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		<title>Mountain lion killed in downtown Santa Monica, California!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Police shot and killed a male mountain lion early today in a downtown Santa Monica (Google Map) office building courtyard after attempts to try to subdue the cat using tranquilizers and a pepper ball. The mountain lion was discovered at about 6 AM by a janitor in the courtyard near an open-air man, the Third [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16655</link>
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		<title>The barcode bandit: Silicon Valley SAP executive accused of Lego thefts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You see a lot of strange things in Silicon Valley&#8230;. I&#8217;ve often wondered about some of the executives there&#8230;. Thomas Langenbach, a top Silicon Valley executive with the global software company SAP (55,000 employees, worldwide), will be arraigned on Tuesday on four felony counts of burglary in Santa Clara County court. Langenbach has been with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16637</link>
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		<title>Why Johnny can&#8217;t think&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; he doesn&#8217;t have TIME! The United States, which has been called the &#8220;no vacation nation,&#8221; falls behind most other developed countries when it comes to vacation days. (It takes a lot of work to support the 1% of the population who have experienced any real growth in income over the last 30 years.) American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16627</link>
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		<title>Mark Zuckerberg updates Facebook status to &#8220;married&#8221; :-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, married his sweetheart, Priscilla Chan, at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto home today. The ceremony took place in Zuckerberg&#8217;s backyard before fewer than 100 guests, including Facebook&#8217;s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. The couple met at Harvard and have been together nine years. Facebook went public on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16620</link>
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		<title>The Facebook IPO: just a few comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook&#8216;s IPO (Initial Public Offering) was today &#8211; the biggest opening ever for a technology company and the third largest IPO in U.S. history after Visa and General Motors (which, as you remember, was recently called &#8220;Government Motors&#8221; by some, after the taxpayer bailout). How fast and far can the Facebook Phoenix rise from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16608</link>
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		<title>California housing market improves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Bay Area to Southern California, the state&#8217;s housing market showed strength as median prices ROSE and sales outperformed the same month last year! The median home price in California (the median is the point at which half the homes in the state sold for more and half for less) increased 6% in April [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16602</link>
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		<title>Spontaneous combustion of beach rocks?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The scientist in me hopes that they publish a follow-up article to this one! The children of a 43-year-old woman collected rocks from Trestles Beach. The woman stuffed them into the pocket of her shorts. On Saturday afternoon at around 3:30 PM, while the woman was standing in her kitchen, the rocks somehow CAUGHT FIRE, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16594</link>
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		<title>Aaron Sorkin movie will cover Steve Jobs biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started reading the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs today, while I was multitasking on a photography job. I don&#8217;t mind being a little late, since I object to paying full retail for a book and I wanted the &#8220;excitement&#8221; to settle down a bit. I was based in Internet Services at Apple for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16585</link>
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		<title>LIVE! From Yosemite National Park&#8230;!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not at Yosemite tonight. Happy thought, though! The TV news tonight mentioned LIVE (well, ALMOST live: a 30-second delay) webcams from Yosemite that you will want to check out AFTER the sun comes up on America&#8217;s West Coast! The webcams are on the Web site for the Yosemite Conservancy, and they include webcams [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16576</link>
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		<title>Amgen Tour of California: Stage 1 to Peter Sagan of team Liquigas-Cannondale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With six miles of the grueling 116-mile Stage 1 of the Amgen Tour of California (Map: PDF) yet to go, Peter Sagan, 22,  of Slovakia experienced a flat tire. His mechanic had trouble replacing the wheel, which cost the world&#8217;s 4th-ranked rider time. Sagan&#8217;s teammates controlled the final miles, to help him win the opening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16567</link>
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		<title>California deficit hits $16 billion; Governor Jerry Brown calls for cuts.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California&#8217;s deficit has hit $16 billion. Not bad for a STATE, huh&#8230;? Actually, it&#8217;s going to be pretty bad for THIS one! Governor Jerry Brown released a revised deficit figure of $16 billion to give the state &#8220;something to chew on&#8221; before he presents his revised budget plan, with even DEEPER cuts, on Monday. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16557</link>
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		<title>Dr. La Donna Porter REMOVED from state medical panel by governor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I read scientific journal articles, I read the &#8220;Materials and Methods&#8221; section first, to see whether to bother with anything else! Most of us in California have learned to read, very QUICKLY from the &#8220;bottom up,&#8221; when watching political commercials on TV (not that anyone is trying to DECEIVE us! ). Midway through the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16540</link>
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		<title>CA AB 1844 prohibits employers from demanding Facebook, Twitter, etc. passwords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The California Assembly Bill AB 1844, which would prohibit employers from requiring an employee or prospective employee to provide their username and password for Facebook, Twitter, or other social media accounts, just passed the state assembly UNANIMOUSLY by a 73-0 vote. The bill now heads to the state senate. Assemblymember Nora Campos (D-San Jose), who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16530</link>
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		<title>Fewer California high school grads attending $tate Univer$itie$</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now THERE&#8217;$ a $hocker! According to figures released today by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, the percentage of high school graduates who attend University of California or California State University campuses fell by 20 percent from 2007 to 2010. The trend developed along with California&#8217;s budget problems that dramatically increased university tuition and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16520</link>
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		<title>Clueless on Wall Street&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; but YOU knew that! Yeah, Facebook is about to go public with a $100 billion IPO, and what is one Wall Streeter complaining about? Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s hoodie! Nevermind the fact that the Wall Streeter is likely to make BIG BUCK$ from the IPO&#8230;! Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Milian quotes Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter: &#8220;Mark and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16512</link>
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		<title>Two American hikers held in Iran marry in California!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer, who along with Josh Fattal were held in Iran after straying across the unmarked border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran in July 2009, were married on Saturday near the ocean. According to Ben Rosenfeld, a San Francisco attorney, the couple was surrounded by around 200 family and friends. &#8220;Friends and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16505</link>
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		<title>Shooting the (Super)moon!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in SFGate.com (home of the San Francisco Chronicle) presents a slideshow of photos of the Supermoon, taken worldwide, and a video explaining the cause of last night&#8217;s &#8220;larger&#8221; than normal full moon. &#8220;Tonight&#8217;s moon is set to appear 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter from our perspective on Earth. The Supermoon lines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16500</link>
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		<title>Chance meeting at Patterson Pass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love the international flavor of California, especially that of some of the cities, like San Francisco. Today, however, after tutoring a math student in the morning and signing a bunch of checks for artists in the late afternoon, I decided to use the rest of the time before supper to attempt a panorama and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16492</link>
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		<title>To Kill a Mockingjay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why mess with genetic engineering when you can use a robot? Some may want to stock up on shotgun shells (better for target practice in the &#8220;country&#8221;) &#8230; &#8230;or modified paintball guns for urban settings, which would be quieter, and could be fully automatic. Back in February of 2011, I wrote about the Nano Hummingbird, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16472</link>
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		<title>Veterans Affairs researcher in SF dead from bacterial infection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dead, 17 hours after his blood stream was infected&#8230; Some days, I have conflicts about the subject of my daily blog. A few days ago, I suggested (&#8220;tongue-in-cheek&#8221;) that a 17-year-old who rappelled into a luxury car dealership, stole a Lamborghini, and was ultimately arrested in the investigation of a shooting incident in Marin County, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/16457</link>
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