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TV’s Brown speaks of changing ag industry, mad cow disease (Montana Standard) - DEER LODGE — Agriculture is a changing industry, and is needed to feed the world, keynote speaker Taylor Brown of the Northern Ag Network said at the recent Powell County chamber banquet in Deer Lodge.

Adding facets to Africa diamond industry (Aljazeera) - Diamond tycoon Lev Leviev has shaken up Africa's diamond industry by setting up two pioneering projects to cut and polish rocks that are mined on the continent locally.

Venezuela's 35,000 electrical industry workers organized in 30 unions (Venezuela Electronic News) - Green Left Weekly's John Cleary: There are about 35,000 electrical industry workers in Venezuela. They are organized in 30 unions, which together form Fetraelec. About 80% of all workers in the electrical industry are in unions.

On innovation in the search engine industry: John Battelle’s book The Search. (Pandia) - Search engine experts have favorably received John Battelle's book on the search engine industry, The Search. Pandia agrees: This is a highly recommended book.

Dubai to host Mid East's biggest oil industry social gathering (AME Info) - Dubai's Nadd Al Sheba Golf and Racing Club will this week host the Middle East's biggest and most prestigious oil industry social gathering, the 'Oil Barons' Ball'.

Calif. poised to be force in olive oil industry (Centre Daily Times) - OROVILLE, Calif. -- For much of the last century, California olive farming has focused on the pitted black table variety that children -- and some adults -- like to eat off their fingertips. It's been a tiny niche in the global olive industry.

Mobile Cohesion Appoints Industry Veteran to Board (PhoneContent.com) - Mobile Cohesion, the company that has pioneered the concept of partner, profit and performance focused relationship management solutions for the mobile industry, has appointed a leading industry professional to its board.

Furor over oil-industry windfall puts GOP to the test (CBS Market Watch) - WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Lawmakers want the oil industry to consider giving a little something back this holiday season. Namely, profits.

Adobe Digital Negative Specification Continues to Win Industry Support (CPILive.net) - November 1, 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) recently announced that its Digital Negative Specification (DNG) – an industry-wide initiative to create one unified format for archiving raw digital images – is continuing to win support from camera manufacturers and software makers.

Airline industry readies bird flu plan (TVNZ) - Plans to deal with the possible consequences of a bird flu pandemic are well underway at Auckland International airport. The role of the airline industry to deal with the consequences of a pandemic is being discussed by more than 600 delegates at a conference hosted by the airport.