Lady' Style 'American Idol' Audition? :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Steven Tyler must have been feeling like a woman. </p>
<p>The Aerosmith frontman gave <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://fox.com">Fox's</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fox.com/programming/shows/?sh=american-idol">"American Idol" </a>fans a good laugh when he showed up to an audition doing his best "dude looks like a lady" impression.</p>
<p>It seems the musician had no motive other than to stir up some giggles for viewers and the unsuspecting judges.</p>
<p>Tyler attempted to trick the judges into thinking he was a woman in the Oklahoma City audition, the last stop before Hollywood.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/why-did-steven-tyler-go-drag-dude-looks-lady-style-american-idol-audition-1054436

Bionic hand with the human touch :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/gjGUW26dXaU/

Play 'Surgeon Simulator 2013' Online; Can You Perform A Virtual Heart Surgery? [VIDEO] :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While some people dream of becoming a firefighter, archaeologist or an astronaut, being a surgeon is definitely a worthy career to pursue. If "Operation" is too low-tech for you, "Surgeon Simulator 2013" is your answer. The free game is available online and will let you perform virtual surgeries.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/play-surgeon-simulator-2013-online-can-you-perform-virtual-heart-surgery-video-1054386

Deutsche Bank hit with €2.2B loss :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/VKmJ4z8b9AI/index.html

Mexico City Explosion: 14 Killed, 100 Injured In Blast At Pemex Oil Building :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div><div class="field-item odd"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Authorities are seeking the cause of a Mexico City explosion that killed 14 people and injured 100 more Thursday. The blast shook the main headquarters' of Mexico's state-owned oil company, destroying three floors and leaving 30 people stuck in the debris.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/mexico-city-explosion-14-killed-100-injured-blast-pemex-oil-building-1054404

Is 'Teen Mom 2' Getting Canceled Because Of Jenelle Evans' Crazy Antics? :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Thanks to Jenelle Evans, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mtv.com">MTV</a> might be canceling one of its hit shows, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mtv.com/shows/teen_mom_2/series.jhtml">"Teen Mom 2."</a></p>
<p>The 21-year-old reality starlet has been in the tabloids practically every week, sometimes every day, ever since she got married to Courtland Rogers just two months ago.</p>
<p>The two have had very public breakups and makeups via <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter,</a> but their last fight ended their marriage.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/teen-mom-2-getting-canceled-because-jenelle-evans-crazy-antics-1054380

Watch The Most Amazing Moments From '30 Rock' In Honor Of Its Final Episode :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Blergh, everyone. "30 Rock" aired its final episode on Thursday night, bringing the show's seven amazing seasons to an unfortunate (but beautiful) end. And in honor of the beloved show's final episode, let's take a look back at some of the greatest moments in our favorite sitcom.</p>
<p><strong>"I Want to Go to There."</strong></p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/watch-most-amazing-moments-30-rock-honor-its-final-episode-1054378

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