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Cicero would have plugged his ears and sent me to the scullery, but somehow I managed to pull through. With the same negative result.
This last attempt ultimately misfiring, the two strangers exchanged a few words in their incomprehensible language and withdrew, not even favoring us with one of those encouraging gestures that are used in every country in the world. The door closed again.
"This is outrageous!" Ned Land shouted, exploding for the twentieth time. "I ask you! We speak French, English, German, and Latin to these rogues, and neither of them has the decency to even answer back!"
"Calm down, Ned," I told the seething harpooner. "Anger won't get us anywhere."
"But professor," our irascible companion went on, "can't you see that we could die of hunger in this iron cage?"
"Bah!" Conseil put in philosophically. "We can hold out a good while yet!"
"My friends," I said, "we mustn't despair. We've gotten out of tighter spots. So please do me the favor of waiting a bit before you form your views on the commander and crew of this boat."
"My views are fully formed," Ned Land shot back. "They're rogues!"
"Oh good! And from what country?"
"My gallant Ned, as yet that country isn't clearly marked on maps of the world, but I admit that the nationality of these two strangers is hard to make out! Neither English, French, nor German, that's all we can say. But I'm tempted to think that the commander and his chief officer were born in the low latitudes. There must be southern blood in them. But as to whether they're Spaniards, Turks, Arabs, or East Indians, their physical characteristics don't give me enough to go on. And as for their speech, it's utterly incomprehensible."
"That's the nuisance in not knowing every language," Conseil replied, "or the drawback in not having one universal language!"
"Which would all go out the window!" Ned Land replied. "Don't you see, these people have a language all to themselves, a language they've invented just to cause despair in decent people who ask for a little dinner! Why, in every country on earth, when you open your mouth, snap your jaws, smack your lips and teeth, isn't that the world's most understandable message? From Quebec to the Tuamotu Islands, from Paris to the Antipodes, doesn't it mean: I'm hungry, give me a bite to eat!"
"Oh," Conseil put in, "there are some people so unintelligent by nature . . ."
As he was saying these words, the door opened. A steward entered.* He brought us some clothes, jackets and sailor's pants, made out of a fabric whose nature I didn't recognize. I hurried to change into them, and my companions followed suit.
*Author's Note: A steward is a waiter on board a steamer.
Meanwhile our silent steward, perhaps a deaf-mute, set the table and laid three place settings.
"There's something serious afoot," Conseil said, "and it bodes well."
"Bah!" replied the rancorous harpooner. "What the devil do you suppose they eat around here? Turtle livers, loin of shark, dogfish steaks?"
"We'll soon find out!" Conseil said.
Overlaid with silver dish covers, various platters had been neatly positioned on the table cloth, and we sat down to eat. Assuredly, we were dealing with civilized people, and if it hadn't been for this electric light flooding over us, I would have thought we were in the dining room of the Hotel Adelphi in Liverpool, or the Grand Hotel in Paris. However, I feel compelled to mention that bread and wine were totally absent. The water was fresh and clear, but it was still water--which wasn't what Ned Land had in mind. Among the foods we were served, I was able to identify various daintily dressed fish; but I couldn't make up my mind about certain otherwise excellent dishes, and I couldn't even tell whether their contents belonged to the vegetable or the animal kingdom. As for the tableware, it was elegant and in perfect taste. Each utensil, spoon, fork, knife, and plate, bore on its reverse a letter encircled by a Latin motto, and here is its exact duplicate:
Moving within the moving element! It was a highly appropriate motto for this underwater machine, so long as the preposition in is translated as within and not upon.


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As we've worked to grow our own businesses, a few figures recently have really inspired us: Noah Kagan, Sean Ellis, and Gabriel Weinberg (among others).
That's why, when we decided to do a giveaway (using Noah Kagan's KingSumo Giveaway) to promote ContentUpgrade.me, it made sense to include Sean Ellis' book Hacking Growth and Gabriel Weinberg's Traction.
Traction is a super reference book for entrepreneurs of all stripes. Most startup advice that you find online follows the formula "How I Got Eleventy Bazillion Users in Two Hours Using this One Simple Trick". Which turns out to be baloney. Not so with Traction. Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares outline nineteen channels that you can use to get initial traction for any new product, whether you're launching a SaaS or mobile app, a course, an eBook, or a physical product. The authors then walk you through each traction channel to generate ideas and then select the best ideas to create a "critical path" using the "bullseye" method to hit the target. Whether you're just getting started or trying to build momentum, this is a book that you'll keep on your desk rather than on your shelf.
Traction was one of my favorite books until I read Hacking Growth. I first listened to the audiobook, but I decided to purchase the paper copy because I kept wanting to go back and re-read what I had just heard. To be honest the term "growth hacking" rubbed me the wrong way until I read this book. I'm a bit of a curmudgen, so many growth hackers seemed like arrogant kids who just got lucky once or twice. Not so. Authors Ellis and Brown present Growth hacking as a legitimate discipline. Before reading Hacking Growth I would use the "spray and pray" method of marketing — try everything that anybody recommends and hope something works. But that's not growth hacking — that's insanity. Growth hacking is actually a scientific and systematic approach to trying various experiments, documenting the results, and doubling down on what works. This is another one that looks destined to spend more time on my desk than on my shelf.
I think so highly of both of these books that I want to give them away. And if we're giving away a "growth hacking" bundle, it makes sense to include a lifetime supply of lead magnets via ContentUpgrade.me.
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However, for us big dry-hopped beers need the carbonation to stop them from becoming sticky or cloying on the pallet and help deliver the flavour to your taste-buds in the most satisfying and encapsulating way.
organista valenciano Juan de la Rubia Romero, quien cindose a la temtica de estas audiciones, brind obras de Buxtehude, Brahms y Listz, que por su categora y dificultad iban a poner a prueba las magnficas condiciones y notable preparacin del joven intrprete.
As they say, "I coulda been someone."This morning, as she made her way down the street from her shopping trip, she saw flashing lights and lots of people standing around.
I know I'm already a virtual star on Twitter, an award-winning blogger and a highly sought after virtual dj, but she's ruined my chance for real fame.
Concerned that something bad had happened, she asked Rick, the concierge of our building who was standing outside watching, what was going on.
He told her they were filming Naturally, when she told me, I couldn't WAIT to get outside and be part of the action.


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|Well hello!
Thanks to a certain blog post by a certain curly-haired author my blog has seen a lot of page views from across the pond.
So that was pretty amazing, I love the internet!
I've been spending my days finising The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and although it was over too quickly I really enjoyed it. I could really relate to the main character surrounding himself with books as a child; it got me thinking about my own childhood.
I loved reading about the adventures of the Famous Five and their dog Timmy - one of my main ambitions back then was to have an exciting adventure! My ultimate favourite though, was The Chronicles of Narnia. I spent a lot of time trying to get there through the back of my grandparents dusty old wardrobe!
Ocean is a fun read, lots of mystical things going on, oh and cats! What's not to like about pulling up a cat from the ground like a carrot? (Bet that sounds odd if you haven't read it yet, you should).
Ever since going to the signing at Ely, I've been feeling a more inspired to write up a story idea I had. Funnily enough as a child I used to love to write, I did it all of the time, but as I've got older it almost feels like I've forgotten how.
The story is about a man who finds a strange coral crown washed up on the sea shore, and a one-eyed raggedy seagull. I'll post it here when I work up the courage to write it, I know it probably won't be that good as a first attempt but I'll give it a go.


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The goals of Careers at Stockport Faculty is to empower young folks and help them plan their future; making effectively knowledgeable and reasonable choices. Careers classes provide our college students with the assist they want through the availability of knowledge and an introduction to the wide variety of resources accessible that provide the precise details every scholar may want for his or her individual career selection. There'll come a time, when you will no longer feel the should be working as somebody's mere worker. You would need to take charge and control over your individual life and earnings. This is when you'll resolve to turn out to be a self-employed individual, who want to watch his / her personal concepts take lifelike type. You would prefer being the one offering job alternatives to others and help in offering revenue to them. At this stage of entrepreneurship, chances are you'll use your own experience in addition to that of different skilled and expert associates. As a crew, you will find your small business or venture expanding and yielding good outcomes. You could even achieve the arrogance and perception, which can provide help to diversify and spread your expertise into other business arenas, which have been beforehand unknown to you, or you have been uncertain about. This capability, comes with experience and knowledge amassed over the years.
So, having a system that makes obtainable to all citizens a selection of competing well being insurers and subsidies, if wanted, is one of those duties. The hogwash concerning the mandatory insurance coverage or penalty being a violation of individual liberty is simply that, hogwash. The penalty is there to do three things, 1) to incentivize free-loaders to get insurance coverage, 2) scale back the price of health care premiums, and three) acquire up-front a price to pay for the well being costs they will more than possible burden the health care system with once they get sick or injured to the extent they can't (or will not) pay for it out of their own assets (a conservative concept I happen to agree with, btw).
America is a various nation in terms of race, faith, and ethnicity, in addition to in how individuals select to prepare themselves politically and socially. We're additionally a large nation, with practically 300 million people who find themselves cell, live in dense population centers, and work together with a variety of other folks as employees and shoppers. Neither people nor society as an entire will perform successfully with out mutual respect, information, and luxury in our dealings with people who find themselves different from us.
Iroquois males had been proud, ruthless warriors, who typically killed for revenge. They most popular to capture their opponents alive for ritual execution, after villagers of all ages took turns burning them with pink-scorching objects. They tortured, roasted, and sometimes ate their foes. While you talk about free speech at Harvard, it is actually much less concerning the administration and extra about the ambiance on campus," Healy said.
This paper due to this fact examines the assets that support integration of new applied sciences into children's literacy instruction and the issues and challenges which may be encountered in selling these resources for enriching kids's reading and writing abilities. The following sub-heading will information the dialogue- applied sciences that help kids's studying development, technologies that help kids's writing abilities, and the implementation challenges inherent in utilizing the technologies to enrich youngsters's reading and writing skills.


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Kerala's State Committee Orientation Program (SCOP) was held at Kerala UESI Centre, Ernakulam on 16th to 17th March 2018. The 15 participants representing State Executive Committee, Staff and Regional office bearers were the participants. All were enriched as they listened to the National Leaders who shared valuable insight on the importance of State EC, Governance and Stewardship. Mr. C. Julius, Chairperson – OPEC (Organizational Planning and Evaluation Cell) and Mr. Selvadurai, Secretary of OPEC.
Bro. Selvadurai gave clarity of definition importance of Governance, State EC Mandates and State EC. The Bible study on Acts 15 gave a scriptural insight into the attributes needed for leaders-the committee/State EC members.
Mr. Julius enabled the participants to understand spiritual attributes and responsibilities of State EC Members and stewardship through the parable of Talents as a case study. Further he enlightened us on the "Principles and practices of a highly effective State EC".
Mr. Selvadurai shared on balancing three important relationships – Stakeholders, Management and State EC Colleagues. He also led the participants to understand UESI General Body and the responsibilities of State Committee members. He further encouraged each committee member in providing support to the leaders in the forefront and to constantly evaluate them in order to give assistance and direction.
The case studies, group discussions and team activities kept the participants alert and helped them to understand the key aspects of Team work and being an effective leader.
UESI Kerala is very grateful to Mr. C. Julius and Mr. Selvadurai for giving insight and direction to the state leaders on effective functioning of the committees.
"Learnt about the role of the EC for the effective working out of the Organization; The function of the President; Clear explanation of the roles; Setting goals for the Ministry and proper evaluation of the goals achieved". Rev. Itty Mathew.
"Reinforced that it is a God given responsibility; Sessions were interesting and also the group activity; themes conveyed with apt examples". Mrs. Sheena George.
"Learnt the meaning of Governance; Roles and responsibilities of EC and how to be a good Committee member". Mr. Baiju Thomas.
"Liked the Commitment, passion and Communication of the Resource Persons; A well-organized Programme" Mr. Jacob Samuel.
Mrs. Diana Johanan, Kerala EC Member.


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:حكى ابن الأَعرابي: أَنا حَبِيبُكم أَي مُحِبُّكم؛ وأَنشد:
ورُبَّ حَبِيبٍ ناصِحٍ غَيْرِ مَحْبُوبِ
Ibn. al-a'rabiyy would say: I am "your love", in other words, your "loving one", and claimed:
Were it that a wise love be other than loved.
(What is meant is that the word for "your love" here, in the Arabic language, predominantly follows the linguistic measure of "actor", or subject, even though the word may be used to refer to an object or the "acted upon".)


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Seo is the technique of improving the presence of an internet site on natural even un-paid search engine result pages ( SERPs ) , by integrating search engine friendly materials into a website . An impressive search engine optimization marketing campaign will have , as part of the improvements , cautiously select , related , keywords which the on-page optimization will be designed to make popular for search engine algorithms . SEO is split up into two basic areas : on-page , and off-page optimization .
- On-page optimization represents website elements which comprise a web page , like HTML code , textual content , and images .
- Off-page optimization relates , predominantly , to backlinks ( links pointing to the site that is being fully optimized , from other related websites ) .


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It's impossible to please everyone, but if one board in the test seemed to receive a unanimous stamp of approval it was Gnu's Headspace. Sporting a mellowed-out version of Mervin's C3 profile—essentially positive camber—Forest Bailey's pro model had testers locking into rails, launching through rhythm sections, and laughing as they ripped every piece of tranny to the end of the run. Its asymmetric outline puts additional sidecut on the heel edge for increased initiation, while Magne-Traction helps with hold throughout the turn. Deep into a long week of board-testing at Carinthia, one veteran tester proclaimed, "After four days of constant riding, this board reinvigorated me." The Gnu Headpace is a board for those who want something soft enough to jib, with enough support to stomp, and the edgehold to actually rail a turn.
Length (cm) –Waist Width (cm)
149 – 25
152 –25
155 –25.4
158 –25.5
Flex: 5/10
Camber: Hybrid—minimal rocker with a camber dominant nose and tail
Base: Sintered
Shape: True twin, asymmetrical
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Our apologies for breaking from the jubilant celebration of the Zimmerman verdict, but we've had an international incident involving major misconduct within a government agency and the obligatory quota-fill dingbat anchorette who cluelessly read the telepromter while thinking about her nails.
Yes, another people group has been offended.
KTVU Channel 2, a Fox affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the National Transportation Safety Board apologized on Friday for an on-air blunder by an anchorwoman that involved fake names that ridiculed the Asiana flight 214 pilots. An NTSB intern had confirmed the names for the station.
Co-anchor Tori Campbell told viewers during the noon newscast Friday, "KTVU has just learned the names of the four pilots who were on board" the flight that crashed at San Francisco International Airport a week ago.
She proceeded to read from a teleprompter the names that may have originated as a racially insensitive joke online — "Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow"— while a TV graphic displayed the names next to a photo of the charred cabin.
Oh man! Here it comes: The 10-week sensitivity training course and reassignment to our sister station in Wasilla, Alaska covering Sarah Palin salmon run expeditions!
KTVU Takes Full Responsibility… Then blames it on the unidentified NTSB summer intern.
"We made several mistakes when we received this information," KTVU's apology on its website read. "KTVU accepts full responsibility for this mistake."
But it turned out the NTSB also had a role. In seeking to verify the names, an unidentified KTVU reporter called the government safety agency's public affairs office for confirmation, though did not read the names out loud, KTVU said. The station didn't clarify how the names were conveyed to the NTSB representative, who turned out to be a summer intern.
The report goes on to say that KTVU did not get the confirming intern's identity and the NTSB has not said whether he/she will be fired.
Dude, Yu So Fuk when NTSB hotty find you!
Postscript: They're taking the Zimmerman verdict well in Oakland, don't you think?
h/t Jammie Wearing Fools, Breitbart, Hot Air, The Other McCain
And, of course, they missed the navagator, Won Hung Lo, who ruptured himself trying to help the old lady escape from the plane.
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One of the most popular events of the year in Laguna Beach, California is the Sawdust Art Festival. This Festival attracts people from the local community, state and country to an amazing art festival, which features only local Laguna Beach artists. There are over 200 local artists that have a huge assortment of various art for people to purchase. Works of art include jewelry, paintings, ceramics, photographs and much more.
The Sawdust Art Festival originally began in 1965 and was known as the Laguna Artists and Gallery Owners Association. A few years later, the art show moved to a location off Laguna Canyon Road. The Sawdust Art Festival received the current name in the late 1960s, after certain artists sprinkled sawdust on the ground of the festival location to deal with the mud and dirt of the area.
While the Sawdust Art Festival is a means by which artists to sell their artwork, the festival celebrates other faucets in art such as teaching folks art education. In fact, visitors can interact with various booths in the Festival. The Festival offer workshops for novice and aspiring artists. Experienced artists who have spent years on honing their work teach workshops. Festival workshops include classes on jewelry, ceramics, painting and more. There are artist demonstrations for adults and kids in which they can participate. Artists at the Sawdust Art Festival come from various backgrounds and have a wide range of skills and abilities. In addition to vendor booths, artist demonstration and workshops to attend, the Sawdust Art Festival has live music and entertainment from a variety of performers throughout the durations of the Festival.
The Sawdust Art Festival begins on Friday, June 28 and goes through Sunday, September 1, 2013. The festival of art opens at 10 in the morning and closes at 10 in the evening. The admission varies per age of the individual. Kids five and under are free to get in. Kids between the ages of 12 to six cost $3.25. Senior citizens who are at least 65 can enter the Festival at $6.25. Admission for one adult ticket is $7.75. A seasonal pass is $15.00 and an annual pass is $20.00. An admission ticket provides a free-parking spot in a Laguna Canyon Road lot.
There are a number of dining options for when adults and kids get hungry. Espresso on the Go provides excellent coffee and sweet foods. Sallie's specializes in meals for kids and sells funnel cakes, a number of fried foods, sandwiches and salads. Sawdust Saloon has the alcoholic beverages that folks are looking for on a beautiful summer day in Laguna Beach. Other places at the Sawdust Art Festival to eat include Tacos Durrell, Fran's Popcorn, Deb's Deli and Thasos Greek Island Grille.
With three acres of land, there are many booths to stop and visit at the Sawdust Art Festival. It is a great place to visit for people of all ages and has many things to see and do. The Sawdust Art Festival is the ideal event to go to in the summer of 2013.


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Dropbox Backups in Cloud Hosting
The Dropbox backup function is available with all of our cloud hosting solutions and activating it takes a few clicks, so you are able to link the account on our end to your Dropbox space in no time. The tool which you'll find in the Hepsia hosting CP will permit you to choose which sites and databases should be backed up individually and what amount of copies ought to be generated, the maximum number being fourteen. This way you could have a daily copy of your information for the past 2 weeks if you change or delete something that you need. How much content shall be stored inside your Dropbox account and how many copies shall be available also depends upon the size of the data and the disk space that you have on their end. The function could be enabled or disabled whenever you want and if required, you can easily switch the Dropbox account linked to your shared hosting space on our end or even include multiple accounts and have various Internet sites backed up in different accounts.
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All Linux dedicated hosting which are offered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel include the Dropbox backup function by default, so if you'd like to employ this service, you only have to link the server to your account via the Dropbox section in Hepsia. The user-friendly interface will allow you to select the sites that'll be backed up if you do not need the whole content which you have on the server or you simply don't have plenty of free space in your Dropbox account. You'll be able to also choose how many copies of the everyday backups shall be saved, thus if you opt for the maximum number of fourteen, for instance, you'll have a copy of your files and databases for every day of the past two weeks. Both options can be edited whenever you want if you change your mind in regards to the content of the number of backups which you need. You can also disconnect the Dropbox account effortlessly if you don't want to use it or if you prefer to use the backup service that's a part of our Managed services upgrade along with other beneficial server management tasks that our system administrators can perform for you.


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Take a walk on more than 200km of footpaths in the Corsican maquis ! Download here our hiking maps and thematic trails.
Footpaths in Costa Verde
Discover many walking trails regularly maintained. There are around twenty loops available, marked with orange paint and listed by level of difficulty. Those trails will give you the opportunity to enjoy Costa Verde's landscapes, and to discover local fauna and flora. You will find in the course of your walking some lovely and typical villages as well as rivers and waterfalls, always in a verdant and pleasant setting.
Hiking maps are available at the Costa Verde Tourist Office and will help you with useful details such as the access roads to the starting points, duration, kilometres, watering places, as well as advices and warnings.
Have a good hike!
Botanical Trail
Localisation : San Giovanni di Moriani.
Duration : 3 hours.
If you love Corsican nature, you will enjoy this botanical trail, which you can do with you, amongst friends or alone.
You will discover throughout the path about fifty Corsican plants, trees and bushes by means of explanatory signs, which will also explain you theirs uses. From home remedies to medicinal remedies, you will be surprised to learn the secrets of this island flora. Don't hesitate to go on this stroll which is worth the detour! You will be delighted and charmed by the beauty and the peace of the landscape, real pleasure for the senses.
The loop lasts 3 hours, so enjoy your walk!
Trails in Castagniccia
Constituted of medium-altitude massifs, the Castagniccia stretches from the Fium'Altu to Apugnani and is dominated by the San Petrone, which culminates at 1767 metres. Magnificent, Castagniccia is first of all the kingdom of sweet chestnut trees, Norman chapels and baroque churches. With more than 100 hamlets, this area hold the biggest density of villages in all Corsica, and concentrates 3 "pieve" (religious district): Alesani, Orezza and Ampugnani.
In the shade of sweet chestnut trees, the Regional Nature Reserve of Corsica has developed discovering footpaths, easy to follow and colourful. Those trails will permit you to enjoy nature, landscapes, traditional villages and their habitants at the same time.
Casinca's canals
Casinca's canals, dated from the twenties, define the character of this area's coastline. Linking the ground to the sea, paths parallel to canals serve as pleasurable walking tracks, usable in all seasons. This shore offers a huge variety of landscapes, characterised by several wet areas, dunes, maquis, alders, oak-trees, poplars, willows, as well as junipers with big berries. We can also find here numerous grazed fields with bovines and ewes, or some market gardening, because of the establishment of agricultural activity.
Pedestrian trails offer many possibilities to discover canals, as well as their emblematic fauna and flora. Go and discover the Golo's mouth, the Cap Sud beach, the Mucchiatana site, the Pinarello beach and its eucalyptus, the Anghione beach, or the San Pelegrino beach and its tower.


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Our pricing is simple and transparent.
We charge $250 per hour for each technician. We typically send 1 or 2 technicians to the job depending on the circumstances.
This hourly rate applies to biohazard cleanup as well as odor remediation.
Biohazardous Waste Disposal Fee:
We charge $250 for each 43 gallon red biohazardous waste bin we use.
Partially filled bins are charged at the full $250 rate. This is because by law we are not allowed to store the bins and as such go directly from the job site to the biohazardous waste treatment facility.
Only items that must be disposed of as biohazardous waste are placed in the red bins. The rest is disposed of as regular household or construction trash. As an example, if there is blood on a mattress, we will cut out the blood stained parts of the mattress and dispose of it as biohazardous waste. The rest of the mattress which is not contaminated is recycled via California's mattress recycling program.
The personal protective equipment that our technicians wear (Tyvek suit, mask, gloves, etc) and cleaning rags are disposed of in the red biohazardous waste bins.
There are no additional fees or hidden charges of any kind.
Average Costs:
Most biohazardous cleaning situations that involve someone passing away in their home alone and found shortly after, with biohazardous material in a significant portion of a small bathroom and a small part of the bedroom typically takes about 6-8 man hours ($1500 to $2000) plus 2 red bins ($500) for a total of about $2000 to $2500.
We provide ballpark estimates over the phone and a written quote after an in-person evaluation. We're based in Studio City, California and can provide in-person quotes within 1-3 hours anywhere in Southern California.
For homeowners, we will provide you with a detailed invoice and require payment via credit card, Paypal or check at the completion of the cleaning. If your homeowners insurance policy is going to pay for the cleaning, we will bill them directly and simply ask you for your insurance adjuster's contact information. I will note that our rates are frequently lower than your deductible and are very reasonable compared to the national franchise crime scene cleaning companies.
For property management companies, we will provide you with a detailed invoice and require payment within 30 days.


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Most things we write come out of a moment of enthusiasm
Today's post (has been a few days, sorry) is based on a writing exercise we did in Life Writing class today. The idea was to think of an important photograph (for you) and write a letter to it. Here is mine, in its mostly unedited form.
Dear photo,
You have always been near me despite the fact I've lost count how many times I have packed you into a box and moved to the new house I was staying in. Today you sit on my bookshelf in the loungeroom. You show the smiling face of my mother when she was 14 years old. She looks 21.
I can reconstruct a story of this young woman based on the stories I have been told, but then we have all sorts of ethical and authorial questions to contend with. The young woman does not know when she will have children, or who they might turn out to be. She does not yet run a pizza place, or own a night club. She does not have sixteen chickens, three turkies or two ducks. Not yet anyway.
I would like to add, dear photo, that I think you might be lying with that huge grin and anticipating eyes. I want to believe that she is a young girl that has hope and is determined and happy. The girl in the photo ran away from home when she was eight. The girl in the photo, I keep calling her that. She is my mother. She is my best friend who gives me appropriate motherly advice when I ask her for it. For some reason she asks me for advice too.
Dear photo, you capture a moment but tell me nothing about it, give nothing away!
My mother. I have no idea why she was smiling in that moment. It doesn't matter, but maybe it should.
Your turn, today's writing exercise! Write a letter to this photo 🙂


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Thursday, December 31, 2009
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Top 10 Short Gut Moments
10. Squirting 3 cc of breastmilk into a bottle nipple placed in Blaise's mouth; hoping it's not too much for her to handle
9. Blaise eats solid food
8. We use the word "jejunum" in a sentence for the first time
7. Erin pulls out the button
6. Ben pulls out the button (more momentous because it was the first accidental button removal)
5. Ben meets the other cognitive scientists who have a kid with short gut
4. Blaise becomes Omegaven baby #111
3. Our nurse admits that she also wants to cry because the ostomy bag fell off again
2. Blaise comes off TPN
1. "Did you say 45 cm from the Ligament of Treitz?"
Another top ten
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Top 10...
Sunday, December 27, 2009
First birthday
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Christmas Day
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Christmas Eve
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Holiday fun
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Clinic run-down
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Happens to me all the time...
Blaise had one of those days.
This is her new favorite pasttime.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Moving right along
She's still being a little finicky about eating sometimes. One day this weekend, she only let Ben feed her. Another, I had to sing "Mairzy Doats" over and over to get her to eat. And then there are days, like today, where she gulps every bottle and chows down on her solids with no problems at all. We had another weight check today while we were at the pediatrician's office for the second H1N1 vaccine dose. Her weight gain has been much better in the last 2 weeks; she's at 16 lbs even.
When not tearing all over her room on all fours, Blaise has begun forays into the world of finger food. We'd tried whole peas and chunks of carrot, steamed to be very soft, but those were a little slimy and hard to pick up. Most of the baby biscuits and dry snacks are a bit more complex than we're ready to try with Blaise, or contain something we're avoiding for the moment (e.g., milk, eggs, wheat, soy). Enter rice rusks, or Baby Mum-Mums. These are slightly sweet rice crackers that are supposedly a common first food in Japan. It took a few demos from me and Ben, but Blaise caught on pretty fast. Now she's self-feeding like the big girl she is. The box says these crackers don't make a mess. That is a lie. It's fun anyway.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Unexpected developmental milestones
Monday, December 7, 2009
Travelling baby
Getting Blaise to eat enough is continues to be a challenge. She just seems to lose interest, especially in her bottles. Trying to eat in interesting places like airports doesn't help. We'll be seeing our friends at clinic again soon and Blaise's OT/PT has some suggestions for making eating more interesting. We're working on broadening the spectrum of okay foods and playing with combinations. Hopefully a little time back in the normal routine will help, too.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Two steps forward....
Monday, November 30, 2009
Her own therapy
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Big steps
Earlier this week was Blaise's first Monday Night Football Steelers game. It started well after bedtime, so she got some Terrible Towel waving in early.
We have discovered Blaise's favorite food. We were nervous about giving her peas because they were the first non-sweet non-Elecare-flavored food we were going to try. The response: a HUGE grin and eager grabbing for more. Seriously, Blaise would eat nothing but peas if we let her. We gave her some whole steamed peas last night and she had a great time playing with them, too, but none of them made it to her mouth.
We also returned to apples for the first time since the blood stopped. Things got a little, um, runny, so we've put them on hold for a couple of days and then we'll try again. The runniness could also have been fallout from her double flu vaccines on Tuesday. We did a quick weight check while we were in for the shots and are proud to report that she has cracked the 15 lb mark (15 lbs 1 oz; up 10 oz in less than 2 weeks!). We've bumped down to 8 hours/night on her tube feeds.
On the developmental front, Blaise has discovered the joy of taking items out of containers and occasionally of putting them back in. She's also begun raising her arms to be picked up, imitating sounds that we produce (just clicks) and giving wonderful, sweet proto-kisses. She'll deliberately turn to me or Ben, open her mouth and press it against our cheek. That might be the best thing ever.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Temporarily displaced
Blaise made an appearance at the conference on Friday afternoon, much to the delight of blog readers who are also child language researchers. (There are a lot of you. I had no idea, but we really appreciate your support!) She didn't give a presentation this year, but I'm thinking to submit her name for the keynote next year. Her working title is "Maanabamaana: !nananama." Yes, that is an alveolar click; it's her new favorite sound. Although by this time next year, she should have some actual words.
More pictures, soon, I promise. Once I find the camera.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Please keep Gavin, his parents and especially his older sister in your hearts.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Sorry to disappoint
Our weekend was spent dressing a bewildered Blaise in her pirate outfit, eating delicious food with friends (Merry Thanksaween!) and packing up our house. It turns out that Cambridge requires all apartments rented to families with children under 6 to be certified lead-free. Let's just say that our 100+ year old apartment was very much not lead-free. Blaise's lead levels are totally fine. It not like she's chewing on the windowsills, but the law is the law. So we're moving out on Sunday for a couple of weeks while our house is deleaded. It's a big pain, but the upside is that we'll come home to fresh paint, new windows and a professional cleaning job. Our temporary apartment is just around the corner from some good friends and only down the (really big) hill from some others, so we'll at least be in good company.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Pop quiz
Rules: Price-is-Right style. Whoever comes closest without going over wins. Answers may be in either pounds and ounces (US) or kilograms. Answers in other units will be accepted, but not converted. Grandparents who have already been told are excluded from competition.
Prize: Honor and glory among the readers of this blog.
For a full clinic recap, see below.
Clinic and back
We saw several friends who were also in for clinic today. One of our old roomies just turned one a week or so ago and is doing great. Another, unfortunately, was getting readmitted. Such is the short gut life. We also met a new friend: a mom whose 4 month old son also has short gut due to a volvulus. She had seen our blog and said "Oh, this is Blaise?!" when we were introduced. I hope that seeing our big girl is encouraging to parents just starting down the short gut path. We drew (and continue to draw) a lot of support from reading blogs about other kids and it's nice be able to pay that forward.
Finally, tonight marks a big milestone for Blaise. As of tonight, she has spent as many nights in her own crib at home as she has in the hospital. We were told a long time ago that Blaise might spend most of her life inpatient. It's a good feeling to break even.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
The more things change
We had swim class again today and Blaise's enthusiasm was so great that she kind of scared some of the other kids with her splashing. The instructor said "Well, she's got the kicking and splashing thing down." Unfortunately, she has no interest in the other aspects of swim class: blowing bubbles in the water, floating or holding the side of the pool. She just wants to chase the rubber ducks around the pool. I'm not saying I blame her. Ben took some videos, which we'll try to get posted soon.
We've ruled sweet potatoes okay on the allergy front. On to pears! (Yeah, that alphabetical thing has gone completely out the window.)
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Age is just a number
The big developmental change lately has been increasing focus on goals. If she gets in her head that she wants to roll onto her belly and look at a label on her changing table, she'll do it, even when she's partway through a diaper change. Of course, we can't get her to stay on her belly any other time. Her tube is an endless source of fascination and she actively searches for it when we hide it from her. We try reasoning with her. It doesn't work, so she just drives us crazy. Another of those things that's good in the big picture (who doesn't want a goal-oriented kid?) and trying in the moment. She's also developing an interest in other babies. She gets very excited about the photos of friends' babies on our fridge and had a good time playing with the other kids last night at our parent group.
Otherwise, things are good. Today is Blaise's last day on Flagyl and we're going to check in about the plan to discontinue the sulfasalazine. You all take me way too seriously, as I've heard a number of speculations about what "D" food we would try next. "A" was apples and avocados. "B" was banana. "C" was carrots. "D" was sweet potatoes. They're a hit.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Yesterday I had Blaise in lab with me and she spit up a bit. This time, when my colleague asked, "Why is it orange?" I was able to give a much less exotic answer. "She just ate some carrots."
I like that answer better.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
C is for...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
A great way to help a fantastic family
The wonderful thing about this family is that they do leave the house. They go to the YMCA and the park in between their many visits to the hospital. They are really doing their best to live a full life in spite of all of the medical crap, but the older and more complicated Gavin gets, the harder it's becoming for them. They're working with an amazing group to take a house and rehab/renovate it to make it fully accessible for Gavin. This group, called Erin's Dream (different Erin), uses as much volunteer labor and donated material as possible, but they also need a good bit of financial support. I know things are tight for a lot of people these days and that there are a lot of kids and families who need help, but if you find yourself with a little extra, this is a really simple way to help one family. Here's the link for donations. If you want to read more about mito, click here. For Gavin's blog, go here.
Thanks for putting up with my heartstring-tugging.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Blaise Balas: Aqua-naut!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Well, baby
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Here we go again
First, the weigh-in and other measurements. She's at 13 lbs. 10 oz. and 25.5 inches. Her weight is up, but it's not as up as we'd like it to be. She's fallen off that 3rd percentile growth curve she was clinging to. In reality, no one follows a perfect curve and starts-and-stops are to be expected, but no one wants to see this continue. Ideally, she'd be gaining faster and we could start to reduce the overnight tube feeds, but for now we're just going to try to get her to eat more by mouth.
Hey! I have a great idea! Since the blood is lessened, let's give her some new foods, which would add some calories. That's what the nutritionist had in mind. That's what the GI had in mind. That's what we had in mind. Then she pooped blood during clinic. Well, crap.
Now new food is still on hold, at least until next week. We're stopping the steroid enemas because, honestly, they didn't seem to be doing much. We're sticking with the oral anti-inflammatory medicine and adding Flagyl, an antibiotic. Blaise hasn't tested positive for any bad gut bacteria, but we sent another culture for c-diff today. I guess even when they can't identifiy a specific bug, sometimes antibiotics help. At least she had the bloody stool during clinic and not 3 hours later when we had been told that all was great and full speed ahead. I was also starting to get paranoid that her GI thought we were crazy because he had never actually seen blood in her diaper. So now he knows we're not crazy. At least, not crazy in a making up medical symptoms kind of way.
It's hard to not feel a little defeated because no one knows for sure what's causing this or how to treat it. It will lessen and then worsen for no apparent reason. Adding the new antibiotic to Blaise's med schedule puts her at 14 oral/tube doses of meds or supplements daily. We need a spreadsheet to keep track of them all. If the Flagyl doesn't help and all the cultures remain negative, they'll want to do another colonoscopy. I know it could be worse. It could be a lot worse, but I still don't have to like it.
As usual, if you didn't read this blog, you would never know to look at Blaise that anything is up. She's active, cheerful, eating, sleeping and babbling up a storm. Her phoneme inventory exploded last week, going from just b, d, w to include m, n, g, l and several new vowels in the space of about three days. She enthusiastically joins conversations as well. She's just a happy, generally healthy baby who happens to have blood in her diapers.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Pittsburgh and back
Also, the rings-on-a-stick toy is fun for all ages.
Finally, camouflage is very helpful for sneaking up on sleeping dads.
We had fun, but we're glad to be home. More pictures are up on the photo site.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Swings, games and other adventures
We also went to a games party this weekend, where Blaise got to meet still more people who have been reading about her off and on. One of our Southern Hemisphere readers will be glad to know that Blaise has learned to play Ticket to Ride and is ready to take on all challengers. We figure it's good to start early on the geeky road to German board games. I hear they make Settlers of Catan for children. In further geek indoctrination, Blaise went to work with Dad this afternoon, where she read about the brain. Note to Aunt Libby: It's going to take more than one trip to Bloomies to undo the years of geek influence. Once a nerdling, always a nerdling.
Expect a bit of a break in posting because we're preparing for our next adventure: a trip to Pittsburgh to visit Ben's family this weekend. I'll be sure to give a good update when we get back. For now, new pictures will be up on the photo site momentarily. Enjoy!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Other kids
Still, we can't keep her in a bubble and it's really important for kids to see other kids. So this weekend we headed to a birthday party for her buddy Auden's mom where Blaise was one of four babies. She and Auden tried really hard to eat rocks and leaves out of the yard. Great fun was had by all, in spite of some killjoy mom types vetoing the rock-based diet. This evening we took her to a group for families whose kids have medical needs. I don't miss much about being in the hospital, but it is nice to not be the only person in the room whose kid has a g-tube. There was a point a while ago where I joked that half the kids under 3 that I knew had tubes. It's not that I want other kids to need tubes, but it can be comforting to know that other people are dealing with similar issues. As usual, seeing and hearing about the things other families are working through gave us a lot of perspective on how fortunate we are that Blaise is as healthy as she is. While we talked with other parents, Blaise enjoyed the fawning attention of several off-duty therapists and one very interested two-year-old. Did I try not to panic when Blaise stuck all of the toys in her mouth? Yes. Did I succeed? Sort of.
And speaking of other kids, Blaise has another new little friend. We are delighted to say "Welcome to the world!" to Oliver, who was born to our friends Vanessa and Greg over the weekend. I'm sure playdates will ensue.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Keeping on
But lest you get too worried, here's what the surgeon from the CAIR team (and fellow MIT alum) said upon walking into the exam room on Thursday: "Hi, Blaise! You look great!" She was standing on my lap, happily bouncing. She tried to steal the GI fellow's key drive. She wanted to play with the nutritionist's calipers. She doesn't seem like a sick baby, which makes it all the more frustrating to not know what's going on.
So enough with the downers. Here's what Blaise has been up to while not freaking us out with bloody diapers. She has discovered that by rolling several times, she can go places. Very dangerous discovery, that. She is desperate to crawl, but she just doesn't have the strength in her arms. We're going to try some tummy time on a yoga mat to help her with traction. She's very interested in feeding herself, grabbing for her bottle and trying to guide it into her mouth, even though her hands aren't big enough to hold the bottle itself. She also loves to play with the spoon and tries to feed herself rice cereal. It's a big mess, but it's very fun. I took some pictures of that mess yesterday. When I find the cable for transferring photos from the camera, I'll get them up.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Clinic recap
In much more fun clinic news, we were able to catch up a bit with Faith (a fellow Omegaven baby) and her mom. They first came to Boston from Colorado for Omegaven a bit before Blaise's second surgery. Their fantastic news is that Faith is thriving off TPN and her central line came out yesterday. Huge congratulations to their family! We also met Sam's dad, but not Sam himself, as he, unfortunately, was in surgery to get a new central line. Sam's family travels from Wisconsin for Omegaven. Talking with other Omegaven families is always nice because, no matter how hard they try, most people just can't understand what living with short gut is like. Hearing war stories from other parents also makes us realize just how fortunate we were to live in Boston where Blaise got the care she needed with minimal fuss. We wish both families safe journeys home.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Full disclosure
How am I sure these were crocodile tears? Well, here's a photo from about 10 minutes later after we finished folding the diapers:
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Doing better
Blaise was even feeling well enough to make an appearance at our block party. She particularly enjoyed watching the bigger kids run around and trying to make friends with the other baby on the block (who is 2 months old and was asleep). Other highlights included the neighborhood dogs and our state representative, who was particularly taken with Blaise.
More recent photos are up on Picasa (links to the left). Look for shots of Blaise playing with her food in her new high chair.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
GI bug
I remember being told, way back at the beginning, that Blaise would be particularly susceptible to gut nasties and that other kinds of viruses (e.g., colds) could migrate to her gut very easily. It seems like that second thing has happened. We have her on continuous g-tube feeds of pedialyte right now and we'll try some half-strength formula in a couple of hours. Like any sick baby, fluids, rest and cuddling are the current plan. And laundry. Lots of laundry. We're hoping to stick to the regular sick baby plan and avoid a middle-of-the-night page to the GI on call at Children's.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Brunch with Blaise
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Blaise is doing great, though. She doesn't seem to mind the Elecare-and-rice diet nearly as much as I would. We had a nice, relaxing at-home day, having cancelled her early intervention appointment yesterday when we thought we were being admitted to Children's. Instead, we played the very fun game of "Try to fold all of the socks before Blaise soaks them in drool." (She grabs them out of the pile and slimes them in a very systematic way.) I talked with the GI this afternoon and the current care plan is to stick with the status quo on food and go back to nightly steroid enemas until our clinic appointment next week. We're trying to adjust to the idea that this might just be what Blaise's gut does in response to many things and that the process of introducing solids could be very start-and-stop. It's frustrating because she's doing so well everywhere else. Even the GI doc said as much. It's hard to know what to do about a kid who is great but having one troubling symptom.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Back the same day
Sunday, September 6, 2009
More fun with food and family
Ben's parents came into town yesterday afternoon and left just a couple of hours ago. It was nice to see them as always. We took advantage of their car to make a trip to Babies R Us for a high chair and Costco for 88 lbs of cat litter. Blaise did surprisingly well at both stores, especially since she hadn't napped in the morning. Then she fell asleep on the way home.
Ordinary baby stuff. We can live with that.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Avocado, Take 1
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Adults say the darnedest things
Monday, August 31, 2009
Cows and other weekend fun
Then on Sunday, our friends Kate and Andrew were having their joint birthday event, a long bike ride to Great Brook Farm for fresh ice cream. We didn't bike, but we did drive out to meet everyone else. The ice cream was great, the cows were smelly and our friend Reid made a new friend.
We did let Blaise have a teeny-tiny taste of ice cream. I'm not even going to think about all the reasons we shouldn't have done that. We're kind of paranoid about her and food, for good reasons, so we only gave her the smallest bit. She loved it and kept licking her lips for more tastes. She didn't seem to have any bad reaction; if anything, the blood issue was actually better post-ice cream. Clearly we should be giving her tiny bits of vanilla every day. The only damper on the afternoon was my realization that I had left the nipple for Blaise's bottle at home. There goes that Mom-of-the-Year nomination. Fortunately, she fell asleep on the ride home before she got too hungry.
Today, Blaise went to MIT to see where Ben works and to meet his colleagues. This was her first ride on the T. She did really well and particularly enjoyed meeting Charley, Ben's advisor's dog. A lot of people ask if Blaise will go to MIT, especially when they see her MIT mobile and learn that Ben and I both went there. We always say that she can go wherever she wants except CalTech. She is very interested in playing with her rocket ship, but her enthusiasm for literature can't be ignored. Just yesterday she was making some intriguing observations about Finnegan's Wake (board book edition).
Word from the CAIR folks is that we are not going to try a systemic anti-inflammatory. We're switching to a different multi-vitamin, once we get the insurance worked out. Hopefully, this will resolve the blood issue. We're also holding off on new foods for a little while longer. I didn't tell them about the ice cream.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
When pluses become minuses
Her therapist was working on getting her to try scooting, but Blaise just doesn't have the arm strength. It's her main physical weakness. She can hold herself up on her arms only for a few seconds at a time and she can't use them to pull herself anywhere. But she really, really wants to! There are cats to chase! Holding Blaise while the cats are nearby has become a serious challenge. She struggles and leans to reach for them, often squealing gleefully. They run and hide. This, kiddo, is why you should take your tummy time more seriously. I suspect that once her arms are strong enough, there will be no stopping her.
I have really mixed feelings about a mobile Blaise. Of course I want her to grow and develop skills and become independent. I just have a sense that this kid is going to be very independent and very curious, which are good attributes in the long run, but tricky in a toddler or older infant. Her interest in her g-button causes us enough stress and I can't tell you how glad I am that she no longer has a central line to play with or an ostomy bag to pull off. Once she gets moving, our lives are going to become even more chaotic than they currently are. The cats have already placed ads seeking new families on Craigslist. We, on the other hand, should start babyproofing in earnest.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Not much to report
Between diapers, though, we're having lots of fun, especially with the exersaucer (on loan from her buddy Max and his family). Now Blaise can bounce up and down and play with toys at the same time without giving me a serious core-muscle workout. She's also increasingly finding her voice and we're hearing more and more consonants (mostly nasals and voiced stops). She's working hard on some teeth, which means that everything goes in her mouth and the drool factory is running 24/7. New photos featuring both the exersaucer and drool will be up soon in the album called August.
**Update** It seems we've been a little shutter-happy and Blaise has been very photogenic lately. There are tons of new photos up.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Thursdays with Dad
Here's a statistic: Something like 90% of a baby's diapers are changed by it's mother, regardless of whether the baby's father reports being "very involved" in child care. Even when couples report that they try hard to be co-parents and be equally involved in their child's care, Dads have a tendency to err on the side of playtime and an ever more pervasive tendency to brag later about how much baby maintenance they do.
This came up at a meeting with my post-doc advisor at Children's while we were talking about the design of a study. The lab is very interested in how kids' experience with different people, places, etc. can influence their development, so the question of what kind of time kids spend with Mom and Dad is highly relevant. Erin was pregnant at the time of this discussion, and I remember silently vowing to not leave her stuck with all the dirty diapers. This was well before we had any sense that anything unusual was going to happen…we were still just overwhelmed with trying to figure out how to be a dual-career couple with a newborn. Teamwork, I figured, REAL teamwork had to be the only way to make this work. Erin & I are both very defensive of each other's careers and try to make time for each other to get important things done…we got through writing our dissertations that way, we've made it to the finish line when racing against grant and conference deadlines that way, and I figured it had to be the best way to take care of Blaise. Typical parental investment statistics be damned! I was going to change a lot of diapers. Now look, Erin's changed more…but I do think we're not so near that 90/10 split I mentioned earlier, even if we're also not at 50/50.
On a typical day, we trade off morning and afternoon shifts, which is a great way to maintain parity. It also encourages serious optimization of your time. When Blaise naps on a work day, the first thought is always "OK, how much time do I have and what can I do?" Laundry is quick to get started, GO! Eyetracking analysis needs 30 minutes and I can easily stop halfway…GO! Coffee! I made coffee earlier! I should drink it! GO!
It works out pretty well, really, but it wears you out…and then, you go to work.
Yesterday though, we did something we hadn't really done before and it was awesome. I'd spent a lot of time last week working long days at MIT, leaving Erin flying solo, so Thursday was my day with Blaise. Just the two of us, with lots of time to take care of what she needed done, play with whatever we wanted, and do household chores without playing beat-the-clock. Here's a great game we developed:
1) 1. Dad builds a city out of busy blocks.
3) 3. Dad attempts to rebuild Neo-Tokyo in the wake of disaster.
5) 5. Dad builds a series of ranch-style houses that are less prone to earthquake/giant baby damage
Awesome. Seriously, it was great fun and Blaise was extra-cute all day. I also do still occasionally stop and marvel at the fact that we can take care of Blaise. It was often hard to see through the tangle of tubes and wires how we were going to be able to do that without a lot of professional back-up. Being able to spend a whole day with her with no back-up is pretty great, even if she doesn't always want to nap.


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Mary Fallin Fails Our Teachers
Payton Williams
Voices Editor
There are very few things in this world more valuable than a good teacher.
I don't think this is a radical sentiment. Most people know this. I certainly know this.
So, why doesn't Mary Fallin know this?
For most of two weeks, nearly every public school teacher in this state stopped working. Schools stood empty. You may have noticed. It was the reason you could drive a little faster in school zones for a few days.
For Mary Fallin, I guess that was all it meant.
For teachers in Oklahoma, however, it meant a stand against the oppressive neglect of the public school system by a state legislature that considers the issue of education funding to be the annoying little middle man between their pockets and money from Big Oil.
The neglect shows.
For the last decade, according to data from US News and World Report, Oklahoma has stayed firmly at the bottom of the rankings for both education funding, where it ranks 46th, and education approval, where it has fluctuated within the bottom five.
Oklahoma has consistently been ranked as having one of the worst education systems in the country, and the funding from the state legislature has, nonetheless, remained static.
So, if after allowing the state education system to become a national embarrassment, the legislature still can't find it in their hearts to give a bit of money, where is the money going?
The answer to that question isn't too surprising for Oklahoma residents: It's greasing the palms of Oklahoma's wealthy oil executives.
Oklahoma has some of the lowest taxes on oil in the US. Annually, According to a report from Reuters, the state gives roughly $500 million in tax breaks to oil companies.
In Oklahoma City, the downtown area's largest buildings stand as monuments mostly to massive oil drilling operations.
The city belongs to wealthy oil companies, and so does the state, for all intents and purposes.
And yet, Mary Fallin and her colleagues constantly remind us that if taxes were raised for these companies, they'd leave the state, along with all their money.
As I mentioned before, Oklahoma hardly taxes oil companies at all, and the oil here is more plentiful than in almost any other part of the US and most of those states would charge more for it, so where would these companies go?
Yet, the fear-mongering has worked. Education funding has continued to be slashed, and tax cuts for oil companies continue to be essentially nonexistent.
The teachers of this state tried to make their voices heard on the issue. They marched on the capitol by the hundreds, clogging the entrances. It was a beautiful sight. A real, full-on civic uprising.
The teachers, in return, got a one-time raise, and about 1/6 of the funding they asked for, according to reports from CNN and Time magazine.
That's all they got for marching on our capitol. Two weeks of work given up to make a stand, and Mary Fallin appears on CBS to call the teachers ungrateful.
"Teachers want more," Fallin said. "But it's kind of like a teenager wanting a better car."
In that moment, I think, she shows where her allegiance lies. It isn't to the citizens of this state, who made it very clear what they wanted and received nearly none of it.
Her allegiance lies with the oil executives.
So, if teachers are like teenagers wanting better cars, then Mary Fallin is the parent who gave the car, the house and everything in it to the guys from Big Oil.
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Hello January ♡January 11, 2014
Well, I haven't said Happy New Year to on 1st January since that was my busy week to prepare my final exam for this semester :(
So Happy New Year 2014 !!
and I hope all your wish and hard work would be realize in this year !
Lass week I've bought something cute online and cheap enough. You don't have to buy something expensive to get the best look, you know ?
So how's Your New Year Revolution ?
Me? I'm still think about it and I'm going to tell you on the next post ! ;)
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The Doobie Brothers and Crosby, Stills & Nash will play, too. For some, it will bring back memories of Day on the Green. No cans or bottles or overnight camping.
Proceeds from the event will go to support victims of the Fukushima disaster in Japan, so if you don't win, please attend anyway.
Browne, as fellow oldsters might remember, also organized the No Nukes concert back in 1979. (The film of the concert gave many in the U.S. their first exposure to Springsteen live, as well as "The River.") Browne and Elvis Costello also played at a benefit to raise money to oppose Proposition 23, the oil company initiative aimed at rolling back California's carbon laws. The Prop 23 benefit took place at Salzman's home. Prop 23 went down to defeat.
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Draven's thoughts about Layne
what can I say? Layne was a good
musician and I really don't believe that his death was "Accidental"... I mean come the fuck on... he died on the anniversary
of Kurdt's death!!!! I believe he either wanted to get fucked up beyond redemtion so he couldn't remember the day was that
or he wanted to go out on the same day as Kurdt did...
Anyway it goes, it still doesn't take from
the fact that Layne was an awesome musician. He created masterpieces that you have to think about in order to get... like
"Angry chair" and "them bones"... they all have messages but you have to get them ya know? you have to put yourself in Layne's
position and Layne's life to be able to fully comprehend the song's full meaning...
well, I can only say what i have because
i didn't know the true Layne. Deadly can probably describe him better... all I know is that I related to most
of his messages and he definately had an impact on the way I write music...
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Ayurveda with Backwater Tour of Kerala
Kerala possesses an unbroken tradition of Ayurveda that has surpassed the many invasions and intrusions both foreign and native. For hundreds of years the Ayurveda Vaidyas (traditional practitioners of Ayurveda) were almost the only access for people seeking healing from every kind of disease in Kerala. The legendary eight families of Vaidyas (Ashta vaidyas) and their successors treated the entire state for centuries.
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Tour Overview
|Arrival at air port and visit Padhmanbhaswamy Temple.
|Spa / Wellness Treatments and Ayurveda therapies.
|Spa / Wellness Treatments and Ayurveda therapies.
|Spa / Wellness Treatments and Ayurveda therapies.
|Spa / Wellness Treatments and Ayurveda therapies.
|Spa / Wellness Treatments and Ayurveda therapies.
|Spa / Wellness Treatments and Ayurveda therapies.
|Lake Vembanad and Kumarakom bird sanctuary.
|Enjoy the House boat cruise.
|Parsi Synagogue, Dutch Palace, St Francis Church, Fort Cochin.
|Departure with happy memories.
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Day 01: Arrival at Trivandrum.
Arrival at Trivandrum airport, traditional 'Swagat' (Welcome) by our company representative would assist you at the airport & transfer to hotel for check-in.
After wash and change, you will proceed for the sightseeing of the Kerala. It a beautiful seaside city built on seven hills. Foremost attraction of Trivandrum or Tiruvananthapuram is Sri Padhmanbhaswamy Temple. The shrine is dedicated to Lord Vishnu, the preserver of the Hindu trinity. After sightseeing return to hotel and take rest.
Overnight stay at resort.
Day 02 – 07: Travancore Heritage Beach Resort.
Perched on a high cliff and surrounded by panoramic hinterland, Travancore overlooks one of the best and widest beach strips in India. The 15 acre heritage property is a heaven of recreated palaces and 'nalukettus' (traditional Keralan timber housing). Fringed by a canopy of green coconut palms is the pristine powder white beachfront of Chowara. Travancore's Ayurvedic centre boasts an extensive selection of wellness treatments and therapies, designed to make you feel top of the world.
Overnight stay at resort .
Day 08 : Trivandrum to Kumarakom.(175kms/04 hrs drive approx.).
Relaxed and rejuvenated, continue for your onward journey to Kumarakom.
Kumarakom is located near the city of Kottayam, in Kerala, India, famous for its backwater tourism. Kumarakom has changed little since the Middle Ages but for it's string of exotic resorts, making it the perfect point to explore the backwaters. Although right in the thick of a tangle of lush tropical waterways, Kumarakom is technically an island on Lake Vembanad.There is also a wonderful bird sanctuary, winter home to many migratory birds which is worth a visit.
Overnight stay at resort.
Day 09: Kumarakom – Alleppey. (37kms/01 hrs drive approx.).
After leisure breakfast you make a short trip to the ferry point where you board your houseboat, a traditional Keralan rice boat for a journey through the backwaters in and around Allapuzha (Alleppey). The boat travels until sunset and then it anchors for the night, at Alleppey.
Your boat has a private balcony with comfortable chairs. The rooms are fully furnished with attached bathrooms, fully equipped kitchen and an experienced cook to prepare authentic Kerala cuisine with seafood specialties and fresh vegetables. This is your chance to pick up some fabulous cooking tips!
Overnight stay at houseboat.
Day 10: Alleppey to Kochi. (57kms/01 hrs drive approx.)
Enjoy your leisurely breakfast while cruising quietly on the unending stretches of these backwaters.The boat will cruise through various canals and waterways giving you an view of the rural life. Later disembark the houseboat and you shall be transferred to the car for your drive to Kochi and then transferred to the hotel for Check-in.
Enjoy a sightseeing tour of Cochin visiting the Jew Town, including the Pardesi Synagogue; the Mattancherry Palace, known locally as the Dutch Palace; Fort Cochin, european streets and houses; the Chinese Fishing Nets on the northern shore of Fort Cochin; and St Francis Church.
Overnight stay at resort.
Day 11: Kochi – Departure for own country.
After leisure breakfast check out the hotel and drive to airport to connect flight for onward journey with happy memories.


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"These are the hands of fate, you're my Achilles heel. This is the golden age of something good and right and real. And I never saw you coming, and I'll never be the same."
I just saw this photo on Tumblr and I don't even know what to feel. So many emotions in a span of 24 hours and I'm tired of all the drama and all the shits and all the pretensions and fake, imposing people.
Something's clear to me though: we always cry because it matters.
I cried beside you inside that sad, yellow room when an Alison Krauss song starts playing on the radio. I cried because I'm weak and you're so damn important to me.
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Set in the distant future, this live action remake of the anime classic stars Scarlett Johansson as cybernetically advanced super soldier Major, as she attempts to take down a powerful and mysterious new enemy threatening to hack into the minds of the enhanced. The more she discovers about her adversary's plot, the more she uncovers of her own mysterious past.
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Dreamworks Animation's latest crowd-pleaser follows Tim, a wildly imaginative 7-year-old, as he tells the story of his new baby brother's arrival into his life: the titular Boss Baby (Alec Baldwin). While the two don't initially see eye to eye, the young brothers must soon set aside their differences to crack the top secret super spy mission the tough-as-nails Boss has been sent out to solve.
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Gifted stars Chris Evans as Frank, a devoted single man attempting to raise his brilliant niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) on his own. Set on allowing Mary to live a normal childhood, Frank comes to blows with distant relatives and School officials, all of whom believe they know what's best for the gifted young girl.
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There is a stoush over at RedBubble when Sydney photographer, Peter Hill found one of his (alleged) images for sale by another photographer. Peter confronted this passing off and the journal of the photographer has gone from a scant apology to indignant statements that the image (of a rose) was actually his and it was a rose which was given to his wife by a neighbour. All this is arrant nonsense. The alleged person who is passing this image off as his noted that he did not have any details of the camera when he checked the Picasa program when Peter confronted him. But on the original RedBubble journal of his which showed this image of the rose, he stated the following camera details: "Panasonic Lumix GH2 at 32 mm, 14/140 lens, 1/30 f/8, ISO 160...etc etc" so where did these details suddenly come from. The image was taken by Peter Hill on a Canon 5D3 and he also has similar images of the rose taken on the same day. He keeps deleting my posts questioning how he came by these details. Details of the stoush can be found here Too late, he has deleted his journal page. You can find Peter Hill's RB journal regarding this image here
08 October 2012
Passing off ...or an accident?
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After Topaz
Using Topaz Spicify, the image has been enhanced in both colour and "pop". This may be a tad OTT but when printed out, it looks rather good (even if I say so myself!!).
Image enhancing filters
I have recently been experimenting with different filters for post processing images. Topaz has been one of them. Using the adjust filter, one can change rather dramatically an image which may (or may not) need enhancing. Purists argue that one should not enhance or change an image but in this era, we are bombarded with enhanced movies so it seems a natural progression to enhance still images. The pic directly above is the original image (shot RAW and converted using Adobe Camera RAW).
Rather boring shot of Sydney Harbour
I am going to show how a somewhat boring shot of Sydney Harbour (if there ever could be one!) can be turned into something a little more spectacular. Below is the original shot (shot in RAW format with my Canon 5D) and taken off the back of the Manly ferry.
Using Adobe Camera Raw ("ACR"), I converted the raw image with parameters: Blacks 7, brightness +31, Contrast +61, Clarity +77, Vibrance +7, Saturation 72 and a bit of Curves which brought me to the below image.
Flood filter conversion
I then produced a "reflection" using Flaming Pear flood filter. For those unfamiliar with this filter, it gives the image a perception of a reflection (poetical!) and I see it often in publications and I find myself examining ALL images with reflections to see if the photographer had used this very handy filter. I have details of the conversion if anyone is interested but to post it would be a tad boring. Flaming pair flood filters can be found here
I was on my lunch hour when I was strolling around The Rocks area of Sydney when I saw a group of private schoolgirls on an excursion. As soon as I saw their hats, I knew that there was a good opportunity to get a good snap. As luck would have it, they started to cross the street to where I was standing. I knew in my head the image I was looking for and I had to be above them. With an enormous amount of good fortune, a ramp up to a shop in this old area of Sydney was a few metres away. I raced up the ramp and shot this image. It was taken with my Canon 70-200 f/4L at f/5.6 which gave me a shallow depth of field leaving the centre hat in sharp focus and the rest of the hats out of focus. I submitted this image in late 2005 to the Black and White Spider Awards and it won Outstanding Achievement - People and also won me the Photographer of the Year 2005 - amateur. It really is nice to get recognition of one's work and even though I am now a professional, it still gives me a warm feeling when I look at my certificate!
This is an image on which I have added a "flood" filter. It is quite effective and quite a nice shot in any event. Flood filters can be found here and they are worth every cent. There is always a debate regarding "Photoshopping" images but as long as one is honest about the origin and digital changes to the image, I think its legimate. The original image, taken in our garden, of the cockatoo actually landing on the lawn, had a piece of its left hand side wing missing so I "replaced" it in Photoshop CS4. Cockatoos actually dislike water and when they start attacking the timber balustrades on our verandah, all I have to do is get out the spray bottle and walk towards them. They are endearing creatures, very intelligent but are enormously destructive. They are very long lived (up to 80 years) so don't even think of buying one unless you plan to outlive it and put up with the high decibels of squawking! I really hate seeing them in cages and they must long to be free when they see a large flock passing by.
Late one afternoon, I was snapping at Avalon Beach, Sydney, when a storm approached. This did not stop a late surfer. This image is available as a print via my RedBubble site. Click on image which will take you to the print site.
An abstract look at the famous icon. It is very difficult to take any pics of the Opera House as everyone and their brother has done it before. For this particular image, I used Optikvervlabs filter.
I took this shot of a leopard seal exhaling bubbles at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. This is, apparently, one of the few leopard seals in captivity. Apparently it was found injured awhile back and is happy in its huge enclosure at the Zoo along with its mate. Through a stock library, this image is to appear as a full page in a textbook.
This is one of my favourite images of Alice, an elderly aboriginal lady who sadly is now deceased. I would occasionally see her at Circular Quay in Sydney and she would often smile at me. I used a Dragan filter to bring out more texture to the image. I am often asked if I have ever been challenged when photographing candid subjects. Only on one occasion, I was asked not to take a photograph of a female street performer which was odd as that is where they often make their money. So, of course, I acceded to her wishes. Many buskers or street performers expect payment for taking their photograph and its something I always do as its their living, as taking photographs is mine. One of my most popular galleries on my website is one of Sydney Aborigines and I have many kind comments on my work. I did have one person, a Sydney academic, who actually called me a thief as she was under the erroneous impression that I was selling images of these colourful folk without payment which in fact is not true. I have model releases from many and I have made subsequent payments to them.
Mudda Mudda (aka Cedric) is an aboriginal busker who is often found at Circular Quay, in Sydney, accompanying other aboriginal buskers. He has such a great face and this image won me a UK award last year for traditional portraiture here


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Russian Buyers Scarce in the Global Luxury Real Estate Market
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While house hunting, I found a dream home. However, the house had a high property tax rate. When I asked the real estate agent why the rate was high, she told me about religious "camps" in the county which built neighborhoods within them for their members. Their members live property tax free.Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:31:55 -0700
These camps are owned by a religious group. Entire neighborhoods have been built in these camps. MANY people are living there and according to this real estate agent, no one on this property pays property taxes. Because these people don't pay taxes, the surrounding neighbors have to pay more taxes to make up the difference.
The house I'm looking at has over $12k in property tax, and it's only valued at roughly $170k. Neighboring properties pay the same (one was at $10k, the other was at $11k).
Can religious groups really get away with this?
Links: http://www.riverreporter.com/issues/04-08-26/head3-relations.html (thanks to sandflea)
EDIT: I removed any indication of which religious group owns this land to prevent this thread from becoming a bash-fest against a particular religious group.
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By long-distance bus to Leipzig
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Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 11:00AM
Corte Viola, Soave DOC 2010 (Garganega and Trebbiano di Soave)
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Sansovino, Refosco dal Penduncato Rosso IGT 2010
Love refosco ... a particular grape. This was fresh and well-balanced (12.5% alcohol), perfect with my grilled lamb chops with herbs.