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		<title>StonExpo 2009: Around the Aisles</title>
		<link>http://stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/stonexpo-2009-around-the-aisles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS – There won’t be an official press briefing to announce it, but one important piece of news came out of last week’s StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas for the industry: Hell is officially over.
That’s not an official declaration of good times; some difficult months remain, and the halcyon days (as the late Howard Cosell would proclaim) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com&blog=4492312&post=199&subd=stonebusinesseditor&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ciao Time</title>
		<link>http://stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/ciao-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marmomacc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[VERONA, Italy – With the worldwide economy still in a funk – with varying degrees of slumber, depending on the country – could the stone industry’s biggest event provide some action?
For new products, no.  For new sellers &#8230; now that’s an entirely different story.
Heading into the massive VeronaFiere complex at Marmomacc this year, I knew [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com&blog=4492312&post=197&subd=stonebusinesseditor&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hasta Las Vegas, Baby</title>
		<link>http://stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/hasta-las-vegas-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone Fabricators Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[StoneExpo Marmomacc Americas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I’m working through phone calls and emails these days, I’m getting one question a couple of times a day: See you at StonExpo in Las Vegas?
The answer is yes, and thanks for asking. And you?
As anyone who’s read my work through the years for Stone Business, I’m a believer in trade shows. I’ll argue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com&blog=4492312&post=195&subd=stonebusinesseditor&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There’s a Story, Part II</title>
		<link>http://stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/there%e2%80%99s-a-story-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Petterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[granite cutting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isaac Wolf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marble Institute of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupational Safety and Health Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSHA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripps Howard News Service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I noted how initial data on a study of possible radiation exposure when dry-cutting granite generated an information distribution of a summary, two analyses disputing the initial study and a war of wordage &#8230; but something just short of a story. At least, that’s how I felt.
Add a government spokesperson and some statistics, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com&blog=4492312&post=191&subd=stonebusinesseditor&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Got That WHERE?</title>
		<link>http://stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/you-got-that-where/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psemerson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[calcareous stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic People's Republic of Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DPRK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harmonized Tariff Schedule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sealer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Consider the origins of stone-care products at your local industry supplier – or the nearest Big Box home-furnishing stone – and you’ll get a quick tour of the worldwide stone industry. Mixed in with U.S. manufacturers are destinations as close as Canada and Mexico to more-exotic locations such as Turkey and China.
And, if there’s an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com&blog=4492312&post=188&subd=stonebusinesseditor&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>StatWatch: Stone Imports, June 2009</title>
		<link>http://stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/statwatch-stone-imports-june-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psemerson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[granite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stone import trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travertine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. imports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dimensional-stone imports remain in the doldrums, lagging far behind last year’s totals. The road to recovery may still be a few intersections away.
The following is taken from data collected by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission. All figures give are for June 2009 (change from June 2008 amounts in parentheses). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com&blog=4492312&post=186&subd=stonebusinesseditor&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Man to Know</title>
		<link>http://stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/a-good-man-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psemerson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francis Heck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lola Heck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone Industry News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Early in Citzen Kane, Wall Street baron Walter Thatcher rolls his eyes when his financial ward, Charles Foster Kane, instructs him not to sell the New York Examiner, a struggling back-marker of a daily – because, in Kane’s work, “I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.”
Mr. Kane, meet the world of 2009. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com&blog=4492312&post=184&subd=stonebusinesseditor&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There’s a Story in Here Somewhere</title>
		<link>http://stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/180/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adela Salame-Alfie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Gerhart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BuildClean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cambria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Bernhardt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Health & Engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guido Gliori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Kincaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marble Institute of America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the banes of the news business is coming across a bogey, where you turn over a bunch of stones &#8230; and end up with a bunch of upside-down rocks. Or – even worse – you end up with plenty of facts and documents, but nothing fits into a straight, cohesive article.
In other words, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com&blog=4492312&post=180&subd=stonebusinesseditor&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orphans of the Stone</title>
		<link>http://stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/orphans-of-the-stone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psemerson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advanced Industrial Machinery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Ansel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apex Machinery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Johnston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Peterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calypso Water Jet Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Peterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hi-Line Industrial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Harari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Machine Techs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matrix Stone Products Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MultiCam Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TECHNI Waterjet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter City Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Think there’s anything worse than having a car without a company, such as a Pontiac or Plymouth, in your garage? Try dealing with a bridge saw or CNC or any other machine for fabricating stone when the manufacturer just &#8230; disappears.
The prolonged recession makes it tough on just about everyone in the stone trade, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com&blog=4492312&post=173&subd=stonebusinesseditor&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transparent Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/transparent-sustainability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cradle-to-Cradle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pierre de Roches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serrastone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the green market, stone often gets to take the hard route to a project, either in trying to meet arbitrary material specs or competing with products bearing some kind of Sustainability Seal of Approval.
The obstacles are often well-meaning in nature, although it’s also reminiscent of road paved with good intentions and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonebusinesseditor.wordpress.com&blog=4492312&post=169&subd=stonebusinesseditor&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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