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Riviera hotel on Nice's Promenade des Anglais
By Masséna Art Museum
Overlooking the beach and the Bay of Angels, this hotel with the Belle Epoque façade has stood on Nice's Promenade des Anglais since 1842; the Masséna Art and History Museum is next door.
Hotel restaurant
Guests enjoy access to a private section of beach (at a charge). The hotel's restaurant features terrace dining with sea views. The menu mixes traditional Mediterranean cuisine with Asian-influenced dishes.
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Hotel West End offers 121 individually decorated guestrooms, some with sea views. All include in-room safes, minibars, roll-down sunscreens, and private bathrooms.
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The 19th-century Hotel West End, with the white Belle Epoque facade, was the first to be built along the famed "Promenade des Anglais". One of its strongest attractions is the decor of the interior public spaces, many of which have been faithfully maintained to their original splendor.
The hotel offers a restaurant and terrace at the front of the property, both with outside areas for dining alongside the Promenade. Hotel guests receive discounted access to a private section of the beach, Le Blue Beach, with sunchairs and parasols. Conference facilities include 9 meeting rooms, of which three have day light; the hotel can cater to groups up to 100. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
- On private beach
- Concierge services
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Bar/lounge
- Restaurant
- Room service (24 hours)
- Parking (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
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- Secure parking
- Limo or Town Car service available
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- Total number of rooms - 121
- Multilingual staff
- 24-hour front desk
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- Express check-in
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- Babysitting or childcare
- Fireplace in lobby
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Number of floors - 6
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Elevator/lift
- One meeting/conference room
- Luggage storage
- Parking limited (surcharge)
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Parking nearby (surcharge)
- Parking nearby
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 95
- Year Built 1842
- 24-hour business center
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 1023
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
- Parking
Parking (surcharge), Secure parking, Self parking (surcharge), Parking garage, Parking limited (surcharge), Parking nearby, Parking nearby (surcharge)
- Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Direct-dial phone
- Minibar
- Wake-up calls
- Turndown service
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Window opens
- Electronic/magnetic keys
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Free Wi-Fi
- Climate control
- Soundproofed rooms
- Dining
Le Siecle - Set on the front of the hotel, with large windows and an outside terrace, Le Siecle overlooks the Promenade des Anglais and serves lunch and dinner on four intimate levels beneath glass ceiling-panels painted in Art Nouveau style. The extensive menu features classic Mediterranean dishes.
La Palmeraie - Serving an alfresco hot-and-cold buffet breakfast each morning, La Palmeraie also offers a bar open from mid-afternoon to late evening in summertime. This terrace on the front of the building is partly covered by large awnings, and guests sit at marble-and-wrought-iron tables and chairs beside the street life of the Promenade des Anglais.
- Recreation
Hotel guests have discounted access to a private section of the pebbly beach: Le Blue Beach, with sunchairs and parasols. The Promenade des Anglais, on which the hotel stands, has wide sidewalks parallel to the beach, and are a favorite with joggers and in-line skaters. An ice-skating rink, gym, and two indoor pools (one with lanes for lap swimmers, and a splash pool with waterslides) is available at the Palais des Sports, 2 km (1 mile) north.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Ice skating nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Running track/path nearby
- Basketball nearby
- Tennis nearby
- Aerobics nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Fishing nearby
- Bowling alley nearby
- Swimming on site
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 1
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fees
- Unless otherwise indicated, the charges below are not included in the overall room price. If not included in the overall room price, they will be charged by the property at check-in or check-out. Charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book. This property told us they will charge you for the following:
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1.50 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 18 years of age.
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.- Breakfast fee: EUR 19 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: EUR 22 per night
- Pet fee: EUR 18 per pet, per day
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 40 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Additional Details
Children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
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This hotel has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France.


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You are welcome to make reservations for Camp Manatoc and Camp Butler via our on-line reservation system. Just visit http://bit.ly/msryrc to enter the system! By utilizing this system you may make your reservations any time, see what is available currently, and GTC units may make reservations up to 12 months in advance!
Many of you probably received an email from scoutingevent.com (the same company that provides our building reservations) referring to Summer Camp 2014 and you thought you were having an out of body experience. Well to set the record straight, you did not! We were busy pre building your account for summer camp in the scoutingevent system. Right now, units that did not make their 2014 reservation for Camp Manatoc may enter the reservation site and make their reservation for 2014! About April 1st (no joke) you will be able to go in and begin making your payments for camp, via the website. You also will have the option to complete your unit roster, and REGISTER YOUR CAMPERS FOR MERIT BADGE CLASSES!
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American-style pineapple & banana pancakes
By Mary Cadogan
Cooking time
Ready in 20 minsSkill level
Serves 4These American-style pancakes are easier to make than traditional ones
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- Vegetarian
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 230
- protein
- 6g
- carbs
- 42g
- fat
- 6g
- saturates
- 1g
- fibre
- 1g
- sugar
- 11g
- salt
- 0.7g
- 100g/4oz fresh or drained canned pineapple
- 1 banana, sliced
- 100g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 3 tbsp light muscovado sugar
- 1 egg
- 100ml milk
- sunflower oil, for frying
- Greek yogurt and maple syrup, to serve
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- Roughly chop the pineapple and slice the banana. Tip the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and sugar into a bowl and mix well.
- Make a well into the centre and crack in the egg, then gradually mix the egg into the flour, adding the milk gradually to make a soft batter.
- Stir in the pineapple and banana. Heat a little oil in a non-stick frying pan, add the batter in heaped tablespoonsful, well apart to allow them to spread. When bubbles appear on the surface, flip the pancakes over and cook until light golden.
- Cook all the pancakes and keep them warm. Serve 2-3 pancakes with a spoonful of yogurt and a little maple syrup poured over.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2005
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I've been making these pancakes a while now, a favourite with my kids and their friends! I usually double up the receipe for 4-5 kids. Like others I reduce the amount of suger also when I don't have pineapple, I use just bananas or sometimes grate a sweet apple in. Very filling for those little tums and great to know you're getting some goodness into them. A winner all round, and a few cold ones (leftovers) in the fridge today that they can have for school lunch tomorrow ;o)
I made these last night for pudding for me and my hubby and they were absolutley delicious. Really quick and easy and very tasty. Will definitely be making these again. Used fresh pineapple and banana but I didn't have any cinnamon so used mixed spice instead with dark muscovado sugar instead of light - gorgeous. Halved the recipe and there was just enough for 2.
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Wardak spoke at the opening of a mid-day meeting with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other top U.S. and Afghan officials in the Pentagon.
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Huntington, Ind.—The Huntington University Athletic Department announced its Athletes of the Week for the week of Nov. 20-26. Women's basketball senior Amy Berry and men's basketball senior Kyle Ganton earned the honors for their outstanding efforts during the week's competitions.
Amy Berry, a public relations major from Marion, Ind. (Oak Hill High School), helped Huntington get off to a good start in Mid-Central Conference play. In the Foresters' first league game against Marian College, Berry took game-high scoring honors with 27 points to lead Huntington to the 62-54 road win. Berry is leading the Foresters in scoring with her 19.5 points per game, and she adds 4.3 boards per contest. The Foresters (5-1, 1-0) return to action on Nov. 29 when they host the NAIA Division II 8th-ranked Cougars of the University of St. Francis at 7 p.m.
Kyle Ganton, an elementary education major from Coldwater, Mich. (Bronson High School), continued his solid play from a week ago to help the Foresters put two more wins under their belts. The senior forward averaged 19.5 points and five rebounds in Huntington's two victories. Against MCC foe, Marian College, Ganton hit for 18 points and added four boards in the Foresters' 87-55 win, and he topped all scorers in the Foresters' 90-65 victory over IU South Bend game with his 21 points. NAIA 2nd-ranked Huntington returns to action on Nov. 28 when they travel to Fort Wayne to take on the NAIA 20th-ranked Cougars of the University of St. Francis at 7 p.m.
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With increasingly busy lives, rising costs of education and skyrocketing gas prices, more and more college students are cutting costs by earning course credits online. Take Chaminade University enrollment numbers. Chaminade's evening and online undergraduate program enrollment has increased 42 percent from 2002 to 2007, and enrollment in its online masters of education classes has shot up 125 percent in the past four years.
The University of Hawaii's Distance Education Classes have experienced similar boosts. In the summer of 2005, 1,769 students registered for online courses. That number more than doubled in summer 2007 to 4,066.
"These days, convenience is the name of the game," says Skip Lee, director of undergraduate evening and online courses at Chaminade University.
Students enrolled in Chaminade's online courses pay $51 more than traditional classes because of an added technology fee, but of course, save on the time and costs of commuting. Lee adds that while it might be counterintuitive, online courses can require more participation. "Students can no longer hide out in the back of the room and not be called on," Lee says. "With online courses, everyone must contribute during discussions and complete chapter assignments."
About 50 percent of Chaminade's online students are in the military. Lee says about 15 percent of them do not even reside on Oahu, and some are currently serving in the Middle East. Other than a proctored final exam, undergraduate online courses require no classroom presence. "For people who are off-island, we help set up proctored exams for them wherever they are so they can benefit from our courses," Lee says.
Kammie Wilson, who is taking an online religion course, says as a single mother of two children in Pearl City, it's definitely all about the convenience. "It saves me the commute and it's hard to find a sitter, so this works out for me," says Wilson.
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Story | Feb 20, 2014 | 7:05 AMThe Yorktown Arts Foundation has a new home at Burcher Cottage in the Yorktown village. The longtime arts group has been renovating the facility since the first of the year, with plans to be fully operational in March. "I feel like this is our home,... -
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Story | Feb 12, 2014 | 1:55 PM(Updates Valero Energy Corp projects) HOUSTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - U.S. oil producers, refiners and logistics companies are deep into the crude-by-rail movement with dozens of projects throughout the United States and crude movements via rail that jumped... -
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Social Networking for Fashion Doll Lovers
2013, and this last September to be precise, sees the 50th Anniversary of that very British fashion doll, Sindy! So what better way to celebrate than a theme celebrating all things gold!
So even if you never even heard of Sindy before you can still celebrate and show us your dolls in all their golden finest!
Plus the winning pic will spend a month featured on our front page and be the public header for our Twitter & Facebook Fan Page too!
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Nilsa, love your "framed" shot. Your doll is gorgeous. Just bought my first FR Veronique. Looking forward to dressing her.
Whoops! Andy, I don't know how this little gem slipped by me! Morgan is gorgeous, as usual, and I love that background with the Chinese Lanterns
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Love your "Golden Girls!"
Glad you didn't miss it Annette! Great entry!!
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Bravo to the beautiful golden entries! I've had a busy few weeks but I didn't want to miss the monthly theme. Here's my photo, Cleo de Nile likes to "Strike a Pose"
This month's theme will close tomorrow so hurry if you plan on taking part!
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) -- Markeshia Grant scored 12 points Saturday and Charenee Stephens added 11 to lead fifth-seeded South Carolina past Eastern Michigan 80-48 in the first round of the NCAA women's tournament.
The Gamecocks (24-9) will face fourth-seeded Purdue, the tournament host, or Summit League champion South Dakota State on Monday night in the second round.
Tavelyn James, the nation's No. 2 scorer, scored 11 points to finish her career with 2,461. But she was held 13 points below her average and didn't have enough help as the Mid-American Conference champion Eagles (24-9) fell to 0-2 all-time in NCAA play.
For the Gamecocks, it was a defensive clinic.
They closed the half on a 14-2 run to build a 39-23 lead and opened the second half on a 9-3 run to pull away.


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STOCKHOLM Even though World Championship rosters look quite different from year to year for the top nations, there is always pressure on the defending champions, regardless of which players theyre using.Now Finland, which crushed 2012 co-host Sweden 6-1 in last years final, is facing the classic question: What do you do for an encore?To get a sense of how things are likely to shake out for Jukka Jalonens men, lets take a look back at whats transpired over the past 20 years. This is a reasonable sample set, since 1992 marked the first year that the IIHF used a full playoff system rather than round robins.The following list indicates where the defending champions finished the following year at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. For example, the Czech Republic came first in 2005, so the list says 2006: Czech Republic, second (i.e. the Czechs won silver in Riga 2006).1992: Sweden, first1993: Sweden, second1994: Russia, fifth1995: Canada, third1996: Finland, fifth1997: Czech Republic, third1998: Canada, sixth1999: Sweden, third2000: Czech Republic, first2001: Czech Republic, first2002: Czech Republic, fifth2003: Slovakia, third2004: Canada, first2005: Canada, second2006: Czech Republic, second2007: Sweden, fourth2008: Canada, second2009: Russia, first2010: Russia, second2011: Czech Republic, thirdWhat can we learn from these results?First, the average placement for a gold medal-winning team in the following tournament is 2.75. In other words, based on history, roughly a non-gold medal is what you should expect to earn. A silver encore has occurred five times in the last 20 years (1993, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010), and there have also been five bronze encores (1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2011). Only four times has a defending champion failed to medal at all the next time (1996, 1998, 2002, 2007).Second, out of the six individual national teams that have won world titles in the last 20 years, the Czechs and Swedes have done the most consistent job of bouncing back the following year on average. The highs and lows have been a bit more pronounced for Canada and Russia. Slovakia and Finland, meanwhile, have only one world title apiece in the time frame were examining, which needs to be borne in mind when assessing their numbers.Czech Republic = 2.5Sweden = 2.5Russia = 2.66Canada = 2.8Slovakia = 3Finland = 5Third, it seems like championship teams are becoming more likely to follow up with respectable results nowadays than in the past. During the 20th-century portion of our survey (1992-1999), the average placement for a defending champion was 3.5. In the new millennium (2000-2011), its shot up to 2.25.So overall, it appears reasonable to project that the Finns will not repeat as champions in 2012, but will very likely win silver or bronze. (And that would be a big improvement on what happened the last time the tournament was staged in Helsinki: Finland was leading archrival Sweden 5-1 at Hartwall Arena in the 2003 quarter-finals, but collapsed and gave Tre Kronor a 6-5 victory.)Of course, what remains to be seen is how the dreaded home ice curse factor affects Finlands bounce-back ability. No host team has won the Worlds since the Soviet Union in 1986.In the 20-year period weve just covered, only once has a defending champion attempted to repeat on home ice. Canada, which won nine straight games en route to gold in Russia 2007, finished second in 2008 in Quebec City when Ilya Kovalchuk scored for Russia in overtime in the final. But it's hard to ascertain much about Finland's imminent outcome from that lone example. Stay tuned.LUCAS AYKROYD


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It's not like that $102,000 could have been used to save more teaching jobs, but it again shows how reliant FSU sports is on your tax dollars.
The Peyton Manning Face became famous thanks to Bill Simmons, but Florida Gator fans knew much earlier about the half shocked/half trying to take a dump face that Pey-Pey would use in high pressure moments.
...is the NCAA taking away victories!
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First, the run that won Tim Tebow the Heisman in 2007.
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LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers gave a first-round thumbs-up to changing how the state deals with youngsters who run afoul of the law.
Legislative Bill 561 aims to deal with more of those youths at home rather than putting them in local detention centers or the state institutions at Kearney and Geneva.
"This is a sea change in the way that Nebraska is going to address the needs of juveniles in this state," said State Sen. Colby Coash of Lincoln.
The bill would shift responsibility for all 3,500 or so juvenile offenders from the Department of Health and Human Services to the state's Office of Probation Administration.
Probation officers already have taken on responsibility for offenders in the Omaha, North Platte and Scottsbluff areas.
The measure also would set strict standards on which youngsters could be sent to the state's two Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Centers. The Kearney center is for boys, the Geneva one for girls.
The original version of LB 561 called for closing the two centers. As amended by the Judiciary Committee, the bill would reserve the centers for what some lawmakers termed "the worst of the worst."
The state spends about $20�million per year on the Kearney and Geneva centers, which house about 260 juveniles at any given time. Sen. Brad Ashford of Omaha, the Judiciary Committee chairman, has said that number could be cut in half.
In addition, the bill would create a community and family re-entry process for youths leaving the Kearney and Geneva centers and would encourage county attorneys to set up youth diversion programs.
The bill won praise from senators, some of whom noted that probation officers have succeeded in keeping more youths at home and out of further trouble in the three areas where the system has been tried.
But others raised concerns about whether the bill would provide enough money to create the community services envisioned.
"If we don't fund this the way we should, are the counties going to have to pick it up?" asked Sen. Russ Karpisek of Wilber.
As advanced, the bill would put $10 million a year into an existing grant program for counties to develop new services. The grant program currently makes $1.6�million available each year.
On the other hand, Sen. Heath Mello of Omaha, the Appropriations Committee chairman, warned that the price tag on LB�561 would eat up half the money available for new legislative spending or tax cuts.
"We've got to balance this priority with other priorities on the floor," he said.
Ashford acknowledged that he will have to work on paying for more community-based programs before the bill comes back for second-round debate.
Included in the bill is funding for a new juvenile court judge in Douglas County that was proposed in separate legislation. The salaries and benefits for a new judge and court reporter would cost about $254,000, according to a fiscal note.
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Hopefully, HSR ends with the electrification of CalTrain. With the way most public projects are run in CA, it'll cost $60B just to get that completed...
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on Apr 10, 2013 at 12:32 pm
What do you expect from a communist dictatorship?
We are a capitalist democracy - HSR was approved by voters and is/will be audited.
But by all means, slander on with a silly straw man, Jim.
on Apr 10, 2013 at 1:17 pm
SIlly me. What was I thinking? There've NEVER been ANY corrupt politicians or government officials in our capitalist democracy. There have never been any cases of politicians/gov't officials taking bribes to award contracts. Let me go back and bury my head in the sand.
Voters voted for a $33B plan. It's now double that. Stop with the "the voters voted for it" defense.
on Apr 10, 2013 at 4:25 pm
The New Yorker magazine had an appalling article about Chinese corruption and coverups concerning the HSR in China - from the get-go. I gather they quickly buried the evidence so little investigation could be done (after the horrendous crash) - and who knows if they even held accountable the correct responsible "officials" - I assume Communist Party members were protected. I oppose following the Communist Chinese as a blueprint for California's high HSR, it sure sounds unwise to listen to anything they do over there.
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I was born in South Bend IN and raised in Elkhart IN, and moved to southwestern Illinois, near St Louis MO, after a four-year tour with the Air Force when I graduated from high school. I have always been fascinated by cemeteries ever since I was a young child, especially small family cemeteries. In the last 30 years, I have delved into my family genealogy on my father's (Bjornstad) and mother's (Denson) side. My paternal grandfather, Kristian Bjornstad, immigrated from Norway in the early 1900s, eventually settling in eastern North Dakota. His oldest brother had an interest in the Bjornstad genealogy and he compiled the family record into a book and had it published in Oslo Norway in 1943, which traces the family origins to the first king of Norway. I have used it as a reference when submitting memorials for my father's ancestors on Find A Grave. On my mother's side, a distant cousin, Dr. Marion E. Denson of Columbia TN (now deceased) published a genealogy book in 1997 on the Denson families in America, tracing them back to the mid-1600s, when a William Denson came from England and settled in southern Virginia, near the present-day city of Norfolk. This book has been a great source of reference for my Find A Grave memorials pertaining to my Denson ancestors. Additionally, I want to give special thanks to Ronald C. Denson of Birmingham AL (now deceased) who also compiled a genealogy of my Denson ancestors which was very helpful.
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I sent a message to Find a grave...Beyond the soldiers in the various wars Gabby is my first famous person and I sure hope they connect him to his parents as I know there are other people in this area who would like to see this done....
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I will try that.. I take it you cannot go into the memorial and place the numbers in his bio?? My Mother actually met Gabby once and it was one of her girlhood memories
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I have the memorial numbers for Gabby Hayes parents and Grandparents.. Is there any way to put them on his memorial??.. I am related to Gagby's Brother Clark and have done the work on the family in this area...
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I have transferred your great-grandparents to you. I am related, but not as closely as you. Nancy is a great-aunt of mine. I'm not sure how many greats without looking though. JC
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It occurs to Brian Blake as he huddles in the musty darkness, the terror constricting his chest, the pain throbbing in his knees: If only he possessed a second pair of hands, he could cover his own ears, and maybe block out the noise of human heads being demolished. Sadly, the only hands Brian currently owns are busy right now, covering the tiny ears of a little girl in the closet next to him.
The seven-year-old keeps shuddering in his arms, jerking at the intermittent THWACK-GAHHHH-THUMP outside the closet. Then comes the silence, broken only by the sticky sound of boot steps on bloody tile, and a flurry of angry whispers out in the vestibule.
Brian starts coughing again. He can't help it. For days he has been fighting this goddamn cold, a stubborn blight on his joints and sinuses that he cannot shake. It happens to him every fall, when the Georgia days start getting dank and gloomy. The dampness gets into his bones, saps his energy, and steals his breath. And now he feels the pounding stab of a fever with each cough.
Doubling over in another hacking, wheezing fit, he keeps his hands pressed down on little Penny's ears as he coughs. He knows the sound of his rasping is attracting all kinds of attention outside the closet door, out in the convolutions of the house, but there's nothing he can do about it. He sees tracings of light with each cough--like tiny filigrees of fireworks across his blind pupils.
The closet--barely four feet wide, and maybe three feet deep--is as dark as an inkwell, and it reeks of mothballs, mouse droppings, and old cedar. Plastic coat bags hang down in the darkness, brushing the sides of Brian's face. Brian's younger brother Philip told him it was okay to cough in the closet. In fact, Brian was free to cough his fucking head off--it would draw out the monsters--but Brian better not give his goddamn cold to Philip's little girl. If he did, Philip would crack Brian's head open.
The coughing fit passes.
Moments later, another pair of lumbering footsteps disturbs the silence outside the closet--another dead thing entering the kill zone. Brian squeezes his hands tighter against Penny's ears, and the child flinches at another rendition of Skull Splitting in D minor.
If asked to describe the racket outside the closet, Brian Blake would probably revert to his days as a failed music store entrepreneur and tell you that the head-cracking sounds are like a percussive symphony they might play in hell--like some trippy outtake from Edgard Var?se or a druggy drum solo from John Bonham--with repeating verses and choruses: the heavy breathing of humans ... the shambling footsteps of another moving corpse ... the whistle of an axe ... the thunk of steel sinking into flesh ...
... and finally, the big finale, the splat of moist, dead weight on the slimy parquet.
Another break in the action sends fever chills down Brian's spine. The silence closes in again. Eyes now adjusted to the darkness, Brian sees the first shimmer of thick arterial blood seeping under the bottom of the door. It looks like motor oil. He gently yanks his niece away from the spreading puddle, pulling her back against the boots and umbrellas along the back wall.
The hem of Penny Blake's little denim dress touches the blood. She quickly pulls the fabric away, and frantically rubs at the stain, as if the very absorption of the blood will infect her somehow.
Another convulsive coughing fit doubles Brian over. He fights it. He swallows the broken glass of a sore throat and pulls the little girl into a full-on embrace. He doesn't know what to do or say. He wants to help his niece. He wants to whisper something reassuring to her but cannot think of a single reassuring thing to whisper.
The girl's father would know what to say. Philip would know. He always knows what to say. Philip Blake is the guy who says the things that everybody else wishes they had said. He says what needs to be said, and he does what needs to be done. Like right now. He's out there with Bobby and Nick, doing what needs to be done ... while Brian hunkers here in the dark like a scared rabbit, wishing he knew what to say to his niece.
Considering the fact that Brian Blake is the oldest of the two siblings, it's odd how Brian has always been the runt. Barely five feet seven in his boot heels, Brian Blake is a raw-boned scarecrow of a man scarcely able to fill out his black peg-leg jeans and torn Weezer T-shirt. A mousey goatee, macram? bracelets, and a thatch of dark Ichabod Crane hair complete the picture of a thirty-five-year-old Bohemian waif stuck in Peter Pan limbo, now kneeling in the mothball-scented gloom.
Brian sucks in a hoarse breath and looks down at the doe-eyed Penny, her mute, horrified face ghostly in the darkness of the closet. The child has always been a quiet little girl, with an almost porcelain complexion, like that of a china doll, which has given her face a rather ethereal cast. But since her mother's death she has turned even further inward, becoming more wan and stoic, to the point of appearing almost translucent, with tendrils of raven-black hair obscuring her huge eyes.
For the last three days, she has hardly said a word. Of course, they have been three extraordinary days--and trauma works differently on children than it does on adults--but Brian is worried that Penny is perhaps slipping into some kind of shock.
"It's gonna be okay, kiddo," Brian whispers to her with a lame little cough as punctuation.
She says something without looking up at him. She mumbles it, staring down at the floor, a tear pearling on her dirty cheek.
"What was that, Pen?" Brian cradles her against him and wipes her tear.
She says something again, and again, and again, but not exactly to Brian. She says it more like a mantra, or a prayer, or an incantation: "It's never-ever going to be okay, never-ever-ever-ever-ever."
"Sshhhhh." He holds her head, pressing it gently against the folds of his T-shirt. He feels the damp heat of her face against his ribs. He covers her ears again as he hears the THWACK of another axe blade outside the closet, smashing through the membrane of a scalp, into the hard shell of a skull, through the layers of dura, and into the pulpy gray gelatin of an occipital lobe.
It makes a smacking noise like a baseball bat hitting a wet softball--the ejaculate of blood like a mop head slapping the floor--followed by a ghastly, wet thud. Oddly, that's the worst part for Brian: that hollow, moist thump of a body landing on expensive ceramic tile. The tile is custom made for the house, with elaborate inlay and Aztec designs. It's a lovely house ... or at least, it once was.
Again the noises cease.
Again the horrible dripping silence follows. Brian stifles a cough, holding it in like a firecracker that's about to pop, so he can better hear the minute changes in breathing outside the closet, the greasy footsteps shuffling through gore. But the place is dead silent now.
Brian feels the child seize up next to him--little Penny girding herself for another salvo of axe blows--but the silence stretches.
Inches away, the sound of a bolt clicking, and the closet doorknob turning, rashes Brian's body with gooseflesh. The door swings open.
"Okay, we're good." The baritone voice, whiskey-cured and smoky, comes from a man peering down into the recesses of the closet. Eyes blinking at the darkness, face shimmering with sweat, flush with the exertion of zombie disposal, Philip Blake holds a grue-slick axe in his workman's hand.
"You sure?" Brian utters.
Ignoring his brother, Philip gazes down at his daughter. "Everything's okay, punkin, Daddy's okay."
"Are you sure?" Brian says with a cough.
Philip looks at his brother. "You mind covering your mouth, sport?"
Brian wheezes, "You sure it's clear?"
"Punkin?" Philip Blake addresses his daughter tenderly, his faint Southern drawl belying the bright, feral embers of violence just now fading in his eyes. "I'm gonna need y'all to stay right there for a minute. Awright? You stay right there until Daddy says it's okay to come out. You understand?"
With a slight nod, the pale little girl gives him a feeble gesture of understanding.
"C'mon, sport," Philip urges his older brother out of the shadows. "Gonna need your help with the cleanup."
Brian struggles to his feet, pushing his way through the hanging overcoats.
He emerges from the closet and blinks at the harsh light of the vestibule. He stares and coughs and stares some more. For a brief moment, it looks as though the lavish entryway of the two-story Colonial, brightly lit by fancy copper chandeliers, is in the throes of being redecorated by a work crew afflicted by palsy. Great swaths of eggplant-purple spatters stain the teal green plaster walls. Rorschach patterns of black and crimson adorn the baseboards and moldings. Then the shapes on the floor register.
Six bodies lie akimbo in bloody heaps. Ages and genders are obscured by the wet carnage, the mottled, livid skin tones, and the misshapen skulls. The largest lies in a spreading pool of bile at the foot of the great circular staircase. Another one, perhaps the lady of the house, perhaps once a convivial hostess offering peach cobbler and Southern hospitality, is now splayed across the lovely white parquet floor in a contorted mess, a stringer of wormy gray matter flagging from her breached cranium.
Brian Blake feels his gorge rising, his throat involuntarily dilating.
"Okay, gentlemen, we got our work cut out for us," Philip is saying, addressing his two cronies, Nick and Bobby, as well as his brother, but Brian can barely hear over the sick thump of his own heartbeat.
He sees the other remains--over the last two days, Philip has started calling the ones they destroy "twice-cooked pork"--strewn along the dark, burnished baseboards at the threshold of the living room. Maybe the teenage children who once lived here, maybe visitors who suffered the Southern inhospitality of an infected bite, these bodies lie in sunbursts of arterial spray. One of them, his or her dented head lying facedown like a spilled soup pan, still pumps its scarlet fluids across the floor with the profusion of a breached fire hydrant. A couple of others still have small hatchet blades embedded in their crania, sunk down to the hilt, like the flags of explorers triumphantly stuck into once unattainable summits.
Brian's hand flies up to his mouth, as if he might stem the tide rising up his esophagus. He feels a tapping sensation on the top of his skull, as though a moth is ticking against his scalp. He looks up.
Blood drips from the overhead chandelier, a droplet landing on Brian's nose.
"Nick, why don't you go grab some of them tarps we saw earlier in the--"
Brian falls to his knees, hunches forward, and roars vomit across the parquet. The steaming flood of khaki-colored bile sluices across the tiles, mingling with the spoor of the fallen dead.
Tears burn Brian's eyes as he heaves four days of soul-sickness onto the floor.
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Philip Blake lets out a tense sigh, the buzz of adrenaline still coursing through him. For a moment he makes no effort to go to his brother's side, but simply stands there, setting down his bloody axe, rolling his eyes. It's a miracle Philip doesn't have a groove worn into the tops of his eye sockets from all the eye rolling he's done over the years on his brother's account. But what else is Philip supposed to do? The poor son of bitch is family, and family is family ... especially in off-the-scale times such as these.
The resemblance is sure there--nothing Philip can do about that. A tall, rangy, sinewy man with the ropy muscles of a tradesman, Philip Blake shares the same dark features as his brother, the same dark almond eyes and coal-black hair of their Mexican-American mother. Mama Rose's maiden name was Garcia, and her features had dominated the lineage over those of the boys' father, a big, coarse alcoholic of Scots-Irish descent named Ed Blake. But Philip, three years younger than Brian, had gotten all the muscle.
He now stands over six feet tall in his faded jeans, work boots, and chambray shirt, with the Fu Manchu mustache and jailhouse tats of a biker; and he is about to move his imposing figure over to his retching brother, and maybe say something harsh, when he stops himself. He hears something he doesn't like coming from across the vestibule.
Bobby Marsh, an old high school pal of Philip's, stands near the base of the staircase, wiping an axe blade on his size XXL jeans. A portly thirty-two-year-old junior college dropout, his long greasy brown hair pulled back in a rattail, Bobby Marsh is not exactly obese, but definitely overweight, definitely the type of guy his Burke County High classmates would call a butterball. He now giggles with nervous, edgy, belly-shivering laughter as he watches Brian Blake vomit. The giggling is colorless and hollow--a sort of tic that Bobby cannot seem to control.
The anxious giggling had started three days ago when one of the first of the undead had lumbered out of a service bay at a gas station near the Augusta airport. Clad in blood-soaked overalls, the grease monkey shuffled out of hiding with a trail of toilet paper on his heel, and the thing had tried to make a meal out of Bobby's fat neck before Philip had stepped in and clobbered the thing with a crowbar.
The discovery that day--that a major blow to the head does the job quite nicely--had led to more nervous chortling on Bobby's part--definitely a defense mechanism--with a lot of anxious chatter about it being "something in the water, man, like the black-fucking-plague." But Philip didn't want to hear about reasons for this shit storm then, and he sure doesn't want to hear about them now.
"Hey!" Philip addresses the heavyset man. "You still think this is funny?"
Bobby's laughter dies.
On the other side of the room, near a window overlooking the dark expanse of a backyard, which is currently shrouded in night, a fourth figure watches uneasily. Nick Parsons, another friend from Philip's wayward childhood, is a compact, lean thirty-something with the kind of prep-school grooming and marine-cut hair of an eternal jock. The religious one of the bunch, Nick has taken the longest to get used to the idea of destroying things that were once human. Now his khakis and sneakers are stippled with blood, and his eyes burn with trauma, as he watches Philip approach Bobby.
"Sorry, man," Bobby mutters.
"My daughter's in there," Philip says, coming nose to nose with Marsh. The volatile chemicals of rage and panic and pain can instantly ignite in Philip Blake.
Bobby looks at the blood-slicked floor. "Sorry, sorry."
"Go get the tarps, Bobby."
Six feet away, Brian Blake, still on his hands and knees, expels the last of his stomach contents, and continues to dry-heave.
Philip goes over to his older brother, kneels by him. "Let it out."
"I'm--uh--" Brian croaks, sniffing, trying to form a complete thought.
Philip gently lays a big, grimy, callused hand on his brother's hunched shoulders. "It's okay, bro ... just let it all out."
"It's all right."
Brian gets himself under control, wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. "Y-you think you got all of them?"
"I do."
"You sure?"
"You searched ... everywhere? In the basement and stuff?"
"Yes, sir, we did. All the bedrooms ... even the attic. Last one came out of hiding at the sound of that fucking cough, loud enough to wake the fucking dead. Teenage girl, tried to have one of Bobby's chins for lunch."
Brian gulps down a raw, painful swallow. "These people ... they ... lived here."
Philip sighs. "Not anymore."
Brian manages to look around the room, then gazes up at his brother. Brian's face is wet with tears. "But they were like ... a family."
Philip nods, and he doesn't say anything. He feels like giving his brother a shrug--so fucking what--but all he does is keep nodding. He's not thinking about the zombified family he just dispatched, or the implications of all the mind-numbing butchery he's already wreaked over the last three days--slaughtering individuals who were recently soccer moms and mailmen and gas station attendants. Yesterday, Brian had gone off on some bullshit intellectual tangent about the difference between morals and ethics in this situation: Morally, one should never kill, ever, but ethically, which is subtly different, one should maintain the policy of killing only if it's in self-defense. But Philip doesn't see what they're doing as killing. You can't kill a thing that's already been killed. What you do is squash it like a bug, and move on, and stop thinking so much.
The fact is, right now, Philip isn't even thinking about the next move his little ragtag group will make--which is probably going to be entirely up to him (he has become the de facto leader of this bunch, and he might as well face it). Right now, Philip Blake is focused on a single objective: Since the nightmare started less than seventy-two hours ago, and folks started turning--for reasons nobody has yet been able to figure out--all that Philip Blake has been able to think about is protecting Penny. It is why he got the hell out of his hometown, Waynesboro, two days ago.
A small farming community on the eastern edge of central Georgia, the place had gone to hell quickly when folks had started dying and coming back. But it was Penny's safety that had ultimately convinced Philip to fly the coop. It was because of Penny he had enlisted the help of his old high school buddies; and it was because of Penny he had set out for Atlanta, where, according to the news, refugee centers were being set up. It was all because of Penny. Penny is all that Philip Blake has left. She is the only thing keeping him going--the only salve on his wounded soul.
Long before this inexplicable epidemic had broken out, the void in Philip's heart would pang at 3 A.M on sleepless nights. That's the exact hour he had lost his wife--hard to believe it's been nearly four years now--on a rain-slick highway south of Athens. Sarah had been visiting a friend at the University of Georgia, and she'd been drinking, and she lost control of her car on a winding road in Wilkes County.
From the moment he had identified the body, Philip knew he would never be the same. He had no qualms about doing the right thing--taking on two jobs to keep Penny fed and clothed and cared for--but he would never be the same. Maybe that's why all this was happening. God's little gag. When the locusts come, and the river runs red with blood, the guy with the most to lose gets to lead the pack.
"Doesn't matter who they were," Philip finally says to his brother. "Or what they were."
"Yeah ... I guess you're right." By this point, Brian has managed to sit up, cross-legged now, taking deep wheezing breaths. He watches Bobby and Nick across the room, unrolling large canvas tarps and shaking open garbage bags. They begin rolling corpses, still dripping, into the tarps.
"Only thing that matters is we got this place cleaned out now," Philip says. "We can stay here tonight, and if we can score some gas in the morning, we can make it to Atlanta tomorrow."
"Doesn't make any sense, though," Brian mutters now, glancing from corpse to corpse.
"What are you talking about?"
"Look at them."
"What?" Philip glances over his shoulder at the gruesome remains of the matriarch being rolled up in a tarp. "What about 'em?"
"It's just the family."
Brian coughs into his sleeve, then wipes his mouth. "What I'm saying is ... you got the mother, the father, four teenage kids ... and that's like it."
"Yeah, so what?"
Brian looks up at Philip. "So, how the hell does something like this happen? They all ... turned together? Did one of them get bitten and bring it back inside?"
Philip thinks about it for a moment--after all, he's still trying to figure out just exactly what is going on, too, how this madness works--but finally Philip gets tired of thinking about it and says, "C'mon, get off your lazy ass and help us."
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It takes them about an hour to get the place cleaned up. Penny stays in the closet for the duration of the process. Philip brings her a stuffed animal from one of the kid's rooms, and tells her it won't be long before she can come out. Brian mops the blood, coughing fitfully, while the other three men drag the canvas-covered corpses--two large and four smaller ones--out the back sliding doors and across the large cedar deck.
The late-September night sky above them is as clear and cold as a black ocean, a riot of stars shining down, taunting them with their impassive, cheerful twinkling. The breaths of the three men show in the darkness as they drag the bundles across dew-frosted planks. They carry pickaxes on their belts. Philip has a gun stuffed down the back of his belt. It's an old .22 Ruger that he bought at a flea market years ago, but nobody wants to rouse the dead with the bark of gunfire right now. They can hear the telltale drone of walking dead on the wind--garbled moaning sounds, shuffling footsteps--coming from somewhere in the darkness of the neighboring yards.
It's been an unusually nippy early autumn in Georgia, and tonight the mercury is supposed to dip into the lower forties, perhaps even the upper thirties. Or at least that's what the local AM radio station claimed before it petered out in a gust of static. Up to this point in their journey, Philip and his crew have been monitoring TV, radio, and the Internet on Brian's BlackBerry.
Amid the general chaos, the news reports have been assuring people that everything is just peachy-keen--your trusty government is in control of the situation--and this little bump in the road will be smoothed out in a matter of hours. Regular warnings chime in on civil defense frequencies, admonishing folks to stay indoors, and keep out of sparsely populated areas, and wash their hands frequently, and drink bottled water, and blah, blah, blah.
Of course, nobody has any answers. And maybe the most ominous sign of all is the increasing number of station failures. Thankfully, gas stations still have gas, grocery stores are still stocked, and electrical grids and stoplights and police stations and all the infrastructural paraphernalia of civilization seem to be hanging on.
But Philip worries that a loss of power will raise the stakes in unimaginable ways.
"Let's put 'em in the Dumpsters behind the garage," Philip says so softly he's almost whispering, dragging two canvas bundles up to the wooden fence adjacent to the three-car garage. He wants to do this swiftly and silently. He doesn't want to attract any zombies. No fires, no sharp noises, no gunshots if he can help it.
There's a narrow gravel alley behind the seven-foot cedar fence, serving the rank and file of spacious garages lining the backyards. Nick drags his load over to the fence gate, a solid slab of cedar planks with a wrought-iron handle. He drops the bundle and opens the gate.


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Born as a horse stable, the Brick Weave House in Chicago is all about transportation and transparency. A clever renovation has made it the most compelling architecture on the block and home to a...
written by: Blair Kaminphotos by: Gregg Segal08.31.09 -
The Carter School Project
This summer, the Master of Architecture Program at Massachusetts College of Art and Design ran the first hands-on project in their Community Design Build program. At The Carter School, a school for...
written by: Sarah Rich08.31.09 -
2010 Calendar from Linda and Harriett
At Dwell, we're often living in several months at once: Our October 2009 issue hits newsstands next week but we're already busy writing our articles for February 2010. So it's not surprising that...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake08.31.09 -
Eight Questions for Graham Pullin
Graham Pullin is an interaction designer who teaches at the University of Dundee in Scotland. His new book is Design Meets Disability, out next month from MIT Press. I had a chance to ask Pullin a...
written by: Aaron Britt08.30.09 -
Koji Tsutsui
In September 2008, architect Koji Tsutsui accepted the Ceramic Tiles of Italy award for designing a modern, white-tiled residence in Tokyo. One day later, he traded the spotlights of European...
08.30.09 -
Friday Finds 8.28.09
This week at Dwell as the chilly summer gives way to the warmest, sunniest months in San Francisco's calendar, the troops have rallied up a collection of links from around the Web for your Week in...
written by: Sarah Rich08.28.09 -
Bird Calls from Sweet Bella
The design world, like Tippi Hedren, pecked on all sides, has fallen prey to the birds. For the past few years the crafty set has flocked in droves to our winged, feathered friends. Nary a letter...
written by: Aaron Britt08.28.09 -
Park Street Renovation
The renovation of Katie and John Eller's Park Street Residence in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco began with a referral from a friend: "She said, 'I want your architect and...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake08.27.09 -
Hungry? Print Yourself a Meal
Every year Electrolux Design Lab runs a student competition for innovative household appliances, and every year the challenge draws out ideas that are both visionary in concept [verging on sci-fi]...
written by: Sarah Rich08.27.09 -
Lund & Paarmann's Hot Seats
The Danish architecture and design firm Lund & Paarmann have some striking new seating debuting in just a few days at CODE09, an event of Copenhagen Design Week. The new collection, shown...
written by: Sarah Rich08.26.09 -
Architectural Reuse in Tokyo
In Japan, "old" is a relative term. While the country is known for its exquisite ancient temples, when it comes to residential architecture, many houses are considered ready for the...
written by: William Lamb08.26.09 -
Ball Clock Giveaway!
Dwell and Zwello have teamed up to gift a George Nelson–designed Ball Clock to one lucky person out there—sign up for one of our newsletters this week and enter to win.
written by: Amanda Dameron08.25.09 -
Wolfe Den, Austin, Texas
Architect MJ Neal, much like his hometown of Austin, Texas, possesses a balanced combination of country cordiality and urban edge. In October 2008, we wrote about one of his projects in the...
written by: Sarah Rich08.25.09