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Well, we are back from a week at the Lindo, we were there Feb 16-23rd and as I'm reading reviews that have been posted while we were gone, I have to think, no way were these people at the same place we were! So here's a long one and it's all good!
Check in and check out a breeze…. We did ask for adjoining rooms as my mother was travelling with us and the best they could do was two rooms on same floor, same side, with one room between us – it was totally fine! And they were very apologetic! Resort was either at full capacity or very close to it but that didn't cause any problems at all, in fact, it helped keep the "fun" atmosphere going.
Rooms….. clean, spacious and the mini bar was well stocked. I see some posts about a mouldy smell, we found that as soon as we turned on the fan for the AC and let it run, the smell cleared up and did not return the whole week, so no problems there. Our fridge wasn't working the first night we arrived and someone came to fix it within 10 minutes of our call. The staff and crew here are fabulous. There is a concierge for each building and they are there very long hours. Make your dinner reservations for the a la cartes with them as soon as you arrive. Small tips also go a long way, we made the effort to leave little notes in spanish for the maids with a small tip ($1-2USD) and when we did this, we'd get tons of extra bottles of water, beer, pop and some great towel art that the kids loved!
The grounds…. Beautiful! Pools are all wonderful. Our kids (10 and 12) loved the wave pool, lazy river, main pool and the waves at the beach. No complaints about the water temperature here, I mean, really, when it's about 30C, you want the pool to be cool when you go in! The red flag was up all week so we were unable to get out on the hobie cats or banana boat, but my son & husband rented a jetski and had a blast. We also did a snorkelling tour through the hotel and it was amazing. The boat ride was only about 7-8 minutes out but you felt like you were in the middle of the ocean and the fish at the reef were absolutely amazing! We also went into Playa del Carmen for one morning – just by taxi.
Shows and entertainment. We were truly impressed with the quality of the shows that the staff put on every night. We've been to many all-inclusives where the entertainment is usually pretty lame. But here, first you're in a great outdoor but covered theatre area, with sound and light system and a show with a theme each night. The Star Friends crew are awesome and they try so hard to keep the fun going!
Food….. never heard a single complaint from anyone about getting sick or not liking what was available. We ate at the breakfast buffet each morning, snacked at the beach grill or buffet at lunch, and did a la cartes for each dinner. Being at the Lindo allowed us to eat at restaurants at the Beach, Del Mar and Maya resorts too. The steakhouse at the Maya was very good, the Mexican at the Maya was also very very good (best service there in fact, not rushed at all). We also did the Japanese at the Beach/Del Mar and the Cajun at the Lindo. Cajun was our favourite and we ate there twice. Travelling with kids makes dinner time pretty challenging as they can be pretty finicky…. But don't be afraid to ask the waitstaff if the menu item can be made without certain ingredients! My son asked for the Jambalaya without muscles and they were very accommodating, and, being an all-inclusive, we sometimes ordered one extra dish for the table to share in case anyone got something they didn't like! Turns out we ended up eating an extra plate :) And... the wine was all imported from Spain too.... so good wine with dinner every night!
If I had to say one negative thing, the only one I can think of is that we did have to get up early to get chairs poolside… everyone reserves seats (yeah, yeah, yeah, even though you're not supposed to) so it does make it challenging! We heard one family who got themselves a 2 am wake up call so they could go out, reserve chairs and then go back to bed! NOT US! But if you're not up by 7 am, all the good spots are gone!
So overall, if you've booked at the Lindo, don't worry, you can't go wrong. We would definitely go back and are missing it already!
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This section of Let's Grow Mushroms covers the procedures for taking mushroom sporeprints. With gilled mushrooms, the process is easy. Simply place the mushroom cap with the gill side down for a few hours and allow the spores to drop onto the paper, foil, wax paper etc., which you've selected for printing. If you're printing a mushroom with dark spores, it helps to use light colored paper or foil to make it easier to see the spores later. If you're printing a mushroom with white spores, such as oyster or Shiitake mushrooms, select darker paper for the same reason.
Other types of fungi such as Hericium (Lion's Mane) drop spores from long tube-like projections and these mushrooms can be printed by hanging them over the paper, so that it will catch the spores as they eject. In general, I recommend 'cleaning up' any sporeprints by swiping a few spores onto agar in a Petri dish. This way, you can isolate pure mushroom mycelium from any natural contaminants that may have landed on your printing paper at the same time as the mushroom spores. You can see the procedures recommended by watching the appropriate chapters on agar and Petri dishes, where these procedures are demonstrated on the Let's Grow Mushrooms video. However, for those of you without laminar flow hoods who are learning how to grow mushrooms, the use of a spore or liquid culture syringe to inoculate BRF (brown rice flour) cakes or jars of grain is recommended. This chapter of the video demonstrates our technique for taking spore prints and making mushroom spore syringes.
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Pennzoil's Hill No. 1 after first round GAINESVILLE, Fla. (March 19) -- The legendary quarter-mile of Gainesville Raceway is living up to its extremely fast reputation today as qualifying for the 30th Annual Mac Tools Nationals got underway...
Pennzoil's Hill No. 1 after first round
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (March 19) -- The legendary quarter-mile of Gainesville Raceway is living up to its extremely fast reputation today as qualifying for the 30th Annual Mac Tools Nationals got underway with Round 1. Pennzoil Top Fuel legend and three-time Gatornationals champ Eddie Hill provided the weekend's initial jolt of excitement with a 4.577-second lap at 314.97 mph to grab the pole of the sports' quickest class.
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"Boy, to open with a pass like that does this old heart good. That really just felt like about a medium run until we got to the 1,000-foot mark, then she just took off. It feels so good to be tuning the car yourself and then to turn around and run that quick. I'm having a ball."
Bruce Allen, the driver of The Outlaw Fuel Additives Pro Stock Pontiac Firebird, managed to place his machine in the initial field of 16 cars that have qualified for Sunday's action. But the 14-year pro knows that he'll have to improve on his time of 7.038 seconds at 196.02 mph to survive the next three rounds of qualifying.
"That wasn't real pretty and that time definitely won't hold," Allen said. "But we did get a full lap in under power and we got some good data to work with. I think must of us (Pro Stock drivers) over-estimated the track. It was slicker than I thought it would be for sure. A lot of cars were spinning their tires and we were no exception. I spun really hard in low gear and that's where I lost most of my ET. We'll get better."
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The Putin vs. Erdogan Strongman Contest
The diplomatic crisis over Turkey's downing of a Russian jet is looking increasingly like a battle of wills between Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, two leaders known for their machismo and revanchist politics. Their similar leadership style once brought them closer together, but now it's exacerbating the standoff, since neither can allow himself be seen to back down.
Putin responded to the shooting of the Russian Su-24 jet by Turkish F-16s with predictably tough words, calling the act a "stab in the back by accomplices of terrorists" and demanding an apology.
Speaking with CNN, Erdogan shot back that "those who violated our airspace are the ones who need to apologize." He also told France 24 that Russia was not actually fighting the Islamic State, despite Putin's claim that its Su-24s are in the Syrian skies attacking the terrorist group.
In a step toward brinksmanship rather than negotiation — Erdogan has said Putin hasn't returned his call after the incident — the Russian president has doubled down on his military presence. Although Turkey's attack was widely interpreted as a signal to Russia to stop bombing Turkmen rebels near its border in northwest Syria, Russian bombers and Syrian rocket artillery began "conducting massive strikes on this area for a long period of time" as soon as the surviving Su-24 navigator was recovered, a defense ministry representative said on Thursday. At least a dozen airstrikes reportedly hit the Turkoman Mountains where the Turkmen fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are concentrated.
Russia has also deployed a guided missile cruiser to the Mediterranean and S-400 anti-aircraft missiles to Latakia airbase in Syria, extending its ground-to-air range well into Turkish territory. Independent defense analyst Alexander Golts said he was concerned that Russia could shoot down a Turkish plane to "even the score."
Along with the military posturing, Moscow is threatening economic sanctions. At the same time, experts worry that Ankara could up the ante by closing the Bosphorus Strait (a waterway which runs through the middle of Turkey), which would cut off Russia's main supply line to its forces in Syria.
'It's personal for Putin and Erdogan'
But Erdogan shouldn't be surprised at Putin's cold-shoulder response, since both have endeavored to be seen as a strong leader who can stand up to other world powers and regain past glories. They both have won popularity at home through assertive foreign policy. This image means that neither can be seen to retreat, a personal factor that is compounding the risk of conflict along with the country's conflicting interests in the region, analysts say.
"For both (Erdogan and Putin), the image question is even higher than questions of state, and that's the problem. They can't agree with each other," said Leonid Isayev, an expert of Middle Eastern politics at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. "Both have invested a lot of their reputation in the Syrian conflict. It's personal for Putin and Erdogan, and to make any concessions is unacceptable for both of them, and this plays into the hands of IS and other terrorist groups."
Pavel Felgenhauer, an opposition-minded defense analyst, was even more blunt.
"Right now they're measuring dicks, and that's very dangerous," he said. "Of course there are also more basic problems with the whole situation, but the personal aspect contributes to possibility of further escalation."
Since coming to power, the two leaders' trajectories have been eerily similar. Both have presided over periods of unprecedented economic growth while being criticized for their authoritarian tendencies, which were on display when they cracked down on street protest movements in Moscow and Istanbul.
They have increased their influence over the media and electoral politics, personalizing power to the point that their official title has become increasingly meaningless. In fact, Putin's 2008-12 stint as prime minister to get around presidential term limits was echoed by then-prime minister Erdogan in 2014, when he became president after exhausting his party's term limits.
Putin has sometimes been accused of being a modern czar and Erdogan a sultan, and they have reportedly both built palaces fit for such a title.
Their competitive personalities and manly images are rooted partly in athletics: Putin is renowned for his love of judo and hockey, while Erdogan once played soccer semi-professionally. Their devout religious faith is also central to their image, as is a reputation as a willful, decisive leader, and Putin once called Erdogan a "man of strong character." Russia and Turkey's warming relations in recent years have been attributed to the two leaders' personal relationship.
"The alliance of Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in large part built on psychological closeness and Putin's attempts to look at Erdogan as a mirror," analyst Stanislav Belkovsky told radio station Ekho Moskvy this week. "He thought that they were very close, these powerful, brutal men, demonstratively masculine, who yes, deepen authoritarianism in their countries, consistently go their own way, ignoring anything they want to, including accusations of corruption."
Most importantly, both Erdogan and Putin have conducted an increasingly assertive foreign policy in recent years, which critics say is a ploy to distract from problems at home. Defiance of the West has become a way to affirm their nation's strength, independence and status as a global power.
Putin has tapped into Russians' nostalgia for the superpower status they enjoyed before the fall of the Soviet Union, which he once called the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." Meanwhile, Erdogan has revived Ottoman trappings and traditions while trying to raise Turkey's status in the region and in the Sunni Islamic world. That has included support for rebels in neighboring Syria.
"It's an absolutely identical situation. We have two pretty popular leaders, authoritarian leaders, harsh leaders who have significant support, more and more each year, mostly thanks to foreign policy, not domestic," Isayev said. "Both are pretty aggressive, we see this in Turkey and Russia. It's in demand."
'Both sides are in a position where they don't have room to maneuver'
But Russia's entry into the war in Syria, an attempt to bolster its ally Assad and assert influence in a key geopolitical region, has set the Putin and Erodgan doctrines on a collision course. Erdogan's current defiance of Russia on behalf of the Turkmen rebels, who speak Turkish and live in an area of Syria that Turkey has often seen as its historic lands, echoes Putin's own actions in Ukraine: When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Putin couched his actions in promises to protect Russian speakers abroad and argued Crimea was a historically Russian land. He went on to back rebels in eastern Ukraine on similar grounds, once referring to the area by a name it was called under the czarist empire.
With their reputations on the line, the clash of Erdogan and Putin's power politics has led to a standoff with a strong risk of escalation. Russians are angry and calling for a strong response to perceived Turkish aggression, while Turkish nationalist media has reveled in what it sees as Erdogan's rebuke of Putin.
"Both sides are in a position where they don't have room to maneuver and can't back away," Felgenhauer said. "They'll be calling each other's bluff, and military action of some sort between Russia and Turkey seems very possible."
Analysts argued that at this point, only a third party such as the European Union, or NATO, of which Turkey is a member, could resolve the standoff. But that intermediary would have to figure out a way for Putin and Erdogan to back down without harming their image.
"It's very risky," Golts said. "Nato would have to do something to let Erdogan save face. I don't understand how it will look."
"The issue is a conflict between two absolutely uncompromising people, two harsh positions, Russia and Turkey, and we can't solve this conflict," Isayev said. "It's a dead end."
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The Legend of Tarzan is a proper mix of adventure tale and love story set against a real and convincing background. Tarzan, or Lord John Clayton (Alexander Skarsgard) is living the life of a wealthy aristocrat in the London of the 1870s when he is lured back to the jungle by a deal between a vengeful tribal chief and the psychopathic representative of the Belgian Government, Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz).
Following the Berlin Conference in which parts of Africa are carved up between 14 different European countries, Belgian's King Leopold attempts to colonise the Congo Basin, hiring an army of 20,000 mercenaries to do it – but he needs the money to pay them and he ravages the country to find it. Knowing that Chief Mbonga (Djimon Hounsou), who blames Tarzan for the death of his son, will pay to have him brought back to Africa, Rom kidnaps Jane to entice her husband into the jungle – and thus, for over half its length, The Legend of Tarzan becomes a credibly paced and plotted chase story in which the politics provide a background that joins all the other elements together.
The movie was made for a budget of $180m and the money, as they say, is on the screen. Six weeks of second unit shooting in Gabon and the jungle settings at the Warner Bros. extensive studio in Leavesden in Herfordshire combine with some generally convincing CGI effects to make it all feel believable and real and, whether it is or not, The Legend Of Tarzan never seems like an attempt to establish a new franchise. And the "origins" aspect of the story is more than competently worked into the film through a sequence of tightly mounted flashbacks.
My main problem with it is the interpretation of the title character and the lack of humour in it. From Johnny Weissmuller to Mike Henry (former linebacker with the Los Angeles Rams), Tarzan in the cinema has been played by an athlete. In this case they have employed an actor and, for some reason, he hasn't been allowed to act. He is handsome and almost graphically well built but he is also dull and stolid. Jane (the Australian actress Margot Robbie), his wife, is a much more vivid and spirited character. In Tarzan's return to Africa he is accompanied by the standard sidekick, a representative of the American embassy in London (Samuel L Jackson) and, through his questions to both Tarzan and Jane he becomes a conduit into the main character's past - and he also has some of the funniest lines in the movie. Just not enough of them.
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Montessori Method: The New Way Forward
Ever wondered about the quality of education? Haven't done that yet, well you might need to seriously consider what we are learning and its mirror effects on our societies in general. The issue of education doesn't seem to draw a lot of readers in, which as experts attribute is all due to the redundancy of the topic itself. But what if we told you that there exists an education system which trains students to become creative innovators and leaders rather than becoming a part of an overwhelming majority of ordinary personnel working from 9-5. Consider a system that is without the influence of grades, tests or homework. Intrigued? Well, this system exists and it is known as the Montessori Method. But what exactly is it? In a nutshell, this method focuses on nourishing a hands-on self-pace, collaborative and inspirational learning experience. It imparts the essence of attention to detail, cataloging a problem, starting off with small steps and building an idea through experimentation; more importantly solving a problem with the feelings of animated interest.
A unique feature among the fascinating parts of Montessori training is its focus on removing the fear associated with failing. As mentioned earlier, this system focuses on a hands-on approach. Thus, the do-it-yourself mentality promotes the idea of self-learning and the sustenance required to keep progressing. Even the most productive and innovative development frameworks such as agile development and lean startup methodology, owe some similarities with the experimental processes of Montessori learning.
Experts from Milton Montessori remark that there is no age restriction in promoting and enhancing innovation, which ultimately leads one to become better problem solvers and leaders. While there are various ways to exercise problem-solving skills, it is still advised to study the principles of Montessori Methods. Admittedly, the Montessori Method is associated with the primary education of the children, the seven pillars of self-directed learning are generalised concepts which can be applied to adults who want to become more creative, adaptable and self-motivated.
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Montessori: Promoting excellence and importance of lifelong learning
We are now in an age where standing apart is becoming the norm, and employers are hunting for people with a diversified skill set. Thus, lifelong learning is now a necessity rather than a luxury, for keeping up-to-date and staying relevant. Unfortunately, our public education system, which is primarily designed to impart knowledge in mass production philosophy, is failing and jeopardising the future prosperity and proper nourishment of our society. Experts argue that current educational system is built on old fundamentals and economic dynamics, which is why they have become outdated to instil the self-directed initiative and flexibility to adapt to students. Don't believe the above argument? Sir Ken Robinson in his most prevalent TED Talk points out the process of how schools kill the creativity in a child. He further contends that to flourish in the post-mechanical 21st-century economy, the most vital abilities are self-coordinated activities and social knowledge. This method is particularly valid for the most desired lucrative employments in our insight based economy.
Relinquishing the secret of success – Montessori Method is Silicon Valley's Innovation Secret
Kyle Pearce, a well-known blogger, remarks that Montessori Method may just be the Silicon Valley's best-kept secret. After all once and twice is coincidence but thrice, no there are too many variables to predict in the situation like these. Many of you might-might have heard rumours about the existence of 'PayPal Mafia', and their incredible influence in the Silicon Valley. How often do you see three former members of a company become billionaires? Kyle hints at the possible existence of 'Montessori Mafia.' Studies have shown that a remarkable number of Silicon Valley's brightest minds have Montessori education in common. Here are a few of them:
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I realized that I haven't done much updating as to our frugality since the dawn of 2013. Well, I do continue to homemake 100% of the tortillas and tortilla chips that we eat, and I still make bread and crackers a majority of the time, but sometimes I will buy a loaf or box if we run out before I have time to make more. I realized that making bread with a breadmaker would be much more efficient, so I have been perusing Craiglist and hope to check out the Salvation Army/Goodwill soon to try and hunt down a good bargain. My mom hinted that if we haven't found something by the time we move to Michigan, we may just get one as a housewarming present. In the meantime, I'm putting my old loaf pans (two metal, one glass) to good use:
For a few years now, I've made half-hearted attempts at creating a weekly meal plan, but I never seem to stick with it. I've been following a couple of frugality blogs and know from past experience that the most frugal homemakers out there live by a meal plan, so it's long been my goal to eventually get around it joining them. I'm pretty good at throwing things together with what I have in my fridge, but more times than I'd like to admit, we end up with a pizza or making pancakes because I didn't plan ahead.
I'd been feeling the urge to go through my folder of random recipes (both electronic and tangible) and sort through them. As I was organizing, I realized how many recipes I'd been wanting to try for literally years, but just never had for one reason or another. Not only dinner recipes, but also homemade spinach artichoke dip (perfect for an at-home date night), and whole wheat cinnamon rolls.
Concurrent with my cleaning experience, I picked up a book at the library called The Kitchen Counter Cooking School (I borrowed the 2010 edition). The subtitle is pretty self explanatory: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks. The author, a Le Cordon Bleu graduate, is really good at explaining cooking techniques in writing. I've only read the first few chapters, but I already learned the correct way to hold a Chef's knife (turns out I've been doing it wrong all these years and the right way gives you way more control over the blade), how to slice an onion, and how to cook veggies so they aren't bland and mushy. The book is pretty engaging and I often find myself reading it while standing in my kitchen examining my knives and my slicing and dicing technique.
The book is great for people who hate cooking or are scared of the kitchen and also people like me who have a certain sense of confidence in some areas, but rely on boxed or canned goods for most of their recipes.
So I finally wrote up a 1-month meal plan. It includes meatless Fridays (since it's Lent and we're Catholic), breakfast-for-dinner Sundays, and leftover Wednesdays. I included meals that primarily require ingredients and techniques I'm comfortable with, but most of them will push me to grow in one small way, like homemaking the refried beans that will go into tonight's burritos. The goal is that by the end of the month, I'll emerge with a greater set of kitchen skills.
My process:
1. Go through my recipes and set aside the ones that sound the best.
2. Jot down the meals in my planner, starting first with days that had the least flexibility (like meatless Fridays).
3. Go through the recipes and make a grocery list for ingredients I don't have.
4. Check out the grocery store fliers and dig through the coupon book.
4. Go grocery shopping and make dinner!
The entire process took a several hours, to be honest; although I did finish it in one day. And my grocery list scared me half to death. It filled up 1.5 pieces of 8.5 x 11 notebook paper (front sides only). I kid you not. I wish I'd taken a picture just to show you the craziness. My anxiety increased when I checked out the store flyer and found that it wasn't a good sale week. We don't have a warehouse membership and I don't think it's worth my time to drive to 3 different stores to get the best sale prices (even before I had a kid and lived in the city I hated doing this). I kept carefully track of the total in the margins of my grocery list, and when I left the checkout aisle? The damage was only $154. I kid you not. An entire month's worth of dinners, plus breakfast and lunch foods, for only $154. I will have to double back for things that don't keep, like bananas and milk, but I estimate that I'll spend less than $50 throughout this month on food. $200 for a family of three to eat comfortably in Chicago, IL.
The reason the total was so cheap was because I was buying ingredients, not boxed food. Spaghetti squash costs the same per ounce as a box of store brand pasta on sale at my grocer. Limes were $0.25 each and is the only thing I didn't have for a sauce for an upcoming dinner. A 10lb bag of flour (white, unbleached) cost me $6.29 and covers me for tortillas for a few meals, crepes, breadsticks, bretzel rolls, cinnamon bread for french toast, regular bread for sandwiches, burger buns, calzone dough, and pot pie dough. That's intense savings! Just from buying the stuff I need to make stuff for myself. Plus you get less preservatives, less additives, and usually, less calories!
I don't plan to make everything from scratch though, at least this time around. I did buy enchilada sauce in a can, Abigail has boxed, name brand granola bars, and the pizza we'll have on Friday the 15th is a Jack's shrink-wrapped number that was $2 a few weeks ago. I need to take this one step at a time.
The biggest critique I see against frugal meal planning is that it takes time. It takes time to make the meal plan and time to make the things that are normally pre-packaged. This is a real and valid critique. I would caution that making dinner is a lot easier when you know days in advance what you'll be having, you have all the ingredients on hand, and you're making something that you really enjoy. But it still takes time. I budget an hour to make dinner since I'm new to most of these recipes. Abigail sometimes gets frustrated and I've had to sacrifice my organized tupperware cupboard to her whims. We all want more time, money, and to be healthier, so we each have to find our own careful balance between homemade burger buns and destructive children.
But it's VERY important that if you opt to ditch a homemade pot pie in favor of something from a box that you do so because you understand your own personal balance and NOT because you're scared of making a pie crust. Cause otherwise you're just a victim of Marie Callender's marketing department. And what kind of life is that?
The last update to my frugality spree is that I finally made my own laundry detergent. I was quite skeptical at first because I had such bad luck with dishwasher detergent that I actually just broke down and bought some. But homemade is just so. freakin'. cheap. that I had to give it a shot. It took all of 10 minutes to make and I stored it in an old Ovaltine can. After the first week, I asked Matt if he noticed anything different about his laundry. He responded that he didn't. We are in agreement that homemade detergent cleans just as well as store-bought detergent. My whites and colors look the same. But I'm saving serious dough by switching. We're talking less than $2 vs. about $5-6 for the small jug of fragrance and dye free stuff we were buying.
Moving on to everyone's favorite Chica, we have a mad terrorizer:
Abigail's new thing (one of many) is to pull things off shelves and sit in them. I need to clear out another row of stuff on our shelves. Or load up more bankers boxes so they are too heavy for her to move.
She's getting to be quite a confident push-toy walker now, and can say "goldfish" (as in, the cracker) and "daddy" in addition to "kitty cat." She says "mama" in a pathetic voice when I'm disciplining her. The cute little manipulator. Her words are still pretty muddled, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who can understand them, and sometimes I think maybe I'm just so excited for her to talk that I'm hearing what I want to hear instead of the babble that she actually speaks. She can understand tons of what I'm saying now, and obeys short commands. The developmental "growth spurt" for typically developing kids is right around their first birthday. Out of nowhere kids suddenly start walking, talking, understanding, having an attitude, all at once. (I understand the biological reason behind this, but most of my readers will probably find it boring). For kids with Ds, this occurs on average just after the second birthday. Abigail is (at least, physically) slightly advanced for a kid with Ds (or so we've been told), so it makes sense that she's hitting her stride as we approach the big 0-2.
It's getting harder and harder to wear her out indoors, so I'm pretty psyched for this weather to warm up so that I can let her loose at this awesome-looking toddler park I found while
- Calculate the calories in your homemade recipes here.
- The laundry detergent recipe I use is this one. I made a very small batch to see if I liked it before I whipped up a big one. I'm still using that first recipe I made last month!
- A kick ass spaghetti squash recipe (I used regular ground beef because it was way cheap).
- Cheap and easy pretzel bread that makes GREAT burger buns and requires minimal rise time.
-Cinnamon roll and breadstick recipes (which I have yet to try).
UPDATE: I thought I should probably throw in a disclaimer. Part of the reason our food budget is slow low is because I rarely buy meat (usually only 1-2 packages a month) and I make it last a long time. Our main meat is chicken and I only buy it on sale. We get the biggest ham and turkey we can find during the holidays, cook the entire thing, then freeze the leftovers in Ziplock bags for future meals. I very rarely buy beef and usually only use 1/3 lb ground beef in recipes that call for 1lb, supplementing with rice, beans, or even just veggies.


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The deadline and terms for the deposit payment are listed in the booking application form; for online booking the deposit shall be paid by credit card upon booking completion. The reservation shall not be valid in case the deposit is not paid within the deadline or the online booking procedure is not completed.
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Author : J. V. Hodgkinson F. C. A. Chartered
Accountant : Aug 2006 to November 2013
The principal thrust of this
website is
This is my review based on official
statistics and documents. It is done in conjunction with Ron McMah, grazier
of Imbil and Trevor Herse, retired of the Gold Coast
April 2012
Interest in global warming is losing credibility with dire predictions such as Tim Flannery, the current head of the Canberra Climate Change department when in 2007 he predicted that cities such as Brisbane would never again experience dam filling rains.
There are over 100,000 people damaged by the 2011 floods in South East Queensland.
A carbon tax has become law in Australia with its operation to begin on the 1st July 2012.
Another view of the tax and its proponents can be seen if you Click here
December 2011
World view
The December 2011 meting in Durban South Africa came to a consensus to consider a proposal by 2015 for limiting emissions. This will not be enforceable before 2020 even if it can be agreed.
Australia's forced view.
The Gillard/Greens Government has foisted upon us a "carbon tax". This will force the cost of energy upwards placing Australia at a major economic disadvantage in relation to the the rest of the World until they decide to follows suit, if ever.
It is agreed that, by itself, it will have no effect on the temperature of the Globe.
This decision will be hotly contested at the next election due around October 2013. It clearly breached an election commitment to the Australian people of now Prime Minister Gillard prior to the election
"There will be no carbon tax under a Government I lead".
"Those playing with computer climate models need to get outside, collect new data and take into account far more factors than they feed into computer models".
This is an extract from Ian Plimer's book How to Get Expelled from School: A Guide to Climate Change for Pupils, Parents & Punters. (Published in the Australian newspaper 17th December 2011.)
ICE sheets grow and shrink. At times, they disappear. At other times, ice starts to cover polar areas and high mountains. That's what ice has done over the history of our planet. The Greenland and Antarctic basins are more than 1km deep, and deeper in the centres than around the edges, so that ice is squeezed uphill like toothpaste out of a tube by the weight of overlying ice. The alarmist media stresses that changing sea ice and continental glaciers indicate rapid global warming. Is this really so?
Since the last interglacial started some 10,500 years ago, summer sea ice in the Arctic has been far from constant. Sea ice comes and goes without leaving a clear record. For this reason, our knowledge about its variations and extent was limited before we had satellite surveillance or observations from aeroplanes and ships. A huge amount of the earth's surface water moves alternately between the ice sheets and the oceans.
Svend Funder, commenting on his recent Science paper, stated: "Our studies show that there have been large fluctuations in the amount of summer sea ice during the last 10,000 years. During the so-called Holocene Climate Optimum, from approximately 8000 to 5000 years ago, when the temperatures were somewhat warmer than today, there was significantly less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, probably less than 50 per cent of the summer 2007 coverage, which is absolutely the lowest on record.
"Our studies also show that when the ice disappears in one area, it may accumulate in another. We have discovered this by comparing our results with observations from northern Canada. While the amount of sea ice decreased in northern Greenland, it increased in Canada. This is probably due to changes in the prevailing wind systems. This factor has not been sufficiently taken into account when forecasting the imminent disappearance of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean."
In order to reach their unsurprising conclusions, Funder and the rest of the team organised several expeditions to Peary Land in northern Greenland. Funder said: "Our key to the mystery of the extent of sea ice during earlier epochs lies in the driftwood we found along the coast. One might think that it had floated across (the) sea, but such a journey takes several years, and driftwood would not be able to stay afloat for that long. The driftwood is from the outset embedded in sea ice and reaches the north Greenland coast along with it. The amount of driftwood therefore indicates how much multi-year sea ice there was in the ocean back then. And this is precisely the type of ice that is in danger of disappearing today."
What is interesting about this study is that the new understanding came from getting away from computer modelling and doing fieldwork in pretty inhospitable areas. Back in the laboratory and again away from computer models, the wood type was determined and dated using carbon-14. This wood came from near the great rivers of present-day North America and Siberia. This shows that wind and current directions have changed. The field study of coastal beach ridges shows that at times there were waves breaking unhindered by ice over at least 500km of coastline. At other times, due to sea ice cover, there were no beaches. This is the present situation.
Even if there is a great reduction in sea ice, all is not lost. Funder stated: "Our studies show that there are great natural variations in the amount of Arctic sea ice. The bad news is that there is a clear connection between temperature and the amount of sea ice. And there is no doubt that continued global warming will lead to a reduction in the amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. The good news is that even with a reduction to less than 50 per cent of the current amount of sea ice, the ice will not reach a point of no return: a level where the ice no longer can regenerate itself even if the climate was to return to cooler temperatures.
"Finally, our studies show that the changes to a large degree are caused by the effect that temperature has on the prevailing wind systems. This has not been sufficiently taken into account when forecasting the imminent disappearance of the ice, as often portrayed in the media."
Those playing with computer climate models need to get outside, collect new data and take into account far more factors than they feed into computer models.
Studies of the behaviour of tropical glaciers over the last 11,000 years show irregular shrinkage, with slower rates in the Little Ice Age and faster rates in the 20th century. Glaciers such as the Bolivian Telata glacier reflect long-term warming during the current 10,500-year-long interglacial and that glacial retreat was in progress thousands of years before industrialisation.
Scientists urged on by the media state that ice calving off glaciers indicates global warming. Ice always falls off the front of a glacier. If ice did not melt, then the planet would now be covered in ice. Ice drops off the toe of both advancing and retreating glaciers and the melting snout of a glacier is at a point determined by the balance between the forward movement of the ice by gravity and the rate at which it melts. Ice falling off the front of a glacier means absolutely nothing when the air temperature is less than zero. Ice sheets grow and contract. At times, ice sheets disappear. The story of glacial retreat is far more complex than a television image.
Many glaciers that are now in retreat did not exist until the Little Ice Age (which climaxed in the middle to late 17th century). During the medieval warming (which peaked around AD1000), alpine glaciers in the northern hemisphere were smaller or did not exist. Over much of the Canadian Cordillera, there may have been no glaciers at all during the Holocene Maximum (8000 to 6500 years ago), when temperatures were considerably higher than now.
Records from New Zealand and Norway show glacier retreat started in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most of the modern ice retreat is due to post-Little Ice Age warming, changes in humidity and a decrease in ice flow rates.
The idea that a glacier slides downhill on a base lubricated by melt water was a good idea when first presented by Horace-Benedict de Saussure in 1779. We now know a lot more, yet this treasured idea remains. Ice moves by creep, a process of constant recrystallisation of ice crystals. Ice at the snout of a glacier has crystals 1000 times larger than those in snow as a result of growth during recrystallisation.
Ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland first flow uphill before flowing down glaciers. The upward flow of ice cannot be due to human-induced global warming producing melting. There are some places in the world today where glaciers are expanding.
Ice sheets and glaciers grow and retreat for a great diversity of reasons. For scientists to argue that ice retreat is due to human activity is simplifying a very complex process. Furthermore, it is too cold in Antarctica and Greenland for ice to melt.
Since the discovery of the Hubbard Glacier (in Alaska) in 1895, it has been advancing 25m a year during periods of cooling and warming. The ice front is 10km long and 27m high. What does the ice do at the snout of the glacier? It falls off, because it is getting pushed from behind. This has nothing to do with temperature; it shows ice behaves as a plastic and brittle material and that ice sheets are always changing.
As with all areas of science, there are regular surprises. It was always thought that ice formed from frozen snow. The science was settled and there was a consensus. Recent work in East Antarctica shows that the deepest part of the ice sheet contains ice that did not originate as snow. It was melt water that seeped to the base of the ice sheet and then froze. The amount of ice formed by this method is probably greater in volume than all the glaciers on earth outside Antarctica and Greenland. The computer models predicted this melt-water escaped to the oceans and contributed to sea level rise. Wrong. The volume of water in this ice is larger than Antarctica's sub-glacial lakes. The addition of hundreds of metres of ice at the base of an ice sheet bends the overlying ice and causes uplift of the surface of the glacier. This changes the slope and flow of the ice. The thickest sub-glacial ice was 1100m and this pushed the top of glaciers up 410m to reflect the shape of the added basal ice.
Antarctica has another little surprise. Underneath the ice sheets are volcanoes. The last big eruption was in Roman times and Mount Erebus is continually restless. Addition of heat from below could cause massive melting and detachment of a large block of ice.
As snow falls, it traps air. This air is preserved as the snow becomes an ice sheet. This air remains trapped and uncontaminated in ice, otherwise it cannot be used to measure past atmospheres. Antarctic ice core (Siple) shows that there were 330 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air in 1900; Mauna Loa Hawaiian measurements in 1960 show that the air then had 260ppm carbon dioxide.
Either the ice core data is wrong, the Hawaiian carbon dioxide measurements are wrong, or the atmospheric carbon dioxide content was decreasing during a period of industrialisation.
As in all other areas of science, uncertainty rules.
This is an extract from Ian Plimer's book How to Get Expelled from School: A Guide to Climate Change for Pupils, Parents & Punters.
This section is left as it was almost 2 years ago. It was inserted to detect any observable change in rainfall in our dam catchments to support claim that our depleted dams were the subject of climate change. There was only one minor change detected in over a century but no conclusive proof.
The events of January 2011 put an end to that. Floods equivalent to 300% of the Wivenhoe dam capacity flowed over the Dam wall with considerable destruction in Brisbane and Ipswich.
What has come under pressure in the intervening period is my statement that "the world exploding population was contributing to climate change".
No argument exists that disputes Climate change being global warming and cooling over the life of of our planet. The World's central body has presented as fact a consensus of Scientists and non scientists that carbon dioxide created by our population is an additional cause of climate change.
Australia's own Professor Plimer, a noted geologist, disputes this as a consensus is not fact. He further points out that the carbon dioxide, an odorless and invisible gas, represented in our atmosphere is only .001% of the carbon dioxide contained in the planet. It is contained mainly in water of the oceans. The volume in the atmosphere is being constantly increased and decreased by natural process. Carbon dioxide is apparently essential to all plant life on this planet which also effects the volume.
The .001% by volume is the mathematical equivalent of less than 1/2 a day's water supply compared to the volume of all waters in all the dams in South East Queensland if they were full.
He has created considerable debate and insists that debate in Australia has never started. In that respect he is joined by the Australian newspaper and in Queensland some respected and balanced radio commentators. My understanding of science and scientists is that they research and research always with an open mind. The fact that there is a debate at all indicates the lack of factual evidence.
So now I am not so sure. The straightforward equation of measurement that I put forward in the "conclusion" below is now obsolete. With many variables being added such as the constant natural absorption and replenishment of carbon dioxide and in particular the extremely small proportion of the Earth's carbon dioxide being held in our atmosphere, the necessary mathematical equations to prove the point have grown considerably.
For example:
And so on it goes. The least we can do is ensure that the Scientists agree on the facts. This reduces the creation of so many equations in order to view and make clear decisions on the way forward and the eventual assessment of it.
One thing that visitors to this site may have observed is that three of the persons involved in the decision to cancel the Wolfdene Dam are the chief promoters of the current legislation to limit carbon dioxide production by humans. The Wolfdene dam cancellation decision in South East Queensland is an acknowledged error that eventually caused pain to the citizens of South East Queensland.
It took 15 years (1989 to 2005) to observe the effect of this acknowledged error. Observation of the Control and effect of carbon dioxide on our climate and living standards may take considerably longer. Most Australian and International players will be off the stage by then.
Additions December 2009/ January 2010
While South Australia and Victoria were receiving "catastrophic"
The severity of the Victorian and South Australian heat and bush fires since 1851 are recorded below in Nature's time table.
A few personal photographs serve as a reminder of the extreme conditions in the Northern Hemisphere.
Photo 1 : London , Thames and the "eye wheel" with snow in the foreground.
Photo 2 : London, Barnes, a suburb of London, with the community pond frozen over.
Climate change in this website as of August 2007
Climate change has been introduced by the then new Chairman of SEQWater in her 2006 annual report. The Queensland Government has formed the "Queensland Climate Change Centre Of Excellence". Our Political Leaders of all persuasions have embraced Climate Change in varying degrees. It is therefore appropriate to examine the rainfall in the catchments in relation to this subject.
You are aware from other sections of this site that I have all the rainfall data in the catchments that has ever been produced. It predates 1893 in some cases. I am therefore in a strong position to examine the rainfall over any periods to detect Climate Change.
Thirty year periods are selected as the Bureau of Meteorology compares all rainfall with the 30 year period 1961 to 1990. I agree that it is a sufficient period to detect trends.
These two graphs of the Wivenhoe and Somerset Dams do not
show any effects of Climate Change on Rainfall in the last 30 year
period 1977 to 2006.
The Wivenhoe shows a variation in the 1947 to 1976 period which included the 1974 flood. It is a period when it was reported by that respected United States Journal "Newsweek" that the Scientists of this world were predicting devastation of the Planet by Global Cooling in 50 years.
The Somerset Dam, our main provider of water, shows no variation in absolute terms in the last 60 years.
Summer versus non-summer
There is one aspect of this area for which I am unable to provide an explanation.
While reviewing the percentage of rainfall received by the four months December to March, as compared to the eight months April to November, I noticed that there was a 4 per cent variation between the years prior to 1961 and the years 1961 to 2006. The chart used is reproduced for convenience.
While this aberration is significant to warrant attention in this section, it has no effect on the conclusion that the Summer months receive 50 percent, or more, of the annual Rainfall.
You will see that the individual Rainfall stations in both Dams record a similar result to the total for each Dam. Whatever happened, it is consistent. There is sufficient rainfall in each total to make the comparison with comfort.
Federation drought
This matter has been raised by the Qld Govt, Climate Change Centre of Excellence. Because it was raised, I have discussed it in full under the "Federation" button.
It is referred to in this section for the reason of its complete departure from normal rainfall patterns.
You will read in the "Summer V Non-Summer" above that the items of interest are the stable relationship of the Summer months 1893 to 1960. The Summer months were around 53% of the annual totals and this was consistent with all rainfall stations in both the Wivenhoe and Somerset Dams.
The Federation years 1898 to 1903 show a complete reversal of this position. It was accompanied by low readings of high impact rainfall throughout the period. The Summer months in the dams were : 35 percent in the Wivenhoe and 34 percent in the Somerset. The balance, of course is in the non-summer months.
The Climate Change Centre of Excellence has compared the Federation drought with the last 6 years. One finds in this web-site that the Summer months have been perfectly normal and that the balance of rain not received was in the low rainfall non-summer months that do not normally create inflow. Reference " Rainfall deficiency" button.
Drought applicable to Australia
This map provided by our Leaders shows the sections of Australia that were in drought in February of 2007. They have been largely affected by recent rains. Bear in mind that while the catchments are shown as the lowest on record, the percentage map showed 80 percent
The position of our catchments has been generally overshadowed by this drought and the accurate position clouded.
This article "The big dry natural and not due to Climate Change" was provided by the CSIRO and published in the Australian Newspaper on the 28th December 2006.
Brisbane city flood heights 1840 to 2006
This graph of Brisbane City flood heights covers the span of seven generations. They do not fully represent the rainfall in the catchments and vice versa. However there is much similarity. Obviously the flood activity in the eighteen hundreds was much more intense than the twentieth century and beyond. To the casual observer this would indicate that climate change as we know it existed at the start of the twentieth century and continued for seventy years. It is more likely to be a natural occurrence of Climate change somewhat similar to the last ice age of less than 400 generations ago. It covered Alaska, Canada, the Great Lakes and half way down the United States. The evidence is presented in a museum in the Ohio Valley which I once visited.
Support of the Brisbane City Flood heights with the Computer Hydrology model supplied by the Qld Government.
This aspect is fully discussed in Qld Gov Reports and reads as follows:-
Natural climate change observed in the computer model
The HYNF graph is useful in observing the natural climate change over the period 1880 to 2006. When considered with the Bureau of Meteorology flood graph for the period 1840 to 1890, a clearer perspective of natural climate change emerges.
The period from 1840 to 1900 would have seen the dams full for almost, if not all, of the time. It was a "Wet" period. The period 1900 to 1950 showed major gaps and was a "Dry" period. 1950 to date shows a "medium" period.
Climate change created by an exploding World population and its need for energy as its circumstances improve.
This aspect is emerging from theory into hard observable statistics. The near future will be the conclusive proof of the degree of recognition required.
Attached is a recent article (23/04/08) in the Australian Newspaper by Mr Phil Chapman, a Geophysicist and Astronautical Engineer. He is Australia's only astronaut.
He points out that the World temperatures in the last decade have held or declined. This seems to be confirmed by the proponents of global warming.
Further, the four recognized global agencies in his attached article, including NASA, record an alarming drop of 0.7C in 2007. He proceeds to speculate on the consequences of a global cooling of that magnitude with no apparent intervention.
We now have one firm part of the two part equation, a reliable fix on global temperatures. I am not aware of the carbon dioxide global measurement at this point.
I have lived long enough to observe that we do not live long enough to match the moods of Nature. Below are three newspaper articles that bear out this statement.
They relate to the bushfires in Victoria which are know throughout the World by recent 2009 events. Approximately 1,900 homes were destroyed and approximately 185 people were killed.
1851 Black Thursday : bushfires rage across
The fires, which had been burning on many fronts earlier, rose up on this day of 117 degree heat ( 47.2C) to devour everything in their path.
The confirmed death toll is 71 and scores of people are still missing.
.....with more than 2,000 homes destroyed and several townships wiped out.......
2009 With approximately 185 dead and around 1900 homes destroyed, we are all aware of this recent event. It was World news for some time.
It was the same situation with extreme heat and searing winds.
With only 27 lifetimes since the birth of Christ, most of us believe that it a very long time but in Nature's time scale it is just a few weeks.
The "Pied Piper of Hamlin" appears to be well and truly alive in this day and age in the guise of Climate Change gurus.
Photos : 1851, 1939 and 1983 articles on Victorian bushfires
We have seen from the above that the Rainfall itself has not altered. That the Summer months receive 50 per cent or more of the annual rainfall still holds. That the CSIRO states that there is no influence by Climate Change. There does appear to be a permanent shift in the pattern of Summer months versus non-summer months to the extent of 4 per cent of total rainfall over the last 46 years.
In the realms of conjecture, the people who insist that land clearing affects the rainfall may well be right with the high volume summer months being reduced marginally since 1960. This follows a documented theory of Mr. Tim Smith of the Gold Coast and is the only suggestion on which I can draw at this stage.
The Federation drought, on closer examination by the Climate Change Centre of Excellence, may reveal more about changing weather patterns than will the last 6 years of rainfall.
From the foregoing, we see that there are two types of climate change.
(1) Natural climate change and
(2) Climate change created by an exploding World population and its need for energy as its circumstances improve.
Climate Change created by the latter is emerging from its ephemeral nature and into the realm of hard statistics. The foregoing are hard statistics and provide little relief for those who may claim Climate change of this nature is the cause of our depleted dams.
The fact remains that we must provide for both. You will see that that the creation of an expanded Borumba Dam to 2 million ML provides for both whereas the Traveston, with minimal storage capacity, provides for neither.
Note : Traveston dam project has been cancelled


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