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									<title><![CDATA[Help desk for questions on  EVA-DTS and MDB ]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[The EVA is pleased to launch  the help desk to support developers by answering  application questions, which typically arise when trying to implement one of the standards of the Vending Industry.]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:02:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[What plastic cups really are]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[I read a lot about vending and all the ingredients and materials used in this business. ]]></description>
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									<title><![CDATA[Refrigerants]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[Today I am distributing our position paper on the gas R-134a and I will continue next week. It is a strange feeling because I am the bad guy again. I feel even more so as I have drafted that paper myself. I have been attending the EU Platform for Diet, Physical Activity and Healthy for four years, and I should be used to that, you know not being the good one. But sometimes I do not understand. ]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:03:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[Why is vending such an easy scapegoat?]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[There we go again: earlier this week in the Daily Telegraph the British Heart Foundation was criticizing vending machines in leisure centres and other activity centres because they were selling fizzy drinks and other so-called unhealthy products.  The BHF further recommended that these machines should follow the examples of British schools and sell only healthy products.]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:55:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[Blog Action Day]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[Today is the Blog Action Day'09 Climate Change. It makes me think of the EU Platform for action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. Actions are needed, actions are welcomed and sought  by governments, NGOs, companies as we are all living on the same planet. ]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:38:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[The lady in the subway]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[I took the metro the other day to go to an info day at the European Commission. The info day was interesting but the lady in the subway made my day, if I may say so. She was discussing with a handsome guy who was sad because he would not have the time to take a coffee before working as he had to go to a bar for that and that would take him quite of lot of time.]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:27:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[You know what? I am happy.]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[Here it comes, the surveys will be published on Friday. And you know what ? I am happy, just like our friend Droopy. I am not really into the American way of getting excited but maybe I can give it a try for once : oh my God, oh my God, that is fantastic, I am so excited the surveys are released, I am so happy for the EVA.  Well as I am French, I would just say that I am very glad . ]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:42:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[Desperately seeking stocking machines...]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[Why  is it that I had to waste time to go and buy stockings during my lunch break whereas I would have been happy to buy them at the airport tonight at a vending machine before flying to AVEX? ]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:02:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[Barracuda and the vending industry]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[One of my emails just bounced back because our IP address is having a "poor" reputation. Could it be that the Barracuda Networks administrator saw that vending was behind the IP address and revenge itself for an inadequate coffee?]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 3 Jun 2009 10:48:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[My obsession with vending machines]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[I am quite new in the vending industry. I have to admit that I have never been a hard user of vedning machines and therefore I have never been really aware of their placement, shape or issues a customer may have when using them.]]></description>
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									<title><![CDATA[How do vending machines know what kind of coin or banknote is inserted in the machine?]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[This is an open question for you.]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 May 2009 17:16:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[Are you coming to AVEX ?- Wed 10 and Thurs 11 June at the NEC, Birmingham UK]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[The show is a sell out! With over 100 exhibitors from around the world - many new for 2009 - FREE Seminars, FREE Catalogue  and a FREE visitor cheque book - there's plenty to see and do.]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 May 2009 17:17:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[Yes you can]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[Starting with such a title is very stale, I know. Coming from me you could expect a play on word with can as we are also representing cold drink vending, I know that too.  I wish I could tell you how it feels to be a can-ivore ...]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 May 2009 16:58:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[Out of Order?]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[Some years ago I listened to a professional speaker having a go at the do not disturb signs that you find in the hotels. He was complaining about the lack of originality that these signs were plagued with, and showing some positive examples of much better signs that conveyed the same message, but with a touch of humour.  ]]></description>
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									<title><![CDATA[I am a woman and therefore I like plastic cups]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[I am always impressed by those persons who live in wonderful workplaces where everyone fills up  the dishwasher to its maximum capacity and then competes to empty it and to put the cups back in the cupboard. ]]></description>
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									<title><![CDATA[Your participation]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[Dear reader,    If you wish to write a post in order to...]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:27:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[The healthiest the choice is for the consumer, the unhealthiest product they may choose]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[I know this may sound weird, but it is actually a fact. It has been demonstrated by a study signed by investigators coming from several prestigious American universities.]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:52:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA["Hairy kiwis"  distributed in vending machines]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[Hi,    I attended the EU Platform for Diet, Physical Activity and Health with Myriam from the French Vending Association the other day. She gave a brilliant speech about an experiment in a French vocational school where there is a special vending machine.]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:09:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[Welcome from the European Vending Association]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[<img class='rss_image' align='left' src='http://www.vending-europe.eu/_includes/framer.php?base=/images/logos/EVA_logoCristal.jpg&mask=60x60&just_resize=2' height='60' style='margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:5px;'/>&nbsp;Welcome to the 24/7 Blog, created by the European Vending Association! The purpose of this blog is... ]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:34:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[Welcome from the "Coin Group"]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[Dear friends of vending or coin news,    As chairman of the WVA and EVA "Coin-Group" I welcome you to this ideal platform of information exchange in view of coin related matters...]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:33:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[Welcome from the Cashless Committee]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the new Vending blog.  What is Vending about? ...]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:31:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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									<title><![CDATA[Welcome from the Standards Committee]]></title>
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									<description><![CDATA[The work of the standards committee was accompanied by a lot of discussions how to make a standard valuable but still easy to read...]]></description>
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