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	<title>Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: &#039;we&#039;re all mad here....&#039;)</title>
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	<description>Thoughts on Photography and California... and other &#34;Random&#34; Ruminations</description>
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		<title>Stealing tubas in Southern California!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been a rash of tuba thefts from high schools in Southern California. The latest occurred at Bell High School, which lost TWO King brass sousaphones (marching band tubas) over the weekend! Each instrument was valued at $6,000. The thefts are likely related to the popularity of Mexican banda music, which is &#8220;anchored&#8221; by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15504</link>
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		<title>Solar farms in the Mojave Desert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the establishment of large solar farms, environmental science is racing to catch up. &#8220;In the fight against climate change, the Mojave Desert is about to take one for the team.&#8221; An article in the L.A. Times entitled, &#8220;Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth&#8221; describes environmentalists agonizing over the high cost of breaking the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15490</link>
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		<title>Six &#8220;game-changers&#8221; in photography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Lachman mulled over the top advances in photography, since he started at the L.A. Times 37 years ago. He settled on this short list of SIX major advances, and notes how much photography has changed in such a relatively short time! Autofocus &#8211; The ridiculously fast autofocusing of today&#8217;s top DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15482</link>
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		<title>U.S. unemployment for January 2012: DOWN to 8.3%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good news! The unemployment numbers for January from the Bureau of Labor Statistics came out today, and the news was good! Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the unemployment rate decreased by 0.2% to 8.3%. &#8220;Job growth was widespread in the private sector, with large employment gains in professional and business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15470</link>
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		<title>The Tao of Customer Service&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; is the true Tao. Of the part of my high-tech life spent in California, almost all was spent in some type of customer service (the customer service groups were PROFIT centers, NOT cost centers!), even the project management part of my high-tech life. This fact accounts for my strong belief that customer service is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15451</link>
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		<title>Facebook files Form S-1 to raise $5 billion in initial public offering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook, which earned $1 billion last year on sales of $3.7 billion, and which has over 845 million active monthly users, today filed to raise $5 billion in an IPO. Analysts predict that the valuation for Facebook will ultimately be between $85 billion and $100 billion. The S-1 form filed with the Securities and Exchange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15434</link>
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		<title>One of two San Onofre nuclear power plant units shut down after possible leak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the two units at the San Onofre nuclear power plant was shut down by officials this evening after sensors detected a possible leak in a steam generator tube at 4:30 PM U.S. Pacific Time. The unit was completely shut down by an hour later, according to Southern California Edison. Spokesperson Jennifer Manfre told [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15425</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Got to be good-looking, &#8217;cause he&#8217;s so hard to see&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; Come together, right now&#8230;&#8220;(YouTube video) &#8211; The Beatles, &#8220;Come Together&#8221; There have got to be FEW people on the planet who are as &#8220;hard to see&#8221; as the President of the United States. First off, the matter had BETTER be important! This afternoon, President Obama held his first Google+ &#8220;hangout&#8221; with a handful of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15415</link>
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		<title>Galt Winter Bird Festival: a destination for photographers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, I&#8217;d like to show you a collection of photos of birds at the Consumnes River Preserve in the Central Valley and of some of the hundreds of visitors who attended the Galt Winter Bird Festival at McCaffrey Middle School in Galt (1) this weekend. Amazingly, some of the photographers were shooting LONG telephoto lenses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15401</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Money can&#8217;t buy me love&#8230;.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[- The Beatles, &#8220;Can&#8217;t Buy Me Love&#8221; (YouTube;&#8221;Official Video&#8221;) Money ALSO can&#8217;t buy intelligence, balance, wisdom, or good taste. You think about such things a lot, as you watch the antics of rich people in California, or anywhere. A New York hedge fund manager and his wife, who bought the one-acre Point Dume property at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15391</link>
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		<title>Silicon Valley wage-fixing and no-poaching practices: business as usual?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new filing, picked up by Reuters this afternoon, details an email exchange between the late Steve Jobs and then-Google CEO and Apple board member Eric Schmidt, in which Jobs asks Schmidt to keep Google from hiring one of Apple&#8217;s engineers. &#8220;I would be very pleased if your recruiting department would stop doing this,&#8221; Jobs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15378</link>
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		<title>Military intelligence? :-) &#8230;or Skynet 2.0?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I felt badly enough that the U.S. is flying UNARMED Predator drones over its northern and southwestern borders. Now, the Navy is testing an autonomous robotic plane without a pilot anywhere. Oh, it will be HEAVILY armed. The X-47B drone being tested near Chesapeake Bay (Hey! I&#8217;m glad that it&#8217;s on the &#8220;RIGHT coast&#8221; this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15361</link>
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		<title>John Travolta&#8217;s classic Mercedes found&#8230; in pieces!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Los Angeles police Detective George Molina, who is part of a countrywide automobile theft task force, said that although two men who allegedly stole John Travolta&#8216;s classic 1970 Mercedes 280 SL convertible were arrested, only PIECES of the car itself were found, on the chopping room floor, in December. &#8220;They chopped up the car,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15350</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s quarter: $46 billion in sales sets tech record!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple reported a SPECTACULAR quarter, with sales of $46.3 billion, a new record in the tech industry, and UP 73% from a year ago! The Wall Street analyst forecast of $38.9 billion faded into insignificance. What do analysts know? Last quarter, Apple sold 37 million iPhones (twice that of last year&#8217;s quarter) and ALSO DOUBLED [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15335</link>
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		<title>U.S. Supreme Court: GPS tracking and the Fourth Amendment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;world&#8221; changed today, substantively, and in the right direction. In a UNANIMOUS decision today, the United States Supreme Court ruled that police violated the rights of Washington D.C. co-owner of the nightclub, &#8220;Levels,&#8221; Antoine Jones, when they planted a GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking device on Jones&#8217; Jeep OUTSIDE the TERMS of an issued [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15310</link>
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		<title>Making up for &#8220;bad&#8221; customer satisfaction&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; with higher data prices! Well, they have to recoup billions lost in the failed T-Mobile merger, somehow! I missed the announcement on January 18 that AT&#38;T, the WORST wireless carrier in customer satisfaction in 2010, and again in 2011, according to Consumer Reports, has decided to raise the rates on the data plans that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15289</link>
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		<title>Etta James, dead from complications of leukemia at age 73</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I knew that I had to blog about the passing of Etta James, at age 73. I saved her for today. She was a &#8220;California original.&#8221; Her death was reported by her friend and manager, Lupe De Leon, who worked with her for over 30 years. I sit here tonight listening to &#8220;Masters of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15258</link>
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		<title>Psychopaths in the boardroom! (But YOU knew that&#8230;. :-) )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British researcher, Clive Boddy&#8217;s paper, &#8221;Corporate Psychopaths Theory of the Global Financial Crisis&#8221; in the Journal of Business Ethics (an oxymoron, according to the late George Carlin ), follows a study coauthored with Dr. Robert Hare, a Canadian psychologist who is co-author of the book &#8220;Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work.&#8221; The study found that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15241</link>
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		<title>Mac malware threats: minuscule and not keeping up with market share!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In fact, Macintosh malware threats are so few and infrequent that it is hard to get good statistics! The security company, F-Secure presented an analysis of Macintosh malware released during Q2 through Q4 of 2011. There were ONLY 58 new variants released between April and December of last year, most of which were Trojan horse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15228</link>
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		<title>Art is the HeART of the Home, Part 2, Thomasville of Dublin, CA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I have been working with the nice folks at Thomasville of Dublin, CA, who are partnering with some local art organizations to host a display of about 60 pieces of art from January 20-30 in their showroom on Dublin Boulevard. We will be receiving and hanging art tomorrow for the show. Once again, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/15221</link>
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