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					  <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Possibility of Proxy Duplication]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1861/1/QampA-Possibility-of-Proxy-Duplication/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Two weeks prior to our annual condo election, the unit owners receive their
 proxies in the mail. However, a board member, who was up for re-election,
 obtained a proxy from the managing agent two weeks earlier than all the unit
 owners. I addressed this issue at the annual meeting. His reply was that he was
 going on vacation and that he only received one proxy from the manager.
 However, he was back from vacation before the meeting. Also, he submitted
 several proxies at the meeting. Should he have had access to a proxy before
 every other owner as he could have duplicated the proxy and used it to gather
 other proxies? There is no way to know. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Stephen Lehrman)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:45:27 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Additional Maintenance for Excessive Water Use]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1859/1/QampA-Additional-Maintenance-for-Excessive-Water-Use/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[I live in a 47-unit building and many of my neighbors have two or three children
 living with either one or two parents in the one-bedroom apartments. I believe
 that those apartments should be paying additional maintenance to cover the cost
 of our building&rsquo;s water bills. Has this question been raised before for another building? What did they do? ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Abbey Goldstein)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:44:35 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Certain Dogs Banned from Co-op]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1858/1/QampA-Certain-Dogs-Banned-from-Co-op/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Our co-op board issued a list of breeds of dogs they considered &ldquo;aggressive,&rdquo; which will no longer be permitted, other than those already grandfathered in. I
 can&rsquo;t remember them all, but it must have been close to 30 breeds. They claim they
 got this list from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
 Animals (ASPCA) and the Center for Animal Care and Control (CACC). The
 residents in our building are sophisticated people, not people who abuse their
 pets causing them to be &ldquo;aggressive&rdquo; and &ldquo;hostile.&rdquo; ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Eliot H. Zuckerman)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:43:41 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Security Service Integration and Training is Key]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1857/1/Security-Service-Integration-and-Training-is-Key/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[ Push aside old notions of ineffective security officers. The security officer of
 the future has arrived. Today&rsquo;s security officer may be navigating tours on a Segway to patrol airports,
 transit stations, manufacturing facilities, apartment or condominium complexes,
 shopping malls and campuses. With the advent of the broadband revolution, you
 may find today&rsquo;s highly skilled and trained security officer piloting, what looks like, the
 Starship Enterprise of technology, with a host of IP-connected digital
 applications that include closed circuit television (CCTV), life and fire
 safety systems, and remote online access control systems. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (J. Michael Coleman)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:42:34 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Be Safe and Secure In Your Home]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1856/1/Be-Safe-and-Secure-In-Your-Home/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[ The expression &ldquo;Better safe than sorry&rdquo; is known by everyone. As apartment dwellers, it is important not to take
 advantage of the sense of security felt by having a doorman posted at the door
 or hallways lined with sprinklers and let our guards down. There are several
 areas where being proactive can make all the difference. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Lenore Barton)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Making New York City Safer, Cleaner and More Livable]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1855/1/Making-New-York-City-Safer-Cleaner-and-More-Livable/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Digital cameras&#8230;camera phones&#8230; smartphones. These terms weren&#8217;t even in our vocabulary ten years ago, yet today, many New Yorkers carry this pocket-sized technology with them everywhere they go. One of the goals of the administration is to tap the potential of new technology and put it to work for city government. Recently, we took a big leap into the digital age by equipping the 911 and the 311 systems to accept photos and videos sent through mobile phones or uploaded through the city&#8217;s website at nyc.gov. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:40:25 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Turn Bad Times Into Good Times]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1854/1/Turn-Bad-Times-Into-Good-Times/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[ To quote Charles Dickens, &ldquo;It was the best of times, it was the worst of times&hellip;&rdquo; but in this case, the reverse is true. 
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Marilyn Sygrove)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:12:25 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Hiring the Best for Your Building]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1853/1/Hiring-the-Best-for-Your-Building/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[ So your condo or co-op&rsquo;s management company is getting ready to hire a new service employee. It could
 be a doorman, it could be a maintenance man, it could be a swimming-pool
 supervisor. Is this a simple process, or a complicated one? And, above all, how
 much security is needed in a given position within your building or HOA? Is
 checking a few references enough? Or, in this day and age, is a rigorous
 screening process necessary&mdash;especially because residents&rsquo; security and privacy may be at stake? Or does it depend on the job&mdash;and the size of the development? ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Raanan Geberer)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:11:42 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[A Room with a (Rotating) View]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1852/1/A-Room-with-a-Rotating-View/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[ Buckminster Fuller, a thinker, inventor, artist, mathematician, (the list goes
 on,) once said, &ldquo;People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and
 the conventional way of doing things.&rdquo; Fuller, most famous for his invention of the geodesic dome, sought to solve the problems
 facing mankind before they were insurmountable, thinking so far &lsquo;outside the box,&rsquo; that he based most of his designs on the tetrahedron. Thinking so far into the
 future that, decades ago, he was trying to solve the problems we face today. 
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Brendan Flaherty)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:10:52 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[FCC-Mandated Analog-to-Digital TV Changes Comng Soon]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1851/1/FCC-Mandated-Analog-to-Digital-TV-Changes-Comng-Soon/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[ On September 7, 1927, 19-year-old Philo T. Farnsworth created the first
 television system that could not only display, but transmit signals between
 separate rooms. Now more than 80 years later, another historic date in
 broadcast transmissions is upon us. On February 17, 2009, all full-power
 broadcast television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting on
 analog airwaves and begin broadcasting only in digital. 
 ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Keith Loria)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:09:58 EST</pubDate>
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