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The Pit Pal BBQ App
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The Pit Pal enables more consistent BBQ through the use of historical tracking of cooks and results taking into account common BBQ variables such as the temperature and duration of the cook, or the sauce/rub combination, or even the type of wood used or the weather at the time of the cook. Tracking these variables allows the pit master to look back at previous cooks and continue to cook and tweak variables until the perfect combination is hit. And then have the data to replicate that combination at any time.
This is a technique that teams on the BBQ competition circuit have been using for years only with a pen & paper or excel spreadsheets. The intent of The Pit Pal is to take this technique, leverage technology to improve on it, and help people with a passion for BBQ produce great food.
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* Easy to use interface for entering your cook and food details.
* Quick notes for one-click entry of common events such as mopping, adding coal, adding wood, saucing, foiling, etc.
* Ability to track history for multiple foods during a cook.
* Add temperatures for your cook and track via easy to read charts and graphs.
* Easily export your cooks to Word, Excel, XML, or Text files for sharing, backup, or offline viewing.
* Cook & food notifications for time & temperature.
* Ability to add detailed notes to your cook stored in a cook archive.
* Rate your cooks so you can track the outcome for future reference.
* Take pictures of your end product direct from The Pit Pal which automatically store in cook archive.
*** Direct integration with the BBQ Guru CyberQ WIFI and STOKER WIFI ***
* View your smoker and food temperatures real time direct from you Android device.
* Track and graph your temperatures to see exactly what is happening on your cook.
* Direct access to the guru and stoker web console.
* Temperature notifications utilizing the internal device notification manager.
* FREE Backyard Edition – This is the baseline version. Does not include photos, charting, data export and other pro features. Max cook history of 5. Has a couple non-intrusive ads.
* FREE Competitor Edition – This is the promo version released to Brethren and BBQ Guru and Stoker BBQ customers prior to the official release. It includes all functionality (including photos, charting, etc) up to this release. Max cook history of 5. Has small non-intrusive ads. Will have access to some future enhancements with the ability to upgrade as needed.
* PAID Competitor Edition – This is the full blown version with all functionality, unlimited cook history, no advertising, and access to all future enhancements. It also helps support further development of The Pit Pal and funds future enhancements. We think the price is extremely reasonable considering it probably costs more to buy a pen & paper these days :)
Tags: bbq tools, bbq cooking log, bbq pit controller apps, the pit pal bbq.
- NEW feature to utilize the secure authentication capability of the BBQ Guru.
- Various bug fixes and clean up.
(58 stars)
This is a great app for anyone who smokes meat. I love how you can add detailed notes and save your smokes.
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Excellent job and love the app, my only downside is that it would be nice to be able to edit some in the cooklog if needed. I always forget to "light" the cook until im inputing the meat into the app. would be nice to be able to go back and edit the times within the log or forget something along the way and would like to edit it into the notes with the correct times etc
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The app is a great idea and does a good job. But it is a little quirky as how to do different things. Also would like to add food after the cook is started.
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Pretty good app. Could be a little more intuitive (hence 4 instead 5 stars), but as with anything the more you use it, the easier it becomes. I like how you can go from the app. to the Guru's web console from within the app. I had no problems getting connected to my Guru, or setting up the e-mail alerts. With that said I am a bit of a geek and I could see the not so savvy having difficulty. All i
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Works great. Two enhancements I'd like to see. Would it refresh more often or have an option to set the refresh rate. Also would like to be able to run the app on multiple devices without having to setup another cook. Other than that, I really enjoy using the app when grilling/smoking.
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Received my CyberQ WiFi was not thrilled about the Web interface, then i saw Pit Pal, was a great find.


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Fashion photography tips from a pro that you can also use for shooting local fashion events and cutting-edge senior portraits
Theano Nikitas
September 12, 2011
It's Fashion Week in New York City, and that means the city is teeming with models, fashionistas, socialites, editors, buyers, celebrities. And more photographers than the already photographer-saturated city sees on any given day.
They descend on New York (and London, Milan and Paris, among others) twice a year for the privilege of working long hours, elbow-to-elbow and hip-to-hip with other photographers on a riser that's meant to hold half the number of people that have photo credentials. Although the sponsored Mercedes Benz NY Fashion Week venue is at Lincoln Center, there are hundreds of shows that take place all over the city. Locations for these off-site events vary dramatically and include art galleries, photography studios, ballrooms, hotel terraces, parks, clubs, and a few spaces that defy description (dark, dank, and cement walls come to mind). The four spaces—called the Theatre, the Stage, the Studio and the Box—at the Lincoln Center venue are generally well produced, with professional lighting. Going off-site is more of an adventure when it comes to shooting conditions. Occasionally, you'll find perfect lighting and will be able to work with a low ISO, fast shutter speed and perfectly-tracking continuous autofocus. More likely, though, you'll walk into a runway show or a presentation (where the models statically pose on platforms) that presents challenges. You might find a room that's lit only by chandeliers that were designed more for quiet dinner parties than runway shows, or maybe get stuck with a show that's lit by a single, misplaced spot that casts horrid shadows on the models' faces and clothing or a runway that's so unevenly lit that exposures change by about 2-3 stops from one end of the runway to the other. Or, how about the time all the photographers (me included) pulled out our flashes—which are rarely used during runway shows—because there was barely enough light to focus? Lessons learned: You need to be prepared for pretty much anything, if not with gear, then at least with skills.
Be PreparedYou don't necessarily need a lot of gear, nor do you want to lug around every piece of kit you own since space is at a premium on the photo riser. But there are certain criteria to keep in mind when you put together equipment for a runway shoot.Camera(s)First, you really need a DSLR; Nothing else is fast enough—at least not yet. The camera you select needs to have good all-around performance: autofocus (continuous and single shot), burst speed, read/write times. You might want to bring a back-up body, even if it's a lower end model. (I shoot with a Nikon D3s and often bring D700 a D7000 as back-up.)Most fashion show images, whether the models are walking the runway or statically standing in a presentation, are shot vertically so a vertical grip is recommended, albeit not absolutely necessary. Other factors to consider include battery life, especially if you plan to shoot from morning 'til night and then cover an after party. A second battery is a good back-up option.
Lens(es)Bring the best and fastest glass you own. Alternatively consider renting a lens or two if your current lenses don't provide the speed and focal range you need. For runways, an f/2.8 70-200mm image stabilized lens works well. If you're shooting full-frame, consider adding a tele-extender (I generally shoot with a Nikon 70-200mm VR II, sometimes with a 1.7x Extender for long runways.)For backstage, front row, presentations, smaller venues and general shooting, an f/2.8 24-70mm is a good second lens. (I have a Nikon 24-70mm and/or a Nikon 16-35mm lens in my bag.) If your camera has a cropped sensor, you might be able to use the 24-70mm lens as your sole lens.
Media cardsBring multiple cards of at least 4GB each. High speed, high capacity are best, particularly if you're shooting RAW or RAW + JPEG. If your camera has dual slots, consider using the second shot for overflow. This past weekend, the last show of the day had 71 looks (outfits)—two or three times as many as are typically shown—so there was a real danger of of filling up my card(s) before the end of the show. (I generally shoot with 8GB and 16GB SanDisk Extreme Pro cards and use 4GB cards in the second slot of the D3s for overflow.)FlashWhile you'll rarely, if ever, use a flash during a runway show, you may need an external strobe for backstage, front row, presentations, or red carpet/step-and-repeat. Built-in flashes are okay in a pinch but a speedlight provides more control and power.
But not even the most expensive camera or the best-equipped gear bag will get the shot if the person behind the lens can't operate his or her camera intuitively and quickly. For the best results, avoid shooting on Auto or Program. Become familiar with your camera's manual and semi-manual exposure modes. Know how to change exposure without moving your eye from the viewfinder since lighting on a runway may be uneven. A good starting point for a 70-200mm lens is f/4, 1/500th second; adjust the ISO accordingly.Learn how to adjust white balance; automatic white balance will, more often than not, results in color casts that may be difficult to adjust in post-processing (unless you shoot in RAW). Most well-lit shows use tungsten lighting, so you can use the tungsten pre-set or, better yet, set the Kelvin temperature, if your camera offers that option, to around 3200 and adjust it as you're shooting. Focus mode is a personal choice. Some people use continuous AF, some use single AF, and there are more than a handful who focus manually.Metering is best sent to center-weighted or, possibly, spot since the camera can easily be confused by the white surface of the runway and the dark sidelines where the audience sits.
Can't make Fashion Week? Good news! Fashion isn't just on the runwayIf you don't have the opportunity to shoot a runway show or presentation during Fashion Week, check out local boutiques, community groups and organizations who may hold fashion shows of their own and will probably be happy to have photographers to capture the event.Shooting fashion on the street is very popular these days and is accessible to everyone. If you're in NYC during Fashion Week, head up to Lincoln Center where there are plenty of opportunities to photograph some stylish (and unusually outfitted) people who are happy to have their pictures taken. For the ultimate in shooting fashion on the streets, check out Bill Cunningham's Sunday presentations in the New York Times and the movie, Bill Cunningham New York. Mr. Cunningham has been capturing street fashion for decades and can often be found front row at fashion shows and events all over town.
Fashion style shooting has also become popular in the Senior Portrait photography markets. While some Seniors will have a sense of fashion photography (for better or worse, and often the latter) from reality shows like America's Next Top Model and Project Runway, as the photographer you'll need to direct them during the shoot. For research, fashion magazines and advertisements are probably the best source of the latest trends in fashion photography. You may want to offer special services such as a make-up artist and hair stylists to ensure that your clients look their best.Whatever your interest in fashion photography—or any photography for that matter—it's important to shoot as much as possible and evaluate your work with a critical eye. Be sure to experiment and, yes, to have fun, too.
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Thomas John Barnardo 1845 - 1905 Philanthropist
There were swarms of children. At one time, in a narrow alley, I had fourteen or fifteen all around me, dirty, barefoot, one tiny girl carrying an infant, a baby still at breast but whose whitish head was completely bald. Nothing could be more dismal than those livid little bodies, the pale stringy hair, the cheeks of flabby flesh encrusted with old filth... Their mothers watched from doorways with dull, uninterested eyes.
These were the conditions in the back alleys of London in the late 1800s. One young man was so shocked by what he saw that he abandoned his plans to become a medical missionary to China, since more urgent work was required in the streets of London. That man became known as Dr Barnardo.
Thomas John Barnardo was born in Dublin, the son of John Michaelis Barnardo, a furrier, and his English wife, Abigail. Abigail was John's second wife, and possibly Barnado was the ninth son of the family, but stories grew around him as his fame spread, and facts about his youth are few and far between; even his autobiographical works are questioned. One well-known story runs that at the age of two he was declared dead with diphtheria, but as the undertaker was placing him in the coffin a trace of life was detected.
Barnado was educated at St Patrick's Cathedral Grammar School, where he was seen as eloquent and argumentative. He did not, however, pass his public examinations, and at 16 he was apprenticed to a wine merchant, Robert Anderson. Sometime before his 17th birthday he became strongly evangelical. He joined his mother and brothers who were members of the Plymouth Brethren, and he taught bible classes in a Dublin ragged school. (So-called ragged schools provided free education for poor children, many of whom were working making matchboxes from as young as five years old.) He also became a member of the Dublin YMCA, where he gave speeches, and it was there he heard J Hudson Taylor, an evangelist missionary, speak about his Inland China Mission. Barnardo thought this was where his future lay, and with a small allowance from the Brethren, he set out to study medicine at the London Hospital.
The Start of an Institution
Barnardo took lodgings in the East End of London and became active in the Temperance Society, visiting beerhouses and erecting mission tents outside gin palaces. This was not an easy pastime, and more than once he was physically assaulted.
Advancing into the centre of the room I declared that I came to sell the word of God and announced that I would give the whole Bible for threepence, the New Testament for a penny. 'Chuck him out,' cried one. For the most part all in the room were under the influence of drink, and although many were girls and boys, they were wild and beyond control. I presently found myself on the ground with the flat part of the table pressing upon me, its legs being in the air, whilst several of the biggest lads leaped inside it, dancing a 'devil's tattoo' to my great discomfort.
The 'great discomfort' consisted of two broken ribs.
He began his medical studies in 1867, which coincided with a cholera outbreak. 5,600 people died in London in a matter of days. Most were in the East End, because it had been excluded from Sir Joseph Bazalgette's sewering programme. Despite his lack of medical qualifications, Barnardo visited the sick and dying to give comfort and prayer. He also taught at the Ernest Street ragged school. An encounter here significantly changed his life. Barnardo recounts in his book, Night and Day, meeting with Jim Jarvis:
One evening, the attendants at the Ragged School had met as usual, and at about half past nine o'clock, were separating to their homes. A little lad, whom we had noticed listening very attentively during the evening, was amongst the last to leave, and his steps were slow and unwilling.
Barnardo goes on to recount how Jim took him down to the 'lays' around Petticoat Lane where children slept. Though Barnardo and his brethren were familiar with the destitution of the families in the East End, they knew nothing of the hidden world of those children who had been orphaned or cast out by their kin. Barnardo was amazed and appalled as Jim led him around back streets and climbing over roofs to see children sleeping huddled amongst the chimneys for warmth1.
Barnardo felt he had to do something, so he placed an article in 'The Revival' saying he would hold a tea meeting service for children. He held his first meeting in November 1867, and 2,347 children attended. He made a speech at that year's missionary conference and gained the support of the banker Robert Barclay and the seventh Lord Shaftesbury. As an MP (Member of Parliament), Shaftesbury had by this time been involved in child causes for some 44 years. Amongst other things, he was largely responsible for the Factories Act (1833) and the Coal Mines Act (1840) which attempted to regulate the conditions of working children. In 1868 Barnardo was able to open his first institution.
Hope Place
Barnardo rented two cottages in Hope Place, Stepney. He opened a school for boys in one and a school for girls in the other. He started various money raising schemes within the schools, including a penny bank, a shoeblack brigade and wood-chopping team. The school grew rapidly, and Barnardo abandoned his plans to move to China. The minutes of the Ragged School Union from 10 June 1870 give a measure of his success.
The Day Schools where the scholars pay 1d or 2d per week has 250 children present. Evening schools are free, well attended, conducted by two paid masters and two paid mistresses. Sunday Schools - morning 180 scholars, evening 700 - 800 present. Conducted in separate premises is a Refuge for boys employed in wood chopping. Three houses in Hope Place and one in Commercial Road are used, a fourth in Hope Place is about to be taken. The whole is the energetic work of a young man, Mr Barnardo, a medical student.
In 1871, Barnardo opened a home for boys in Stepney. The healthy, the sick and the lame were taken in provided they satisfied the one qualifying criteria: destitution. One night, a boy called 'Carrots' was refused admission because there was no room in the house. He was later found dead from exhaustion and exposure in a barrel he'd climbed into for shelter. Barnardo was so upset by this he put a sign on the door of the home reading: No Destitute Child Ever Refused Admission.
In 1872, Barnardo set up a huge tent outside the Edinburgh Castle Public House. Two hundred people a night professed conversion, and attendance at the tent was affecting sales at the pub. The pub was put up for sale and Barnardo, worried that it would re-open as a music hall, set out to raise funds to buy it. He succeeded, and opened it as the People's Mission Church and Coffee Palace. It became a significant centre for evangelism.
By 1873, Barnardo had established a ragged school, a home, an employment agency, a mission church and a coffee house. He had bought up more than a dozen properties in East London and had even published a children's magazine. He was not yet thirty years old2.
Marriage and Family
Barnardo met a young woman who shared his interests in evangelism and philanthropy named Syrie Louise Elmslie. They married in 1873 and had seven children. Three of them died young; another, Marjorie, suffered from Down's syndrome. Another daughter, Gwendoline Maud Syrie, married Sir Henry Wellcome, a man 26 years her senior. She was alleged to have had numerous affairs, but only one, with W Somerset Maugham, is definite. She bore Maugham a child in 1915, and Maugham was mentioned in the ensuing divorce. Once the divorce with Wellcome was finalised, she married Maugham3. Syrie Maugham went on to become a successful interior designer.
As a married man Barnardo felt more able to establish an accommodation for young girls, and 12 girls came to live in a converted cottage next to his home at Mossford Lodge. This was not a total success, and Barnardo decided to house the girls in a village home for girls - which eventually grew to house over 1,000 girls. The first 12 cottages were opened in 1876. Each featured a group of girls of mixed age under the care of a 'mother'. The girls were trained for service, and on their 13th birthday were placed in one of four divisions. First division girls were given a uniform, value Ł5, which became their own property after 12 months. Second division girls received a Ł3 10s uniform and third division girls were presented a Ł3 uniform, which they had to pay for out of their wages. The fourth division was described thus:
Finishing in the fourth division usually meant a life on the streets.
Before and After
Barnardo's ability to develop money-making ideas was a major factor in his success, and one of the most valuable such schemes began in 1874 when he opened a photographic department at his Stepney home.
Barnardo was meticulous about record keeping, and initially the photographic department was intended to facilitate record keeping. A picture was taken of each child when he or she arrived, then another taken some months later. This started Barnardo's famous 'Before and After' cards. These sold in packs of 20 for five shillings4 and had titles like 'Once a little vagrant, now a little workman.' These not only raised money, but also helped publicise the work. Today, these photographs and records are invaluable to any 19th-Century social historian. Here is an extract from his records on one child admitted 26 July 1875. The record also includes three photographs:
While this reads horribly to modern ears, at the time this was a typical daily report.
The enormity of the situation facing Barnardo can be judged by the growth of his ragged school. He rented some canal-side warehouses and converted them. The Copperfield ragged school opened its doors to children aged between five and ten in 1876. By 1896 there were 1,075 children attending the day school and 2,460 at the Sunday school. Children were not only educated, but also received a breakfast and dinner. The school remained in operation until 1908, when the London Council condemned it as unsuitable for schooling, though the Sunday school continued until 1915.
Barnardo was no stranger to controversy, and tended to ignore rules he considered inconvenient. Thus by 1896 he had appeared in court on 88 occasions, mainly charges of kidnapping. He freely admitted that 'I have rescued - or abducted if you will - little boys and girls from the custody of parents and guardians who were, to my knowledge, leading infamous and immoral lives; or who were, by their conduct, about to inflict upon unfortunate children in their care grievous wrong.' He called this philanthropically abducting.
Barnardo also found himself accused of maltreating children, faking the photographs, neglecting simple sanitary precautions and failing to provide religious or moral training.5 In 1877, Barnardo hit back at his critics by calling for arbitration under an Order of Court. The arbitrators unanimously rejected all the serious charges against him, though they were critical of some of his methods and the lack of control over his actions.
Another charge laid at Barnardo's door was that he was not entitled to call himself doctor. Though he attended medical school, sat his final examinations in Edinburgh, registered as a medical practitioner in London and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh in 1880, many contended that he was not entitled to use the honorific doctor.
Barnardo also devised a scheme to send some of his children to Canada. This achieved several ends; it was a way of populating the colonies with 'British stock'; it provided cheap labour; and it saved money. (It cost Ł12 per year to keep a child while it cost only Ł15 to send one away.) The export of destitute and orphaned children had a long history in Britain. Around 130,000 children were shipped around the Empire over a 350-year period, starting with a group being sent to Virginia, USA in 1618. The practice continued until 1967, when a group was sent to Australia. Barnardo presented this to the public differently.
Overcrowding is a primary, if often unrecognised, cause of the moral cesspools I and others are continually engaged in deodorising. It therefore behooves any scheme of large-hearted Christian philanthropy to make at least an attempt to relieve the 'population pressure' in our congested cities. What avails it to take the weakest out of the struggle, to train them into robustness, and then to throw them back with their new accession of vital force into the crowd who are already engaged in snatching the morsels from each other's mouths? The miseries of those yet unhelped would only be aggravated and intensified by such a process.
He must have been able to convince the Canadian government of this, because they built reception homes for his emigrants. The children stayed in the homes until they finished school, when they were fostered with local families. Between 1882 and 1901, 8,046 children were sent to Canada6. By 1939 the number had risen to 30,000.
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Incredibly, it was suggested in 1970 by Donald McCormick, and again in 2005 by Gary Rowlands, that Barnardo could have been Jack The Ripper. The 'evidence' for this is that he was well known in the East End and that he would visit doss houses to encourage prostitutes to place their children into his care. During one of these visits he talked to a group at 32 Flower and Dean Street. One of these women, worse for drink, cried 'we're all up to no good and no-one cares what becomes of us, perhaps some of us will be killed next.' He later viewed the body of 'Long' Liz Stride, the Ripper's fourth victim, at the mortuary and confirmed her as one of those present. The theory suggests that his religious zeal led him to slaughter prostitutes to clear the streets and to prevent them having children. He only stopped killing because a swimming accident left him deaf which meant he couldn't hear approaching footsteps. Realistically, Barnardo's only connection with the Ripper would seem to be that one of the women he preached to fell victim to the Ripper several days later.
The End
Barnardo's health declined, and by his 50th year it was clear he had some kind of heart problem7, and doctors advised him to take periods of absolute rest. On the evening of 19 September 1905, he settled down by his wife, and turning to her said, 'My head is so heavy. Let me rest it on you.' A moment later, his spirit left him. He was 60 years old.
At the time of his death Barnardo had transformed the lives of some 60,000 children. There were 8,000 in his 96 residential homes; around 1,300 of these had disabilities. More than 4,000 were fostered, and 18,000 had been sent to Canada and Australia. His work continues today: Barnardo's is the largest children's charity in the UK. Though they no longer run children's homes, they continue with the fostering system that Barnardo started with his 'boarding out' programme.
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Villa Taj Kumal is a beautiful villa on Akumal Bay and in October 2014 , it becomes a wonderful Bed and Breakfast. It is a Moroccan Mediterranean style with huge rooms, Moorish arched windows throughout and "Arabian Nights" décor. This B&B has to be seen to be believed ~ a true fantasy that's come to life! The entry into this walled estate is lined with huge palms and plush ladscaping.
All Taj Kumal's 5 suites feature large en-suites bath, private parking, a mini fridge, A/C, satellite TV and free WiFi. And you are steps to the villa's pool and the beach at Akumal Bay!
Poseidon and Sirena are the two Master Suites located in the main villa and they both open to the pool and beach. Each master suite has a king bed.
Rajkumal Suite and Hellas Room are separate from the villa. Rajkumal Suite is two stories and has a full kitchen, dining room and living area. Rajkumal's Master Suite has a large balcony on the upper floor, offering wonderful views of the gardens and azure waters. This suite also features a king bed.
Hellas Room is the smallest of all the accommodations, Hellas offers a queen size bed with a private bathroom. The decor is light and open. Perfect!
Prana Bungalow is the best of the B&B ! It has an outdoor shower, private terrace, and more! And of course a King bed.
All suites include a full breakfast for two at Lol Ha Restaurant, just a short walk down sandy Akumal Bay Beach!
Please no smoking or pets
Rates are in US dollars per night, double occupancy.
Maximum occupancy is 10 people in 5 bedrooms (2 adults per bedroom).
Option to rent guest house as a whole (Hella's Room and Rajkumal Suite) with kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, accommadates 4 people.
Villa Taj-kumal is a beautiful villa on Akumal Bay, and the ONLY villa on the prettiest beach in Paradise! 4,500 square feet in a Moroccan Mediterranean style with huge rooms, Moorish arched windows throughout and "Arabian Nights" decor. This villa has to be seen to be believed and a true fantasy that's come to life!
The entry into this walled estate is lined with huge palms. There is a two car covered garage with the manager / owner's quarters detached from the villa. Next to these quarters is the detached 5th bedroom with private bath. This is a perfect place to keep the teenagers!!
When you arrive you'll walk up a sweeping curved stairway and enter through huge carved doors with stained glass windows on either side. You will immediately notice the incredible 30-foot cathedral ceiling, carved stone walls, Greek floors with Bali rugs, indirect lighting, domed brick ceiling in the dining room and unbelievable sweeping view of Akumal Bay.
The kitchen is immense, has a domed brick ceiling, is fully equipped and has a breakfast table and it even has a wet bar that passes through to the living room! There's a great powder room and the living room couches are decked out in tiger print fabric with lots of cushions.
Every room in Villa Taj-Kumal has a beautiful view of the ocean. There are two large air-conditioned guest bedrooms downstairs with high ceilings, walk in closets, king-size beds and huge bathrooms. One of these bedrooms has a completely separate entrance, for extra privacy! You reach the immense and very dramatic master bedroom upstairs by ascending a spiral wooden staircase. The first thing you'll see is the canopied teak king-size bed in front of a carved stone wall. It has a wraparound covered balcony where you will want to spend many hours reading and enjoying the constant breeze off of Akumal Bay. The bathroom is actually three rooms: one for the toilet and bidet, one for the two basin main room and another for the double head shower stall. The decor is unique and beautiful with gorgeous tile work.
Taj-Kumal's fouth bedroom is located next to the main house facing the pool. Known as the PRANA BUNGALOW, for its energy flow and peacefulness, the Balinese-Hindu style of this room will delight. Fronted in the garden by "the Queen of the Seas" bronze statue and the pool deck, this room has it all. A king size bed and extra sofa/twin bed along with the stoned walled outdoor shower will make you feel like a king. Feel the river stone floor of the outdoor show massage your feet while under the sun, the moon and the stars.
Villa Taj-Kumal is on an incredible beach and has a gorgeous "lagoon style" swimming pool with Pagoda pool house on the beach side of the villa. There's a pass-through from the kitchen for outdoor entertaining and the entire roof of the villa is an observatory for looking at the stars or watching the spectacular sunrises over Akumal Bay. The villa was designed to enjoy the constant ocean breeze so it has no air conditioning in the living area and the ceilings are so high and there are so many windows that it stays very, very cool.
This villa is special, special decor, special location, location, location! For sheer luxury and elegence, take a trip to Villa Taj-Kumal today!
Season 2013
Maximum occupancy is 10 adults and 2 children
* Add $250 per child age 9 and under over base occupancy of 10 guests
*Add $250/week surcharge for other guests using the pool, up to a maximum of 12 guests not staying in the villa **$500 cash damage security deposit to give at check in time, and will be reimburse at check out time, if damage occurs it will be deducted from it.
Note: NO SMOKING INSIDE VILLA
Villa Taj Kumal 2013 Dining Option: Full chef service for 6 days and evenings is $600/week (10 persons- If is available) Cost of groceries and shopping is not included
NOTE: As of Dec. 19 2013 Taj-Kumal will be adding a new 6th bedroom and a price increase including chef services. Please ask your agent for a discounted rate without the chef service.
Maximum Occupancy: 12
Beach: Caribbean with beach
Bedrooms: 5
Pool: Yes
Bathrooms: 5 1/2
Bedrooms: 5 (3 in main house, 2 in guesthouse)
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This was our 2nd stay at the Villa Taj Kumal. As we hoped, it was as wonderful as before! The location is perfect for swimming and snorkeling right out the back door. The beach is beautiful. The pool is perfect for lounging around in the afternoon and has plenty of shaded areas for those who have had enough sun. We love being able to walk to the Lol-Ha for lunch and to Turtle Bay for breakfast or dinner. Our rental golf carts came in handy for getting to destinations a bit further away. It's the most exotic yet simple and relaxing villa we have found. Myrna and her staff are very good to work with and take care of any needs that may come up. We would recommend anyone to stay at the Villa Taj Kumal. We plan to return!Becca Kanady Gonzalez & children, Mark U.S.A
We love your house and location.Our stay has been magical.We have enjoyed star-gazing from the rooftop at nights and watching storm clouds form from our balcony.As you know, you are situated in the most prime of locations.We have had easy access to the beach, dining, snorkeling, fishing, shopping and turtle watching.Your staff is all fabulous, friendly and professional plus very helpful whenever we have had questions.Thank you for sharing such a wonderful piece of paradise!
The Gemmell's Sonoma, CA
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful place!We have stayed in many homes around the world but yours tops the list!The location is fantastic – the beach is divine!The entire staff takes excellent care of everyone!Gynna is a fab cook and wonderful tour guide – we really hate to go home!For sure we'll never stay in Cancun again!
Tricia & Barclay, Allen & Samantha, Tiffany & Shane U.S.A
We have had a wonderful week while staying in your home.The Taj-Kumal is the ultimate in location, beauty and functionality.I cannot imagine any place better to have spent New Year's Eve than up on the roof of the "Taj" sipping champagne & watching the fireworks (what a life! J).Our dinner and brunch with Gynna were fabulous (if only I could cook like that!).And Jason was so attentive & gracious, especially considering our "lock" fiasco (oops!).Thank you and your wonderful staff (Ophelia & Enrique, too!)
With Sincere Gratitude,
Jack and Julie Layne Youngstown, OH
We are thankful for this wonderful opportunity to stay at your beautiful home.We were able to relax comfortably and enjoy the scenery.Gynna was fabulous; she added excitement and color along with the marvelous food.We are grateful for the hospitality and charm.Thank you again for a wonderful stay.
Brenda Gral Kansas, USA
Thank you for allowing us to enjoy your beautiful home.I felt like I was living in a palace.This was my first time to come to Mexico – and I am in love with your town.Akumal is so lovely, hope I can return in the future.You are a lovely lady!
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A place where we only say goodbye
There is a strange sense of serenity that comes from seeing one of the strongest people you know break down in tears; a certain humanity, a specific empathy, in the moments of a funeral that cannot be duplicated; and a battle of thoughts that ensue from driving alone for 16 hours, just you and the open road, immediately thereafter.
While these feelings may seem too depressing to even consider when you're cruising through a new semester and are headed toward spring, the season associated with optimism, I just can't write seemingly flippant words with such weighty thoughts on my mind. I don't want to bring you down and I don't enjoy writing about death, but the topic always seems to find me, and, when it's compared with other things like early-morning English classes and parking spots, nothing else seems very important anyway.
I've always tried to leave some sort of echo in these Letters from the Editor, to leave you with something to ponder for a few days. You don't need my unqualified advice for the semester. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to regret them, and in the end you'll be thankful because you're going to learn from them. And that entire process is necessary to grow as a person.
But reflection, too, is a vital component of growth. There are some feelings we experience that we need to voice, and sometimes the words may escape us. I find that songs often capture the experience better than we could ever articulate. This winter break, I kept going back to the lyrics of Death Cab for Cutie's "What Sarah Said."
The song begins: "And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time."
Over break, my friends and I visited one of our friends, who had been battling cancer for nearly a year, in the hospital. Two days after we had seen her joking and laughing and nearly seeming herself, we were back in the hospital and she was on her deathbed, laboring between breaths, powerless to even open her eyes.
It was a difficult sight for all of us, but it was particularly challenging for the friend of mine who was most affected: her brother. Her brother, the center who dominated on my high school basketball team, the hulking Italian stallion, is the physical personification of strong.
We spoke words of encouragement to her and sat in the lobby right outside her room.
The lyrics continue: "Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines in a place where we only say goodbye/It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds."
We recalled the good times we had with her. We laughed about the time my one friend had gotten so drunk that he would have thrown up all over himself if it weren't for her constant care through the night. Mostly, we prayed.
"And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground as the TV entertained itself/'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room/Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news."
The doctors told us she might hang on for as long as a week, and because we had been there for the majority of the past two days (her brother the entirety of the two days), we convinced him to get some sleep and come back in the morning.
"As each descending peak on the LCD took you a little farther away from me."
We didn't know she would die shortly after we left. About an hour after I got home, I saw his name pop up on my phone. I answered and found complete silence on the other end. I got in my car and raced downtown only to find my other friends had already arrived.
Her brother remained silent as he smoked a cigarette. The stalwart, never-show-emotion guy we had known for years stayed true to character. And then we saw her and he broke down.
"Love is watching someone die."
We walked in and I saw the most beautiful sight I had ever seen. I saw his mother lying in the hospital bed, holding her deceased daughter - just 27 years old - tight in her arms and saying, "she's in a better place now." The daughter's body had gone completely white, no color under her nails, no life in her body whatsoever.
Her mom had held her for hours and eventually days until she passed. It was the kind of image you will never forget, the kind of moment that renders all other thoughts completely irrelevant when you're debating what readers need to know or remember or consider.
We all sat in silence. No one needed to say anything. We just felt. We held our friend as he sobbed for his big sister, and we felt.
After the funeral, we talked about how everything else in life had suddenly gained clarity. When it comes down to it, everyone will die, and all that matters on your deathbed is what kind of person you were. Nothing else.
Not money. Not grades. Not popularity. Nothing.
It's only about what kind of person you were in the short years you lived. It's only about how you affected everyone you encountered, about the impact you had on people - the people who will watch you die. It sounds simple, but I think we all need constant reminders.
"So who's going to watch you die?"
Someday, someone who cares about you will call someone else who cares about you and there will be silence when the call is answered. Someday, there won't even be color under your fingernails. That day, I don't think the things we obsess over now will hold much significance at all.
When we talk about our deceased friend, we think of how she selflessly cared for others. She was thankful - yes, thankful - for her cancer because it caused her to live her last months to the fullest and it brought her family closer together. In my book, that's a life well lived.
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ewww put some shoes on, for God sake.
I agree, feet are gross
Feet aren't gross, they're just not very attractive either. Not a good perspective here anyway.
At least some sandals or flipflops…
I like the way feet look. Lately, I seem to running into people who think feet are the grossest thing ever. Weird.
@nyokki: show us your feet then. we'll be the judges that scar you for life. That IF tiki decides to approve the post.
The guy ruins it. Could have at least been a female.
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In order to seperate Students and staff a bit easier on our e-mail system, I'd like to add STUDENT in capital letters at the end of all the display names so it's blatently obvious when an e-mail is from a student or staff member.
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December 21, 2014
ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Rockford Police volunteers hit the streets to make a database of vacant and abandoned homes in the most crime ridden areas of the city.
They spent more than 15 hours going door to door and talking to neighbors about their concerns. They also took pictures of the properties.
Police will give the list to the city's Problem Properties Committee and use the list as a reference when solving crimes.
Hundreds of homes are empty and unsecured in Rockford. The city has been using grant money to tear down homes, but it says there's a 2-3 year backlog.
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