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		<title>Fun and Games on a Travel Site</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/27/fun-and-games-on-a-travel-site</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denis Horgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yipes, I&#8217;m more than 2 billion seconds old! Uh, oh. I&#8217;ve only got 20,941 days until my 100th wedding anniversary. I better get on the ball looking for a gift. Rattling around the nifty travel site internationalflights.com I got lost in all the neat subsites they have or link to. Timeanddate.com has a device that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBB Admits It Was Suckered Into Giving &#8220;HAMAS&#8221; An A- Rating For $425</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/21/bbb-admits-it-was-suckered-into-giving-hamas-an-a-rating-for-425</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Southland Better Business Bureau in California today admitted that it made a mistake by accrediting a fake company called Hamas and giving it an A- rating, but insists that it does not damage its credibility or that of the Better Business Bureau. Unidentified critics of the BBB&#8217;s letter grade system &#8211; to show how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Business Bureau Gives HAMAS Terrorist Organization Accreditation And A- Rating</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/19/better-business-bureau-gives-hamas-terrorist-organization-accreditation-and-a-rating</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an embarrassing move that shines light on how little checking is done by some Better Business Bureau's before accrediting a business, a California blogger revealed tonight that someone has managed to get a fake business with the name of the terrorist organization Hamas accredited by the bureau in return for a $425 fee.]]></description>
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		<title>Squabble Between PolitiFact and Arianne Huffington Shows Why You Should Read Both</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/09/squabble-between-politifact-and-arianne-huffington-shows-why-you-should-read-both</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  As a journalist and a news junkie I love to read insightful coverage of major world and national events.

  More and more I turn to the Internet (I still have the Wall Street Journal and Hartford Courant delivered as well as several news magazines) to get a wide range of facts and opinions.

 Two places I love going to are the Huffingtonpost.com and PolitiFact.com, with its Pulitzer Prize winning Truth-O-Meter.]]></description>
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		<title>Trip Advisor: The More-the-Merrier Importance of Sharing</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/06/trip-advisor-the-more-the-merrier-importance-of-sharing</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denis Horgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t win if you don&#8217;t play.&#8221; So say the lottery people, but it&#8217;s not that far off, too, when it comes to information-sharing travel service sites. You want to play to make it work. There are lots of sites where travelers share knowledge, experiences and advice but TripAdvisor.com is the best for me. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone 4 Review: The Best iPhone 4 Review I Have Read</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/03/iphone-4-review-the-best-iphone-4-review-i-have-read</link>
		<comments>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/03/iphone-4-review-the-best-iphone-4-review-i-have-read#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to my friend and fellow journalist Lon Seidman for turning me on to an incredibly professional technology review site: AnAndTech. It has the most thorough and apparently accurate review of the iPhone 4 available anywhere. It has the basic information for people like you and me who might be considering purchasing one and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOOK REVIEW: Dave Lieber&#8217;s Watchdog Nation</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/06/28/book-review-dave-liebers-watchdog-nation</link>
		<comments>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/06/28/book-review-dave-liebers-watchdog-nation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Lieber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book reviewer Maggie Dwyer writes that since she has turned to the award-winning book, Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong, ''I have changed my phone company, my electric company, and my Internet service. In those few acts alone, I’ve paid for the book several times over.'' In this review, she gives many examples about how this book has changed her life and those of her friends for the better. She’s a true citizen of Watchdog Nation!]]></description>
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		<title>New London Day Becomes 11th Newspaper To Publish Weekly CtWatchdog Column</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/06/27/new-london-day-becomes-11th-newspaper-to-publish-weekly-ctwatchdog-column</link>
		<comments>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/06/27/new-london-day-becomes-11th-newspaper-to-publish-weekly-ctwatchdog-column#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am thrilled to announced that the New London Day, considered by many as one of the best small newspapers in America, today became the 11th newspaper to start carrying my weekly CtWatchdog newspaper column. The column also runs on this website as well as several other news sites in Connecticut. The other daily newspapers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solid Financial Advice For Recent Graduates</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/06/22/solid-financial-advice-for-recent-graduates</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LowCards.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent Graduates Need Financial Advice Millions of graduates are beginning life on their own, earning their own salary and paying their own bills. This is not an easy transition, and many young people are unprepared for this financial freedom. Parents should give a real-life course in money management to prepare their graduates for financial independence. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlights of The Wild World of Travel Apps</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/06/09/highlights-of-the-wild-world-of-travel-apps</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denis Horgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m winging it here because I don&#8217;t have enough money for an iPhone or an iPad. But the wonderful world of Apps has a lot to offer the traveller, the smart money says. Here are some of the top travel Apps as recommended by people who really know about these things. SmarterTravel.com offers it&#8217;s free [...]]]></description>
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