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		<title>Hello City Planner</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2012/02/hello-city-planner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After six years on the Norwalk Zoning Commission, I can only ruefully laugh at how this dialog echoes many meetings I had to endure. If you want small businesses to open, government bureaucracy needs to streamline.&#160;
Here&#8217;s a modest proposal, active floor space is active floor space. If a business wants to put tables, server over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;One Million Dollars&#8221;, A CT based Tech Start Up Fund</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2012/01/one-million-dollars-a-ct-based-tech-start-up-fund/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;


Connecticut entrepreneurs, start yoru engines.
&#160;
CT launches $1M fund for tech startups
01/26/12


Following through on a previous $250 million commitment to nurture home-grown technology and jobs, Connecticut&#39;s technology investing arm has established a $1 million fund for high-tech startups.
Connecticut Innovations Inc. said this fund is a 10-week pilot to identify entrepreneurs with promising technology ideas or products, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Breaches Are Serious Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jepsen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zappos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately it seems that just about every major business with a database online has suffered a data breach. This is bad news for the health of the Internet, but not something that government is in a position to solve. Yet:
&#160;

HARTFORD &#8211; Concerned about a recent hacking attack that may have affected more than 24 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubling Down on Connecticut Innovations</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2012/01/doubling-down-on-connecticut-innovations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2012/01/doubling-down-on-connecticut-innovations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because Connecticut Innovations, that quasi public agency self-charged with leading um, innovation in Connecticut has done such a great job creating tech jobs, Governor Malloy and the DECD are throwing more money at them. From the Hartford Business Journal:
&#160;

Connecticut Innovations Inc. announced the ambitious business-development program Wednesday, one it says aims to build jobs.
The $125 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s How to Get a Gold Star from the Federal Government</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/10/heres-how-to-get-a-gold-star-from-the-federal-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McLachlan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s How to Get a Gold Star from the Federal Government
The State Department of Motor Vehicles has begun a federally mandated program to improve security.
It’s called SelectCT ID and it aims to reverify licenses renewed over the next six years.
In order to get a gold star placed on a license — which will allow holders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Look, New Year</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/09/new-look-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed some changes around here. YourCT.com is changing its look and tweaking its coverage of all things Connecticut. Over the next few days new features will be rolling out that should make the site more accessible to more people, and of course platforms. Stay tuned.
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		<title>Retirement Red Zone Seminar</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/09/retirement-red-zone-seminar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ September 23, 2011 6:30 pm 6:30 pm to September 23, 2011 8:30 pm 8:30 pm. ] What could be better, a football reference and a plan to to get off the daily grind. No, wait. That can't be it. This is a seminar for people considering retirement and how to actually get there and avoid the pitfalls. Norwalk's Booth Financial is sponsoring the event featuring Eric Fauth, VP at Prudential Financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock me like a Hurricane</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/08/rock-me-like-a-hurricane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well enough people have been saying &#8220;Danger Will Robinson&#8221; to fill the airwaves and the tubes with dire warnings and stuff to stimulate the milk, candles and bread industry. Ever wonder why we have this collective urge to shop before impending weather disasters? I&#8217;ve always been baffled. It&#8217;s not like you can&#8217;t just turn on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earthquake!</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/08/earthquake/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2011/08/earthquake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Norwalk&#8217;s Calf Pasture the beach during East Coast Earthquake 2011. Best reporting on the event was on Twitter. @theHourNews had the local angle covered. But the big story was the overloaded wireless circuits in NYC. The secondary story, Twitter ruled the news cycle with every reporter tweeting live and the #earthquake thread filling fast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peeps Show Opening/Pop-Up Gallery-August 24. 6:30-10pm. SONO</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/08/peeps-show-openingpop-up-gallery-august-24-630-10pm-sono/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2011/08/peeps-show-openingpop-up-gallery-august-24-630-10pm-sono/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ August 24, 2011 6:30 pm 6:30 pm to August 24, 2011 10:00 pm 10:00 pm. August 25, 2011 7:00 pm 7:00 pm to August 25, 2011 10:00 pm 10:00 pm. August 26, 2011 7:00 pm 7:00 pm to August 26, 2011 9:00 pm 9:00 pm. ] NORWALK--  Twelve Firing Circuit Artists will be exhibiting at the mARTket Pop-Up Gallery

136 Washington St., South Norwalk, Ct. (home of the old Sweet Rexies/next to Donavan's).
Opening Reception: Wednesday August 24, 2011 from 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Gallery Hours:
Thursday and Friday - 4 pm - 10 pm
Saturday - 3 pm - 10 pm
Sunday - 12 noon - 6 [...]]]></description>
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