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What he couldn't say in
words he said with his
lips, hovering over her heart
pounding out rhythms in
He skimmed near closed
eyelids that dreamt in liquid blue-
he and she bathed in midnight,
feeling their way along pebbled shores,
staying far from the warmth and false
security of sandbars, away from the
blue black where they once treaded
ice water, going under when swells
broke over them.
He toyed near ears
open, waiting for
exhalations of loving
breath filled with abandon,
minus "ment."
He searched her intently,
diving then coming up for
air, thinking he'd find the
solace he sought, believing
she secreted away his
talisman somewhere in her
deep curves and gentle
illumination, that she held an
amulet to heal his blue black.
He realized too late she did not
hide the magical powers he
sought to soothe him, to bind
the darkness that plagued
him, bruised him, tormented him.
He pulled away seeking, travelling
past the pebbled beach's gleam and
sandbars warm till he caught a wave,
riding the blue black till he became no
more than a dark spot on the horizon.
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NETGEAR SPH200D DECT Skype Phone (Page 1)
Looking to hook yourself up on Skype the 'proper' way? Have a look at what Lars has to say about NETGEAR's latest phone.
Lars Göran Nilsson | Nov 6, 2007 at 11:00 pm CST
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Intro and FeaturesIf you mention VoIP these days most people will think of Skype, which shows how huge Skype has become in quite a short time. The company has been busy pushing hardware for its Voice-over-IP service and we've seen some good, some not so good and some really awful attempts at making Skype handsets. A lot of people run Skype on their Windows Mobile devices as well, and with varying degrees of success. However, today we're looking at the latest generation of Skype hardware for the home, a cordless phone that uses DECT which is common on many cordless home phones.The Netgear SPH200D is quite different from most other Skype phones to date, although it does have competitors. By relying on DECT rather than Wi-Fi it can also be used as a normal cordless phone which is pretty cool. It's also easy to install as you don't really have to set anything up, just plug a few wires in. The SPH200D is made up of two main parts, the base station and the handset.
The base station plugs into your broadband router/modem, so if you don't have one of these, it'll be a bit trickier as you'd have to set up internet connection sharing on your PC and install a second network card to make it work; but it can be done. We didn't have any problem connecting it to our router. There's also a phone socket which connects up to your normal phone line for non Skype related calls.
To set things up, switch on the base station by plugging in the power cord, put the handset in the charging cradle for 14h before the first use, press the button on the base station and follow the instructions on the screen of the handset. It's really quite basic things that you need to set up such as country and area code, time and date and a few other little things like that. If you don't already have a Skype account then this can be set up on the handset as well. If you have one, then you just enter your details and you're ready to go.
Sure, you need to have some prior knowledge to set up the SPH200D, it's not something you'd let your granny do, but it's still pretty straight forward. Once set up, the SPH200D works in a similar fashion to Skype on your PC, but in a more compact way. The operating system hasn't changed much from Netgear's SPH101, although that older Skype handset relies on Wi-Fi.
The keypad consists of two soft keys, a four-way navigation pad, call and end-call buttons, a keypad and three more buttons at the bottom. The soft keys do what is displayed above them on the fairly small 1.5in display, although it's quite easy to read. The four-way navigation button is made from solid white plastic while the four surrounding buttons are made from clear plastic and the rest of the keypad is made from hard rubber. All the keys bar the four-way navigation key are backlit which makes it easy to use the SPH200D in the dark.
The four keys at the bottom of the handset are labelled Intercom, Mute and Speaker. The intercom button can be used if you purchase additional SPH150D handsets which will connect to the same base station, and you can use up to four handsets per base station. This is a pretty neat feature of DECT and you can use the additional handsets for internal calls, perfect for the small office. The mute button mutes the microphone while the speaker button turns on the built-in speaker. On the left hand side is a small rubber flap that hides a 2.5mm audio jack to which a headset can be connected.
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Angel Haze sells an abysmal number of records opening week with her debut album "Dirty Gold."
Welp. Angel Haze took her music career into her own hands this past December when she decided to leak her own album, Dirty Gold, after her label apparently refused to release it on the date she wanted.
We saw this all go down-- Haze took to her Soundcloud to post all the album tracks, which didn't stay up for long, as Island/Republic Records complied to Ms. Haze's wishes and released the album much earlier than they would have liked-- December 30th rather than March of this year. Well, we are now learning that maybe major labels know a thing or two.
Angel Haze's debut effort has gone on to have dismal sales, as the rumors suggested. On the first day Dirty Goldwas out it managed to sell 187 copies. By the end of the first week, sales reached an astoundingly low number of 1,151.
Haze seems to have a good relationship with her fans overseas, as she has performed there often, however they didn't come to her aid either. In the UK she moved even less, with 857 copies sold.
So it's probably not a good idea to release your album the day before New Year's Eve.


text: What do you get when you mix melodic death metal with some biopunk anime? You get the latest video from Taiwanese rockers Cthonic. I'm not 100% sure what's going on here, but the name of the track, Defenders of Bú-Tik Palace. probably says it all. There's outragious costumes, wire-fu, and some Dragonball Z looking shit that's sure to light a fire under your Tuesday morning.


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*If you must watch any of the youtube clips… the very last one is the best!
Today wraps up the third day of three great days that the Big Island Visitors Bureau has provided me.
One of the things that I had always wanted to do at least once in my life, was to be able to go somewhere exotic and go ziplining through the jungles, woods and waterfalls of the area.
Well we are in luck here on the Big Island of Hawaii. A new "Zipline Park" is being opened up called the Umauma Falls Zipline Experience and it should be open in about three weeks.
Today, some mainland travel writers and myself got to be the first "Clients" of this zipline park. I will tell you one thing… there is nothing more scary than being a "Guinea Pig" for something that hasn't been tested before.
We gathered at 10:00 in the morning at the baseyard of KapohoKine Adventures and then rode up to Umauma Falls in one of their 10 passenger Chevrolet Express VIP vans. Once we got to Umauma Falls we had a gourmet lunch of Paniolo Pork Ribs with Guava BBQ Glaze, Hibachi Boneless chicken and a choice of a few salads to choose from.
What was cool about the location of this lunch… was this was where one of the sets that the most recent Bachelorette Shows was shot at. After we ate, I prepared some Awa for everyone to try and relax their minds before we set off on this adventure.
Umauma Falls Zipline Experience has 8 Ziplines although the owner mentions here that there are 9 technically.
After lunch, we climbed into this Pinzgauer and headed up to the ziplines.
They started us off nice and easy with this little zipline so that we could get the control of how the ziplines worked and how to turn on them.
But right after that one, they put us on the only dual track (side-by-side) zipline on Hawaii.
Because these ziplines are still being built… they didn't have the braking system in place and they literally had their staff there to stop us. However, the braking system is in the process of being built.
The third zipline we went on was conveniently 808 feet long… and yes that was done on purpose as the area code of the State of Hawaii is 808. What was cool about this one… was that instead of at the end of the zipline going down stairs to get to the ground… you actually rappel from the platform.
We got to ride on 4 of the 8 ziplines today as they are still finishing doing some things with the others so they weren't ready yet.
It was totally awesome and I can't wait to go back there again when it does have it's grand opening… which the official date has not been set yet.
Just for those that are wondering. Age 10 is the youngest that they will allow. And riders also need to weigh between 80 and 260 lbs although technically the cables will hold a couple ton of weight… it's just that the heavier you are the faster you go and it becomes a safety issue.
I'd like to thank KapohoKine Adventures and Umauma Falls Zipline Experience for providing something that I have always wanted to do before!
The video below is me going on their longest zipline that we took today zipline number 4. Sorry in advance if I swear in these videos as I was just really overwhelmed.
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Blake Shelton Picks His Mentor for 'The Voice' Season 4
If you're excited about the fourth season of 'The Voice,' then we have some good news for you: Blake Shelton has picked his mentor for the show next season -- the one and only Sheryl Crow. Now, that's a pair to sing about!
MJS Big Blog reports that the 'If It Makes You Happy' singer-songwriter will join Shelton on the televised vocal competition series, which returns for a new season in March. Crow states, "I've been friends with Blake for a few years now and am honored he invited me to be an adviser on 'The Voice' this season." We're pretty pleased that she comes to the show with a depth of experience, both in Grammy-winning and as a mentor on 'American Idol' in 2011.
Shelton is looking forward to his newest mentor, saying, "Sheryl Crow is one of the coolest people in the music industry and to have her as an adviser on my team is pretty darn cool." If it makes him happy, then it is bound to be a great fourth season of competition. Shelton has had a long list of successful mentors on 'The Voice,' including Kelly Clarkson, Reba McEntire, his sweet and successful wife Miranda Lambert, and now Sheryl Crow.
Be sure to tune in for this spring for your fill of Shelton on the big screen before he heads out on his Ten Times Crazier Tour this summer, and catch Crow when she performs her new single, 'Easy,' at WYRK's Taste of Country show in Buffalo in June.


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HOLLAND – Hope College will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts on Wednesday, October 23, at 4 p.m.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The 64,000-square-foot Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts will include two performance venues, classrooms, practice rooms, faculty studios and office space for the department of music. The facility is being named in honor of Jack H. Miller for his lifetime of generosity to the college. Miller, who resides in Grand Haven and Naples, Fla., and is a 1954 Hope graduate, led the Howard Miller Company for 48 years until retiring in 2002.
The center is among the major initiatives of the college's on-going $175 million "A Greater Hope" comprehensive campaign, and was inspired by an initial lead gift to the campaign from Richard and Helen DeVos. The total cost for the Center for Musical Arts is $35 million, which includes construction costs and an endowment for maintenance.
The groundbreaking will take place at the building site along Columbia Avenue between Ninth and 10th streets. Participants will include Hope College President John C. Knapp; Dr. James E. Bultman, immediate past-president of Hope; Jack H. Miller; architect Bill Blanski, design principal with HGA; and Dr. Robert Hodson, professor of music and chairperson of the department. The event will be followed by a reception with desserts and jazz music.
The center will make a lasting difference at the college and in the greater Holland area, playing an important role in both music performance and music education at Hope, in addition to serving as a venue for performances and other activities by community organizations.
The centerpiece of the new building will be an 800-seat concert hall featuring both main-floor and balcony seating. The facility will also house a smaller recital hall seating approximately 125 for more intimate performances.
Instructional space will include dedicated rehearsal space for the college's several choral and instrumental ensembles, 17 individual practice rooms, an updated piano lab, a computer lab, a percussion studio, a recording studio and two general-use classrooms. The building also includes 24 faculty teaching studios and offices.
The department of music presents more than 125 performances, clinics, workshops and recitals each year. Hope also features concerts through programs such as the long-running Great Performance Series. In addition to hosting performances, the space will support learning by hundreds of students each semester.
Hope is making a priority of developing partnerships with community organizations like the Holland Symphony Orchestra, Holland Chorale and Grand Rapids Symphony that could benefit from the performance space. The vision is for the center to become not only a venue for professional groups, but also a resource for area music teachers and area schools for conferences, competitions, and recitals.
The Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts will be an anchor of the developing arts corridor along Columbia Avenue between Eighth and 14th streets. The arts corridor includes the college's Dow Center, home to the department of dance; DeWitt Center, home to the department of theatre and Hope Summer Repertory Theatre; De Pree Art Center and Gallery; the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication; and the Kruizenga Art Museum, for which construction will begin next spring.
The Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts will replace Nykerk Hall of Music which was constructed in 1956 when Hope's enrollment was 1,100 students. Enrollment today is more than 3,300. Hope College and Holland have never had a venue dedicated strictly for music performance. Over the years, musicians and ensembles have performed at the Holland Civic Center, area high schools, large churches, Dimnent Memorial Chapel, Wichers Auditorium in Nykerk Hall of Music, and the Knickerbocker Theatre.
Architectural design for the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts is by HGA of Minneapolis, Minn. Construction manager is G.O. Construction, a joint venture of GDK Construction Co. of Holland and Owen-Ames-Kimball Co. of Grand Rapids.
Site work is scheduled to begin in the latter part of November, with the start of construction planned for February of 2014. Completion is anticipated in the fall of 2015.


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Maine Green Line is an Anbaric transmission solution proposed by the Green Line Devco, LLC as a project of the Green Line Infrastructure Alliance. Maine Green Line will move up to 1200 MW of power from Maine to eastern Massachusetts. Its goals are to encourage the development of renewable resources in northern New England by providing the necessary infrastructure to bring "green" power to more densely populated areas to the south, including the Boston area, while at the same time increasing the supply of reliable energy into the largest demand center in New England.
The New England states can only meet their expanding renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) goals by substantially expanding the New England transmission grid. Energy efficiency, demand side management, and renewable energy generation projects in southern New England will help to achieve those goals, but the bulk of the scale of new renewable supply resources needed to meet growing RPS goals will need to come from Maine and eastern Canada, where the greatest potential exists for renewable energy development in the form of wind, biomass, tidal and hydro-electric power.
Maine Green Line will enable New England to meet its RPS and RGGI goals in a reliable, economic, and environmentally benign manner by bypassing congestion that now exists on the existing overhead transmission lines between northern and southern New England.


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Actress Yvonne Strahovski joins Season 7 of the Showtime drama series Dexter, premiering on September 30th, playing the mysterious Hannah McKay. A woman with a dark part and secrets of her own, she meets Dexter (Michael C. Hall) because she's helping the Miami Police Department on an old case.
While at the Showtime portion of the TCA Press Tour, Collider (along with one other outlet) was given the opportunity to participate in an interview with the ultra-charming Aussie about her transition from the more light-hearted Chuck to the darker and sexier material on Dexter, the nerve-wracking experience of being a guest on someone else's show, watching all six seasons in three weeks prior to her starting work, and how badly she wants to get to say the F-word on camera. She also talked about her work in the upcoming features Guilt Trip (with Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand) and I, Frankenstein (with Aaron Eckhart and Bill Nighy), her favorite memory of her time on Chuck, and what she learned from the five years she spent in her first lead role on an American TV show. Check out what she had to say after the jump.
Question: What can you say about your character, this coming season?
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI: Well, I play Hannah McKay, who comes into the story in Episode 3. It's safe to say that she has a dark past that is slowly revealed, as the episodes go on, and she holds some secrets. She meets Dexter because she's helping the Miami Police Department on a case that's been around for awhile.
Are you at the point where you can reveal more than just the fact that your character has got a mysterious past?
STRAHOVSKI: No. All I can say is that she has a checkered past with a past boyfriend. And all of these dark secrets come to light, in the episodes.
Is she working with Dexter because she has to, or because something draws her to the case?
STRAHOVSKI: That's a good question. It is in her best interest to work with him. I'm really proud of that answer.
How dark do you get to go with this role, compared to what you've done before?
STRAHOVSKI: Pretty dark, actually. After watching all six seasons, and all the episodes, what will happen with my character in this show is something that has never happened before, in a Dexter episode.
What was your experience coming into this ensemble, with this already established group of actors?
STRAHOVSKI: Everyone was very welcoming. I feel like I've known them all for a little while now, even though I've only been there for a little bit. But, personally, it was a little nerve-wracking. I've not had that experience, where I've been a guest on someone else's show before. This is a first time experience for me, to walk into such a close-knit family, on such an established show that's critically acclaimed. You have to take a deep breath and dive on in. But, Michael [C. Hall] sets the tone for the work on set, and everyone is very generous. They're very giving and respectful, so it's just been a really great environment to be working in.
When you got the phone call to be a part of this show, how did you feel and did you worry about what they saw in you for this?
STRAHOVSKI: I hadn't actually thought about that, but now I will! I'm honored and flattered to have been asked to have been a part of it. This show is really amazing, and they've had really great guest stars in the past, too. It's fantastic! I don't know what they saw in me. (Executive producer) Scott Buck said, I think at Comic-Con, that he thought I was mysterious, even though I seem likeable, and that I might not be so likeable. I'm not going to take that personally. I think it works for the show.
Is this an especially sexy role for you?
STRAHOVSKI: She's a sexy lady. I would say that she's probably one of the more physically free characters that I've played. For five years, I played someone who was part of a law enforcement agency. Sarah was a CIA agent who was a little bit more rigid than Hannah McKay will be.
How easy or hard has it been to delve into material as dark as Dexter?
STRAHOVSKI: I think every role that you come across is something that you have to wrap your head around. The world that they've set up in Dexter is so far-fetched, and they've done an amazing job of having the audience root for this guy, who's a serial killer that you wouldn't ordinarily root for. So, just those circumstances, in itself, take some time to wrap your heard around. Because I'm the guest on the show, and I haven't been there for six years with the others, establishing my role, I'm in fast-forward, trying to figure out who Hannah McKay is, very quickly. And the storyline moves very quickly, as well. We're going to see a lot of things come to light, pretty soon.
Had you seen much of Dexter, before getting the role?
STRAHOVSKI: I'd seen bits and pieces, but I'd never watched it consecutively, episode after episode. That's why I sat down and watched all six seasons, in three weeks.
Being familiar with the show now, are there characters that you'd love to have some interaction with, at some point?
STRAHOVSKI: I would love to interact with all of them. That would be great. I'm pretty sure that there will be some interaction with Deb (Jennifer Carpenter). They're all fantastic! Masuka (C.S. Lee) would be fun.
Every guest star so far on the show has had a finite experience. Even if you go the whole season, there's not a lot of the show left. What are you hoping that this sets you up for, career wise?
STRAHOVSKI: I guess it's just more of a showcase of something that I haven't done, and being able to play in that world of darkness. You get to pretend to be another human being, in one lifetime. That's the beauty of it. Hopefully, as an actor, you can change it up when you get new characters. One time, it might be in the comedy genre, and then another time it might be dramatic. Through all these different characters, you have these different lives and different aspects of yourself that you put into it, and different aspects that you have to find from elsewhere to put into it. Hopefully, something comes out of it that's both entertaining and intriguing, at the same time.
In real life, what scares you or gets under your skin?
STRAHOVSKI: I don't like waves at the beach. Does that count? I get scared of the big waves. I've been dumped a couple of times, in a wave. You don't know what mother nature is going to throw at you, with a wave.
Are you getting to enjoy the freedom of being on a cable show, and perhaps getting to curse?
STRAHOVSKI: I so badly want to curse! I don't think that I've ever said the F-word on camera, ever, unless it's me messing up a line, and then that's the first word coming out of my mouth on the blooper reel. But, no, I've never officially gotten to say the F-word. It would be great, but I don't think that I will get to.
Do you find that everything is just wide open on cable?
STRAHOVSKI: It is, and it's a different beast. I'm definitely enjoying the freedom with that. On this show, there's a lot of trust placed in the actor, for what you bring to it. They really flesh out what you're bringing to the table, and we're working with a great director now, who's very detailed oriented. There's a level of attention to detail that's amazing, and I'm really loving that.
Is there a genre that you haven't done, that you crave doing?
STRAHOVSKI: It's all over the spectrum, for me. I don't want to be the funny girl or the serious girl. I would hope to touch on all different genres and all different types of characters, which I think I've been lucky enough to do, so far. Chuck was a comedy show, but within that show, we got to do a lot of comedy and drama and action and romance. And now, Dexter is so different with a much darker tone. It's more realistic. He's a serial killer, and the show is about a serial killer, but it's realistic, in the sense of how you're acting. It's not as stylistic a show as Chuck, which was like a comic book. This is more about real people. And then, I've got a couple of movies coming out, at the end of the year. I did Guilt Trip, with Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen, which is very much a comedy, and it was great to be a part of a straight-up comedy movie. And I have I, Frankenstein coming out in February, and that's more of a thriller where I play a scientist. I feel pretty lucky to have done that.
What was it like to work with Barbra Streisand?
STRAHOVSKI: She's great! She's very friendly, very sweet and very funny. Her and Seth had a great rapport on set. So many people came out of the woodwork, when they found out that I was doing that. They were very excited.
How was it to shoot I, Frankenstein in Australia?
STRAHOVSKI: It's always great to be back in Australia. That's the fourth movie now that I've gotten to go back to Australia for. It was great! I had a really nice time. Stuart Beattie, who wrote and directed it, is fantastic. He's such a great guy and so deserving of this opportunity. This is his second feature film now. I had a really great time, particularly with Bill Nighy, who's just such a character. I have nothing but amazing things to say about Bill Nighy. He's so much fun!
You have a huge fan base from Chuck that will follow you, with whatever you do. What do you think they'll think of your role on Dexter?
STRAHOVSKI: I think that they'll hopefully be surprised and supportive. They're so supportive and have been with us, from day one. I think that I can speak for all of the Chuck actors when I say that, whatever we now do in our careers, they will always be behind us to back us up and follow us on to the next thing that we do.
What is your favorite memory from your time on Chuck?
STRAHOVSKI: Probably the entire last month of shooting. I think that was the most fun. We all relaxed a little bit, as people in each other's lives, especially the actors. For me, I feel like I bonded a lot more with everybody in the fifth season, and spring boarded off of that into what is now post Chuck. We choose to hangout with each other because we love each other and we don't have to see each other on a daily basis.
Did you pick up a skill, from playing that character, that you'll always be able to use?
STRAHOVSKI: Oh, yeah, I can do guns, and lots of martial arts and punching. Hopefully, I could defend myself.
Do you think you could defend yourself in a real fight?
STRAHOVSKI: I don't know. I don't want to know because I don't want to ever be faced with that, but I'd like to think that I could throw a punch.
Did being a part of Chuck change you, as an actor, and inform what you're doing now?
STRAHOVSKI: Oh, yeah! Five years on a show, and that was my first lead role on a television show in the States, I learned so much. I learned from the people that I worked with. Everyone had something new that I could observe and absorb. Hopefully, you do that on every job. Even just being on Dexter now, and watching Michael and the other actors that I've gotten to work with so far, everyone has something different to bring. It's incredible to watch and learn from that, and also the directors and the writers, as well. It's an ever-evolving process for me, until the day that I die. Hopefully, I'm still in this industry when I'm 85, and playing someone's great grandmother.


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Position: Prime Minister of Italy
Age: 74
Time in Power: 8 years (collectively)
Berlusconi is one of the most controversial of the European heads of state. The former businessman and media magnate has been in the top job on three separate occasions since 1994 and was ranked 51 on Forbes's 2010 Rich List, with an estimated fortune of $11.8 billion. He is currently the longest serving leader of any G8 country and his political career has rarely been without scandal. Accusations have ranged to dealings with the Mafia, to Islamophobia, to liaisons with under aged girls. Yet core chunks of the Italian public are still on his side, prompting Berlusconi to declare last year, "People want me the way I am. Italians want me."
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Twitter is now acknowledged, by savvy marketers and companies, as a full fledged direct marketing channel. According to many reports, unlike traditional channels like television, radio, email, postal, direct mail, and the telephone, Twitter and it's digital brethren will see an increase in marketing activity and money spent on marketing campaigns. In our work as marketing consultants, we utilize Twitter as a direct real-time communications tool to initiate one one one conversations with consumers and prospective consumers. The following strategy, and the reasons for it's effectiveness, will help you connect more deeply with your customers and prospective consumers.
Twitter Communication: Always Have the Last Word
Anytime a customer or prospect tweets their appreciation, approval, or a recommendation for you or your business, you should always respond. This response can be a simple thank you but it must happen. The most important strategy is to make sure you have the last word in the string of communication.
6 Reasons Why it is Important to Have the Last Word
- Acknowledgment: by sending the last tweet you let people know that you received and understood their tweet
- Etiquette: by thanking people you show the Twitterverse you have manners and will properly recognize people for their effort
- Recognition: your tweet will provide the recognition that your customer/prospects are important to you
- ReTweet: by retweeting a customer/prospect's tweet you are sharing it with your audience of followers
- Hashtags: by using the hashtags your customer/prospects use in their tweet to you, you are providing recognition of their importance to you as your tweet cirulates within hashtag streams they believe are important to them
- Top of Mind: by thanking everyone and having the last word, you stay top of mind with your customer/prospects


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gregwar wrote:a yes i remember the days of analog photoshop it def sounded better
MetroSonus wrote:That's what I like about our little forum here.. we do what we like, we all have individual takes on the same thing and we still manage to be friends.
MetroSonus wrote: That's more real and honest to me than people flooding flickr with the same boring B&W pics of abandoned insane asylums <snip>.
ElectricPuppy wrote:Live and learn, right?
Also, the first thought in my head when I saw your tower pic was, "I fart in your general direction!"
selfinflikted wrote:I love B&W photos of creepy abandoned places.
I take my drink BACK, sir. BACK.
christianrock wrote:ElectricPuppy wrote:Live and learn, right?
Also, the first thought in my head when I saw your tower pic was, "I fart in your general direction!"
Now I will always think that when I see it
soundwave106 wrote: so here's a picture from the ghost town of Bodie, California.
christianrock wrote:In B&W or even in (warning: hipster trigger) sepia.
soundwave106 wrote:christianrock wrote:In B&W or even in (warning: hipster trigger) sepia.
Sepia's good, but I think true hipsterdom lies in an earth toney base (like sepia) combined with pastels and earthy color transforms.
Example: Take a random nature picture, like this one I took of the Merced river in Yosemite. Transform with sepia. Then add a bitone color on top of that.
With a band name and album title generated from the article title of random Wikipedia articles, I think this might be "good enough" cover art for a chillwave project.
(Sepia + abandoned ghost town would work for cowpunk / rockabilly though. )
christianrock wrote:And earlier this week my wife said there were 5 (FIVE!!) deer in our backyard. The population must have grown too much around here in Georgia... maybe I should take up hunting?
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A post for the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories
Only a few Christmases have been spent away from home. Most notable was Christmas 2007 when I went to the UK to spend Christmas with my Grandad.
We arrived in England on 19 December, hoping for a white Christmas (this never being something that would happen in NZ). It was wonderful experiencing the short days, the general frostiness and the Christmas decorations in and on everyone's homes, but best of all was being able to spend time with Grandad and hearing more of his stories.
We planned out the Christmas feast with him (boneless turkey roast, the full range of roast veges, and the chocolate pudding from M&S Food), and I insisted on buying ridiculously posh Christmas crackers. We wanted him to have a great Christmas since he's normally on his own, and purchased numerous extra presents to complement those we'd brought with us - the present trolley below was pretty much all for him!
My brother arrived from London on Christmas Eve so we had a comparatively full house of four people for the big day. Grandad probably got a little tired of saying "Another one for me? Oh sweetie, you shouldn't have", the feast went off without a hitch, we got to watch the Queen and Doctor Who on TV at the "proper" times, and the only possible negative was the lack of a white Christmas. Although, just quietly, having a decent frost was a complete novelty for me and worked just as well!
There were plenty of other highlights too, like being able to show my partner Snowdonia on a gloriously cold and clear day, travelling down to Cardiff to spend New Year's with his sister and her husband, seeing the madness that is Harrods Christmas Sale (all you've heard is true) and some further appreciation of English Heritage and National Trust properties. All in all, it turns out that one fabulous Christmas trip is plenty for me.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
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A post for the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories
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- Anonymous said...
You really should have known better than to hope for a white Christmas in England. I don't ever remember seeing one... maybe this year! Still I am glad you had a good trip regardless
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Several wildfires sparked by lightning strikes were burning in Southwest Colorado Sunday evening drawing firefighters from as far as the Navajo Nation.
The largest fire was the Burns Fire estimated at 80 acres on Southern Ute Indian Tribe land and private lands 12 miles southwest of Pagosa Springs, according to a news release issued Sunday evening by Ann Bond of the Durango Interagency Fire Dispatch Center.
Two structures are threatened near Coal Mine Canyon Road. Two single-engine air tankers have been working the fire, and a heavy air tanker is en route. Archuleta County and Southern Ute engines and crews are on scene with structural support requested from the Upper Pine Fire District, Bond said in the release.
North of Durango, the Buck Fire was reported late Sunday afternoon in the San Juan National Forest Hermosa Creek drainage, about five miles north of the town of Hermosa. A team of smoke jumpers has been ordered. The fire was last reported at a quarter acre with strong potential for spreading.
The Hoof Fire on Ute Mountain Ute Tribe land two miles south of Mesa Verde National Park has burned about 30 acres on Whites Mesa two miles from Montezuma County Road 100. A helicopter and single-engine air tanker are making drops, with one ground crew on scene from the Navajo Nation.
The Park Point Fire is estimated at 3 acres in Mesa Verde National Park on steep slopes below the Park Point Lookout. The National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management firefighters were responding.
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I always wonder how many Christians there would be if Christianity was frowned upon. In the Easter services there are passages of Christ proclaiming his faith even tho others spit on him, beat him, despise him, and even kill him. How many Christians would there be if they were treated like homosexuals in the 50's; or black folks in the deep south under jim crow? (Someone please tell me how to punctuate the previous sentence.)
What do you think and do you know anyone who…Continue
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The move toward American Theocracy by the empowered evangelical 'elite' in the US has made it almost impossible for an atheist or difficult for a non-christian to be elected to office. Schools are having their curriculum undermined by creationist who wish to revise history, remove evolution from science, and prevent teaching sexual health and pregnancy prevention. Atheist fear reprisals for not being christian and are often discriminated against at work, socially, and most especially in…Continue
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What event, book, lecture, or insight 'made' you and atheist? HMM?
While he was sick with cancer my dad once cut my religious comments off by saying, "I don't believe in that stuff." It was like a thunderclap at the very moment he said he didn't believe. I no longer believed. I had essentially been given permission to leave god. I had flirted with it before but it was just too far a leap for me. His moment of honesty gave me permission. After watching my parents suffer…Continue
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There seem to be a contingent of thinkers out there who think that "the answers to life, the universe and everything" are the philosophies of Ayn Rand in "Atlas Shrugged." It somehow seems fitting that this may be the case since, when asked to cut some of her novel she replied, "Would you cut the Bible?"
Calling a philosophy "Objectivism" confuses me. No one is perfectly objective and the first hurdle to being objective is realizing that no one is truly…Continue
Yeah, I can see the potential there, but every time I've tried, I just keep getting too ranty and not sufficiently funny. I haven't been able to reconcile the points I want to make with the jokes. All of my other segments flow naturally from serious point to punchline. The Libertarian segment comes off ... forced, to say the very least.
I know the jokes are there. It's been entirely my failure to use them properly.
Yup, that's the basic concept I was going for in my standup comedy segment. Dogmatic Libertarians. I've just kind of dropped the segment for a while, though. I don't know how to make it funny. It just pisses me off too much.
Heh, and more olive-green eyes, actually. It's kind of hard to tell with my crappy digital camera, and the glasses don't help, either. They do all sorts of weird things with the light.
Yeah, and Libertarians don't LISTEN. They'll never change any of their ideals, because they're almost as dogmatic as the theists. Besides, if you want to have someone who will actually consider your opinions and not spit you back a sound bite about absolute freedom, you don't want a Libertarian.
Heh, but I like the freaky picture. That's the point. :-P
Oh, hey there. Interesting bit in the 'Atheist Etiquette' discussion.
Are you in either FAAST or TAM, on meetup.com? So many people floating around there, I can't keep track of them all.
Thank you for your reply..... no problem with delay I am somewhat cpu challenged myself.
My holidays were very very nice. I did not attend church either but dont have much pressure at this point to do so. I have not been a practicing Presbyterian for years.
My biggest challenge as of late is how to deal with my wife and the raising or our kids.
My wife is very strong theist; doesn't go to church but prays her butt off and is a true believer. She knows my feelings and sees my email full of Atheist Nexus notifications over my shoulder on occasion, as well as my plethora of Atheism books by our bed. She doesn't challenge me she just doesn't want to know. I chip away at her by quoting the bible to her with some of the more hideous passages,
ie: "happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones" - psalm 137
she seems to be coming around at least to the point that the bible ain't such a good book.
My real problem is our kids; they are being taught christianity and my sister and brother in law even took my son (7) to a several week sunday am catholic sunday school with my wifes blessing. I have some mixed feelings about this.
I am now coming to terms with it and rather than try to prevent their education i am going to try to be the good PC person and introduce them to "all religions" and hopefully atheism and let them make their own choices with time.
I got this idea from Dan Dennett in a lecture he gave at a TED conference i saw on youtube
thanks again; stay in touch
Thanks for the fine song.....
yeah pretty conscious shattering stuff....
hey, this morning i was pumping gas and just standing there looking into space.
Caught myself starting to have a dialog in my mind with the "BIG G".
not sure what to replace that with; i used god more as a sounding board rather than an actual prayer.
what do i do now say; "hey self, what do you think of this?" , "i dont know self i like this"
kind of awkward isn't it?
Shannon, that's a brave and informative piece you have written. We sympathize with your predicament. At least do comfort yourself that through Atheist Nexus you immediately have 20,000 understanding good friends. What a sad world it is when it is dominated by those who are so wrong in their beliefs (there just ain't any such thing as a god--they are simply fictions inside the heads of indoctrinated believers).
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NEA Delegates Focus on Improving Schools Through Collaboration
Opening Day Activities Show Attention to Shared Responsibilities
July 01, 2011
By Will Potter
The "Day of Learning"—an all-day event packed with workshops and panel discussions on improving our schools—helped set the stage for NEA's Representative Assembly on Friday with a conversation about where our public schools are headed.
Sessions addressed the often short-sighted programs and policies that have cropped up in the recent attacks on public education, and also proposed solutions. The interactive town hall featured NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, Anne L. Bryant, executive director of the National School Boards Association, Dan Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, and Debra Strauss, a member representative of the national Parent Teacher Association board of directors.
The plenary session was moderated by Tavis Smiley, host of talk shows on PBS and Public Radio International.
"I can't think of anything that's more important than an equal, high quality education," said Smiley. "The future of our country is inextricably linked to whether we get this education thing right."
The panelists all agreed that the best way to improve education and to achieve lasting impact from any reform is through collaboration.
"We cannot be continually battling each other," said Bryant. "Unions and school boards should be singing the same song, focusing on student learning, and coming together to effect change."
The first-ever "Day of Learning" also put the spotlight on NEA's Priority Schools Campaign, allowing educators to share what's working—and what's a waste of time—when it comes to transforming struggling schools.
Kerrie Dallman, a social studies teacher from Pomona High School in Arvada, Colo., currently serving as the president of the Jefferson County Education Association, says she signed up for a breakout session titled Transforming Schools is Union Work to hear from other educators and plans to take tips home to her members, especially those on cultural competency and collaboration.
"We have to take ownership over our profession and make the change we want to see," said Dallman, who took copious notes during the session. "We have a lot of schools, though, that are performing just above that line, and we are really anxious to begin working now so that our schools don't turn into [School Improvement Grant] schools."
In another forum on Friday, sponsored by NEA's Office of Minority Community Outreach, leaders from diverse, ethnic minority communities discussed the labor and education issues facing our schools and offered strategies for get beyond the rhetoric to help everyone understand the alliance between communities and labor.
"The struggle for labor rights is the struggle for the middle class," said panelist Gregory Cendana, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO.
In addition to their business at NEA's Annual Meeting, teachers and other school staff have been rolling up their sleeves to help needy families across the host city. At Lakeview Pantry, educators cleaned, organized and restocked food and clothing donations for those in need. NEA members have also been volunteering with the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, Ronald McDonald House and Habitat for Humanity.
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Woman faces 17 charges, officials say
A Racine mother is in jail facing 17 charges of keeping her child home from school for most of the past year.
According to state law, law enforcement can be called if a student misses more than five days of school. Authorities said most cases are resolved without jail time, but in Racine, a fourth-grader missed almost half of the school year at Julian Thomas Elementary, which led to the arrest of the child's mother.
"We follow state statute; of course we want kids to attend school every day, so we follow guidelines. If a student is not showing up for school, there's specific guidelines we have to follow," said Stacy Tapp, spokeswoman for the Racine Unified School District.
Authorities said the mother is facing 17 charges, and each charge represents five missed days of school.
According to a criminal complaint, the child missed a total of 14 days in November.
"A case like this, we are interested in prosecuting because we need to intervene on this child's behalf, so he gets his education," said Tricia Hanson, deputy district attorney for Racine County.
Hanson said the district attorney's office is concerned about the growing number of truancy cases in the area.
"We are running about a hundred of these cases a year, and in fact, for this year, we are up above our average. We've filed about 64 cases since the beginning of 2013," said Hanson.
Prosecutors said each case of truancy is different. Sometimes there are health and financial issues that prevent families from getting children to school, but Hanson said there are resources to help parents.
"Our goal is never to incarcerate a parent or take them away from their children. The goal is to get their kids in school," said Hanson.
School district officials said they hope to work out a plan with the mother so her child can get back to the classroom next school year.


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This misbehaving European bird has a unique attitude to relationships, often resulting in fertilised eggs being abandoned and partners being 'divorced'.
The male of the species starts the mating process by building an extremely sophisticated nest that hangs, like a pendulum, between forked tree twigs.
However, in a move that human men may sympathise with, the male bird leaves the finishing touches of the nest until a potential mate arrives. He uses the good nest foundations that he has built to lure her in, and then works with her to complete the dwelling to her specifications.
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Scientists have been baffled by this strange behaviour for decades, but now researchers have established a model that helps to explain the bird's callous behaviour.
Professor Tamas Szekely, from the University's Biodiversity Laboratory in the Department of Biology & Biochemistry, has led the research. He said: "There is no logic to decide which parent leaves the nest; before this project all we knew for sure was that on no account did both parents stay and rear the young.
"Both parents have the same capabilities when it comes to raising their offspring, so the gender of the remaining bird makes no difference to the welfare of the chicks.
"The parent that leaves the nest will usually go on to mate again, with each 'divorcing' parent taking up to four or five new mating partners during a four month season!"
In order to explain the strange mating behaviour of the birds the researchers looked to calculate whether there was a biological benefit to either parent staying with the nest while the other left.
Professor Szekely said: "We tried to calculate how many offspring were produced in each circumstance - when the mother left, when the father left, or when both parents left the nest.
"However, because the bird that leaves can go on to have additional breeding partners during the course of the season, simple mathematical calculations aren't possible."
This complication led the researchers to explore game theory models - a mathematical method for analysing calculated circumstances where an individual's success is based upon the choices of others.
Biodiversity Laboratory PhD research student Dr Rene van Dijk, now a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Sheffield, tested game theory models against the birds' behaviour.
Dr van Dijk said: "The most applicable game to the birds mating behaviour was the 'snowdrift game' - used widely to explain the evolution of human cooperation.
"The game states that in a snowdrift, if two vehicles were stuck and their survival depended on them tunnelling to reach one-another, each would have equal gain from the digging of a tunnel. However each could also wait until the other party dug the tunnel, therefore eliminating any personal effort while maintaining their claim to the benefit.
"The behaviour of the birds is somewhat similar to this - they each gain genetically from breeding, but each bird could also gain from leaving this nurturing stage to their partner and instead start breeding again with another bird. We used the model to predict the behaviour of a population of birds and on measuring the observed reality we found it to be very similar.
"The birds therefore gamble on whether or not the other parent will stay with the offspring and raise them. The parent that remains puts in the most effort and loses out on the opportunity of further breeding during the season, but both parents gain a benefit.
"In some cases the gamble doesn't pay off, with both parents leaving after the eggs are laid resulting in the nest being unsuccessful. However both parents are making the gamble that during a whole breeding season, some of their partners will make the decision to stay with the nest when they move on."
The research highlighted that the only difference between the result of the mother's and the father's care is that the mother's clutch will eventually be larger as she continues to lay fertilised eggs following the departure of the father. However, this bears no testament to either parent's ability to raise the chicks successfully.
Professor Szekely added: "The real beauty of this project was in demonstrating that not only can we use this method to develop a scientific understanding of animal behaviour, but that we can do this in situations where the particular behaviour appears to be quite simply crazy. Having proven that this technique works there are wide potential applications for further studies."
The research was carried out in collaboration with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary. Findings have been published this week in the journal 'Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences'.
Penduline tits are water-loving birds often seen in marsh areas and along rivers and canals. Their breeding season lasts for four months, from April through to July. The birds move to forest areas to breed, building pendulum-like nests hanging from the trees. The tits are common throughout continental Europe and a number of non-breeding migrant birds are spotted in the UK each year.


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Also I watched Contact. It's one of those films I'd think I would've watched sooner given that I gravitate towards fantasy/scifi so much. Anyway I think I might have a new favorite as far as this kind of scifi movie goes. I certainly enjoyed it more than the more recent Interstellar or Arrival at least, and a large part is because the ending doesn't fall too far into the realm of ridiculous movie science. I suppose some might find the dialogue a bit too on the nose towards the end, but I prefer this sort of ending for a scifi movie over the more emotionally satisfying ones the other two aforementioned movies go for.
Saw Black Panther. Excellent, perhaps my favorite Marvel movie. Really enjoyed the fact they just didn't make a tired old origin story for the 1st movie.


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Better by quite a bit if you compare it to the iPhone 4; better by a little bit when compared to the iPhone 4S. Noticeably better all around, though, so if you can work it out with your carrier, and you're an Apple fan, this is the one you want.
The tech press is correct when it points out that many of these features are already elsewhere: Maps on Android phones, bigger screens on Samsung phones, better cameras on Nokia phones. Apple, though, is the best at integrating the entire package, and making it a smooth experience for iPhone users - especially those who find themselves inside the Apple ecosystem (iTunes, iCloud, MacBook, etc).
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The camera is basically what you already have in your iPhone 4S, but with some subtle upgrades smartphone photographers will notice. Everyone, though, will get a kick out of the Panorama feature - as soon as you download iOS 6, give that a whirl. It's cool.
Yes, I know - if you're not an Apple fan, you can find a lot of this stuff elsewhere. The reason for Apple's success (not to mention its record high stock price) is that Apple fans - and the number is growing by the day - can find all these features in one place. It's a good looking place, and it's a place that, on first experience at least, works well.
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Dealbreaker's Matt Levine has a new gig answering questions for NPR's Planet Money. The first toughie he tackled: What do investment bankers actually do?
The short answer: nothing.
The long answer: They're "obsequious and needy" "middlemen" who find people looking to invest money.
Levine said that I-bankers are "selling money to companies" by encouraging those companies to issue stocks and bonds for investors to buy. While sales and traders actually sell the securities to investors, I-bankers arrange for them to be sold.
When those securities are purchased, the company can then use investor money to expand by hiring new workers or building new factories for instance.
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"When a company decides to issue stock or bonds, investment bankers perform 'due diligence' to make sure the company's accountants will say that the company's financial statements say what they say they say."
That sounds like a little more than nothing, Matt.
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Wealthy who avoided the 'fiscal cliff'
Top financiers have given lavishly to federal candidates, committees
When he announced the "fiscal cliff" compromise this month, President Obama promised that upper-income Americans would be paying their fair share. But he failed to fulfill a campaign promise to change part of the tax code that benefits some of the richest people in the country.
Some of the wealthiest Americans - such as private equity managers, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists - will continue to enjoy the provisions of a legal, but controversial, part of the tax code that allows them to avoid pay billions in taxes.
Part of the reason this provision wasn't changed, analysts say, is the financial power of this sector. In the Bay Area alone, employees of top money firms donated $6.7 million to federal candidates and political committees during the 2012 election cycle.
An analysis was performed for The Chronicle by MapLight, a nonprofit that analyzes the effects of money and politics and was based on latest available data from the Federal Election Commission as of Tuesday.
"It is a clear example of how political contributions have a high return on investment," said Daniel G. Newman, president and co-founder of MapLight. "Millions in political contributions brought billions of tax breaks for some of the wealthiest people in America."
Money managers at privately held partnerships typically are compensated largely through a 20 percent bonus they receive on the profits they make, known as the carried interest. They often receive 2 percent of the fund's assets, too.
Under current law, fund managers can have the bonus income taxed at the 20 percent capital gains rate if they hold the income long enough, instead of the 39.6 percent personal income tax rate.
Broken promise
Four years ago, Obama promised that he would end the practice of taxing carried interest as capital gains instead of as regular income. Such a change could raise an estimated $13 billion to $20 billion over the next decade, according to federal and industry figures, and affect 36,000 to 65,000 people.
But Obama failed to live up to his 2008 promise, according to the nonpartisan fact-checkers at Politifact.com who recently rated it a "broken promise" of his first term.
A White House official told The Chronicle that Obama still supports closing the loophole.
Good-government advocates and some tax analysts describe such a change as fiscal low-hanging fruit that Congress could pick: It could raise billions of dollars for the rickety economy while affecting a relatively small slice of well-off people who could absorb the financial blow.
"But politically, it is not low-hanging fruit," said Victor Fleischer, an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado who has testified before Congress several times on the issue. "There are a lot of powerful interests who don't want that changed."
Bay Area contributors
Californians who would be affected by such a change include some political heavy-hitters from both major parties.
Some of the top Bay Area contributors in the sector studied by MapLight include employees of the Westly Group, named for its founder, Democrat Steve Westly, the former California state controller and venture capitalist who was one of Obama's top fundraisers.
Also near the top of the list were employees of Farallon Capital, which was co-founded by billionaire Thomas Steyer, the Democrat who put $32 million of his own money into passing Proposition 39. The measure will close a tax loophole that affects out-of-state corporations and could send an estimated $1 billion a year to the state for public education and green jobs.
Big source of money
Nationally, the financial sector has been the largest source of campaign contributions to federal candidates for several cycles, according to the nonpartisan watchdogs at the Center for Responsive Politics. But industry representatives downplay a link between their political contributions and preservation of the carried interest provision.
"You can make that argument for literally every single thing out there," said Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association. Nearly 60 percent of its members live in California.
There are 3,300 venture capitalists in the United States, and at least 60 percent of them, Heesen said, will not be able to take advantage of the carried interest provision. It is challenging for many venture capitalists to have a portfolio successful enough to have that kind of profit.
Some private equity high-earners who benefit from the way carried interest is currently taxed say that they already are paying more in taxes after the fiscal cliff deal, which raised the capital gains rate from 15 to 20 percent. Add another 3 percent tax onto that for high earners as part of the new health care law, and they say they just experienced a major tax increase.
Still, financial industry leaders know that Obama and others in Washington will raise the issue again, possibly during the upcoming debt ceiling negotiations.
Cutting national debt
Steve Judge, president and CEO of Private Equity Growth Capital Council, which represents some of the nation's largest firms, said the bump in the capital gains tax contributed to cutting the national debt.
"It is our hope that any tax reform effort in 2013 will be about crafting policies that incentivize economic growth," he added.
On a macro level, venture capitalists and private equity managers fear that modifying the carried interest provision could have a negative effect on the economy. Private equity firms invested $144 billion in 1,700 U.S.-based companies in 2011, according to the Private Equity Growth Capital Council.
U.S. companies founded with venture capital have created 12 million jobs, according to a study done for the Venture Capital Association.
Joe Garofoli is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @joegarofoli


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Auction: Four Large Residential LotsEach Lot is 1.15 to 1.45 AcresClark Estates Subdivision, Inman SCNote: This is the auction for Lot #30
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1 Story Minimum: 1600 Sqft
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Ousted 'Idol' Contestant Dexter Roberts Has Sights Set on Nashville
'American Idol' may no longer have Dexter Roberts after he was eliminated from the show on Thursday night (April 17), but Nashville is getting a new resident in the singer.
Roberts says he's got his sights set on Nashville and he's ready to move soon! He says as soon as the tour is over this summer, he wants to be Music City's newest resident. "Hopefully, after the tour, man, I'm ready to come up there," the 22-year-old tells USA Today.
He already knows one Nashville resident, but Roberts didn't have a time to catch up with Keith Urban after Thursday's elimination.
"It's so fast, man, they barely have time to talk to us that much. He told me to have fun and keep pushing forward."
However, Roberts did get to talk with quite a few country stars that may be able to help in the future. One was Craig Morgan and the two have made plans to get together.
"I like Craig," he says. "We're going to do some hunting together some time."
Roberts is sure he's not quite ready for Los Angeles, since he hails from such a small town in Alabama. The Cali city might be a culture shock for the southern singer.
"I told my mom I've been in the city so much I'm ready to get back and get in the woods," Roberts says. "I told her I'm about ready to go get a teepee and stay in the woods for a few months."
Now that his time on 'American Idol' is over, Roberts is ready to get on tour and then head for Music City.


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GARDEN CITY, Mich. – A man crashed a late model Dodge Ram pickup truck Tuesday afternoon into a house before firing a shot near Harrison and Warren roads in northern Garden City.
Watch: Aerial video: Police swarm truck after crash, shooting in Garden City
Police were in pursuit of the driver when he lost control of the vehicle, side-swiped a tree and crashed into the home.
Local 4 has learned the man had robbed a credit union in the area. The chase reached speeds of 60 and 70 miles per hour. He fired one shot at police officers after the crash.
No one was injured.
"We're unclear what the motive behind that shot being fired was, however, he did make comments to officers that if the gun hadn't been jammed it was 'gonna be on,'" said Garden City Police Chief Robert Muery.
There was an assault rifle in the truck which has been recovered by police. Officers also found the stolen cash from the credit union.
Melissa Tourle lives in the house the truck crashed into.
"Just to come home and see a truck in your house ... like, what?" Tourle said.
She was returning home from work to find the pickup in the house's guest room.
"I can't believe it. Like, you think you would only see this on TV ... and it's happening right now in real life," she said.


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Panoramics Photographers in St.Thomas
Here are the listings of Panoramics Photographers for Panoramics photography work in St.Thomas. Each photographer has its profile with portfolio of photography work, specialities and other details. You can use the filter facility on the left to exactly find an appropriate photographer in your area.
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There are many reasons why someone would hire a professional St.Thomas Panoramics photographer ... Some Panoramics photographers offer video shooting as well. Hiring a St.Thomas Panoramics photographer is an important decision that requires researching local photographers, learning a bit about photo equipment and style and finding the right personality. Be aware that some of the better Panoramics photographers are booked up to 2 years in advance. Be sure that all of the details are clearly outlined in your contract with your St.Thomas Panoramics photographer. By hiring a creative, experienced and reputable St.Thomas Panoramics photographer, you can ensure that you'll get high-quality and professional photos.