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		<title>The Green Button</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2012/01/the-green-button/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2012/01/the-green-button/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following one of basic principals of best practices&#8211; you can&#39;t manage what you don&#39;t know, a new initiative is driving tech innovation. They&#39;re lots of things that we are chastized to &#34;manage&#34; but not armed with the data that informs the actual usage of whatever we supposed to be managing. Take all the pleas to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tubes Respond to Dodd</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2012/01/the-tubes-respond-to-dodd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2012/01/the-tubes-respond-to-dodd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yourct.com/?p=8480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the tweets and chatter has digested former Senator Chris Dodd&#39;s statements about SOPA and PIPA, the response was crowdsourced and the result, a whitehouse petition to invetigate Chris Dodd for bribery. You too can sign it at this link. I did, for the simple reason that on page 18 of yesterdays New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Matter with Congress, or Thoughts on Piracy</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2012/01/whats-the-matter-with-congress-or-thoughts-on-piracy-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2012/01/whats-the-matter-with-congress-or-thoughts-on-piracy-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yourct.com/?p=8470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Arrrghhh Pirates. Let&#39;s think about piracy for a moment, as in classic piracy on the high seas, not Johnny Depp&#39;s Pirates of the Caribbean. You see in the olden days, pirates used ships to sail the high seas and then find other ships carrying valuable cargo, and commence an intricate battle that may or may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street Protest Gains Legs</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-protest-gains-legs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-protest-gains-legs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yourct.com/?p=8414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For nearly three weeks, a group of twenty-somethings have been camped out at Zuccotti Park, as close to the Federal Reserve Bank and the financial institutions as you can get these days. Estimates place the number of people in the movement at two hundred, and while the media and curious on-lookers have checked the encampment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Empty Storefronts</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/04/chinas-empty-storefronts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2011/04/chinas-empty-storefronts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yourct.com/?p=8249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the news we hear about China runs along the lines of how they are either out educating us, out manufacturing us, or simply owning us via the massive debt financed by chinese purchase of our treasury notes. We here about how the price of everything is going up because Chinese demand for raw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Dear! How to Start an Email?</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/01/oh-dear-how-to-start-an-email/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2011/01/oh-dear-how-to-start-an-email/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yourct.com/?p=8178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think back in the 90s I gave thought to what the formal etiquette was for emails. Then, like now, I concluded that since an email is already addressed with the &#8220;to&#8221; field, that the correct opening to an email was just to get to the point. The issue thought, still plagues those that cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Controversy Over No School Thursday</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/01/controversy-over-no-school-thursday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2011/01/controversy-over-no-school-thursday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yourct.com/?p=8163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hour reports that there are questions over the decision to close schools on Thursday. To recap the situation, big storm, lots of snow and by mid afternoon Wednesday, the city still was snowed under.
According to Hal Alvord, there were streets that were still not touched by a plow. His complaint to the Mayor was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Can Do It &amp; Rosie The Riveter</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2010/12/we-can-do-it-rosie-the-riveter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2010/12/we-can-do-it-rosie-the-riveter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yourct.com/?p=8110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some things that we see all the time that we simply take for granted. Such as the now iconic photo below, that I, and apparently much of the world call the Rosie the Riveter poster. But, that&#8217;s not quite the story. Rosie the Riveter became an icon, and this poster did too, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Highspeed Busway Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2010/12/the-obama-highspeed-busway-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2010/12/the-obama-highspeed-busway-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yourct.com/?p=8079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Onion nails satire perfectly with this news report about Obama&#8217;s new high speed busway plan. The sad part is that it could almost be something that the GOP leadership puts forth as a way to cut spending.
Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan
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		<title>World War II The History Facebook Style</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2010/12/world-war-ii-the-history-facebook-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2010/12/world-war-ii-the-history-facebook-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously I like this:
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=47948
]]></description>
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