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Aside from all the snow necessities, recreational snow equipment has been selling well this week, too. After so little snow last winter, there are a lot of snowmobilers and skiers anxious to enjoy a little of the white stuff.
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Chapter Four:
The Eve of Acquisition (continued)
Moonshining and Blue Blazes
By the early twentieth century, Americans were increasingly aware of the unique culture and society that existed in the Appalachian chain of mountains. In 1921, John Campbell published his classic The Southern Highlander and his Homeland, detailing the distinct folk culture of the isolated mountain areas. Campbell did include the western reaches of Maryland (although not the Catoctin area) in his study. Yet few others since have included Maryland in any definition of Appalachia as a region. More recently, some scholars, concluding that the area was simply "too culturally diverse to be regarded as a unit," even have questioned the usefulness of viewing Appalachia as distinctive region. [43]
Attempting to salvage some understanding of Appalachia as a region, Ronald Eller, suggested that Appalachia might be approached as a "cluster of scattered, self-sufficient island communities" with commercial settlements often at their gaps. The upper Catoctins do appear to share some of the characteristics highlighted in Eller's definition. But from the earliest settlements, mountain residents of the Catoctin region had contact with the outside world through trading and the turnpike that passed through the mountain area. While certainly not a dynamic force, mountain farmers, to some extent, were integrated into the local economy and society. Town residents considered mountain dwellers to be somewhat distinct and odd, but a Mechanicstown resident also might hold someone from Catoctin Furnace or any outlying farm area as different. [44]
The issue of moonshining--particularly the tragic affair surrounding the Blue Blazes raid--reveals both the secluded and distinct aspects to Catoctin mountain life and yet how the area also remained very much tied to ongoings in western Maryland and the rest of the state. As evident in the Wolf Tavern Ledger, distilling alcohol long had been a part of mountain life. Efforts on the part of the state and federal government to tax whiskey, dating back to Alexander Hamilton's levy against whisky in the late eighteenth century, encouraged illegal distilling. During the Civil War, the federal government licensed distilleries and taxed liquor at increasingly higher rates. Stills safely located in the mountains, beyond the reach of tax collectors, proliferated. Opposition to drinking also spread. In 1866, prohibition advocates circulated a petition to prohibit the sale of alcohol in Mechanicstown district. [45] The Women's Christian Temperance Union also thrived in the region during the late nineteenth century.
With high liquor taxes and an active temperance movement, illegal alcohol production, no doubt, was a facet of mountain life well before Prohibition. However, the beginning of national prohibition in 1919 brought new incentives and profits to the old business of moonshining. Overnight the price of "backwoods grog" soared from $2 a gallon to $22. [46] Without question, moonshining was profitable, and distilling alcohol became big business in the Catoctin mountains. The mountain provided a secluded protected area with ready sources of water. Meanwhile, using nearby roads, moonshiners could ship their product to Baltimore or Washington within two hours. [47] Very quickly, local moonshine gained a national reputation. Thurmont native Howard Damuth, while working as a salesman, traveled to New York City where he was stunned to learn that the high quality of Catoctin moonshine was common knowledge in the Big Apple. [48]
The authorities, of course, took a dim view of moonshining. The Frederick County sheriff's department mounted a series of raids on stills nestled in the mountains between Thurmont and Foxville. Police launched several raids on a site known as Blue Blazes, set on the small bubbling Harman's Creek, five miles west of Thurmont (see Map 4). [49] In the summer of 1929, the sheriff's department began planning yet another assault on the site, setting in motion events that would lead to a tangled tragedy.
According to police testimony, Charles Lewis, a Foxville resident, contacted the sheriff's office with information about a still at Blue Blazes where he was employed. Lewis, already having been convicted of larceny and shooting a man, was no stranger to trouble. He apparently met with Deputy Sheriff Vernon Redmond at a Frederick restaurant. The two established July 31, 1929 as the date on which police would raid the still. [50]
On the given date, at roughly six in the evening, Redmond and four other deputies from the county's sheriff office, including Deputy Sheriff Clyde L. Hauver, drove a caravan of cars up the "unfrequented road" that led to the hamlet of Blue Blazes. [51] Leaving their cars, they proceeded up a narrow path through the thick undergrowth leading to the still. As they moved, they may have tripped a wire or set off a warning to those working the still above the raiding party. Whatever the case, the moonshiners were ready for the raiders. Gun shots suddenly rained down upon the police officers. They fell back and returned fire. Appearing to trip on a root, Deputy Hauver fell to the ground. It was only when the moonshiners retreated that police discovered Hauver had suffered a gun shot wound to the head. His fellow officers rushed him down the mountain to a Frederick City hospital where he died. [52]
Catoctin Furnace resident Charles Anders had spent the summer in charge of Lawrence Richey's fishing camp, at which President Herbert Hoover was a frequent visitor. Upon hearing of the botched raid, he borrowed one of the cars that the president kept at the camp and rushed to Blue Blazes. By the time he arrived in his White House car, dozens of others already had gathered at the site. What they saw was startling. Blue Blazes was no small operation. Twenty large vats filled with 500 gallons of mash alongside coils, cooling boxes, and hoses made up what was the largest and best equipped still ever found in Frederick County. [53] Anders watched as the mayor of Thurmont struck a match and tossed it onto some spilled alcohol. When the puddle immediately lit up, the mayor pronounced it "good alcohol." Suspicious of his out-of-state car, police stopped Anders on his way back from the mountain. Managing to explain with some difficulty why he was driving the president's car, Anders was allowed to pass on. [54]
As the police continued their intense manhunt for the moonshiners, word of the tragedy spread to the family of the deceased officer. Thirty-five-year-old, Clyde Hauver, in fact, was a direct descendent of Peter Hauver, one of the eighteenth-century settlers of the town. He had attended Thurmont High School and played amateur baseball before joining the sheriff's department. He was the father of three young children. His killing shocked the large, closely-knit Hauver family. [55]
Within a few hours police rounded up those responsible for the ambush. Paul Williams of Hagerstown surrendered along one of the roads leading from the still. He was shirtless and had several days growth of bread. Another moonshiner, Lloyd Lewis stumbled into a doctor's office in Smithsburg, seeking treatment for a gun shot wound to the head. The doctor quickly notified authorities. Police found yet another suspect, Lester Clark, drunk and hiding in the woods. [56] In addition to Williams and Clark, police arrested Osby McAffee, William "Monk" Miller, Norris Clark, Charles Lewis, and Floyd Williams, the brother of Paul. [57] McAffee owned a home on the Thurmont-Foxville Road, where the gang apparently stayed and took meals while working the still. Several of the moonshiners were locals. Charles Lewis was the son of prominent fruit grower Hooker Lewis from Thurmont. [58] But the Williams brothers were from Hagerstown and hailed originally from North Carolina. Lester Clark was a Virginian. [59]
Authorities then had the difficult job of unraveling the events leading up to the botched raid. Police initially insisted that they had been double-crossed. Charles Lewis, they claimed, lured them into an ambush. [60] But the day following the ambush, the sheriff's office released Lewis from custody. Frederick County Sheriff William C. Roderick, who strangely had been in Pittsburgh during the raid, returned and insisted that his officers had not been double-crossed. Likewise, not all local authorities seemed concerned with illegal moonshining in the mountains. Thurmont Constable Charles W. Smith, who had participated in several still raids, insisted that the "moonshiners appear to want to be let alone. They won't disturb anyone unless they are interfered with. To the man they are opposed to the prohibition law." [61] Seeking to contain the confusion and suspicion surrounding the case, the Frederick Sheriff's Department arranged to have Special Detective Joseph F. Daugherty, from the Baltimore Police department, act as a special investigator in the case. [62]
Eventually State's Attorney William Strom sorted through the evidence and rearrested Charles Lewis. He then charged Lewis, McAffee, and Clark with the murder. The other moonshiners faced charges of manufacturing liquor for sale. [63] A Grand Jury that convened on September 9, 1929 subsequently indicted Lewis and Clark for murder. An overflow crowd gathered for the trail, held in December in Hagerstown. A surprise witness from Baltimore, W.L. Poole testified that Lewis had threatened "to get [Deputy] Redmond by fair means or foul." Osby McAffee testified that Lewis wanted to use the McAffee house for a meeting at which to set up the police. McAffee insisted that he had refused. [64] A few days after his testimony, McAffee's home burned to the ground. Authorities suspected arson. As the newspaper explained "firing property is a mode of revenge that has been practiced in some mountain sections." Attorneys for Lewis and Clark insisted that, while both men had fired shots, Hauver had been shot from the rear. Therefore, the killing was an accident. [65] Facing the Christmas holiday, the presiding judge held night sessions to speed up the trail. After several days of confusing and conflicting testimony, the case went to the jury, who convicted both men. Three Maryland circuit judges then sentenced Clark to 15 years and Lewis to life. [66]
Both Lewis and Clark denied having fired the shots that killed Deputy Hauver. Given the confusion at the scene and the unresolved issue of who double-crossed whom, many in the local area long have wondered whether justice was served in the Blue Blazes case. Naturally, hearsay and rumors--all unsubstantiated--developed around the story. In 1972, the Youth Conservation Corps, a federal project to employ young people, sent forty youths into the community surrounding Catoctin Mountain Park to gather local folklore. When it came to the Blue Blazes story, some locals claimed that out-of-town "tar heels" had operated the still and that the tip-off to police came from local moonshiners upset about competition. The story has some validity since the Williams brothers were from North Carolina. Others insisted that the raid was the product of a revenge plot relating to a love triangle. According to the romance-gone-wrong story, Deputy Hauver was the innocent victim of a bullet meant for someone else. [67] The fact that Charles Lewis was a locally-known figure, considered to be "a nice guy," and a member of a well-regarded family added to a sense that justice had not quite been served. [68] Ultimately in 1950, Governor Theodore McKeldin commuted Lewis's life sentence. And the now-elderly inmate, suffering from tuberculosis was released from prison. 94Clark had been paroled in 1946. [69]
The exact circumstances surrounding the Blue Blazes raid and the murder of Clyde Hauver most likely will remain a mystery and a testament to the confusing times and effects of a law with little popular support. Beyond the window opened to the Prohibition era, the event also suggests the dual nature of mountain life at the time. On one hand the secluded whiskey still, the secrecy, the role of revenge all are suggestive of stereotypes of Appalachian mountain peoples. Yet several of the persons involved were from the large towns of Thurmont and Hagerstown. And the still itself was a large, sophisticated operation--in a sense, industrial moonshining. Unlike some areas in Appalachia, which were more culturally and economically isolated, even the more secluded areas of the Catoctins had links to the world beyond.
The Mountain on the Eve of Acquisition
Having suggested that Catoctin Mountain life both was both secluded and yet still tied to the world beyond, we might take a closer look at some of the people who made their lives on the mountain in the years before the area became parkland. While the government officials who arrived to purchase land in the 1930s often depicted residents as dirt-poor farmers barely eking a living from the substandard soil on the mountain, in truth the local population was much more diverse. Wealthy local businessmen, vacationers, well-to-do fruit growers, and others owned mountain tracts alongside subsistence farmers. Likewise, while some poorer farmers lived on the mountain, the majority managed to provide, usually with the help of a second line of work, a healthy existence for their often large families.
In the area that is now Catoctin Mountain Park, several farms sat on the west side of the mountain in the Foxville-Deerfield area. Two main roads, still in existence today, ran north from the Thurmont-Foxville Road (Route 77) connecting the small farms. The current Foxville-Deerfield Road, then known simply as Foxville Road was the major artery. A secondary road then known as "the backroad," today Manahan Road, ran parallel. [70] Life on the westside of the mountain continued to revolve around the Foxville store, the former Wolf's Tavern, well into its second century of use by the 1930s. The store offered the community both groceries and necessary farming implements and accessories. [71]
Corn, potatoes, and berries were the primary crops grown in the area. [72] One farmer recalled that one could "grow the best kind of potatoes" on the mountain. [73] Area growers found a ready market for such farm produce at the canning factory located in Thurmont. [74] Farmer Roy Lewis, for instance, owned a 98-acre tract (tract 18), along Foxville Road in the area that is today Round Meadow (see Map 4). Roy and Lillie, his wife, shared a two-room house and managed enough income to afford a farm truck, one of the few in the area. [75] Across from Lewis, on Foxville Road, lived the family of Victor and Berta Brown (tract 154, see Map 4). The Browns raised four daughters in an eight-bedroom log house. As was the case everywhere on the mountain, the Browns had no electricity and hence "lived by oil," lighting their homes with oil lamps. [76] The family grew raspberries, potatoes, green beans, wheat and other produce. Livestock included hogs, chickens, sheep. To make ends meet, Victor Brown sheared sheep for farmers in the general area. The family also harvested crops on neighboring farms. On one particular day, the daughters and Berta made $10 "pulling beans" on a Sabillasville farm. The Brown daughters particularly looked forward to Saturday nights when, on the back of Roy Lewis' truck, they would travel to Thurmont to enjoy ice cream or a movie. [77] Closer to home, mountain-area social events included cooperative butcherings, where neighbors would gather to slaughter hogs and socialize. Butcherings continued in the mountain area until 1993. [78]
Even larger families lived alongside the Browns. Ike and Della Smith (tract 93) raised nine children on their 213-acre tract (see Map 4). The strawberries produced on their large farm enjoyed a particularly good reputation. With nine children, Smith supplemented his income by working as a butcher in the colder months, then returned to farming when the weather turned warmer. Walter Shatzer (tract 109) owned a farm just to the north of Victor Brown and Roy Lewis (see Map 4). He and his family moved onto the farm in 1920. They lived in a frame house built in 1873. [79] Shatzer, like Smith, supplemented his income by hauling goods, including fish, from Baltimore, in his truck. [80] He also bought and sold dogs. [81] For virtually everyone on the mountain, sales of timber--in some cases hauled down the mountain in an old, barely-running truck--provided much needed supplementary income. But such practices carried with them dangers, and, by the 1930s, National Park Service officials warned that "the [Catoctin] forests are rapidly being denuded" and such cutting practices could not continue forever. [82]
Not all farms in the mountainous area offered a solid living. For instance, the 212 acres (tract 94) owned by R.A. Fox, a 73-year-old lifelong bachelor, who appeared "quite feeble" to appraisers, offered him little more than a subsistence living (see Map 4). [83] During the Depression, Catoctin Recreational Demonstration Area project manager, Garland Williams, reported that of the roughly 50 families residing on the mountain, only eight managed a living solely from the land and had "adequately stocked and equipped" farms. Another twenty six supplemented their farm incomes with other jobs, and some sixteen families were on the relief rolls. [84] Yet statistically, family farms generally (to this day) rely on income generated outside the farm to supplement earnings. This would have been particularly the case in the period after World War I, when falling prices for farm goods made life difficult in rural areas.
Not all residents of the area east of the mountain were involved in farming. Addison, Elmer, Hampton, and Jackson Wolf were brothers who owned separate tracts of land that they later sold to the government. Yet none of them ever farmed. Instead they worked a variety of different jobs. Elmer Wolf (tract 105), for instance, owned a saw mill for a time and later worked as a gunsmith. [85]
East of Foxville, the mountain areas of highest elevation remained largely uninhabited, enjoyed largely by tourists and children who might hike up to Chimney or Hog Rock. [86] On the east side of the mountain there were fewer farms and no real roads, other than the Thurmont-Foxville Road and a series of long-forgotten logging trails. A diverse group of land owners held most of the wooded acres on the mountain's east side. Some used their property for recreational purposes. Dr. Morris Birely (tract 84), a respected physician and town leader in Thurmont, owned 42 mountain acres, which he held with an eye "toward possible summer home development." Another owner, Guy Lanzilotti (tract 313), a resident of Washington, D.C., owned a two-acre tract along Hunting Creek apparently as a fishing camp (see Map 4). [87] Joseph Gernand (tract 104) kept sixty acres, as an extension of his Crow's Nest boarding house (see Map 4.5). William and Lillie Willhide also ran a boarding house in a still-standing purple house (480 West Main) on the Thurmont-Foxville Road. They owned mountain land (tract 101), later purchased by the government, for the use of their summer guests. [88]
Some larger-scale agriculture did exist east of Foxville. Thurmont fruit grower Hooker Lewis owned over 260 acres on what has become Camp David. The mountain land was only a small part of Lewis' much larger holdings throughout the area, especially in the area south of Thurmont where he lived near Camp Cozy. Lewis, who employed a large crew to work his orchards, grew peaches, apples, raspberries, potatoes, and tomatoes, often supplying the local canning company in Thurmont (see Map 4). [89] Smaller-scale orchard owners included Emory Moser (tract 118), who made his home in Thurmont, and Daniel Himes (tract 276), of Foxville. [90] Edgar Nicodemus, a well-to-do fruit grower from Zulinger, PA also owned an extremely large (3360 acre) tract near the furnace (tract 16). [91] It is unclear whether Nicodemus intended to establish fruit fields on the site or if he sought to develop vacation land.
By the early 1930s, mountain residents had been harvesting timber in the area for almost two hundred years. As long had been the case, large sawmill operations were responsible for much of the lumber cut on the mountain. Ralph Miller owned a small mountain tract (115a) that supplied lumber for his Thurmont sawmill. But he hardly restricted his cutting to his own property. He had a reputation for logging anywhere--whether he owned the land or not. [92] Indeed, locals viewed much of mountain region, especially on the land formerly belonging to the furnace, south of Hunting Creek, as a "no-man's land," open to anyone who wished to take a few trees. [93] Another Thurmont sawmill owner was J. Howard Creeger, who employed one to two men at his mill and would periodically hire cutters to harvest timber. Creeger owned various mountain tracts (including tract 147) which he used to supply his mill with timber and satisfy his love for hunting. [94] In addition to Creeger and Miller, Catoctin Furnace sawmill operator James Stevens, who made his home in Creagerstown, also had land on the mountain (tract 148). [95]
Alongside these larger operations, farmers, generally from the immediate surrounding area but some as far away as Creagerstown, owned mountain tracts that they generally used as a source of firewood. Some local residents can still remember farmers driving their wagons up old Catoctin Hollow Road--which, since the days of the furnace, was essentially a logging road--into the mountain to retrieve firewood. In the mountain areas, farmers marked their property with piles of stones and notches on trees. [96] Albert Zentz remembered his father's periodic treks to his plot (tract 190) for firewood. Zentz would drive his wagon, led by four horses up the mountain, cut his wood, then chain large logs to the front part of his wagon (the back portion of the wagon having been removed) to drag them back to town. One could transport between two and three big logs on such a "log wagon." [97] Other farmers, including Charles Weller (tract 177) and Ivie Brooks (tract 88) kept similar small mountain plots. For many of these farmers, Catoctin Hollow Road was the main route to and from their mountain holdings.
Reuben McAffee and his wife Rosa (tracts 26, 26a) lived south of Hunting Creek on a plot that included McAffee Falls (later Cunningham Falls). In his seventies by the 1930s, McAffee continued to do some farming but also took in boarders at his home conveniently located on the Thurmont-Foxville Road (Rt. 77). He also sold the rights to cut timber on his substantial holdings, thus providing himself with another source of income. [98]
A number of other Thurmont residents kept mountain tracts for what were probably a variety of reasons. Harry Finneyfrock (tract 219) was a junk man, living in Thurmont, who, in particular, sold scrap iron in Frederick. For whatever reason Finneyfrock kept a twelve-acre plot in the mountains. Samuel Weybright and his wife Lillie (tract 149) owned a hardware store in Thurmont and a 35-acre plot in the mountains. Edwin Creeger (tract 252), brother of J. Howard Creeger, owned a Chevrolet dealership in Thurmont. And Frank Anders (tract 91), who operated a motel on West Main Street in Thurmont, owned a 264-acre parcel of land, along the south side of Hunting Creek, along the eastern border of the McAffee plot. [99]
The mountain area that later became Catoctin Mountain Park, then, meant different things to different peoples on the eve of acquisition. On the west side of the mountain, families owning farms found that survival required cooperation and much hard work. But the farms generally provided a subsistence living for the families, many of whom were quite large. As one former mountain resident recalled, "no one ever went hungry." [100] On the east side of the mountain, toward Thurmont, there were fewer farms. Land instead offered important resources in the form of timber or recreational outlets. In fact, it would be this recreational use of the mountain that would define the next stage of development in the Catoctins.
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While the heat remained an issue as the Vikings rookies and selected veterans took part in training-camp practice Saturday morning, a cloud cover made it a bit more bearable than Friday.
The pace of the practices remained slow — and that's being kind — as the coaching staff attempts to do some last-minute teaching before veterans arrive on Sunday.
One of the few interesting things so far has been watching the installation of the West Coast offense. There have been plenty of dropped passes and balls that missed the mark in the opening three practices. The reason appears to be timing, which is key in this system. Receivers need to get used to running quick routes and then having the ball right there when they turn. For guys like Troy Williamson it's going to take some time to adjust to this. Expect the veterans to struggle a bit too early on in camp.


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Expansys started selling the previously leaked Nokia E75 today. The product detail page shows off all the device has to offer, which includes a slide out QWERTY keyboard, 2.4-inch (320×240) screen, 1000 mAh battery, quad and dual band + HSDPA, 3.2MP camera, QVGA video recording (support h.264), media player, FM radio, microSD card slot, WiFi, Bluetooth, A-GPS. Unfortunately for our US readers Expansys is a UK site, but for those living there will enjoy the handset free if they sign a contract with T-Mobile.
The Nokia E75 will release on March, 2009 and cost £389.99 ($580 US) without a contract.
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text: Matt Reynolds, assistant professor of art history and visual culture studies, has written an article that appears in the most recent edition of the journal Public: Art, Culture, Ideas. The essay is titled "A Massive Multi-Faceted Screening Room: LA Freewaves Curates Hollywood Boulevard" and analyzes the intersections between art, media and the ongoing Hollywood Redevelopment Project. The work was completed with support from a Perry Research Grant and the assistance of art history major Liz Hockett '11.


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Whole Wheat Pizza Dough
This recipe goes with Potato and Pepper Pizza with Goat Cheese
Yield: 2 (12-inch) pizza crustsNote: To freeze, follow directions for kneading dough and shape i
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 847
- Calories from fat: 11%
- Fat: 9.9g
- Saturated fat: 1.4g
- Monounsaturated fat: 5.4g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.9g
- Protein: 25.7g
- Carbohydrate: 165g
- Fiber: 12.7g
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- Iron: 10.2mg
- Sodium: 1764mg
- Calcium: 47mg
- 1 package dry yeast (about 2 1/4 teaspoons)
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1 1/2 cups warm water (100° to 110°)
- 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, divided
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- Cooking spray
- Dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water in a large bowl; let stand 5 minutes. Lightly spoon flours into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Add 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, wheat flour, oil, and salt; stir until well blended. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Knead until smooth and elastic (about 10 minutes); add enough of remaining flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, to prevent dough from sticking to hands (dough will feel tacky).
- Place dough in a large bowl coated with cooking spray, turning to coat top. Cover and let rise in a warm place (85°), free from drafts, 45 minutes or until doubled in size. (Gently press two fingers into dough. If indentation remains, dough has risen enough.) Punch dough down; cover and let rest for 5 minutes. Divide in half; roll each dough half into a 12-inch circle on a floured surface.
- Note: To freeze, follow directions for kneading dough and shape into 2 balls. Coat with cooking spray and place in freezer in a zip-top plastic bag. To use them, thaw overnight in the refrigerator. Cover and let rise in a warm place (85º), free from drafts, 1 1/2 hours or until doubled in size. (Gently press two fingers into dough. If indentation remains, dough has risen enough.) Shape as instructed.
- (Totals are for 1 (12-inch) Pizza Crust.)
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Reggae flava fills the air and the ocean surrounds guests as they relax while enjoying nature�s gifts.
The Beach Africa is located in Mtwapa,, which is Kenya\'s Party Location No. 1, just 5 min away from a wild day and nightlife. the Beach Africa is the place for the young and young hearted, to have fun 24/7. Why stay anywhere else..
The bandas are very cozy lodges built in African beach safari style and offer a breath taking seaview, a comfortable bed, mosquito net and paraffin lamp and tranquility. Karibu (Welcome) as we say here in Kenya for everyone at anytime who wants to relax while enjoying the true beach life as a beach bum. All Lodges and the Campsite have a seaview.
THE BEACH AFRICA is only 10 min away from the famous Jumba la Mtwana Ruins and other historical sites, we offer fishing & snorkeling trips, dolphin dives and safari , Diving & Windsurfing etc. bookings.
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Family Room, Connecting RoomsMax Occupancy: 5 guests (up to 4 children)
Vila Nova de Gaia hotel with a bar/lounge
Situated in the city center, this hotel is close to Teixeira Lopes House Museum, Sandeman Cellars, and Porto Cathedral. Also nearby are Museum of Port Wine and Rozes Cellars.
Hotel Features
In addition to a bar/lounge, ClipHotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access, limo/town car service, and dry cleaning/laundry services.
Room Amenities
LCD televisions come with satellite channels. Guestrooms also feature complimentary wireless Internet access, air conditioning, and climate control.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This 3-star property offers access to limo/town car service and a meeting room. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Event facilities measure 226 square feet (21 square meters). For a surcharge, the property provides an area shuttle and a train station pick-up service. This Vila Nova de Gaia hotel also offers multilingual staff, coffee/tea in the lobby, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby.
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Offsite parking reservations required
- 24-hour front desk
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Total number of rooms - 53
- Number of floors - 11
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in lobby
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- Dry cleaning/laundry service
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- Free Wi-Fi
- Computer station
- Luggage storage
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Express check-in
- Laundry facilities
- Limo or Town Car service available
- One meeting room
- Multilingual staff
- Room service (limited hours)
- Conference space size (feet) - 226
- Train station pickup (surcharge)
- Conference space size (meters) - 21
- Television in lobby
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
Stay connected
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
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Offsite parking reservations required
In your room
- Free Wi-Fi
- Phone
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Complimentary bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Satellite TV service
- Climate control
- Complimentary newspaper
- In-room safe
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Sailing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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- Accessible parking
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Check-in time starts at 2 PM
When you leave
Check-out time is noon
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Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
- Breakfast fee: EUR 7 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: EUR 7 per night
- In-room safe fee: EUR 10 per stay
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
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"I have a strong interest in natural forms, cultural artifacts and personal mementos. I am drawn to ornament, embellishment, pattern, and texture. For the last ten years the vessel forms in my ceramic work have slowly been evolving into botanically inspired hybrid sculptural forms. In working on these pieces I have become more involved with the details, the close ups, the abstract, the peering into. My interest in detail, layers and encrustations has been heightened by repeated travels to India and China. I am fascinated by the complexity, diversity, beauty and danger of the natural world and this leads to thoughts about growth, nourishment, attraction, and sexuality. Built into these hybrids are some of the artifacts and mementos that form my DNA." Carol Gouthro
JoAnn Axford: Hydranges box
JoAnn Axford: Dandelion covered jar
Natalia Dias: Transfiguration IV, detail, 2011, porcelain & bone china
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For a decade or two in the 20th Century, the name Jaguar was at the top of the exotic sports car field. In the 1950s, the legendary C- and D-Types thrilled red-blooded race fans at LeMans, and in the late 1980s the Cats returned to the LeMans winner circle twice.
With a sticker price cresting $100,000, it goes without saying that not too many of these sublime convertibles will be tooling around your neighborhood, but exclusivity is what this convertible in particular, and Jaguars in general, are all about.
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A Pilot Movie is a TV movie that, while purporting to be a coherent story on its own, is obviously an attempt to get the higher-ups to turn it into a series. Think of it as a proactive version of The Movie. The advantage of a Pilot Movie over an ordinary pilot is that the bigger budget of a TV movie translates directly into better sets, cinematography and effects, not to mention the occasional "big-name" actor. Speculative Fiction series which must build their entire "world" for the viewer in particular do better with a Pilot Movie. In addition, by advertising it as a movie, a network can hype up the pilot and gauge the reaction without having to commit to showing any additional episodes. Quite often an ordinary pilot, that was not picked up first time round, is repackaged as a Made-for-TV Movie in an attempt to recoup costs, and a good audience reaction can lead to a series after all. There are both successful examples (Babylon 5: The Gathering gave birth to, of course, Babylon 5), and unsuccessful ones (USA Network's 2004 debacle Frankenstein). An unsuccessful Pilot Movie can become an Amelia Earhart — "the pilot that was never seen again". Sometimes the studio will be so impressed by the movie that it will be released theatrically — while still serving as a pilot for a series. This is especially common with anime, where the pilot may be designed from the start to be shown in theaters. Contrast: Poorly Disguised Pilot (a redirect of this trope name, Backdoor Pilot, can also be used to describe pilot movies).
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Complexity never, in itself, impresses me. I am impressed people's ability to understand complex ideas and create complex machines, but a truly elegant and simple solution is always what gives me most pleasure. This might beg the question as to why I work in software – a business well known for creating incredibly complex things. I often ask myself the same question. Systems where there … Read More
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Mentor Graphics' Embedded Software division has released a new version of its Automotive Technology Platform (ATP) for developing Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems. Embedded division general manager Glenn Perry notes that the new release has achieved GENIVI 5.0-compliance with leading IVI systems-on-chips (SoCs) such as Freescale's i.MX6, Texas Instruments' OMAP5 and Renesas' Marzen … Read More
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A majority of embedded devices nowadays are implemented using an operating system of some kind. This has not always been the case and need not be today. Historically, using an OS was less common mainly because the applications were less complex and CPUs less powerful. Some thought is needed, at an early stage in a project, to determine which OS to use [or whether to use one at all] … This all … Read More
In the light of recent announcement of Mentor Embedded Hypervisor and discussions about embedded hypervisor technology, I am pleased to have another opportunity to host the ramblings [his word] of my colleague Faheem Sheikh. I would question his implying that it is easy to make a perfect cheese omelette from a recipe … An oft-cited analogy for software working out-of-the-box (OOTB) is that of … Read More
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Using embedded virtualization and ARM TrustZone to meet the functional and security needs of medical and industrial systems
At Tokyo Embedded Tradeshow last week, the Mentor ESD team was very busy as we had many medical customers stopping by our booth to find out how Mentor Embedded Hypervisor can help them to address regulatory and ethical issues with protecting sensitive patient information and industrial customers to make industrial equipment secure and more reliable. The explosion in medical devices is due in part to … Read More
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Summary: It used to be hard to make a decision on which laptop to buy. But with all the new options available, it's even harder.
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We recommend, if available, paying for a good three-year warranty with express service. Try getting it direct from the manufacturer rather than dealing with in-store warranty extensions.
What's it made of?
Most laptop cases are still made from moulded plastic, but you can find some encased in metal, which dissipates heat better. Look for models made from light, strong metal alloys. If you're in the market for a desktop replacement, check that the case has adequate ventilation for the powerful (and hot-running) components inside.
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A docking station quickly turns your notebook into a desktop. You connect your peripherals (monitor, keyboard, mouse) to the dock, which stays at your desk. Simply attach the notebook to the dock, and you instantly get the conveniences of a desktop without having to unplug everything when it's time to go.
Most manufacturers offer docks designed to go with their notebooks, while third-party docks, such as the Logitech Alto Cordless and Belkin High Speed Docking Station, are also available.
Another advantage of a docking station is increasing the number of ports your laptop has, whether it be extra video connections, more USB ports, or legacy ports like serial and PS/2. Thunderbolt is likely to shake things up here. For instance, Apple's recent Thunderbolt Displays, through one cable not only offers a monitor, but more USB ports, a FireWire port and gigabit Ethernet for your MacBook.
If you don't need all of the features of a dock, but could still use the extra connectivity, check whether the notebook maker offers a port replicator, which is basically a pared-down version of a dock.
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Before the iPad, tablets meant something entirely different.
Comparable in size and weight to ultraportable notebooks, tablet PCs occupy a different niche, allowing the full productivity of a Windows machine, as opposed to the content consumption focus of Android and iOS tablets.
They're available in two basic designs: convertibles, which are laptops that have displays that swivel and fold flat facing outwards; and slates, which have no attached keyboards, but can be connected easily enough to one.
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But does this discussion really matter? That is, are there aspects of the way people live their life that are influenced by their beliefs about the relationship between mind and body?
This issue was explored in an interesting paper in the October, 2012 issue of Psychological Science by Matthias Forstmann, Pascal Burgmer, and Thomas Mussweiler. They were interested in the relationship between people's beliefs about mind and body and their health-related behaviors.
The authors reasoned that people who believe that the mind and body are separate may be less prone to do healthy things to protect the body than people who believe that the mind and body are one and the same.


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At E3, I waited nearly two hours to play Nintendo's Wii U. It was worth every leg cramp. Most fans thought they'd be playing the console by at least summer, but it looks like it won't come out until the 2012 holiday season.
The suggestive launch window comes after Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced during an investor meeting that the final form of the Wii U would be shown off at next year's E3 (event is in June). If that's the case, then all that talk about Nintendo launching Wii U "after March" really means "after June."
Can Nintendo still launch the console in July and August? Yes, but it won't, because there will be less demand for it. It can simply wait until the holiday rush and capitalize on the shopping frenzy. November's not a bad time month if we were to guess. The Nintendo DS, Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 all launched in November.
According to Gamepro, Nintendo's hell-bent on correcting its mistakes with the Nintendo 3DS that led it to announce a $924 million loss — its first annual loss in 30 years. If you recall, the 3DS launched in February in Japan and late March in Europe and North America — sans heavy hitters such as Mario and Zelda — and at a price most consumers found too expensive.
Looking back, it's clear to gamers and to Nintendo that the 3DS was rushed. Now, it's time to right those wrongs. Gamers can't afford to sit idly for half a year waiting for a decent game to play on their new pricey game machine.
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- Fat: 8g
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- Cholesterol: 145mg
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- 2 cups sugar
- 3 cups milk
- 5 large eggs
- Salt
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- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350°F. In a pan mix 1 1/2 cups sugar and 1/3 cup water. Cook over low heat until sugar dissolves. Raise heat to medium-high; cook for 15 minutes, until mixture turns deep amber, swirling pan every few minutes. Divide caramel between 8 6-oz. ramekins.
- Warm milk over medium heat until it simmers. Whisk 1/2 cup sugar, eggs, salt and vanilla in a bowl. Whisking constantly, slowly pour in hot milk. Strain, then pour mixture into ramekins over caramel.
- Place ramekins in a large baking dish. Pour in hot water until it's halfway up sides of ramekins. Bake until set, 50 minutes. Remove ramekins to a rack to cool. Cover each with plastic; chill for 8 hours.
- Melt chocolate; cool to room temperature. On a parchment-lined baking sheet, draw 8 circles as wide as ramekin bottoms. Turn parchment over. Pour chocolate into a ziplock bag; seal it and snip off a corner. In each circle pipe 5 circles and 8 spokes. Refrigerate to set.
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Melissa Collier, At-Large Trustee for Lubbock ISD, announced her intention today to seek re-election to the Board of Trustees in May 2012.
Collier was elected to the board in May 2010. She currently serves on the finance committee and is the chairperson of the ad hoc technology committee.
Collier, 37, is a self-employed CPA. She currently serves on the LISD Foundation for Excellence Board and acts as Board Secretary for the Children's Home of Lubbock. She enjoys volunteering her time in Lubbock ISD classrooms, as well as serving on the Honey Elementary PTA.
Melissa and her husband Scott are natives of Lubbock. They are both graduates of Monterey High School and Texas Tech University. Their children Campbell, 9, and Will, 6, attend Honey Elementary.
Collier's family is deeply rooted in Lubbock, and she is committed to the success of Lubbock ISD. She is encouraged by the progress that has been made during the past two years, and pledges to continue working to ensure that the LISD Board is fulfilling the mission of focusing on "Every Child Every Day".
"I love Lubbock and want to see the success of all children in this district," said Collier. "I feel a responsibility to give back to a community and a district that has given so much to me."
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Celeb Skin Secrets from the Kitchen
Teri Hatcher loves red wine, Janice Dickinson prefers yogurt, and Halle Berry likes brown sugar -- but what they do with them will surprise you.
Kym Douglas, author of Hollywood Beauty Secrets, shares some of Hollywood's most coveted beauty products -- found right in your home!
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I am 66 years old and have barely any lines on my face….I have used good ole Vaseline for 40 years and it works…Now, I also do this latest thing..when I shower at night I plaster Vaseline on my whole face and neck, take a wash cloth and wet with warm/hot water, squeeze out the water, place on face,pat it all over, do the same thing one more time and your face is so moisturized!
i take a lemon, squeeze it, add baby oil and sea salt and scrub my body while i'm in the shower. The lemon acts as a great toner and the salt exfoliates. Forget spending 30 bucks for a scrub, this works better!
I've heard of Vaseline and Baby oil, but you have to be careful with that because both of those are made with MINERAL oil, which is cancer causing. :(
Which yogurt does Janice use? The kind that's like ice cream (frozen) or the kind like Dannon.
i heard she uses regular yogurt not frozen yogurt. So the Dannon kind. I'm going to try it.
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Angelina Jolie has penned the foreword to ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton's upcoming memoir. The couple was married for three years at the start of the new century and the actor/director has often insisted he is still friends with his ex – and now, as if to prove the point, her thoughts will feature in his [...] [Read More]
Billy Bob Thornton's daughter gets 20 years prison for child's death
Amanda Brumfield, daughter of actor/musician Billy Bob Thornton, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for aggravated manslaughter. From On The Red Carpet: The 32-year-old woman was convicted and found guilty of the offense earlier this year. She was accused of causing the 2008 death of her best friend's 1-year-old daughter, Olivia Madison Garcia. […] [Read More]
Billy Bob Thornton's daughter denied retrial in child death case
Billy Bob Thornton's estranged daughter has been denied a retrial over the death of a child who was in her care. Amanda Brumfield – Thornton's daughter from his marriage to first wife Melissa Gatlin – was in June found guilty of aggravated manslaughter in connection to the 2008 death of her best friend's one-year-old daughter […] [Read More]


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Huddle, Meebo, Yammer, and other online services can help you collaborate with colleagues and get in touch with partners and clients.
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Merge multiple instant messengers into a single, open-source app with Miranda IM.
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The Greenwashing of the Mattress Industry
The New York Times 1.15.09
Last week, The New York Times helped demystify the meaning of Thread Count. Today, they've moved on to the greenwashing of mattresses — how do the labels organic, eco-friendly and the very vague natural measure up? Do they mean anything?
Basically — no, they don't. The jist of it:
"No government agency regulates the labeling of mattresses as "organic" or "natural," and trade groups like the International Sleep Products Association and the Specialty Sleep Association offer their members no guidelines for using the terms."
So, buyer beware, it's marketing, marketing, marketing! Whether your mattress is made from "soybeans, stuffed with coconut husks, infused with green tea and treated with aloe vera" doesn't really matter. The New York Times created a fascinating graphic that charts the responses of 17 mattress companies and what they would disclose about their products. The full article, The Stuffing Dreams Are Made Of? and the graphic are must-reads for anyone looking to buy a mattress.
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I work in advertising and, yes, there is a lot of green BS out there.
I will say, though, that anyone looking for a mattress should look first to their local "we make 'em, we sell 'em" store. You'll be getting an American-made product and won't have to worry about what "Chinese manufacturers may have screwed up this time."
WOW! What an eye opener. Thank you AT!!!!!
i think the bigger story is that they charge a grand or more for mattresses that only cost a couple hundred to make. really. that is a huge markup.
let's just say i knew someone who worked for a mattress store. she got to buy herself a mattress at cost, and then ones that had damage, she could buy for $150 or something. she got us a queen size because the tag on one rubbed some ink on the mattress and left a mark.
i guess we just assume since a mattress is so big that it SHOULD cost that much. but it shouldn't.
The Magniflex Geo-Ethic collection is all certified by European agencies which are far more strict than American. http://www.magniflex.com
vivetique is also an insanely shady company. I went to their "showroom" to check out their mattresses and couldn't believe the state it was in. Hard to imagine someplace so grimy looking would take a lot of care in making sure their mattresses follow a certain standard of "eco-ness". I ended up buying my mattress elsewhere but placed an order for a wool duvet, that basically NEVER CAME (4 weeks moved to 6 to 8 etc etc). i made them refund my money but still lost some deposit $ (i think this may have been my vendor's fault) but either way, i would never recommend this company.


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