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August 25, 1SS2.
ST'LTPORNt.Y AT LAW, MONROE, LA.
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'rThos. 0. Benlton,
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Ollice with S. I). McEnery.
.I fl, C.Lt.DEIRWOOD. r Tlos. Y. ANlY.
I)rs. (Calderwood & Aby,
l'Practitioners in Modicino and Surgery.
O()tiee on trand street, in rear of F'. iM.
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Jatnuary 213, 10. n20:ly
Johnlu I. Diinklgraave,
A'l'TIINEY AT LAW, MONROE, LA.
Ollico opposite Court House. Practices
in all the Uourts of NOr'th Louisiana; also
in the Suplreme Court of the State and the
Federal Courts. All claims, inuluding cot
ton tlaims,_..vill recsli e IFrotnpt attention.
Lanid llico and Ponsion mtatters attended
to. March 28, 1879.
Dr. N. C. Murphy,
ESLIARD ST., MONROE, LA.-Having
Srecert ly arranged his ollico with special
reference to the treatment of chronic fenmale
diseases, Dr. Mturp)hy will give particular
attention to that branch of his rofessi.
D' IRefers to the medical fraternity of 1 1
roe and Trenton. June 15, 1811.
Talbot Stillmau,
STI''TOIINEY AT LAW. MosNROE, LA.,
will practice in the Parishes of
O.utchita, Slorchotse, Richlatod and l"rank
I-e, in the Supreme Court of the State,
and in the Federal Courts. Will take
claitis foir collection in all other parishes in
Loauisiana, with privilege of managing
santo in connection wtih attornoys residing
l.here. August 18, 1881.
a'. .. BOATNEi. J. S. BOAT'rNt
C. J.7& J. S. IIOATNEIt,
A'II'OlINE~YS AND COUNSELORS AT'
Imaw, Monroo, La., will pr-actice in all
the Parishes of North Louisiana, in the
Sti.npretmo Court at Mouroo, the Fedoral
('ianrts, and in the Land (Oltice hipartatnont
of the (lcneral (.oveernllllent.
()lic, frontting northeast corner (f public
siattar. July 15, 1852.
Dentist ry.
)lt. S. L. BRACEY, Dentist, rospectfully
olrers his professional services to the
citizens of Monroe and surrounding coun
try. Hlaving an experience of fourteen
vyars in the practice, lie feels contident of
giving satisficetion in all branches of his
I.rotibssion. Is willing to warrant all work.
t Hlice at residence oll Jackson street, near
!he Femal:te Aeadletay, ,Motnroe, La.
v7-nta rthl1 y
Jolha McEnmery,
ATTOI-NfY AT LAW .AV LANI) A(iEN'T',
ho, i ('arondelet St., New Orleans.
I AND IIUSINESS at the Land Oflices itt
J Now Orleans :and aVashington City at
tended to. Agency for sale anud purchase
of Plantations, Farmts and Uunituproved
lands solicited.
ig~t't:ajor J. (:. Richardson is associated
with \Ir. McEtncry in the land business,
to wvhich he will give his entire attention.
.January ;, 1881.
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Millsaps a& Tronsdaale.
AT 'roINEYS & COUNSELORS AT LAWV
MONtROE, LOI'ISIANA,
W ill practice in the courts of the Fifth
SDistrict, Supreme Court, and Federal
Courts. WVill take claitms fl;r collection in
-r' the parishes tof North ]Louisiana, with
p...lege of ma;uaging satle ill ollnuectiole
with resident attorneys.
Ollice in 8TUltn's HIrtttttNai, on Wood
street. August 18, l181.
)It. It. AT3MARI SMITH,
01' (JIARLLESO,, b. C:,
\'Who was graduated itn 1871 at the Phila
delphia Dental College, and has since been
practicing in his native city, will visit
Monroe about Christmas., when he will
open al offlice and offer his professional
services to the public for a few weeks.
t.o' All work done in the most approved
style, atnd satisfaction guaranteed.
November 25, 182.
R. RICHARDSON, Mt. T. LIDDEr.L.
Richardsonn & Lidldeli,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MonoE, LA.,
will practico in all the parishes of
North Louisiana, the Supremo Court of the
State, the Federal Courts, and in tme Land
Otfice Department of tne (8onoral Govern
ment. o November 25, 1882.
Stiitegy" of the Oil Fields.
[Cor: esponlncee 'Now Xork Sn.ilt.
When a producer sets out to make a
well a mystery he knows that he has a
task before him. The high board fence
which he puts around his well, a hun
dred feet or more from the derrick,
prevents the scouts from getting sam
ples of the sand unless they do so by
arrangement with a guard. If the
scouts succeed in obtaining a thimble
ful of sand they can make a good
guess as to what the well will amount
to. Some of the scouts have as many
as four or five hundred phials of sand,.
each of which is labelled with the
name or number of the well from
which it was taken. In some tracts
the sand is of the color of pulverized
fire-brick, in others it is chocolate-col
ored, and the experienced scout can see
something significant either in the
composition or color of every sample
of sand that he examines.
"This," said a scout, holding up a
phial in which was as much gray sand
as could be taken upon the blade of a
penknife, "was very precious at the
time it was obtained. It came from
646 in Cherry Grove."
After an owner of a mystery has
made provision for preventing the
scouts from getting any of the sand, he
must make arrangements for keeping
them so far from the well that they
cannot hear the flow of oil into the re
ceiving tank. So lie cuts underbrush
and surrounds his well with an almost
impenetrable brush fence, on the out
side of which he stations guards with
rifles or pole axes as weapons. As
many as a hundred guards are some
times employed at a single well. If
the scouts are unable to make their
way through tifls line and get within
hearing distance of the tank, they
must trust to sight for indications as to
what is doing at the well. The wag of
the walking beam will tell them with
in fifty feet how far down in the rock
the drill is cutting, though a stranger
can only see that the beam oscillates
with a slower motion as the well
grows deeper. If drilling has ceased,
the scouts watch the ventilator of the
receiving tank with the aid of a field
glass, noting' the number of hours out
of twenty-four that the inflow of oil
causes gas to escape from the ventilator
in a thin cloud. Knowing the number
of gallons that will flow through the
pipe in an hour, they can compute the
result of the flows that have taken
place in the twenty-four hours.
Another way of telling how deep a
well has been drilled is by watching
the cable through a field glass when
the tools are hauled up. As the rope
is wound upon the bull wheel the coil
runs to one end of the axle and back
again, and so on, like thread wound
evenly on a spool; and, by watching
the weaving of the rope back and forth
where it comes in sight above the roof I
of the derrick house, the scouts can tell
how many layers there are of the rope
that is wound up, and can make a
close guess as to the number of feet of
rope drawn from the well.
One of the most noteworthy myste
ries of the oil region was the Shannon
well, the wild-cat venture of the Coop
er tract in Forest county. Some time
in June last Mr. I'. M. Shannon a pro
ducer of long experience followed the
forty-live degree line from Sheffield
nine miles into the wilderness. There,
at a point six miles southeast of the
famous Cherry Grove field, and nearly
live miles froml the nearest cabin, lie
put up a rig and began drilling. lie
fire the drill touch-ed the oil-bearing
rock lie took two partner, into the
venture, Mr. '. 1'. Melvin and Mr.
A. 13. Walker. On July 26, the three
partners stopped at the well on their
way back from a lishing excursion.
They learned from the drillers that, ac
cording to their reckoning of the alti
tude at which drilling was begun,sand
rock should already have been struck
if there was aniy there. 't'he partners
were not very hopeful as to their ven
ture, and Messrs. Melvin and WValker
decided that they had seen enough of
the wildcat for the present, and went
on up to Cherry (;rove, leaving Mr.
Shannon behind. lie remembered
that a spring barometer had been used
for determining the altitude of the
locality, and that the measurement
might have heeni so far out of the way
that there was still hope of the drill
striking s.and rock. Junt before noon
on that day tie driller said to Mr.
Sihannon ;
,I guess we've struck sonetihing."
",The tools were hauled up," said Mr.
Shannon, telling the story of hi ven
ture, the other eventing, ''and a freshI
bit was put on. Drilling was resumeld,
and within ten minutes an odlor of ga
came from the well. (Our fuel htad
given out and we were burning hem
lock bark.
"Getting a little gas," said the dril
ler; "better look out for the fire."
,I put my head down to the hole
and hearda rushing sound far down in
the well. The tools were pulled up as
quickly as possible, and the bail was
run down. The oil had risen five
hundred feet in the well, though the
bit had gone only about ten inches into
the sand rock. The rushing sound I
continued, and it was plain that there
was going te be a strong flow unless
the well was pluggcd. We had a few
plugs on hand. Two or three of these
were put in and driven down. I would
rather have given live thousand dollars
than have her flow; but in about an
hour and a half she began to spout.
The oil saturated the ground and ran
down the hillside into the brook. ' I am
not accustomed to manual labor, but I
pulled off my coat and went to work
damming the brook, so that the oil
would not float down on the water and
tell thestory.
AN U NEX'E('TEI) A1NGe:R.
"I sent a note to my partners, which
I believe one of them has had framed. I
I don't remember just what it was, j
but it was something about her being a i
teaser.' Another messenger was sent
to Sheffield for more plugs. \Vhile he i
was away the well flowed again, and
we put down the last plugs we had on t
hand and then shovelled sand into the i
hole and drove it down, but still she I
flowed. The messenger got back from
Sheflleld the next morning, bringing 1
plugs in a bundle of hay across the sad
dle. This precaution was necessary, 1
for news concerning a new well spreads
like wildfire, and it takes only a little I
while for the scouts to be on hand.
My partners arrived at the well at
about 10 o'clock that morning. They a
thought my message was a joke, but t
had procured some plugs and come on. (
More plugs were then driven down, t
and the flow was stopped. The last f
plug, however, had stopped about 500 v
feet from the bottom, and could not be s
driven further. The tools rested on it. U
'You had better pull out the tools.' r
I said to thedriller; 1I guess she'll stay ji
plugged now.' t
"The driller started to haul up the v
tools, but I noticed that the rope was b
coming out of thie well sluck, and call- I
ed the driller's attention. v
"She's flowirng tile tools out of the r
well.' I
"I began to say something about r
that being too old a gag, when he yell- e
4''They're comaing-ru n, for (Ged's a
sake !" I
"Before the words were out of his a
mouth there was a noise as of a tre- o
mendous explosion, and the tools, g
weighing about three or four thousand p
pounds, were shot up through the top 1
of the shanty at least sixty feet and t
came crashing down through the roof, }
splintering the floor and sticking into a
tllh ground some eight or ten feet.
That's the first and last time I ever t
saw a set of drilling tools thrown out s
of the well by the flow. We put down s
eight more plugs, but she continued to
leak at tile rate of at least fifty barrels p
a lday.
(I Art:rl ) : tY ir ", r'rL. rN.
''lThe question then was how we C
could keeli the well a mystery. The
driller, his two men, and seven hunt- t
ers were armed with Springfleld rifles.
A. path marking a hexagon around tihe 0
well was cleared in the underbrush,
and a manr was stationed at each of the
six corners, with orders to let no one
cross the path. The path was lighted a
up with lanterns at night, so that no
scout could creep acro,: in tile dark
ness. Provisions were sent to tile
men, who had their .egular hours on
guard, under command of Capt. d
Haight-as the men called him-whlo t
was the contractor for drilling the well.
The well was thius kept under guard d
till Sept. 15, when she was opened to r
anybody who wanted to see what she a
was doing. MIeanwllile she was tubed ,
and supplied with tankage for storing s
5,000 barrels of oil. lMessrs. ILayno anrd
Fuller were; admitted to partnershlil,,
and the lirmr's business was conducted 4
under its present namre of Melvin,
Walker, Shanunon & Co. Of course we
secured leases of lands lying Inear. We "
took to ourselves the credit of being
tie first in the oil region to successful
ly guard a mlystery."
The opening of thIe Shannion well oc
curred when tihe production of the ti
Cherry Grove field was rapidly falling I
oil', anrd rumor had it that this fact, r
combined with thce accurate gaugilng of
the well's prodtuction by tlIe scouts, re
sulted iln a considerable loss to the
owners of the \well in operations on the
market. An old scout said : "They
never knew how the well was pilped off
till after it was- done. Thely hal it
guarded so closely that we couldn't get
nearit; so we had to time its flows by
watching with field glasses the escape
of gas from the tank while sihe was
blowing. I;lt we got it dov'wn pretty
M\r. Shanrnon, whenr asked about
this, replied not regretfully:
''Well, we didn't lose any very large
rrllOtulnt ol mlrllnrry. '
!)r. l)reser, whlo iha. written a workl
otn Japan, saw servetI Inn tihe table a
lish iol ifi-dr iso dellicately carved that
no vital part was touched, tandi the tiilr
was still live Iandi glaring rion its d
vourer, whllrI thie last slice oef its tleshl
h:o(l beemn co.rrsumrr i.' ThlIis riay sounlld
likc a wilt statcuLrlr, but thre inciderti
ihas bheci inatcelrtl ill tIlrI. cou( ntry. .\ i
mnrince jrie 1"as been s-ri ,ilic'ately carv
edl arnd teouollrtnulm I by a youlRg rrtan just I
before gelilre Icr tol I thai no vital part
w-as. touchIed, and it ,a'is -till rlive aind
touching thie yourg mran'.s vital parts
about three hIrurs after hie fhad elatf.n1
it. At least the yoUrnrg I:an resronr:nhly:
interred so, frorir th)e ermblroglio it
kicked up in his ihierral drIp ,rt rntn -
JKentucky grows 3 I,'r rcellt, o[ :i
tire tobacco growrr in thi. c-,unrtry.
LOItNE AIND) L001USI IN IIICUMON)D.
Ther Princess Orders a New llath Tub
aund her l[u.baud Tastes a tliat
ltt'il.oxn, Jan. IG-The Marquis
of Lorne and Princess Louise spent a
quiet, though to the former an inter
esting day in the capital of the late
Southern Confederacy, which city they
had so much desired to see as to travel
several h undred miles out of their way.
The Princess Louise did not leave her
hotel, owing to fatigue after her long
journey. Over-curious sightseers were
repaid for lounging about the hotel
with a gain of some ideas of royalty.
Early in the morning the Princess de
sired to take a bath, but declined to
use the tub in her suite of rooms, be
cause it was not new. A plumber had
to be sent for and a new bath tub
placed in the bath room, after which
her Royal Highness enjoyed her bath.
The suite of rooms occupied by the
Marquis and Princess is the same that
was assigned to the Prince of Wales on
the occasion of his visit before the
war. It was on that occasion that Jim
Cooke, a famous Virginia concoctor of
drinks, made for the Prince of Wales
the first mint julep his Royal Highness
ever tasted, and which so pleased him
that he used the now historic expression
"Give me another glass of that stuff
with grass and a straw in it." lie also
showed his delight by giving the
bar-kceper a $20gold piece, the highest
price known to have been paid for a
julep. The big julep cup from which
the Prince drank has been preserved
with almost religious care in the hotel,
but to-day it was taken from under
lock and key and sent to the Marquis
with the first mint julep in it since its
rim was pressed by the lips of thie
Prince of Wales. The Marquis spent [
much of his time in the State House
examining the souvenirs of the Con
federate Government, among them the
original copy of Stonewall Jackson's
last despatch, some of his letters, the
ordinance of secession, and other relics
of the Confederacy in which he took
great interest, as he did also In the
portraits of the Viceregal Governors of
Virginia. Among the colored people
the impression prevailed that Queen
Victoria was in the city, and they were
much excited over it.
Gov. Cameron was uhable to meet
the visitors, owing to the prevalence of
small-pox In his family. IHe, however
sent his welcome and regrets through
his private secretary. At 2 o'clock
Mayor Carrington, with the Presidents
of the Common Council and Board of
Aldermen and a committee of citizens,
called upon the Marquis at the hotel,
where the Mayor made a brief address
of welcome to, the distinguisbed visi
tors, assuring them ot thesincere love
of our people for her gracious Majesty
Queen Victoria and the people of
Great Britain. Later in the afternoon
the I'rinccss Louise and o a drove
aboub the city ill carri s.
AN AhITI''1131)FI'ICAL CURIOSITY.
To lld the day of the week for any
date within the first thirty centuries of
the Christian ora:
From the number indicating the year
drop all to the left of the tens. To this
result add its fourth part (regardless of I
any remainder), the day of the month,
and index of the century. Divide the
sum by 7, and the remainder will be
the day of the week, counting Sunday
1, Monday 2, Tuesday 3, Wednesday
4, Thursday 5, Priday 6, and Satuilay, .
'rA il.S m ' IN i 1('Is FOs ' MON.'PHs.
January... :3 May... .4 September....
I'ebruary...(; June....0 October.........
March.......G .uly ....2 November....6
Aprial......2 Aug...) 5 December.....
For Leap Year the indices for Janu
ary and Febuary would each be one
less than in the above table:
TA lI.1 (,r INI" (t)l', FOR ( ENTItt (il:
0--Index for 8,9, 18, 22, 2~, :iO.
I --Index for 1,8, 11.
2-Indulex forO0, 7, 15, 17, 21, 25, 29.
:-Index fur 6, 1:1.
i-Index for .3, 12, 1G, 24, 21, 25.
.--Index for 4', II, 19, 2, :17.
7-Index for :i, 1, 0.
To lind the index of the century for
any given y;ear, lind in tile table the
numbher drlria i tr., Tlime year, and its
index will be tlie index require 1.
Itt:luirur'd upon what day of the week
the 1 eclaration of Indleperndence was
signedl, .July 1, 177(; :
D)rop 17, and we have......................7(i
Add its fourth part.........................19
Add thie day of thie mnonth..................4
Addl indiex of the monrth....................2
Add iondie: of tlhe century...............2
.Stii.......................... 7)13):1
iiil - renn:m iniig, or Thursday, answer.
A S~tation muaster in India toIlograplh
r,, "20 miles to the central authorities:
'rTiger jumping about on platform.
l'haqsre tehlgraph instructions." Ther
fact is that the -tation master was una
ble to get to the signal station owiing
to tile pres.-nce of a tiger on the plat
forum, anti in order to avoid an appre
hlendll collision h(e telegraphed to the
hli:al olice forinstructions to bie sent to
tihe next signal box that an approach
Iril,, mthiglbl lit' -I "luit it t Ime.
[lltdou Rlougo Truth.l
At last it may with truth be said of
the remains of the soldiers and their
relatives who were interred in the
Barracks Cemetery that:
'On11 fano's etral camlllping ground,
Their silout tonts are spread,
AndiI.gloit guards with sollemn round
The bllvouac of the dead,"
for they now rest In the National Ceme
tery, fromn which, in all probability,
they will never be removed. The
twenty-one tombs at the Barracks con
tained the remains of twenty-five per
sons; tile names of whom have already
been published in the Truth. For them.
"Thli noietghingLstood, the lashing blade,
TheU btgle's stirring blast,
'iheo charge, the dreld'ful elcannonde,
Tho din and s:eout are palt,"
and they sleep under the stones origi
nally erected over their graves. With
few exceptions, little remained of the
bodies beyond a mass of crumbling
bones. The body of First Lieut. John
A. Mebane, however, which was buried
in an iron coffin, was as perfect as if
only recently interred. This fact was
ascertained by sliding back tie lid
covering the glass over the face. The
remains of Capt. Thomas iLarlker were
also in a fair state of preservation; but
of Dr. 11. F. l1arneynnd Capt. James
M. Morgan, and theothers, the bones
alone remained. Somo of the bodies
had been originally brought from far
to rest among those of their deceased
comnrades, in order that:
"Their own plroud Illd's heroin .,oil
Shoeld make their Ill or gave;
She -clahuned frolll w11 his rLches spoil-
'The ashes of the brave."
Of the twenty-flive, four are classed
as unknown. Two of these, however,
are the remains of the two young lieu
tenants, Itogers and Miles, of one of
the thrsat-if not the lirst-l'nited States
regiments wihich came to Baton lRouge
after the withdrawal of the Spaniards,
the details of which event are now
familiar to our readers as a matter of
history. Aelut. togers received a
slight from his comrade at a social
gathering, and a duel with pistols oe
sulted. The combatants met within
the barracks, and fell dead at the sanme
shot. No clue exists towards the identi
fication of the other two unknown.
They formerly occupied tihe saue
grave, but now sleep in sopnrate ea:rth
beds, where:
"No rllllor ofr l o ti 'i.ldvatlloe
No swellhs uIon he w itd,
No troulledl thought Iit nititighh itiutst
01 loved ones Ilol hIohitul,"
and where
"No visions of the IIiorrow's dt rife.
The warrior's dtreaoml alarlnl
No brayting horn, nIor Creai' ing I: hio
At dawnt sai:ill call to arms."
BEAUTIFUl WOIIRDS TO A BIIII)E.
The following beautiful letter was
written several years ago, by a gentle
man to ia bride, on receiving her wed
ding cards. It is exquisitely fresh and
original, and full of poetry:
''I am holding some pasteboard in
my hand, Adhile, and gazing on at card(
atnd a natie--a name with which your
gentlet life begal--:i name with which
your throbbing heart was lost. 'There
was nothing strange about the carid.
The maiden sign still looks fromn it
carlmn and customary, as it looked onI
many a friendly visit, as it lies in many
a formal basket. 1 ant gazing, too,
upon a card where the dear parent
tells the world she will be 'at home'
one day; and that is nothing new. But
there is another card, whose! mingling
there puts a flery tonguo into this
speechless pasteboard enameling fate
on commnon-place. It tells us that
feeling is maturing into destiny, and
that these ends are but tile pale heralds
ofa coming crisis, when a hand that
has presse(d friends' halltndl anid plucked
flowers shall close down on hin to
whom she shall bIe lfriend ami flower
"l have sent you It few flowers to
adorn the (lying Inorllents of your sin
gle life. They taro the genlltlst types of
a delicate friendl(ship. 'Thoy slpinrig tpt
by our side when others Ihave deserted
it, andl they will bIe fouind watching
over our grave whenl those- who sihoulld
cherish us have forgotten us.
lThe three great stages of our being
are the birth, the btril:al Ithe burial. To
tile first we hring only we\\akness; for tile
last we have niothlinlg but lul-t. lBut hero
at til, e atar, where life joins life, the
pair c:oin throbbing upto thlie holy man,
whispering the d(eep prornise that arms'
each other with each other's heart to
help on t(ie life's struggle of ciro and
'"The bcautiful will b there, know
ing uew beauty frotm tihe s'c(ne; Ilht
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great sensation this morning in the
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ler streets. How he ever got in'bis
perilous position no one knows, but he
was discovered about eight o'clock
walking along the wire in front of the
Western Union office. Ifa new comet
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excitement than the appearance of this
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throng of people who gazed at the ani
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wire, using the rat as a target.
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KAI RYSSDAL: What do you suppose happens when one of the world's two commercial airplane makers can't quite get its act together? You could start with an 85-point drop in the Dow, and then move on to criticism of Chicago-based Boeing.
The company announced today its much-touted new design, the 787, won't be delivered to customers on time. Marc Babej's with the marketing consulting firm Reason.
MARC BABEJ: Clearly, they've got egg on their face -- particularly because earlier this year, there were all these stories about the A380, Airbus' plane, being delayed, and the 787 being on schedule and everything looking good. And now, suddenly, you've got a similar kind of development on Boeing's end.
It's not just its act the company can't get together. Boeing executive Scott Carson said on a conference call today they literally can't put the planes together either.
SCOTT CARSON: The problems we've had with parts have ranged from fasteners that we've talked about a lot to clips and brackets and small assemblies being provided further down in the supply chain.
The last aviation word today goes to market strategist Marc Babej, and the odds more delays.
BABEJ: You know, I think at this point, who knows? Because next thing we know, Airbus could have another delay, or Boeing could have another delay. I mean, at this point, I wouldn't place any bets.


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National Mall Walking Tour, Washington, D.C.
This Tour Comes From...
National Geographic Driving Guide: Washington, D.C., and Environs
For more National Geographic travel guidesfrom Europe to Antarctica and everywhere in betweenvisit National Geographic Books at www.nationalgeographic.com/books/travel.
Stops on This Tour
1. Lincoln Memorial
To the west of the Mall stands the Lincoln Memorial (23rd St. N.W. +1 202 426 6841), immediately recognizable as the building pictured on pennies and five-dollar bills. Inside sits a larger-than-life sculpture by Daniel Chester French of the Great Emancipator, staring pensively toward the Capitol. Built in 1922, the monument's 36 Doric columns represent the states in the Union at the time of Lincoln's death. Many demonstrators have spoken out from these steps, literally "backed" by Lincoln as they faced enormous crowds gathered around the long Reflecting Pool below. In 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his "I have a dream..." speech here. Well before that, in 1939, opera singer Marion Anderson gave a groundbreaking concert after being barred from performing at nearby Constitution Hall because of her race. If you stroll around to the Potomac side of the monument, you'll see it faces Memorial Bridge with a long view up to Arlington House, once Robert E. Lee's home. The view is intentional, a symbolic reuniting of North and South.
Northeast of the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Constitution Gardens at 21st St. and Constitution Ave. +1 202 426 6841) makes a moving statement amid the greenery of Constitution Gardens. Called simply the Wall, its polished granite surface, really two joined triangles, is inset into a hillside and inscribed with the names of the roughly 58,000 men and women of the American armed forces who were killed or reported missing in action in Vietnam. The 21-year-old Yale architectural student, Maya Ying Lin, who designed the Wall in the early 1980s, said of it, "Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it." Judging by the many visitors who come here to mourn or pay hushed respects, Lin's moving symbol of healing remains powerfully affecting.
Three other, more conventional, war monuments stand nearbyone to women who served in Vietnam (1993) and another by Frederick Hart depicting soldiers in that same conflict (1984). The latter was commissioned to help abate the controversy that first raged concerning the abstract quality of the Wall. The third, dedicated in 1995, memorializes soldiers who served in the Korean War.
2. Washington Monument
Above rises the Washington Monument (15th St. N.W. +1 202 426 6841. Tickets required for entry. Same-day tickets available; arrive early. Reserved tickets available for handling fee at 800 967 2283 or reservations.nps.gov), perhaps the city'sand country'squintessential landmark, piercing the Washington skyline with austere marble simplicity. Crowning a small rise near the east end of the Reflecting Pool, this 555.5-foot [169.3-meter] obelisk was long in the making. As early as 1783, the Continental Congress voted to erect an equestrian monument to Washington. But, perhaps providentially, the new nation could not afford such statements, and for decades the idea languished. Then in 1833, private citizens founded the Washington National Monument Society and raised enough funds to begin planning the memorial. Preeminent architect Robert Mills won the design competition with his "grand circular colonnaded building... from which springs an obelisk." Construction actually got underway in 1848, and over time the concept was simplified to a single shaft. The monument committee solicited aid from states, aid that eventually took the form of granite blocks for the interior, engraved with appropriately respectful inscriptions. When Pope Pius IX contributed a block from a Roman temple, it was stolen by the radical, anti-Catholic "Know-Nothings" of the American Party.
With 150 feet [45.7 meters] of the obelisk completed, work ceased while the Civil War raged. Construction resumed in 1878, but contracts changed hands, and the marble used was quarried from a different source, resulting in the subtle color differentiations still visible today. That small flaw does not dissuade the crowds that perpetually wrap around the monument beneath fluttering American flags, waiting to ride the elevator to the observation room at its summit. From here, the city and the Virginian suburbs swell below, divided by the sweep of the Potomac.
South of the monument, the quiet waters of the Tidal Basin reflect the changing panoply of the seasons. In early spring, the scene becomes an unforgettable mirage of pink, as Japanese cherry trees in full, creamy bloom weep their petals into the basin's waters. The trees have a distinguished lineage, a gift to the city in 1912 from the mayor of Tokyo.
3. Jefferson Memorial
Appropriately, the nation's great gardener and aesthete, Thomas Jefferson, keeps an eye on the scene from the Jefferson Memorial (Off Ohio Dr. +1 202 426 6841). Modeled on the Roman Pantheon, it stands at the edge of the Tidal Basin, its domed Ionic colonnade an honor to the third President's love of classical architecture. Like so many neoclassic Washington buildings of the 1930s, this memorial was designed by John Russell Pope. In the center of the open-air monument, a bronze Jefferson stands holding a rolled parchment, a symbol of his Declaration of Independence. More of his memorable writings are inscribed on the encircling walls.
From here, walk back toward the city, heading right on the pathway curving up to 14th Street to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (14th and C Sts. S.W. +1 202 874 3188. Mon.-Fri. Tours fill quickly April-Sept. Requires free tickets, available at the ticket booth in front of the Bureau on Raoul Wallenberg Pl. between Independence and Maine Aves.). A break from the high-toned sublimity of the monuments, this printing plant offers a look at just how the nation's paper currency is produced. With its presses running nonstop, the bureau prints billions of dollars in paper money and billions of postage stamps annually. The exact number of bills and their denominations is regulated by the Federal Reserve Board, but normally most of the bills printed here are one-dollar bills, as their heavy use gives them a street life of only 18 months.
The guided tour begins in a processing area where large linen-and-cotton currency sheets are printed with bill impressions. The sheets are then passed into an area where they're examined and trimmed. A third area overprints the Treasury seal, serial numbers, and the Federal Reserve District seal and number. After this, the sheets are cut into separate bills, stacked, and sent to Federal Reserve banks throughout the country.
Next door rises one of the newest and most visited sites on the Mallthe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl. S.W. +1 202 488 0400. Passes are necessary only for the permanent exhibit; advance passes through Tickets.com (fee) 800 400 9373. Free same-day passes available at museum from 10 a.m., but arrive early as they can go quickly). This recent addition to the Mall was conceived to perpetuate the memory of the victims of the World War II Holocaust. The massive limestone exterior encases an interior courtyard whose redbrick walls are meant to recall the architecture of Nazi death camps such as Auschwitz. Off the courtyard, the emotionally riveting exhibit "Daniel's Story" traces the life of a young German Jewish boy in the 1940s, from his secure middle-class home to the privations and horrors of the death camps.
The museum's darkly powerful permanent exhibit dominates the remainder of the building, with historic footage and artifacts tracing Hitler's rise to power and his increasing obsession with his "final solution" to the problem of Jews and other "impure" races and individuals. In the hushed marble Hall of Remembrance, an eternal flame burns for the more than 11 million victims of the resulting Holocaust.
As you exit the museum, turn left down 14th Street. The massive, turreted redbrick government building just beyond was built in 1879 to house an earlier Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Continue up 14th Street, turning right on Jefferson Drive, where the Smithsonian Institution (+1 202 357 2700. All museums free and open daily) commences a corridor of world-class museums. The concept for the Smithsonian began with English scientist and man of letters James Smithson (1765-1829). Although he never traveled to the United States, he bequeathed his estate to this country's government, stipulating the moneys be used "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The Smithsonian now ranks as one of America's great cultural achievements and the largest complex of museums in the world. Besides its eight Mall museums (and the Castle), the institution manages two museums in New York, an astrophysical observatory in Massachusetts, numerous scientific research centers throughout the world, and five other sites in D.C.the National Portrait Gallery, the adjoining National Museum of American Art, the Renwick Gallery, the Anacostia Museum, and the National Zoological Park.
4. Freer Gallery
The first stop you'll encounter on this tour of the Mall is the elegant marble Freer Gallery (12th St. and Jefferson Dr. S.W.). Detroit industrialist Charles Lang Freer left his outstanding collection of American and Asian art to the Smithsonian in 1919, also giving the moneys to build this refined Italian Renaissance gallery. Among the museum's extensive collection of works by American artist James McNeill Whistler is his fanciful Peacock Room.
Like the Freer, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (1050 Independence Ave. S.W.) was conceived by an individual. Dr. Sackler, a New York psychiatrist, was a voracious private collector with a connoisseur's eye. In 1982 he donated his superb collection of Asian art to the Smithsonian, and now gallery after gallery is filled with exquisite Chinese jades, Neolithic bronzes, beautifully wrought Near Eastern gold and silver, and a renowned series of Islamic manuscripts that span the 11th through the 19th centuries. The architecture of the museum creates a compelling atmosphere for the collection. A green, pyramidal roof covers an entrance pavilion leading to a cool, winding warren of underground galleries. Viewing the objets d'art in this undistracted subterranean setting seems to intensify their aspect.
A similar pavilion, this one with a rounded roof, stands across the pleasant Enid A. Haupt Gardens from the Sackler. This serves as the gateway to another underground museum, paralleling the Sackler in style and connected to it by a subterranean corridor: The National Museum of African Art (950 Independence Ave. S.W.), which once occupied the Capitol Hill town house of abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass, is dedicated to the study, collection, and exhibition of the arts of Africa. Focusing on traditional African arts from south of the Sahara, the treasures on display range from the detailed artwork of Benin sculptures to the figurative wood works of the Yoruba and Asante peoples, along with masks and sculptural art of many other ethnic groups.
At the rear of the Haupt gardens, flanked by these two museums, stands the Smithsonian's signature building, the aptly named Smithsonian Castle (Mid-Mall on Jefferson Dr.), its nine towers rising from a crenellated cornice. A true piece of Romanesque Revival architecture designed by James Renwick, Jr., the red Seneca sandstone Castle opened as the first Smithsonian building in 1855. No longer a museum, it now houses the Institution's management offices as well as a Visitor Center, where touch screens and maps allow tourists to plan their visit to the Smithsonian and other Washington sites.
Next door, the Arts and Industries Building (Mid-Mall on Jefferson Dr.) offers a nostalgic look at the past. Its 1881 exterior has a Victorian whimsicality in keeping with its purpose: to house a portion of the massive amounts of artifacts left over from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia. Today, two of the four wings radiating out from a central fountained and skylit rotunda remain filled with those same artifactsmachinery, gizmos, and exotica celebrating the best the world had to offer in 1876. The other wings house changing exhibits dealing with the culture and history of Native Americans and African Americans.
Leaping from old to new, the adjacent Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Jefferson Dr. at 7th St. S.W.) celebrates modernity. The distinctive concrete drum-shaped building and its Sculpture Garden contain one of the best collections of modern art in the world. Within, paintings by Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, and abstract expressionists such as Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock are represented, as is the challenging contemporary art of Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. Works by 19th-century American masters and a number of French sculptors can also be found. The museum's benefactor, Joseph Hirshhorn, arrived in Brooklyn early in this century as a poor Latvian émigré. A genius at finance, he became a Wall Street broker at the age of 18 and went on to make a fortune in uranium investments. After his collection was exhibited at New York's Guggenheim Museum in 1962, Hirshhorn was courted by a number of different countries, all offering to establish a museum to house his masterpieces. Persuaded by President Lyndon Johnson and S. Dillon Ripley, then Secretary of the Smithsonian, Hirshhorn ultimately donated some 12,000 works of art to this museum bearing his name.
Raised on piers, the museum, designed by Gordon Bunshaft, dominates a plaza punctuated with large works by such contemporary sculptors as Claes Oldenburg and Tony Cragg. In front of the museum, facing the Mall, the sunken Sculpture Garden displays classically modern masterworks, including sculpture by Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, and Henri Matisse.
The final Smithsonian building on the east side of the Mall, the National Air and Space Museum (Independence Ave. at 6th St. S.W. Adm. fee for theater and planetarium shows) celebrates the romance of aviation in both its exhibits and its visitor count. Year after year a steady stream of admirers pours through its doors, making it the most popular museum in the city. Inside the museum's large, sleek facade, the history of flightand the epic-making flying machines that made it possibleare recounted and preserved in loving detail. The Wright Brothers' 1903 Flyer is here, as is Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis; the Apollo 11 capsule, whose lunar module landed astronauts on the moon; and a more recent U-2 spy plane. You can experience the thrill of being airborne in the museum's five-story IMAX theater, or peer deep into the heavens at the Albert Einstein Planetarium.
5. U.S. Botanic Gardens
Stroll a couple of blocks toward the Capitol, where a warm tropical air and heady perfumes fill the huge greenhouse that constitutes the U.S. Botanic Gardens (1st St. S.W. and Maryland Ave. +1 202 225 7099). Sweet-smelling orchids, banyans, and other exotics mingle here with seasonal floral displays of mums and poinsettias. The lovely Bartholdi Fountain dominates a gracious park and pool on the Mall in front of the greenhouse.
6. National Gallery of Art
Follow Fourth Street across the Mall to its north side, where the polished angles of the breathtaking East Building of the National Gallery of Art (Madison Dr. and 4th St. N.W. +1 202 737 4215) glint in the sunlight. I. M. Pei designed this monumental building on a trapezoidal site, to make an architectural statement that would simultaneously contain the boldness of modern art, serve as a showpiece for the northeast corner of the Mall, and harmonize with the classical architecture of the adjacent West Building. As with the older West Building, it was largely the Pittsburgh steel fortune of financier and statesman Andrew Mellon that bankrolled this new structure.
Even the plaza linking the two buildings does not suffer from understatement. Seven glass tetrahedrons protrude from its rough stone surface, and water ripples down a waterslide. At the museum entrance, an organic rounded form, unmistakably by 20th-century British sculptor Henry Moore, makes clear that this is a place of masterpieces. Inside, the museum's cavernous skylit atrium sweeps upward, showcasing an immense mobile by Alexander Calder. Intimate galleries off this main space feature rotating exhibits of smaller works. Other exhibit spaces angle off the museum's three levels, highlighting 20th-century painting and sculpture as well as major traveling and special exhibitions. An underground concourse, with more exhibits, a café, cafeteria, and bookstore, links the East and West Buildings.
The severe neoclassic lines of the original National Gallery, now called the West Building, are the work of John Russell Pope. The museum's Tennessee marble facade extends 785 feet [239.3 meters] (from Fourth to Seventh Streets), making it one of the largest marble buildings in the world. Chartered by Congress in 1937, the museum was the brainchild of Andrew Mellon. Early in his life, Mellon began collecting European art, often traveling to the Continent for that purpose with his friend Henry Clay Frick, who gave New York its famous Frick Collection. During his tenure as Secretary of the Treasury in the 1920s, Mellon hit upon his plan to endow a national gallery of art. In the next decade, he collected ardently, focusing on the true masterpieces of Western art, including a score of superb pieces he acquired from Leningrad's Hermitage Museum. In 1941 his long dreamed of National Gallery of Art opened. With its healthy endowments, it has continued to grow and now stands as one of the world's foremost repositories of masterworks.
Beneath the high dome of the West Building's rotunda, a bronze statue of Mercury wings his way above a fountain surrounded by dark Italian marble columns. Two stately corridors lined with sculpture sweep off either side of the rotunda, leading to a suite of galleries arranged by country. The galleries west of the rotunda begin with Byzantine religious art, then progress into the ethereal beauty of Italian Renaissance works by masters like Botticelli and Raphael. The pièce de résistance is the portrait of Ginevra de' Benci (1474) by Leonardo da Vinci. Other galleries on this side of the museum display flamboyant baroque art and the more somber works of such Spanish painters as El Greco and Velázquez. Flemish and Dutch paintings are also represented, including several Rembrandt masterpieces.
On the other side of the rotunda, the story of Western art continues with a strong dose of 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century French, British, and American paintings. Highlights here include the romantic portraits of Britain's Thomas Gainsborough and America's Gilbert Stuart, the mystic abstractionism of J. M. W. Turner and Albert Pinkham Ryder, and the controlled brushwork of John Singer Sargent. But the greatest draws are the Impressionist galleries, where you'll find paintings by all the greatsMonet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Gauguin, and others.
Leave the National Gallery from the ground-floor Constitution Avenue entrance and walk northwest a short block to the National Archives (Constitution Ave. between 7th and 9th Sts. N.W. +1 202 501 5000). Yet another building by John Russell Pope, this pedimented limestone repository houses the nation's most hallowed documents. Its soaring, 75-foot-high [23-meter-high] rotunda, popularly known as the Shrine, serves as an appropriate backdrop to the three "charters of freedom," displayed on a marble dias: the Declaration of Independence, the preamble and signature pages of the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. A side case holds the 1297 version of England's Magna Carta, on permanent loan to the archives from its owner, Ross Perot. Though lines perpetually snake past these revered parchments, many visitors come here to avail themselves of the genealogical records stored in the microfilm research room, which is open to the public (Photo ID required. Closed Sun.).
Fronting both the Mall and Constitution Avenue, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (Madison Dr. between 9th and 12th Sts. N.W.) always echoes with the voices of school groups. They come to ogle the 13-foot-high [4-meter-high] taxidermied African bush elephant that seems to charge across the rotunda, or the 92-foot-long [28-meter-long], life-size model of a blue whale that hangs in the Life in the Sea section. Along with the many creaturespresent and prehistoricfeatured in this museum are dioramas and murals depicting native cultures worldwide, an insect zoo, moon rocks and meteorites, and the Smithsonian HoloGlobea rotating globe of the earth. The Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals, a new addition to the museum, features the National Gem Collection and a new display of the renowned Hope Diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world.
Next door, the National Museum of American History (Madison Dr. at 14th St. N.W.) seems to prove that the Smithsonian is indeed the nation's attic. At this final stop on the Mall, progress, nostalgia, Yankee know-how, and simple patriotism are celebrated in the items on display and the stories that accompany them. The original tattered, age-faded star-spangled banner that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the national anthem is undergoing a three-year conservation project; visitors have a chance to see the conservators at work. Also on exhibit are vintage cars, railroad memorabilia, First Ladies' gowns, and the unforgettable ruby slippers that took Dorothy home in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
To return to your starting point at the Lincoln Memorial, you can turn left on Constitution Avenue and continue down to 23rd Street. If you are planning to use the subway system, a Metro stop is located almost directly across the Mall, near the Freer Gallery.


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Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, today announced a weekly video update series on the issues facing Congress and the nation.
In the inaugural update, Grijalva discusses the death of Osama bin Laden and its effect on foreign policy; the federal budget debate; and the facts behind rising gas prices.
These updates, like his other video content, are viewable at his Congressional YouTube page.


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A week after a bank robbery at the Bank of the West in Stockton led to the shooting death of Misty Holt-Singh, News10 spoke with former gang member Christen about life in a gang.
Christen said once he heard about the robbery and shootout one thing came to mind.
"When I saw it, it didn't surprise me," he said. "When you are in a gang, you do things you never think you will do."
Stockton police have offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a fourth suspect, believed to have dropped of the three bank robbers. Christen said it may be hard to catch the person.
"To be honest, I am not sure, but there is always a possibility," he said. "Snitching is something you just don't do, especially here in Stockton."
Christen has been working with the Stockton Peace Keepers program that helps kids involved in gangs, or teetering on being involved in gangs, to find an outlet.
As for Christen, he's now on the road to become the first person in his family to graduate high school. He said his future is now a bright one.
"I plan on going into law enforcement to become a corrections officer," Christen said.


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I stumbled across Mike Hawthorne's Deviant Art page, and though I was looking for one specific image, the plethora of great art had me spending way too much time looking at his gallery.
One of a set of three I was commissioned to do recently.
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ENCINITAS —— The public is invited to participate in a nature treasure hunt and to learn about San Elijo Lagoon's wildlife from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the nature center, 2710 Manchester Ave.
San Elijo Lagoon Day activities include a hands-on archaeology display, discovery stations with birds and bugs, live animal presentations, native plant exhibits and refreshments.
The county-owned San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve covers 855 acres between Encinitas and Solana Beach.
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"It is a marvelous and wonderful thing that thousands are touched by the miracle of the Holy Spirit, that they believe and accept and become members. They are baptized. Their lives are forever touched for good. Miracles occur. A seed of faith comes into their hearts. It enlarges as they learn. And they accept principle upon principle, until they have every one of the marvelous blessings that come to those who walk with faith in this, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"It is faith that is the converter. It is faith that is the teacher.
"Thus it has been from the beginning.Comment on this story
"I marvel at the quality of the men and women who accepted Joseph Smith's testimony and came into the church. They included such men as Brigham Young, the Pratt brothers, Willard Richards, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, the wives of these men and a host of others. They were people of substance. Many of them were well educated. They were blessed of the Lord with the faith to accept the story which they heard. When they received the message, when the gift of faith touched their lives, they were baptized. The brethren gladly gave up what they had been doing and, with the support of their families, responded to calls to go across the sea to teach that which they had accepted on faith."
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The History of Ronda
Ronda is one of the oldest cities of Spain
According to archaeological findings, Ronda belongs to the even earlier to the Neolithic era. Proof of this are the paintings found in the Cueva de la Pileta, one of the best paintings of the Paleolithic era in all Andalusia.
During the recent prehistory have been found a lot of human settlement, whose remains can still be admired today in the megalithic necropolis: Dolmen de El Chopo y Encinas Borrachas among others.
Monuments, Musea, Historic Sites, Local Festivals, The White Villages, Wineries, Restaurants, Shopping, Nature Reserves, Activities, Arts and Craftwork see "Location" together with directions how to get there.
It was also at that time when the most important human settlements in the region were defined: Acinipo whose important moment was at the Roman Empire, and Ronda, which was important in the Middle Ages.
Once Acinipo disappeared after the Fall of the Roman Empire, Ronda began to gain importance. Despite of being a small settlement even during the early period of the Middle Ages, Ronda became the main place where important historic events occurred
However, the Arab Age has to be considered as the most important period, because of its cultural legacy which is still alive now in gastronomy, traditions, urban development, farming systems and of course education and art.
The reason for Ronda being so well known started with the Nazari Kingdom of Granada. These territories were conquered by the Catholics coming from Castilla. That leads the city of Ronda, as well to its region, to become a very important border zone.
After the conquest of the city by the Catholic Monarchs in 1485, deep economic and cultural changes happened, which can be still seen at the structure of the city: streets were made broader for example
The 18th century, and the arrival of the Modern Age is the time when most relevant monuments of Ronda where built: The New Bridge and the Bullring.
Since that time and during the 19th century, the romantic image of the city grows as well as the legend of the bandits in the Serranía mountains and the "art" of bullfighting.
Both aspects have been converted since then into symbols of our culture and tradition. Despite of this, the cultural and traditional richness of Ronda is much wider and diverse


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At least 30 cars lined Avenida De Mayo when the Budweiser Clydesdales trotted through Siesta Key Village March 4.
The two-way street east of the Village has served as overflow parking during season when the public parking lot is full. But, that could change today, after the Sarasota County Traffic Advisory Council considers a request from a property owner to prohibit parking on one side of the road.
Marlene Merkle will make the request at the council's meeting at 2 p.m., at the R.L. Anderson Administration Center in Venice.
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Five years after the killings on May 12, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and several other political and religious parties have adopted a resolution to demand the government apprehend and expose those responsible.
At a national conference organised by JI at the Regent Plaza Hotel, the party chief Syed Munawar Hassan placed the blame squarely on a coalition partner in the government. When asked if that particular party had been invited to the conference, Hassan replied, "We would invite the […] if it were a political party, but political parties have different cultures and aims from terrorist organisations".
The Awami National Party leader, Shahi Syed, said that a military operation should be carried out against criminals in Karachi but Hassan did not advocate a military solution, saying that the military cannot find a solution to Karachi's problems. Shah Mehmood Qureshi of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf compared the state of the judiciary today with the events on May 12, saying that the judiciary still isn't free and that the government does not accept the Supreme Court's decisions.
The process of litigation into May 12 had been impeded and the court's doors had been forcibly shut, declared the Karachi Bar Association president, Mehmoodul Hassan. The party members called for unity between the parties to pressure the government into carrying out justice. The Pakistan People's Party was held responsible for giving patronage to those behind the chaos on May 12.
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Eat cake for breakfast. Yep, I do that.
Whether it's pancakes or chocolate cake. It's delicious at eight at night or six in the morning.
This cake has officially changed the entire breakfast experience for me. Cinnamon roll…. cake.
There aren't words.
But since this is a blog post and I'm here to write about this cake, I've taken it upon myself to find words at times like this.
So I will simply tell you that this pound cake is dense, and moist, and so much like a cinnamon roll is almost scary.
Really. I kept looking at it thinking, this isn't a real cinnamon roll??
No, it's cake. Cinnamon roll cake.
Ahhhhhhhh so good!! And so gone. which means I need to make more.
And my cereal for tomorrow is looking extremely dull now.
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks), softened
- 3 cups sugar plus ¼ cup, divided
- 1 cup vanilla greek yogurt (I used Chobani)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
- 6 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- {For the Icing}
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 2 oz cream cheese, softened
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1½ cups powdered sugar
- Preheat oven to 350. Line two 9x5 loaf pans with nonstick foil, spray heavily with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in greek yogurt. Stir in heavy cream and vanilla. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each egg. In a separate bowl mix flour and baking soda. Add dry ingredients to wet in gredients and mix until just combined.
- In a small bowl mix ¼ cup sugar and cinnamon. Pour ⅓ of batter into loaf pans. Sprinkle half of cinnamon sugar mixure into pan. Repeat with remaining batter, then cinnamon sugar, then ending with batter.
- Bake about 50 minutes or until edges begin to brown and an inserted toothpick comes out clean. If cake is not ready at 50 minutes, check again every 5-10 minutes. Allow to cool completely before gently removing from pans.
- For the icing, mix together butter and cream cheese. Add cream, vanilla, and powdered sugar and mix to combine. Pour over cooled loaves. Allow to cool and set at least one hour before slicing and serving.


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I am too lazy to transpose the description from the plaque but it sounds like it's loaded with some awesome features.
I am too lazy to transpose the description from the plaque but it sounds like it's loaded with some awesome features.
How interesting.
Well, I guess that means that the proton pack is next?
I know they are not the most accurate items but I think of them as somewhere between role-play toys and real prop replicas.
The features they have put in these have a good "play factor". I know I am taking my Matty PKE meter to the showing of
Ghostbusters at my local cinema in two weeks!
I look forward to more info!!
It's pretty off what a real thrower should be. It's Matty shelling out another toy that people line up like lemmings to buy. It's almost like people forget about the awful goggles and hoverboard.
...from the Matty Collector website.
Epic Creations™ Ghostbusters™ Neutrino Wand
Negative vibrations from ectoplasmic entities bumming you out? Give them a positive blast with your Neutrino Wand! Developed with Sony Entertainment, this authentically detailed wand delivers vibrations and a force kickback when blasted, light-meter animations on the base that ramp up or down depending on how high you've adjusted the proton stream setting, and an extending tip that lights up with orange, red, and yellow LEDs (does not actually shoot a beam).
The wand's buttons and switches are loaded with lights and sounds sampled directly from the Ghostbusters™ films, including the main power on/off switch and the proton stream on/off switch, length-adjuster knob, and "blasting" button. And if total protonic reversal is your thing, then you'll want to cross the streams and see what happens! Fire two Neutrino Wands at each other and watch the lights change color as the light-up meter transforms to a unique pattern and new sounds and vibration are triggered.
Anyone know when this is for sale?
No one forgets, some people just want the cool toy versions for the cool toy factor.
Im pretty impressed for a toy, I can't wait to get this. I won't be terrified of breaking it. Really happy its 130$, hope this comes through :-)
I look forward to be letting down by this.
(that was for you, Brad
The thing looks absolutely horrendous! I may buy one just to gut it and use the electronics in a scratch build.
PKE Meter was great, trap was pretty damn cool. Hope this is as well.
I don't like Matty. At all. But this looks pretty neat.
The extra effects sound really nice. Stuff I wanted to replicate when I made my wand (vibration, "cross the stream" effect) but didn't.
What exactly is so "horrendous" about this? I keep seeing fans going off on how terrible it looks.
So far all I can see are the banjos around the tip (should be brass and they look like black plastic here), the tubing there should be red instead of green, the hat light near the tip is orange / red instead of white, the other hat light looks like molded black plastic and the knobs look pretty cheap.
Seems like a few easy mods could fix it right up.
The Ghost Trap is one of the coolest toys I've ever owned. I hope this can compare.
It actually might be fun and less stressful modding these a bit instead of a scratch build. I've built 3 complete packs and was thinking about making a fourth to keep but I might hold off and pick one of these up!
For anyone who wants a thrower but doesn't have the means to build their own this will be a good fit for them. With a few modifications it can be made to look close to accurate if they choose so. I have the PKE and Trap, would like to figure out how to change the annoying beep on the pke to the movie sound but I just put it in silent. For the Trap I have swapped out some of the plastic parts for real ones and attached a plate where the battery is to have it hold better on the belt.
If this was released before I started building my pack, I would have probably jumped on it and then modded it
I wonder if this will be out for Halloween? I was going to upgrade my thrower in time for then, but am considering holding off now...
Anyone can build a better thrower than this hunk of plastic. The "I don't have the space or skillset" is a copout.
As for this thing Matty is showing off:
All the metallics looks wrong, the banjos should be brass, the gunear hatlight should be orange or white, the top hat light should be orange or white, the front tubing should be red, the design of all the brass parts is wrong, the switches are wrong (giant nut), the top vents are spaced weird, the knobs are all wrong, the gunear on the left has a weird divot in it, the rear green tube is too long, the rear cylinder is the wrong shape, the front barrel stackup is missing a "layer", the trigger box is completely the wrong dimensions, the guntrack is dimensionally wrong, as is the v-hook, the vent light doesn't appear to work, and there's huge gaps in the seams and random hardware all over the place.
I also doubt that the electronics function the way they do in the film, since no one has publicly released a kit that does, so Matty could just copy the functions. I also wonder whose hard work they stole for their labels.
If Matty took the time to actually research the real props before tossing together a toy for China to crap out, it would probably look relatively better, though that's not saying much.
Guys... This is a TOY, not a prop replica. I would have killed for something half this good when I was a kid.
One year earlier and that thing would make my day, but now I have a replica and it looks twice as good...
I bet the sound will more awful as in the matty trap...
Looks like a fall 2013 release!
$130? And for these ugly goggles $110?
looks like somethings wrong with the prices...
This would be good to cosplay without fear of damaging a resin thrower. I wore a Proton Pack once for Halloween to a club, that was the LAST time!
More info and video over at All News | GhostbustersNews.com
I suggested a few years back on their forums of doing just the wand if not the proton pack as my sons had led a bunch of smaller kids through a local haunted house letting them hold our spare wands without packs. It was a huge hit with the kids and it would keep the overall cost down for collectors as well give the overall collects a feel of having most of the costume. Looks like Matty listened.
The wand is very nice, super for the toy version and I think absolutely not bad, quite excellent actually given the features. A great way to revitalize the prop line after the last few failures by Matty.


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Discussion in 'New Zealand' started by Phreaky Phil, May 19, 2013.
Have fun, and remember the Molesworth has a lot of wandering stock at the moment.
thanks Woodman - I noted your warning over on the Nelson thread - Cheers S
Have a good time down there Aslan.
Wot he said Aslan.
I was thinking about the Taranaki hard core crew yesterday wondering if they were making the most of this awesome hot weather we're having at the mo. Seems quite a few organised rides happening at the mo. Good time too before the xmas loopies hit the road.
Are we making the most of this fine weather? You betcha Padders
Just got home from doing the Wanganui River Rd - Parapara's loop.
You will be pleased to know its not far (by hardcore standards ) between coffee's
And you'll be pleased to know that plans are underway to fit a sidechair to Schmidt with a coffee machine plumbed up so no more grumpy Padmei on long rides
Prob could actually fit a pie warmer on there too for those that feel inclined
Attach a camelback hose to the coffee machine and You can sip away all day happy Padmei
As for riding, yes. Making the most of it. Weekend before last I took Dawn to Napier as she missed out on the C2C and this weekend Youngie, Leanne, Dawn and I spent the weekend exploring in the central North Island. Found an Awesome spot for an overnight stop
A new plan
Dats where I was yesterday - except I went home via Turakina Valley - Hunterville - Apiti - Ashurst etc
I love the river road - I just bobble along at modest pace drinking in that lovely 'land time for forgot' feeling
They are marketing it well. It has that same "forgotten world" feeling as 43. A noticable increase in the number of camper vans being the unfortunate side effect.
I was riding with a guy on a triumph something or other road bike, he found the first gravel section below Jerusalem needed his full consentration
We went up Turakina Valley Road on Saturday, my first time, gorgeous road and scenery.
Yes I wouldnt want to be on that bit with a fat 17" front plow. I took it nice and easy even with a nice skinny 21' front. I went up the river road a couple of months ago and had to dodge every animal known to mankind - sheep,cows,horses,goats,pigs even lamas. This time I never saw anything until just out of Reatahi - weird how it changes.
And yes it does have a similar feel to 43, Taumaranui to Stratford is also one of the best road rides in the country.
I was intending to head down Whangaehu Valley Rd but the road is/was blocked so Turikina was my 2nd choice - but it was a lovely ride anyway.
What time did you come through? - I went down about 2pm ish
We stayed in Wanganui on Friday night so left around 9.00 am, we lunched in Taihape
We actually went up the Whangaehu Valley road, across Fields Track and down Turikina Valley rd. But Youngies maps a bit trashed so its hard to tell
How is the president of the THC doing now? Healing up well with no long term injuries?
News gets to the South Padders?
Yeah mate you will be pleased to know the assistant director of the next Naki Coffeeless ride survived
Serious head and spinal injuries? haa Drs what do they know
They couldnt find anything wrong with me (that didnt already exist) so its a case of sit quietly in a corner and mend for a month.
And as a matter of interest, yes it fooken hurt
Glad to hear you're okay Colin - from the news paper pic it looked like your tractor received a hell of a whack
Good to hear that there wasn't major injuries, but I'm betting that the contusions, sprains, & experience of it will have knocked you around.
Did Phil defer the ride down here? Haven't heard from him.
Seems that keeping off the grog isn't always enough to prevent waking up in the morning & feeling like you've been hit by a truck
Get well soon, we are relieved to hear things aren't as bad as 1st reported!
You should try a cup of coffee in the morning - does wonders for me
Sorry about the slackness of reports people, Dr has told me I am not allowed to go near TV or computer :eek1 plus I am not allowed to read anything. Bah humbug, Drs what would they know :huh
Results are in and they found no broken bones, internal bleeding or brain damage. Mind you they never mentioned finding a brain so perhaps............
I have lost at least 12 hrs of memory, it flew out the window somewhere during the crash :huh I was out to lunch for a few hours, they tell me I was pleasant to deal with (I was talking the whole time apparently) but the conversation got a bit boring for them as I was on a two minute repeat cycle
I am not allowed to drive a motor vehicle until the end of the month due to the extent of the concussion, do bikes class as motor vehicles?
Any hee, best I get off this computer before I get growled at (again). Thankyou for your good wishes and kind thoughts, I shall repay you in kind by continueing to annoy you all and will get some more wee adventures organised soon


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Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Administration Bond
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:24:50 EDT
In a message dated 8/21/00 2:40:19 AM !!!First Boot!!!,
<< Sun, 20 Aug 2000 14:18:23 EDT
Subject: Administration Bond
Dear Mary Lou;
This is not a dumb question! The administrators are often family members.
However, I have a number of wills of ancestors who appointed neighbors of
theirs and family friends to administer or co-administer estates. I found in
one instance that the executors were two neighbors of the deceased.
Apparently very trusted neighbors. There are any number of reasons for the
decision about who will be best suited to take care of the long hours and
headaches that go along with the administration of an estate. If you have
ever had to do this, you would know what a job it is!
This is a dumb question from some one who has been doing genealogy as
long as I but this type of thing has never come up before.
The administrator, with two other men, puts up $400.00 and he alone
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