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Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Traveler Update on Coronavirus
9/11 Anniversary Motorcycle Ride on Friday, Aug. 19 Will Cause Major Traffic Delays for Commuters on Eastbound Dulles Toll Road and Motorists Leaving Dulles Airport
Eastbound Dulles Toll Road, Dulles Airport Access Highway, I-66 All Impacted
Motorists traveling eastbound on the Dulles Toll Road and in the area around Washington Dulles International Airport on the afternoon of Friday, August 19 are advised of road closures and major traffic delays due to a September 11, 2001 motorcycle tribute procession traveling through Leesburg, Virginia, beginning at 2:00 p.m., to the Pentagon.
The America's 9/11 Foundation, Inc. is expecting more than 1,800 motorcyclists to participate in a ride from Shanksville, Pennsylvania to the Pentagon then to the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. On Friday, August 19, the group will travel eastbound along the Dulles Greenway, the Dulles Toll Road, the Dulles Airport Access Highway and Interstate 66, causing major traffic delays—especially for commuters on the eastbound Dulles Toll Road and all motorists leaving Dulles Airport.
Police departments from all the jurisdictions affected will escort the motorcycle procession and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police will provide escort from the Dulles Greenway to Interstate-66. Motorists should be advised of the following so they may plan alternate routes:
• From Route 28 to Route 7 in Tysons Corner, the two LEFT eastbound lanes of the Dulles Toll Road will be reserved for the motorcycle procession.
• The two RIGHT eastbound lanes of the Dulles Toll Road will remain open for regular traffic entering and exiting the Toll Road from all points EXCEPT FOR Route 28 and Dulles Airport. [See below for additional information about the Route 28 detour and options for travelers leaving Dulles Airport.]
• Just before Route 7 (Leesburg Pike), the motorcycle procession will leave the eastbound Toll Road and travel on the Dulles Airport Access Highway. From there, it will continue onto Interstate 66 eastbound using the Dulles Connector Road. All regular eastbound traffic, including taxis, commuter buses and Washington Flyer Coach Service, will be excluded from this route.
• The eastbound Dulles Connector Road leading to eastbound Interstate 66 will be CLOSED TO ALL TRAFFIC except the motorcycle procession. This closure will also extend to taxis, commuter buses and Washington Flyer Coach Service.
• All motorists on the eastbound Dulles Toll Road will only have access to ramps leading to Interstate 495 (Beltway) North or South once they pass the Main Toll Plaza. Expect heavy congestion in this area and avoid it if possible.
• Because eastbound I-66 will be closed from the Dulles Connector Road to Rosslyn, motorists from Maryland and Virginia heading to Reagan National should allow extra time to reach the Airport along alternate routes.
Here are the specific impacts for traffic using Dulles Airport:
• Westbound lanes on the Dulles Toll Road and the Dulles Airport Access Highway will remain open for motorists heading towards Dulles Airport. All ramps along the route will be open except for the ramp from northbound Route 28 to Dulles. A detour will be posted directing Route 28 traffic to the next exit (Route 606) then back to the airport.
• The eastbound Dulles Greenway ramp to Dulles Airport will remain open.
• All traffic exiting Dulles Airport will have two options:
- Bear left to follow the eastbound Dulles Airport Access Highway to Route 7 in Tysons Corner. No other exits from the Access Highway, including I-495 and I-66 will be available from this route.
- Bear right to Access the Dulles Greenway westbound, or Route 28 north or south.
• Traffic leaving Dulles Airport for Maryland, Washington, DC or any point along the Toll Road will need to select an alternate route based on the options above.
This is a major regional event that will impact traffic throughout Northern Virginia during the Friday afternoon commute. The Airports Authority recognizes the inconvenience this will cause motorists on the Dulles Toll Road and passengers leaving Dulles Airport during this time. Airports Authority Police are working with other area law enforcement agencies to ensure the safety of the traveling public and attempt to minimize traffic congestion and delays during this event. We will be monitoring the progress of the ride along the Toll Road and posting status updates on our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/dcairports.


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There was a time when Whit Stillman appeared poised to take over for Woody Allen as the chronicler of upper crust East Coast urbanity and its attendant idiocy, before disappearing for a decade. With Allen firmly ensconced in Europe, now would be the perfect time for Stillman to return with a trailer for his new film, "Damsels in Distress."
The film stars Great Gerwig as the leader of a clique at a small liberal arts college who recruits new transfer, Analeigh Tipton. The young women run a suicide prevention center whose primary forms of treatment are doughnuts and tap dancing. Adam Brody co-stars as her well-dressed suitor. Check it...
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Like a lot of folks, we have a breathless, unapologetic crush on Gerwig, whose natural screen presence is so enchanting it made "Arthur" bearable. But her delivery here is so crushingly deadpan, and the script is so dry, it's feels hopelessly arrhythmic.
And we were particularly thrilled about the casting of Brody, who deserves a far better career than the one he's had. Over the course of three films with Stillman, Chris Eigman gave brilliant, sardonic voice to Stillman's rye observations and beleaguered frustrations, and Brody is (was?) the perfect talent to carry on that tradition. Unfortunately, Brody's character is thinly drawn, with not much screen time.
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Alright, here we are, after 3 long, hard days of judging 24 hours a day, neither of us got any sleep, both of us called in sick to work these past 3 days, and between the two of us we consumed a grand total of 260 cups of coffee, but the results are in!
We judged these entries based on a few factors, I'll start by explaining a little bit about how we judged.
- The originality of the idea. The funnier the better, of course. Unique and hilarious ideas were what we were looking for, and unique and hilarious ideas were what we got!
- The execution of the idea: How do you show your job being performed, how do the worker's looks and actions connect to the job?
- The build itself: Is it well built, or sloppily slapped together in 2 minutes?
- The presentation: Do your pictures clearly show what you want us to see, or do we have to look hard and long before we can figure out what goes on in there?
These are basically the criteria we looked at, and upon which (after the necessary arguments because of course we don't agree on everything) we rated your entries, and as such came to the three that scored the highest.
The winners and their prizes
So without further ado, here are the entries that we found showed the best combination of a unique and funny idea with a good MOC that's well presented:
First place: RichardAM's WhiteKnight Pacifist Supply
This entry is very well built, and the idea just completely cracked the both of us up the moment we saw it. There's something about knights in shining armour duking it out with brooms, carrots and fish that just doesn't get old
The combination of great fun and a solid build make this one a winner.
RichardAM wins a MISB 6048 Majisto's Magical Workshop!
Second place: Crises' First Medieval Space Project
The posing and expressions in this scene are just beyond hilarious, and the MOC is particularly well built. Great job! It made us both laugh out loud.
Crises wins a MISB 1736 Wizard's Cart!
Third place: Stuifzand's Weather Controller
Stuifzand brings us another outstandingly built MOC. I have to point out the woodwork on the house for anyone who hasn't taken a closer look at it yet.
The weather controller has that flaky mad scientist look while still keeping it medieval, which just looks downright funny in the best way possible.
Stuifzand wins a MISB 5614 The Good Wizard!
Super special secret unannounced prize!
We have a 4th little unannounced prize, selected by a super special secret judge to tell us which particular entry made him laugh the most. Which one made him fall off his chair? Which one made him run around the house collecting family members and pets alike to come look at it?
Well, that entry is Robin Hood's Honest Ed's Used Horses
Robin Hood wins an Evil Wizard!
Could the above winners please PM me or Bluesecrets, so we can get your prizes shipped out to you?
Additional comment
As I said at the end of the contest, I am very pleasantly surprised by the amount and quality of entries and it makes me happy enough to want to write a little review about every single entry! I'll be devoting a bit of my time every day to post a few reviews about your entries, and I'll be sure to mention every single one of them and how they did in my opinion.
So if you're wondering how your entry did and why, keep an eye out for my entry reviews topic!
Thanks again to everyone who entered for making this contest one of the funniest out there!


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Barack Obama now says he welcomes the United Nations global gun ban. He has always been a gun grabber and his voting record shows it. In the 2008 campaign he said he supported gun rights, lying all the way. He knew then that gun control was a losing issue to be avoided when running for office. Now the truth continues to emerge and he is eager to cede U.S. authority to rogue international groups such as the United Nations.
Don't let anyone know this but Mr. Obama pays women on his White House staff less than men and even less than the normal 77 percent salaries nationally of women vs. men. Don't expect to hear it on network news. Who needs network news anyway?
Massachusetts (where else?) prison inmate Robert Kosilek claims to suffer from Gender Identity Disorder. Massachusetts Judge Mark Wolf agrees and has granted him a sex change operation. Kosilek changed his first name to "Michelle." He is serving life for murdering his wife in 1990 by strangling her. Massachusetts taxpayers will foot the bill for the operation. Maybe we can rehabilitate him/her.
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Recent research by John Thorn (Major League Baseball's official historian, and author of many extraordinary baseball books, including Baseball in the Garden of Eden ) has redefined the enormous significance of this card. Presented is the only example known of an advertising card which has long been recognized as one of the earliest extant baseball cards. It can now also be recognized as the only known example of the only advertising baseball card featuring legendary early pitching star James Creighton!
We have sold this very card previously and ever since have always felt that its enormous significance was not fully appreciated. The fact is, even we did not fully appreciate its great significance. . . until we read John Thorn's article detailing the long-lost true identification of the scene and the players featured on the famous Currier & Ives American National Game of Base Ball lithograph that is featured on this 1866 baseball advertising trade card. Here is a link to the article detailing John Thorn's remarkable research:
In short: Published in 1866, the American National Game of Base Ball was one of Currier & Ives most famous prints. The print features a game-in-progress scene that has long been described as the 1865 Grand Match for the Championship between the Atlantics of Brooklyn and the Mutuals of New York, which was played on August 3, 1865. But the fact is that this identification is totally inaccurate. The Currier & Ives American National Game of Base Ball print actually features an artist's representation of an 1860 championship game between the Brooklyn Atlantics and the Brooklyn Excelsiors (with James Creighton on the mound pitching) that was never played! In 1860, the defending champion Atlantics and the Excelsiors had split their first two contests, but trouble with the crowds dictated that the Excelsiors abandon the field of the deciding championship match. The Atlantics and Excelsiors never played each other at the Elysian Fields, as featured in the famous Currier & Ives print. It is an artwork featuring the Championship game of 1860 that never was!
Discovered by REA in 2005 (previously unknown), this 1866 CDV baseball card features a photographic image of the famous Currier & Ives American National Game of Base Ball lithograph on the front. The reverse features an advertisement for George Gratton's "Baltimore Base Ball Emporium." This establishment was one of the first in the country to specialize in all products relating to baseball, including "bases, batts [sic], spikes, scores, shoes, shirts, caps, books," etc. The Baltimore Base Ball Emporium, located on Baltimore Street east of Calvert, had its grand opening in 1866. Based on the style of the card, the year of the grand opening of the store, and the year of issue of the Currier & Ives print featured on the front (also 1866), it is our opinion that it is a certainty that this advertising card dates precisely from 1866. It is also very likely that the then just-released Currier & Ives print featured on the CDV was available for sale at the Baltimore Base Ball Emporium. Though Currier & Ives' American National Game of Base Ball is one of baseball's most famous early images, it has long been misidentified and only now, with the benefit of John Thorn's extraordinary research, has the true significance of the image been revealed.
The players featured on this print are not generic depictions. As John Thorn details, on the large scale print Creighton can be identified and is the pitcher on the mound. The other Excelsiors players on the field are also actual likenesses. Six members of the Atlantics can be clearly identified at the bottom right. They are Sid Smith, Joe Start, Dickey Pierce, Fred Crane, John Galvin, and Tom Pratt. In the crowd scene, facing the viewer is Pete O'Brien. Because of the small scale of the CDV image, identification of the players on the card is impossible or at the very least far more difficult than when viewing the larger-scale Currier & Ives print, but O'Brien in particular can still be easily identified with a magnifying glass. As an advertising card, this style card is technically referred to as a "trade card." In the mid to late nineteenth century, trade cards were a very popular form of advertising which merchants distributed to customers, and which featured advertising for the establishment or, in some cases, a particular product.
If the Baltimore Base Ball Emporium was, indeed, a seller of the Currier & Ives print in 1866, this card would also then hold the distinction of being the first baseball card issued to promote the sale of a specific manufactured product. Today fewer than ten original examples of the 1866 Currier & Ives American National Game of Base Ball print survive. The last example of this famous print to be sold realized over $80,000. This trade card is the only known example of the only known period card featuring this important and classic Currier & Ives image. By any measure, this is one of baseball-card collecting's earliest issues, and is extremely important as one of the very few known baseball advertising cards dating from the dawn of the game's great popularity as America's National Pastime. The fact that it features James Creighton adds a fascinating and extremely important new dimension to its great significance. This is all the more so now that the year of issue of one of the few cards previously believed to predate 1866, the James Creighton CDV card featuring his individual image, is in question (along with related questions regarding exactly who issued the card). As John Thorn notes, there are only three other depictions of James Creighton known: a team shot of the 1860 Excelsiors, the CDV produced after his death, and a crepe-draped woodcut portrait published on November 4, 1865 in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper .
The card has clipped corners (which are not uncommon when dealing with 1860s CDVs) and is otherwise in Very Good condition. 2.375 inches x 3.75 inches. This item was sold at REA in 2005 and then again in 2008 for $2,088 and $1,880 respectively. It has been consigned to this auction directly from the buyer at the 2008 auction. Reserve $1,000. Estimate (open). SOLD FOR $3,259


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Manufacturers responding to the February Business Outlook Survey reported declines in activity this month. Following reported growth in late 2012, indicators for general activity and new orders have now registered negative readings for the past two months. However, indicators for shipments and employment were slightly positive this month. The survey's broad indicators of future activity edged higher this month.
The survey's broadest measure of manufacturing conditions, the diffusion index of current activity, decreased from a reading -5.8 in January to -12.5 this month (see Chart).* The demand for manufactured goods also showed slight declines this month: The new orders index declined from a reading of -4.3 in January to -7.8 in February. Despite negative readings for general activity and new orders, the shipments index showed improvement: The index remained positive and edged slightly higher to 2.4. The percentage of firms reporting increased shipments (25 percent) was slightly greater than the percentage reporting declines (22 percent).
Labor market conditions showed signs of stabilizing this month. The employment index increased from -5.2 in January to 0.9 this month, its first positive reading in eight months. The percentage of firms reporting employment increases (15 percent) narrowly exceeded the percentage reporting decreases (14 percent).
The price indexes suggest continued moderation in price pressures this month. For the second consecutive month, the prices received index was slightly negative. The percentage of firms reporting lower prices for their own manufactured goods (9 percent) was nearly matched by the percentage reporting higher prices. With regard to purchased inputs, 13 percent of firms reported paying higher prices for inputs, compared with 20 percent last month. The prices paid index fell for the third consecutive month and, at 8.9, is now at its lowest reading in eight months.
The survey's future indicators suggest that firms expect recent declines to be temporary. The future general activity index increased from a reading of 29.2 to 32.1, its third consecutive monthly increase (see Chart). The percentage expecting increases in activity over the next six months (47 percent) exceeded the percentage expecting decreases (15 percent). The indexes for future new orders and shipments showed a mixed pattern this month. The future new orders index increased 6 points, while the future shipments index fell 9 points. The future employment index improved modestly, increasing from 10.7 to 14.9. Twenty-five percent of firms expect to increase employment over the next six months; 10 percent expect to decrease it.
In special questions this month, firms were asked about their expectations for production growth for the first quarter (see Special Questions). Nearly 54 percent of the firms expect increases in production in the first quarter; 25 percent expect decreases. Nearly 47 percent of the firms said first quarter production growth would represent an acceleration in growth (only 9 percent characterized it as "significant acceleration"; 38 percent said the expected growth represented "some acceleration").
The February Business Outlook Survey indicated weakness in the region's manufacturing sector this month. Firms reported decreases in overall activity and slight declines in new orders. A slight rise in shipments was one positive sign, along with an apparent stabilization of labor market conditions. Firms reported a continued trend of moderation in price pressures. Responses suggest that firms expect declines to be short-lived, since first quarter production is expected to rise and orders and shipments are expected to increase over the next six months.
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"A few weeks ago, Slashdot had a post about the new bill in Congress to make streaming infringing videos a felony, punishable by up to 5 years in jail if just 10 people watch the video. As more details come out, the bill keeps looking worse and worse, as it appears that the definitions used in the bill would mean that merely embedding or linking to an infringing YouTube video could put you on the hook for jail time. Obviously, supporters of the bill insist that's not who will be targeted with this bill, but just the fact that they could be should be worrisome enough. We've seen other laws "misused" in the past."
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•Ping pong. Tuesdays, noon-4:15 p.m.; Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m.; Thursdays, 6-9 p.m.; and Fridays, 8:30 a.m.-noon. Free.
•Qigong. Thu., March 8, 10 a.m. Free demo class.
•Reflexology. Second Friday. $53 for 55 minutes. Experience foot massage as a form of stress management. 410-313-7213 to schedule an appointment.
•Scrabble. Tuesdays, 1 p.m.
•Sixty-Plus Wills/Legal Screening. Third Wednesdays, 1 p.m. Services include simple wills, powers of attorney, living wills, small estates and deed changes. 410-313-1400 to schedule an appointment.
•SPRING Wellness Seminar. March 22, 5:30 p.m. Topic: Brain fitness. A presentation on exercising the brain and an overview of the latest research on memory and the aging brain. Presented by Dr. Marcella Wilding from the University of Maryland. For information or to register, Karen Hull, 410-313-7466 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Registration dedadline March 20.
•Vision and Glaucoma Screenings. March 22, 9 a.m. Call center to schedule appointment.
•Water Color Workshop for Fun. March 15, 9:30 a.m. Call center to register. $33.
•Wii Club. Tuesdays, 10 a.m. Improve hand-eye coordination and get exercise while competing against peers. Free.
•Women's History Month Recognition Luncheon. Wed., March 14, noon. Call 410-313-7390 to sign up.
•Work up the Beat. Thursdays, 1:30 p.m. Freestyle dancing, no instructor. Free.
•Yoga. Wednesdays, April 4-June 20, 11 a.m. $64.
•Zumba. Fri., March 9, 10:30 a.m. Free demo class.
East Columbia50+ Center
6600 Cradlerock Way, Columbia. 410-313-7680.
•Computer Seniors of America. Day classes available for basic, advanced and specialized courses. Stop in or call for description and offerings.
•Sew Who Cares. Tuesdays, 11 a.m. Join a group for people who want to improve knitting, crochet and cross-stitch skills.
Elkridge Senior Center
6540 Washington Blvd., Elkridge. 410-313-5192.
•AARP Tax Assistance. March 14 and 21, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. 410-313-5192 or 410-313-4930 for appointments. Free.
•Age Well Exercise. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. Low-impact exercise designed for any fitness level. $32 for 16-week session.
•Ballet Mobile. March 16, 11 a.m.
•Book Club. Second Tuesdays, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
•Cards and games. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
•Charmed by Chocolate. March 19, 11:30 a.m. $4.
•Cookin' with Becky. Fri., Feb. 24, 10:30 a.m. Pesto with pasta. $4.
•Computer Seniors of America. Day classes available for basic, advanced and specialized courses. Stop in or call for description and offerings.
•Golden Corral Bingo Breakfast. Second Fridays, 8:30 a.m. Breakfast for $7.95; free bingo.
•Harrington Slots. March 28, 8:30 a.m. $30. Call center to register.
•Just Bead It. Second Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. Make a craft with beads. $6 per craft.
•Legal Aid Help and Assistance. Second and fourth Fridays, 10 a.m. Free.
•Line Dance. Wednesdays, 2-3 p.m.
•Rummikub. Second Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.
•St. Augustine Bingo Lunch. Third Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free homemade lunch and cash bingo.
Ellicott CitySenior Center
9401 Frederick Road, Ellicott City. 410-313-1400.
•AARP Class (Driver Safety Program). April 16, 10 a.m. Call center to register. $14 for non-AARP members; $12 for current members.
•Blood Pressure Screenings. Tuesdays, 9 a.m.-noon. Free.
•Brain Fitness. March 8, 11 a.m. Learn to keep the mind sharp.
•Genealogy Class. March 14, 10 a.m. Presented by Bill Amos, "Finding Your German Roots."
•JVQ Quartet and Spring Luncheon. March 22, 1 p.m. Join for a catered luncheon to celebrate spring. Call center to reserve a seat. $10.
•New Zumba Gold Beginners Class. Tuesdays and Thursdays, through March 15, 9 a.m. Four weeks for $44.
•Rainbow Theater Lunch and Show. April 12. Depart the center at 9:30 a.m. and return at 5:30 p.m. Travel to Paradise, Pa., to the Rainbow Dinner Theater to see "The Dixie Swim Club." $79.
Gary J. ArthurCommunity Centerat Glenwood
2400 Route 97, Cooksville. 410-313-5440.
•Billiards. Weekdays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
•Cards and Games. Fridays, noon.
•Computer Seniors of America. Call the center for class information.
•Drop-in Painting. Wednesdays, 9 a.m.-noon. Free.
•Duplicate Bridge. Mondays and Wednesdays, 1 p.m. $1.
•Mah Jongg. Wednesdays, 6 p.m.
•Men's basketball. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9 a.m.
•Pinochle. Mondays and Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
•Silver Sneakers Walking Club. Weekdays, 8 a.m.
•Table Tennis. Weekdays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
•Volleyball. Wednesdays, 1 p.m.
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Century Plaza 1000, Suite 400, 10630 Little Patuxent Pkwy., Columbia. 410-730-4976.
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Kiwanis-WallasRecreation Center
10481 Frederick Road, Ellicott City. 410-313-2637.
•Bridge. Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. Ages 55 and older.
•Community Knitting and Crocheting Group. Wednesdays, 1-3 p.m. Knit and crochet afghans, blankets, baby wear and more for local charities, hospitals and senior centers.
•Duplicate Bridge. Wednesdays, noon-3:30 p.m.; and Fridays, 9:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Drop in for a few hours of duplicate bridge. Bring a bag lunch; coffee, tea and treats will be available.
•Mah Jongg. Wednesdays, 1 p.m. Ages 55 and older. Free.
•Pinochle. Wednesdays and Fridays, 9:30 a.m. Ages 55 and older.
North Laurel50+ Center
9411 Whiskey Bottom Road, Laurel. 410-313-0380.
•Agewell Exercise Class. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. Sixteen classes for $35.
•Billiards. Weekdays, 9 a.m.
•Blood Pressure Screening. Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.
•Computer Classes. Call for descriptions of offerings.
•Handbuilding with Clay. Mondays, 1 p.m. Four classes for $42.
•Line Dance Drop In. Tuesday, 11 a.m. $1.
•Mah Jongg. Fridays, 12:30 p.m.
•Open Art Studio. Mondays and Wednesdays, noon.
•Sit, Stitch and Give. Fridays, 11 a.m.
•Sittercize. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 12:30 p.m. Sixteen classes for $36.
•Tap Aerobics. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. Six classes for $33.
•Walking Club. Weekdays, 8 a.m.
•Zumba Gold. Mondays, 10 a.m. Eight classes for $43.
Office on Aging
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia. 410-313-5980.
•Maryland Access Point (MAP) — Part of the Howard County Office on Aging, is an information and assistance gateway for older adults, people with disabilities, family members, caregivers and professionals. Types of information offered include respite and home care, long-term care, in-home evaluation, aging in place/home modifications, retirement/planning for the future, Medicare and health insurance, chronic disease management, housing, transportation, income management and legal services. Appointments are conducted at the Columbia office, at senior centers or in your home, weekdays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Contact MAP at the number above, email@example.com or http://www.howardcountyaging.org.
Social GroupFor Singles 50+
Sundays, 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Complimentary coffee and snack. Oakland Mills Interfaith Center, 5885 Robert Oliver Place, Columbia. 410-997-0739.
Sponsored by Howard County Recreation and Parks, unless otherwise noted. 410-313-7275 or 410-313-7279.
•Philadelphia Flower Show. Mon., March 5, 7 a.m. Enjoy the largest indoor flower show in the world. Ages 18 and older. $81.
•MusicaliTea. March 8, 9:30 a.m. Strathmore Music Center for a morning of music. Ages 55 and older. $45.
•Saint Patrick Celebration. March 16, 10 a.m. Eat at Killarney's in Davidsonville. Ages 55 and older. $63.
Second and fourth Saturdays, 2:15-3:15 p.m. Volunteers needed to sing or play an instrument to perform for the elderly at the Lorien Health Center. All ages welcome. Tim Belton, 410-730-6006, 410-908-7805 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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VANCOUVER — General manager Wally Buono and running back Andrew Harris were two members of the Lions organization with a particular interest in Friday night's game between the Eskimos and Stampeders, and not just because of Calgary's possible involvement with B.C. in the West Division final on Nov. 18.
Stampeder running back Jon Cornish entered the game needing only 50 rushing yards to surpass Normie Kwong's single-season record for a Canadian back, set in 1956 when Kwong rumbled for 1,437 yards as a fullback with the Eskimos.
Now 83, Kwong is retired and living in Calgary, following his five-year tenure as lieutenant-governor of Alberta. Before that, he was a part-owner of the Calgary Flames and president of the Stampeders. In fact, it was Kwong who promoted Buono to his first head coaching assignment in 1990 with the Stamps, and the two have retained close ties ever since.
The Buono family was invited to Government House in Edmonton when Kwong was Alberta's regal emissary, and the Lions GM dutifully, without fail, phones Normie and his wife, Mary, for a social call whenever the team is playing at McMahon Stadium.
"I always felt he kind of adopted our family,'' Buono said.
With so much personal history between himself and Kwong, it's perhaps not surprising that Buono believes an "asterisk" should be placed beside Cornish's name should the record fall. Cornish will have needed 18 games to do it; Kwong achieved his 1,437 yards over just 15 games, when the Western Interprovincial Football Union, as it was then known, had a 16-game schedule. Their cousins in the IRFU (The Big Four: Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa and Montreal) played just 14 games back then.
For 30 years, until a single-record declaration was made in 1991, the myth persisted that an asterisk had been attached to the name of Roger Maris, the New York Yankee slugger who broke Babe Ruth's home run record. Maris needed 162 games to crack the Babe's enduring record of 60, achieved when the season was only 154 games long.
"Just to make it clear, Normie didn't do it in 18 games," Buono said, assuming the logic of former baseball commissioner Ford (pro-asterisk) Frick. "I'm not downplaying what Jon is doing, but there should be an asterisk beside it (the record). Normie did it a long time ago, in an era when it was a lot different than it is today. Remember, teams were built around stopping the run in those days. Everybody ran the football. Today, it's the other extreme. Everybody lines up to stop the pass. Running backs should dominate (in 2012) because defences are more set up to stop the pass. I'm not being derogatory, but I'm saying it was probably harder to get rushing yards in the 1950s because teams knew you were going to run the ball."
Harris became the ninth Canadian running back to surpass 1,000 rushing yards in a season two weeks ago, and he needs just 21 tonight against the Saskatchewan Roughriders at BC Place to reach No. 6 all-time among backs from the True North Strong and Free.
While there is no trophy or award for the individual who leads the CFL in the "yards from scrimmage" category, Harris would like to nail down the unofficial title against the 'Riders. Going into the final week of the regular season with a league-leading 1,767 yards (a combination of rushing and pass receiving yards), he was only seven ahead of the Roughriders' Kory Sheets and 47 yards in front of Cornish.
Not to wish any pestilence on the Stampeder, but Harris wouldn't have been too upset if the yards didn't come easily for him Friday night.
"It's huge (leading the league in yards from scrimmage)," Harris said. "It's a personal accomplishment, and it's definitely important to me. I'll be watching to see how well he (Cornish) does. If he gets the (Kwong's) record, though, I'll be happy for him."


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MADRID, April 4 (Reuters) - Telefonica, Europe's biggest telecoms operator by revenue, has received a 200 million euro ($257 million) financing facility from the Canadian export agency to buy BlackBerry smartphones and services.
Export Development Canada (EDC) said the credit line to Telefonica would be used to provide BlackBerry products and services across Telefonica's international operations.
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With the scouting observation that the most impressive part of Stephen Strasburg's night was his willingness to work quickly, to maintain ownership of the pace and momentum of the game, a little sneak preview of a much more "official" welcome to the big leagues.
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I must say I like the old school sock look. He gets extra points for that (not that he needs them).
I must say I like the old school sock look. He gets extra points for that (not that he needs them).
I can't get in to this guy right now. All the hype just got on my last nerve. Maybe Strasburg will give the Nats some momentum to get themselves out of the basement. It's early in the season and it's the NL East so I don't have a horse in this race yet.
As for the baseball card, I have some cards around here somewhere from 1986, but I don't remember if they are Topps or Fleer. 1986 was my fantasy league year so I bought some up because, well just because. Good shot of Strasburg though I can't share in the enthusiasm for the socks. I see there are no pictures of Mickey Mantle or Dubya in this one. :>)
I can't help but think back to 8 years ago when one Mark Prior mad his much hyped debut with the Chicago Cubs. He was stellar in that performance. A few years later, he was constantly on and off the DL, and now is just a memory. I'm not saying this is what will happen to Strasburg, but I'm not buying into the hype just yet.
I've probably never seen a more impressive rookie debut. In another sport, maybe LeBron James. When I watched Justin Verlander early in his rookie season I was very impressed, the way he was hitting triple digits. And I can't forget Phil Hughes pitching against the Rangers– a no-hitter into the seventh with pin-point control, great breaking ball and live fastball (though not 103). Then he pulled a hamstring. But I'm a big fan of Strasburg already. After the game he said it was like getting married– you want to remember everything, but after it's over you can't remember anything. It got a big laugh. It shows he has a good sense of humor and will know how to handle the pressure. Being coached by Tony Gwynn probably helped too.
I was at the game, in my usual seat, about 18 rows from the field on the first base side between the mound and home. I've seen hundreds of games live, but I've never seen pitching like this. Yeah, the kid can top 100. Yeah, he has good control of his fastball and a decent slider. But the killer pitch is the 83-mph curveball. I know it's an optical illusion, but he generates so much spin that the ball appears to come to just short of the plate and stop in mid-air, then tumble into the catcher's mitt. It's like a special effect seen live — the mind can't quite believe what the eyes have just witnessed. His fastball can be hit, and he will give up home runs. But if he stays healthy and is able to keep throwing that curveball, the sky is the limit. And thus so is the Nats' payroll.
Okay, Keith, MY turn…
I saw Double-S make his pro debut (for Harrisburg) in Altoona back in April. What I saw that day simply CAN NOT compare with what America saw Tuesday night.
Pick ANY cultural event (sports or otherwise) of the last 50 years–the Beatles at Shea, Willis Reed coming out of the tunnel, "Fernando-Mania", Live Aid, even "We Are the World"–and Stephen Strasburg blows ANY and ALL of that out of the water.
FINALLY, Washington has become a sports town.
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that still captures why strasburg has elbow or shoulder injuries in his future. for starters, he's all opened up and not even cocked yet. both his elbows are above shoulder height and winged behind his spine, which is a radical method of scapular loading that guys like jeremy bonderman, john smoltz, mark prior, and anthony reyes used. this guy is a ticki ng time bomb – poor nats.


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Student Ricky Lurie takes a prop on display at the 2013 Student Expo for a joyride on the floor of the Convocation Center
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Student Levi Andrews stands next to his research project, a robotic, dancing bobcat at the 2013 Student Expo
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From staff reports
Ohio University will showcase the original work of its students at the Student Research and Creative Activity Expo on Thursday, April 10. This year's Expo will be bigger than ever, with more than 800 participants from 56 departments and schools.
The annual event, held from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Convocation Center, will feature projects on topics such as new evidence for horned dinosaur evolution from the lost continent of Laramidia, the development of a mobile app for tracking physical rehabilitation patients, a Chinese calligraphy after-school program, a mobile art gallery and performance space and an investigation of why we yawn.
Ohio University hosts the Student Research and Creative Activity Expo annually to demonstrate the results of its student research, scholarship and creative activity inside and outside of the classroom.
Undergraduate, graduate student and medical student participants can choose to have their work reviewed by a panel of judges who award up to $200 in prize money to the top projects in various categories organized by discipline or related subjects. Presentations include live performances, interactive demonstrations, exhibits and posters.
Area middle school and high school students will visit the event to learn about conducting research and creative activity, as well as specific research and education opportunities for Ohio University students.
The event, which is open to the university community and general public, will offer free pizza to attendees until 1 p.m.
In addition, the Expo will host two student contests on social media this year. Middle school and high school students can win prizes for posting photos to the Expo's Facebook page, www.facebook.com/OUStudentExpo. Ohio University students can enter the chance to win a 5 lb. Hershey bar by tweeting a photo of themselves with a presenter to @OUStudentExpo with the hashtag #studentexpo.
The WOUB Center for Public Media will host a live broadcast of the event from noon to 1 p.m. on WOUB II, available to Athens-area Time Warner cable subscribers, and on CatVision. The program also can be viewed live online at woub.org.
The Student Research and Creative Activity Expo is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity and the Dean of the Graduate College, Office of the President, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and University Libraries.
For more information about the event and contests, visit http://www.ohio.edu/studentexpo.


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Zanzibar | Crossroads of the Indian Ocean
Zanzibar: Crossroads of the Indian Ocean
There's something so exotic about the name Zanzibar that the uninitiated might conclude it is not a real place at all, but simply a name from a fairytale of the east, or the thousand and one nights. But Zanzibar is indeed a real place - Or rather places. For Zanzibar is actually the name given to a cluster of islands that nestle in the waters of the Indian Ocean just off the coast of mainland Tanzania, East Africa. The two principal islands in the group are Unguja, also known as Zanzibar Island (just to confuse you further) and Pemba. Smaller islands are scattered around these, which range from mere sandbanks to those with their own ethnic grouping and a fierce sense of identity.
Most accounts of Zanzibar in travel literature and fiction begin with a description of the port of Stone Town, the island's capital, from the sea. It's certainly an unforgettable sight, and one likely to make even the most hard-nosed, jaded traveller ooh and ah with excitement. Minarets and graceful, curved towers rise above the turquoise waters, the smell of cloves wafts on the breeze, and Arab dhows with sails the shape of the crescent moon bob gently in the harbour.
For a look at one of the many other faces of these multi-talented islands, grab a scheduled charter flight across from the mainland. Your little twin-engined plane will swoop low over the white flecks of waves, flash past white beaches and spice plantations before bumping onto a tiny runway fringed with palm trees, in front of a low, white building with children waving frantically from its roof. You'll feel like a character in a Graham Greene novel.
However you arrive, you'll fetch up in one of two places eventually - the narrow, winding streets of Stone Town's old quarter or the glittering beaches of the coast. Everything will seem a little strange, a little disturbing and very, very exotic. But the Swahili people of Zanzibar have been welcoming strangers to their country since the first Phoenician ships blew into the harbour on the north-west monsoon of 600BC, or thereabouts. They've seen Greeks, Arabs, Persians, Portuguese, Indians, Chinese, Americans and British ships anchor offshore in the centuries since, so not much can faze them. Ancient visitors to the island came to trade - gold, silks, ivory, spices, animal skins and, most notoriously, slaves.
But many stayed, intermarrying with the locals to form a culture that's uniquely diverse, and producing a race of people who regard hospitality to strangers as a sacred duty. The word you'll hear first, and most frequently throughout your stay, is karibu ('welcome' in Swahili). And astonishingly, considering a colourful history of conquest, slavery and revolution, they mean it. So even if a whiff of drains mixes occasionally with the aroma of spices, or exhaust fumes sometimes taint the sea breeze (this is, after all, a third world country), you'll leave with the Zanzibar of your imaginings still intact in your mind.
Why go?
It's a travel agent's cliché, but Zanzibar really does have something for everyone. If your idea of heaven is to lie on the most perfect of perfect beaches, undisturbed by anything more than the occasional hermit crab, you'll find tiny, abandoned coves where you can forget the rest of the world exists, and stir only to flop into the bath-warm sea. But if lying immobile on the beach fills you with horror and your burning desire is for colourful local traditions, crumbling picturesque ruins and dim, fascinating markets, Zanzibar has all this in spades, too.
And if, like most of us, you'd prefer a bit of both, the small size of the islands and proliferation of places to stay in all price ranges makes Zanzibar the ideal destination for touring. For water sports enthusiasts, the coral reefs and open sea between Zanzibar and Pemba are justly famous for the quality of their snorkelling, diving and big game fishing.
When to Go
Zanzibar is a year-round destination. The coolest months are June through October, when the temperature averages 26 degrees Celsius. This can soar to over 30 degrees in the hot season from December to May. During November (the 'short rains') and between April and June (the 'long rains') rainfall is higher, but mostly rain in Zanzibar takes the form of a short, sharp shower in the morning or afternoon, followed by the return of the sunshine.
High season is June, July and August, and mid-November to early January. During these periods many of the more upmarket hotels may increase their prices, but smaller establishments and backpacker places keep their prices constant throughout the year.
Zanzibar Events Calendar
Eid el Fitr
Eid-el-Fitr is the festival at the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting. Also known as Iddi or Sikukuu (days of celebration, festival or holiday), this festival is a time of gift giving and of giving alms. The fasting of Ramadan is meant to remind people what life is like for their less fortunate brethren and the alms giving at Eid (known as Zakat-el-Fitr) is a continuation along the same idea. Both fasting and the giving of alms are two of the five pillars of the Islamic faith. Because the Islamic calendar is different from that of Christians, the dates for Ramadan and Eid change every year by about 11 days.
Ramadan is a holy month in which drinking, smoking, and eating is prohibited. Dress codes should be strictly adhered to. Some restaurants are closed during this month and outside town it can be difficult to get any food at all during daytime hours during Ramadan. Many discos are also closed during Ramadan. Eid is a nice time to see all the little girls in their new dresses and the boys in their new sneakers/trainers.
The girls wear kohl around the eyes regardless of age, and the boys run around firing cap guns. There is a general feeling of celebration as people go from house to house visiting friends and relatives, and attend Taarab concerts and discos at night. Ramadan lasts for one full cycle of the moon and is followed directly by Eid, which lasts for four days. The festivities can be seen at the Mnazi Moja grounds across from the National Museum or at the Kariakoo fair grounds out by the Main Post Office.
Mwaka Kogwa
A four-day-long celebration, Mwaka Kogwa is best observed at Makunduchi, a village in the south part of Zanzibar. The origins of this holiday are Zoroastrian (a Persian religion older than Islam). It is a celebration of the New Year and some of the events include huge bonfires and mock fights. These fights are between men who defend themselves with banana stems (in place of the sticks that were formerly used), and this fighting, in which everyone gets a chance, is said to let everyone air their grievances and so clear the air as the new year rolls in.
As the men fight, the women stroll through the fields singing songs about life and love. They are dressed in their best clothes and are taunted by the men after the fight is over. The festivities vary from village to village but Makunduchi is where the biggest events take place. All are welcome for the festival because it is a local belief that anyone without a guest for this holiday is unhappy. The Mwaka Kogwa festival takes place at the end of July.
Zanzibar International Film Festival
ZIFF presents the annual Festival of the Dhow Countries during the first two week of July. The festival celebrates the arts and cultures of the African Continent, the Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan and the islands of the Indian Ocean, collectively known as the Dhow countries. The centrepiece of the festival is a film programme consisting of both competition and non-competition screenings. Fiction and documentary film and video productions compete for Golden and Silver Dhow Awards. While competition films are limited to productions with Dhow country connections, the festival programme includes films/videos from all over the world addressing themes which reflect concerns within the Dhow countries.
The main festival venues are Ngome Kongwe (The Old Fort) and Beit el-Ajaib (House of Wonders) in historic Stone Town, Zanzibar. Activities and events include music, theatre and dance performances, workshops and exhibitions. A large Music programme also runs for the festival featuring artists from Tanzania alongside international acts. Many of these events are staged in Forodhani Gardens and free to the public. There are also workshops and seminars for women and children, and Village Panoramas which reach about forty villages across the Zanzibar islands of Unguja and Pemba.
ZIFF is undoubtedly the most prestigious and exciting cultural event of its kind in East Africa. For further information, contact www.ziff.or.tz
International Triathlon & Marathon
Sport tourism is off with a bang in Zanzibar with the Annual International Triathlon and Marathon events scheduled to take place in early November. Over the past years, both events have been successful in drawing participants from East Africa, Asia and Europe. Both the Triathlon and the Marathon are Olympic distances and take place in some of Zanzibar's finest locations.
Getting there and around
Visas and compulsory documentsVisitors from the USA and Europe require visas to enter Tanzania. Please check for the latest Visa regulations. Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous state within Tanzania, so although you don't need a separate visa to visit the islands, you will need to show your passport. Also compulsory is a certificate to show you've been vaccinated against yellow fever.
By boatFrequent ferries - four or five a day in both directions - make the crossing between the port of Dar-es-Salaam on the mainland and Zanzibar. The fastest journey time is around 75 minutes on the hydrofoils operated by Sea Express; the slowest is the overnight trip made by the Flying Horse passenger ship. Ferry tickets can be bought on the spot or in advance from the row of booking offices next to the port in Dar-es-Salaam. Non-residents must pay in US dollars rather than Tanzanian Shillings. Timetables and prices are displayed on boards outside each office. The MS Sepideh ferry runs once a week from Mombasa, Kenya and Tanga, Tanzania to Unguja and Pemba.
By planeOur Destination Specialists will arrange all flights and transfers to ensure ease of booking.
Other Transport
For those on a tight budget, or for shorter distances, dala-dalas (trucks converted into passenger vehicles) and local buses run all over the island, with fares starting from just a few shillings. They congregate in the Creek Road area of Stone Town - just turn up there and enquire as to the right route for your chosen destination. Bear in mind, however, that this form of transport will be significantly slower and less comfortable than a minibus, and that accidents involving buses and dala-dalas are frequent.
Zanzibar, and especially Unguja, is an ideal place to explore by mountain bike due to its flat terrain. Reasonable quality mountain bikes can be hired from several of the tour companies in Stone Town.
Zanzibar's History
When most of the Western world was still sunk in the darkness of the Middle Ages, Zanzibar was already a meeting place for traders from the great Oriental cultures - China, Persia and Arabia. It nestled in the middle of its own mercantile civilisation, stretching from Somalia in the north down the coast of East Africa to Mozambique in the south. This kingdom and its inhabitants were known as the Swahili - the people of the coast. They traded gold, ivory and cloth with visitors from across the Indian Ocean, built handsome stone houses and had well developed systems of government. Envoys, merchants and even pirates from as far away as Japan and Russia came to Zanzibar and its environs in sailing ships, blown across the seas by the north east monsoon and returning, their holds laden with trade goods, on the south west wind.
The first Europeans to 'discover' Zanzibar were the Portuguese, who arrived in the late fifteenth century. In keeping with their conduct in the rest of their empire, they had little interest in the place beyond keeping it out of the hands of their enemies. They built a fort or two, introduced the sport of bullfighting to Pemba, and a few choice words into the Swahili language. In fact, the Portuguese words still in use in Kiswahili give a fairly good impression of how the Portuguese spent their time here: Meza - table. Mvinyo - wine. Pesa - money.
Chief among the trade visitors to Zanzibar were the Omani Arabs, who had developed one of the most powerful navies in the Indian Ocean, the centre of a thriving sea-going commercial empire. The Sultans of Oman accrued immense wealth by mounting slave trading expeditions into the African interior, shipping their captives back to the Persian Gulf and selling them as household servants or plantation labourers. It was Zanzibar which became the hub of this commercial empire, a handy storehouse for slaves fresh from the interior, who could be confined on the island until the ships which were to transport them north were made ready.
In 1828 the flagship of Sultan Seyyid Said, one of Oman's most powerful and influential rulers, landed at Zanzibar. The Sultan had previously been too busy defending Oman against its many would-be conquerors to visit the island in person, but he was enchanted by what he saw. In contrast to the dry, rocky desert of Oman, Zanzibar was green, lush and filled with sources of fresh water. More importantly, it had strategic advantages - safe, defensible and closer to the African mainland, the source of his wealth. In 1840 Said moved his entire household to Zanzibar and declared it the new capital of his empire.
Said and his many relatives and associates built numerous palaces, bath houses and country manors on Zanzibar, and introduced the commercial farming of cloves, sugar and other crops. Said's empire went from strength to strength, fuelled all the time by the flow of miserable humanity that marched in chains from the regions of the great lakes and beyond, to be sold for ever higher prices in the great slave market in the middle of Stone Town.
But it couldn't last. By 1890, the British had put an end to the once-great empire of the Omani sultanate. By a combination of bribery, diplomacy and the odd judicious naval bombardment, Britain abolished the slave trade in East Africa and ultimately declared Zanzibar a protectorate. The then Sultan, Ali, became a British vassal, and between them Britain and Germany carved up the Sultan's domains, which had once stretched as far inland as Lake Malawi. Although the sultans remained nominally on the throne, their power was ended and their wealth used up.
The era of the British on Zanzibar, which saw the slave market destroyed and an Anglican cathedral built in its place, lasted until 1963, when power was formally handed back to the Omani sultans. But the reign of the new sultan was short-lived - he was ousted in 1964 by a violent revolution, and today lives quietly in a bungalow on the south coast of England.
After the revolution the new Zanzibari government joined with the post-independence government of mainland Tanganyika to form a single state, renamed Tanzania. Zanzibar was run along socialist, single-party lines by the new revolutionary government, and received political support and financial aid from countries such as Bulgaria, East Germany and China. However in the 1980s the first presidential elections took place, and Zanzibar's economy slowly became less state-controlled, with some private sector enterprise being allowed. The first half of the 1990s saw the rise of a multi-party system of government and the development of Zanzibar's newest industry - tourism.
Zanzibar's most famous son - Freddy Mercury
Freddy Mercury, real name Farouk Bulsara, was born in Stone Town, Zanzibar, on September 5th, 1946. Freddie's parents belonged to the Parsee faith, the ancient Zoroastrian religion originating from Persia. Many parsees emigrated to India during and after the Arab conquest of Iran, resulting in a sizeable Parsee population in India, some of which travelled to Zanzibar to work for the British government. Freddy lived in Zanzibar until the age of seven (spending some of his early years in the building that is now the Gallery Zanzibar shop on Kenyatta road). At seven he was sent to boarding school in India, returning to Zanzibar occasionally until his parents emigrated to the UK before the revolution of 1964. Freddy went to art school in England and eventual rock stardom with his band Queen, becoming the world's best known Asian pop singer before his untimely death from an AIDS-related illness in 1991.
Stone Town
No one single attraction can beat an afternoon strolling through the narrow streets and winding alleys of ancient Stone Town, the capital of Zanzibar. You'll get lost - everybody does - but don't worry, you'll emerge from the cool, shady lanes into the blinding sunlight of the seafront eventually. Until then, you'll find something of interest around every corner - an Arab archway leading into a white-walled square, with the sound of prayer coming from behind the walls of a mosque. Or perhaps you'll stumble upon the Darajani market, with symmetrical piles of oranges, baskets of spices and enormous chunks of fresh fish arranged under palm-thatch shelters.
Ladies will glide past, shrouded in black Islamic headdresses. Old, long-bearded men in white skull caps will look up from their games of Bao or dominoes to greet you gravely as you pass, and small children will take your hand and invite you to join their games in the overgrown remains of Indian townhouses. Remember to keep looking up - below a blue strip of sky, ornate shutters are thrown open and neighbours lean across the narrow gap between their homes to swap gossip and jokes, hang out washing, or just watch the world go by three storeys below.
Look out for Arabic coffee sellers, strolling along the streets with their charcoal braziers and bronze pots hanging from a yoke across their shoulders. Or porters manoeuvring wheelbarrows almost as wide as the alleyways they're passing through, shouting 'hodi, hodi' ('let me pass'). As evening falls, the seafront comes alive with stalls selling fried fish and chicken on skewers, hurricane lamps illuminating piles of squid and octopus and mounds of chips. Sugar cane is pressed through an antique mangle and funnelled into glasses - cool, sweet and instantly refreshing. Small boys strip naked and leap off the sea wall into the oily sea, turning pink as the last rays of the sun fade and the muezzin begins his wailing call to evening prayer.
As well as the magic of the streets, Stone Town does have certain historical buildings that are worth a look. The Palace museum and the Old Fort on the seafront both house collections of furniture and clothing from the days of the Sultans, and the Palace museum has a room dedicated to Princess Salme, daughter of Sultan Said, who eloped with a German businessman in the 19th century. The Anglican cathedral, built on the site of the old slave market, has a crucifix made from the tree under which the explorer David Livingstone's heart was buried. Nearby are the underground chambers in which slaves were kept, forced to crouch on stone shelves less than two feet high.
Spice Tours
A spice tour is probably the best way of seeing the countryside around Stone Town and meeting rural communities. Guides will take you on a walking tour of the spice farms at Kizimbani or Kindichi, picking bunches of leaves, fruit and twigs from bushes and inviting you to smell or taste them to guess what they are.
Pretty much all the ingredients of the average kitchen spice rack are represented - cinnamon, turmeric, ginger, garlic, chillies, black pepper, nutmeg and vanilla - the list goes on and on. Local children follow you all the way round, making baskets of palm leaves and filling them with flowers to give to you. At lunchtime, you'll stop in a local house for a meal of spiced pilau rice and curry, followed by sweet Arabic coffee and lemongrass cake. Many spice tours include a visit to the Persian baths built by Sultan Said for his harem, and stop at Fuji beach just outside Stone Town for a swim on the way back. The average price for a group spice tour is $15, including lunch.
Jozani Forest
Jozani Forest outside Stone Town on the main road towards the east coast, is a conservation project aimed at preserving some of the last indigenous forest on the island. The forest is home to a unique species of monkey, Kirk's Red Colobus, as well as the rare forest antelope, Ader's Duiker and many species of birds. A guided walk through the mangrove trees that form part of the forest takes about an hour.
Jozani do's and don'ts
- Do not touch the monkeys or approach them too closely. They are wild animals and susceptible to human diseases such as colds or flu.
- Do not feed the monkeys.
- Only walk in the forest when accompanied by an official guide.
- Drive slowly on the road through Jozani - monkey occasionally cross the road.
Offshore Islands
Zanzibar has many offshore islands, many of which provide a stunning location for a day trip or a longer stay. Boats to any of the islands off Zanzibar or Pemba can be hired easily from local fishermen - in Stone Town, ask at the 'big tree' opposite Mercury's restaurant on the seafront, or arrange a day trip with one of the tour companies listed in this guide.
Prison Island
Prison Island is one of the nearest islands to Stone Town - just fifteen minutes or so by boat. It is also known as Changuu, and its original use was as a prison for renegade slaves punished by their master, an Arab landowner. Later it was taken over as a quarantine station by the British army, and another prison was built but never used. The large house on the island was built by British general Lloyd Mathews, commander of the army of Sultan Bargash.
Today prison island is a pleasant, if somewhat unexciting, destination for a day trip, with a nature trail that runs around its circumference, a small beach and giant land tortoises, some of which are reputedly over a hundred years old, in a pen. The island has some excellent coral formations just offshore, providing a good opportunity for snorkelling, and the restaurant in Lloyd Mathews' old house sells snacks and drinks. There is an entrance fee payable only in US dollars.
Chapwani Island
A slightly more upmarket choice than Prison Island, Chapwani, or Grave island is the site of a luxury hotel, but day visitors who come to eat and drink in the bar and restaurant are permitted. Chapwani is the site of a British naval cemetery, final resting place of sailors who perished while serving in Zanzibar. The victims of the World War One attack on the HMS Pegasus by the German warship Konigsberg are also buried here. It's interesting to wander around the graveyard and decipher the ages and causes of death of the servicemen - many died from tropical disease, or were killed in skirmishes with local slavers.
Chapwani also has a beautiful white, sandy beach and a small population of duikers (a type of miniature antelope), as well as some interesting birdlife.
Bawe Island
Bawe island is further away from Stone Town than Changuu or Chapwani, a good forty five minutes by motorboat, and consequently less visited. The beach is excellent at low tide, with unusual stone formations, and there is some good snorkelling to be had on the island's reef.
Chumbe Island
6 kilometres south of Stone Town, surrounded by pristine coral reef, Chumbe Island Coral Park is one of the world's newest and most successful eco-tourism projects. In 1994 the reef surrounding Chumbe island was created Tanzania's first Marine National Park. The island itself, covered with lush mangrove forest, is a designated forest reserve. Chumbe Island Coral Park won the British Airways Tourism for Tomorrow Award in 1999, in recognition of seven years' conservation work carried out in co-operation with local fishermen, now retrained as marine wardens. Chumbe island contains a lighthouse, built by the British in 1904 and still operational, a ruined Mosque and the lighthouse keeper's house, now converted into a spectacularly-built education centre and restaurant.
Visitors can come for the day to snorkel over the incredible coral reef, which contains over 90% of all coral species ever recorded in East Africa. The reef, declared the 'world's best shallow water coral reef' by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, is home to over 370 species of fish, turtles and dolphins. Guided walks are also available through the island's coral rag forest, interspersed with intertidal pools and huge baobab trees, which supports a unique flora and wildlife population including the rare - and enormous - coconut crab.
But to experience Chumbe Island properly, stay the night in one of the seven 'eco-bandas' that nestle in the forest. Each is a two-storey, private cottage constructed out of local materials and decorated with shells, driftwood and colourful local fabrics. Water and energy on Chumbe are self-sustaining and provided by nature - the roofs of the bandas and the education centre have been designed to catch and filter rainwater, which is then heated by solar power. Beds are high in the palm-thatch roof, with a personal air-conditioning system that involves raising and lowering the front wall of the bedroom like a portcullis!
All profits from tourism on Chumbe Island are re-invested into the conservation and education programs operating in the Park, and the island is staffed and managed by local Zanzibaris from the fishing community, with voluntary support from overseas experts.
Alternatively, leave the better-known island of Unguja behind and set sail for Pemba - smaller than its neighbour, lusher and hillier. Scarcely any tourists come here, and the beaches are unspoiled and otherworldly. At night the wind that whispers through the clove plantations which cover most of Pemba might bring the sound of distant drumming. But don't be tempted set off toward the noise - in the 1930s Pemba was famous the world over for the power of its sorcerers and magicians, with devotees of the black arts coming from as far away as Haiti to be initiated into the rites of Pemban witchdoctors. By all accounts Pemba is still a centre of witchcraft today, but visitors will be unlikely to see any hint of the occult. Instead you can float across spectacular coral reefs, laze on those untouched beaches and explore the winding hills and dense vegetation of the interior.
The tiny number of visitors to Pemba every year means that the island has little in the way of tourist infrastructure - which for alternative travellers is the main attraction. Small guesthouses are dotted around the island, and a couple of upmarket diving hotels have recently opened.
Visitors may be surprised to find that bullfighting is a popular local sport, supposedly imported by Portuguese invaders in the 17th century. The Pemban version, however, simply involves testing the skill of the bull in a series of bold moves by the matador, after which the bull is loaded with flowers and praise, and paraded around the village.
Misali Island, to the west of Pemba, is reputed to have been used as a hideout by the notorious pirate Captain Kidd, who is even said to have buried treasure here. Today a conservation program has been established, and visitors can come for the day, snorkel off the beach and walk in the forest. Locals believe the island is holy, having been used by the prophet Hidara as a prayer mat. Visitors to the island are asked to respect local customs and beliefs.
Eating Out
The seafront fish market at Forodhani Gardens, in the middle of Stone Town, is THE place to come for fresh, inexpensive seafood. Skewers of kingfish, prawns and tuna are grilled on makeshift barbecues and served up with piles of salad, chips or naan bread. The market opens as soon as the first catch of the day is in, just after dark. If you're a veggie, try Zanzibar Pizza - more like an omelette - and wash it all down with freshly pressed sugar cane juice. A steaming plate of fish or lobster will only cost around $3.
Outside Stone Town, no particularly well-known restaurants exist, but the food all across both islands is consistently good and extremely well-priced, with the staples being pilau rice, fish and seafood. Sauces are usually spicy curries, with coconut milk added for flavour. Fruit abounds on Zanzibar, and banana, pineapple, coconut, jackfruit, mango or papaya follow any meal. Tea and coffee are often flavoured with lemongrass or cinnamon.
Zanzibar, and especially Stone Town, is a shopper's paradise. The narrow winding streets are lined with stores selling local crafts, antiques, jewellery, clothes and spices.
The Zanzibar Gallery, on Kenyatta Road, Shangani, sells a huge range of printed fabrics and clothes plus silver jewellery and locally made massage oils and perfumes, as well as a range of handmade bubble baths in glass bottles. The Gallery is also a publishing company, and sells a range of books on local history, plus coffee table and photographic books, guidebooks, novels, address books, calendars and postcards featuring photographs by the shop's owner, well-known photographer Javed Jafferji. The Gallery Zanzibar also sells batiks, paintings and antiques from all over Africa alongside printed t-shirts and other clothes.
The Orphanage Shop, near the Old Fort, sells crafts and paintings by local artists and the orphans themselves, plus bolts of brightly coloured fabric, which the in-house tailor can make up to your own design.
Two of the best souvenirs to bring home from Zanzibar are: Kangas and Kikois - the brightly patterned fabrics worn by local women and men respectively are used by locals as a matching skirt and head covering, or in the case of men a casual alternative to trousers. For tourists, they make an excellent souvenir and can be used as a bath towel, beach wrap or sarong. For ideas on how to wear your kanga, along with a few cheeky cartoons, look for the Krazy Kanga Book by Pascal Bogaert, on sale in the Zanzibar Gallery.
Bao games - Bao is played on street corners and in village squares across the whole of East Africa, with regional variations. It consists of a carved wooden board, with rows of largish holes, into which seeds are dropped, functioning as both counters and dice. It's surprisingly easy to pick up and very addictive. Bao boards come in all shapes and sizes, from small folding ones ideal for rucksacks, to huge, ornate antique boards which double as tables. Be sure to buy some spare seeds at the same time as they have a habit of getting lost.
Zanzibar Chests - Arab-style wooden chests inlaid with brightly polished brass are hand-carved in many workshops in Zanzibar and come in all sizes, from tiny jewellery boxes to enormous trunks.
Beware of buying large polished shells, lumps of coral or tortoiseshell products in Stone Town or on the beach. Their collection and sale is illegal, and many of the species they derive from are already endangered.
Copyright © Gemma Pitcher 2004
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